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NEW HAMPSHIRE: John Edwards Wants the President to Be a Prozac Pill

| @jpodhoretz 01.05.2008 - 9:21 PM

John Edwards, asked about a nuclear bomb going off in an American city, says something inane and then something bizarre: “The first thing is, we have to find out who’s responsible and go after them.” Oh. “Secondly, it is the responsibility of the United States, of the president in times like this, to be a force for principled strength but also calmness…to do it in a way that is calming for the American people and calming for the world.” Yes. Because that’s what we’ll need after a nuclear attack. Calmness.

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