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Via John Cole, Not the Onion:

John McCain, your country is calling

By David S. Broder
Thursday, August 26, 2010

Now that John McCain has taken care of his political business in Arizona, it is time for him to return to Washington and the responsibilities he bears as a leader of the Republican Party and the nation. I did not begrudge him the $20 million he spent to win Tuesday's primary, or whatever amount it was. Nor was I bothered by the doctrinal compromises the senator made in order to convince Arizona voters that he was, in fact, a conservative. McCain has always been a realist, doing what was necessary to survive a North Vietnamese prison camp or a tough political trap. His 2000 embrace of George W. Bush -- a man he had every reason to dislike -- showed his practicality, and it made possible his own presidential nomination in 2008.

[. . .] One obvious area where he will be needed is his favorite field, national security. Iraq, where he was prescient and persistent, still poses challenges, and Afghanistan, where Obama badly needs a Republican partner, is likely to be in crisis before it can be called a success. Behind them looms Iran, which could be this nation's next big test. [. . .] A load of work -- but John McCain has never shirked.

(Emphasis supplied.) Best Broder column ever. Medical marijuana perhaps? The pinnacle of Broderism. The Highest Broder of all time.

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    Instant migraine (5.00 / 1) (#1)
    by Militarytracy on Wed Aug 25, 2010 at 03:00:29 PM EST


    Maybe some (5.00 / 1) (#6)
    by Zorba on Wed Aug 25, 2010 at 03:37:12 PM EST
    medical marijuana would help your migraine, Tracy.  ;-)

    Parent
    I think I need a prescription doctor (none / 0) (#12)
    by Militarytracy on Wed Aug 25, 2010 at 04:04:51 PM EST
    Weed is probably a lot safer than Imitrex if it works.

    Parent
    it is (5.00 / 1) (#16)
    by Capt Howdy on Wed Aug 25, 2010 at 04:23:46 PM EST
    and it does.  seriously.  I have a friend in LA who tried everything for migraines and I finally got her to smoking pot.  she says it changed her life.
    this is not her but it is a similar story.

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    I have a friend (none / 0) (#27)
    by Zorba on Wed Aug 25, 2010 at 05:09:51 PM EST
    who has glaucoma.  I've been trying to get her to try marijuana, but she won't do it.  (Not for lack of access- I'm positive her son could get her some.)  She's too afraid of breaking the law (she lives in a state with no medical marijuana law.)

    Parent
    Ten years ago (5.00 / 1) (#21)
    by Edger on Wed Aug 25, 2010 at 04:32:05 PM EST
    I quite eating chocolate and anything with aspartame in it. 30 years of cluster headaches stopped and never returned...

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    Aspartame... (5.00 / 1) (#38)
    by desertswine on Wed Aug 25, 2010 at 10:22:51 PM EST
    does bad things to your brain.

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    Rumsfeld's Legacy (5.00 / 1) (#40)
    by squeaky on Wed Aug 25, 2010 at 10:34:34 PM EST
    Among the many ironies of our modern world is that Gerald Ford awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom-America,s highest civilian honor-to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on January 19, 1977. Just a few weeks later on March 8, Rumsfeld became the CEO of G.D. Searle to take point on a mission to force the Food and Drug Administration to approve for human consumption a known carcinogen and neurotoxic poison.

    Mission accomplished: Today some 9,000 commonly consumed products are laced with this weapon of mass misery and millions of people live with chronic illnesses linked to the artificial sweetener aspartame. It is our belief at The Idaho Observer that if some guy named Parkinson can have a disease named after him, then Donald Rumsfeld ought to have his own disease, too. Hence the term Rumsfeld disease A.

    link

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    Chocolate does too... (none / 0) (#41)
    by Edger on Thu Aug 26, 2010 at 07:37:15 AM EST
    maybe to yours. (none / 0) (#42)
    by Capt Howdy on Thu Aug 26, 2010 at 09:05:31 AM EST
    it does very good things to mine.

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    Mine too (none / 0) (#43)
    by Militarytracy on Thu Aug 26, 2010 at 09:42:32 AM EST
    My old neurologist told me that more women suffer from migraine but usually men suffer from the cluster migraines when they have migraine challenges, and those can shatter your life they are so painful.

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    I test it every now and then (none / 0) (#45)
    by Edger on Thu Aug 26, 2010 at 10:55:47 AM EST
    If I even touch my lips with a piece of chocolate it's like holding a welding torch flame to my left temple for a few seconds. I don't bother trying to eat it anymore...

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    All Chocolate? (5.00 / 1) (#46)
    by squeaky on Thu Aug 26, 2010 at 11:24:11 AM EST
    Cadbury's, for instance, is not chocolate, just as Velveeta cheese is not cheese.

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    Well... 'chocolate' (none / 0) (#47)
    by Edger on Thu Aug 26, 2010 at 11:47:21 AM EST
    I don't eat any of it now. I don't what cadbury's is... carob maybe, with aspartame in it? But I just don't bother with any of it anymore. I like being not in pain. ;-)

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    Glad To Hear (5.00 / 1) (#48)
    by squeaky on Thu Aug 26, 2010 at 11:55:41 AM EST
    I don't like you being in pain either...

