Whew!

“The president never lost the ability to launch an attack.” That’s what the NBC Evening News talking head said this evening about a power loss that caused a partial communications problem with a pod (pod?) of hydrogen-bomb tipped Minuteman III missiles currently buried in silos in Wyoming.

Whew! I feared for a moment the United States of America might be, well, you know, completely defenseless, unable to deter or retaliate a surprise attack.

Nothing encapsulates the essence of the American presidency better than the ability to destroy modern civilization as we know it.

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5:10 pm on October 26, 2010