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    Culprit (5.00 / 1) (#44)
    by star on Thu Aug 26, 2010 at 10:23:43 AM EST
    Chocolate was the culprit when my 6 yr old daughter started getting migraines. Was hell running from one specialist to another since she used to get em once a week or so.
    A cousin of mine who is a med student suggested getting rid of all chocolate for a month and that did the trick thankfully.
    Poor baby loves them, but is so terrified of the pain..our house is chocolate free for the last 8 years :(

    Parent
    Ouch (none / 0) (#35)
    by Militarytracy on Wed Aug 25, 2010 at 06:58:32 PM EST
    Yeah (5.00 / 1) (#36)
    by Edger on Wed Aug 25, 2010 at 08:02:41 PM EST
    be careful with that imitrex,  eh?

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    Oh, dear Lord... (5.00 / 0) (#5)
    by Anne on Wed Aug 25, 2010 at 03:24:59 PM EST
    Next he'll be singing the praises of that other symbol of "independence:" Joe Lieberman.

    Bleah...

    "David Broder...your retirement is calling..."


    Broder on a tire swing with sprinkles on top. (5.00 / 1) (#7)
    by steviez314 on Wed Aug 25, 2010 at 03:45:52 PM EST


    Well we know he was never (none / 0) (#10)
    by Militarytracy on Wed Aug 25, 2010 at 04:02:58 PM EST
    on the blacktop playing "the dozens" :)

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    If not medical marijuana then (none / 0) (#2)
    by BTAL on Wed Aug 25, 2010 at 03:02:05 PM EST
    the responsibilities he bears as a leader of the Republican Party and the nation

    50 monkeys with typewriters.

    Is it physically possible to reach and use a keyboard with ones cranium inserted in ones....?

    Broders (none / 0) (#4)
    by Capt Howdy on Wed Aug 25, 2010 at 03:04:32 PM EST
    success proves it clearly is

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    saw another silly (none / 0) (#3)
    by Capt Howdy on Wed Aug 25, 2010 at 03:03:42 PM EST
    cable conversation the other day, I will spare you the link, where it was discussed how he will not be able to 'directly' do this himself so he will use Huckleberry Graham as a 'proxy'.

    McCain is a hero (none / 0) (#8)
    by jimakaPPJ on Wed Aug 25, 2010 at 03:51:29 PM EST
    But he was never, is not now and will not be in the future a leader of the Repubs.

    Yup - that is one of Broder's delusions (none / 0) (#11)
    by ruffian on Wed Aug 25, 2010 at 04:04:00 PM EST
    which begs the question (none / 0) (#14)
    by Capt Howdy on Wed Aug 25, 2010 at 04:11:32 PM EST
    who is.  since the last nominee is usually considered the titular head of the party.

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    Whaaa? (none / 0) (#17)
    by BTAL on Wed Aug 25, 2010 at 04:24:45 PM EST
    Were Gore and Kerry considered the "titular" heads of the Dem party?  

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    if not them (none / 0) (#18)
    by Capt Howdy on Wed Aug 25, 2010 at 04:26:17 PM EST
    who?

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    Don't know but (none / 0) (#19)
    by BTAL on Wed Aug 25, 2010 at 04:28:31 PM EST
    McCain is not the head of the Republican party, not by a long shot.

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    I don't see how anyone (none / 0) (#24)
    by jondee on Wed Aug 25, 2010 at 04:41:29 PM EST
    can say McCain isn't A leader of the Republican Party..

    Despite all the wishful thinking of the he's-a-dad-gum-Muslim quarter..

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    The indefinite article in discussion is (5.00 / 1) (#28)
    by BTAL on Wed Aug 25, 2010 at 05:16:09 PM EST
    "the" not "a".

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    no (none / 0) (#29)
    by CST on Wed Aug 25, 2010 at 05:18:56 PM EST
    the original comment was:

    "But he was never, is not now and will not be in the future a leader of the Repubs."

    emphasis mine

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    My comments were in discussion (none / 0) (#30)
    by BTAL on Wed Aug 25, 2010 at 05:27:21 PM EST
    with Capt. Howdy's post, not back to the original comment.  Specifically, quoting his "titular" description.  

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    usually considered? (none / 0) (#23)
    by jimakaPPJ on Wed Aug 25, 2010 at 04:35:34 PM EST
    Heh

    We all know it is Capt Limbaugh and Lt Beck and Hannity.

    lol

    Parent

    probably truer than (none / 0) (#25)
    by jondee on Wed Aug 25, 2010 at 04:42:20 PM EST
    some would like to think..

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    You have doubts? (none / 0) (#37)
    by jimakaPPJ on Wed Aug 25, 2010 at 10:13:45 PM EST
    lol

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    I nominate GW Bush (none / 0) (#33)
    by ruffian on Wed Aug 25, 2010 at 05:36:21 PM EST
    It makes more sense for the last guy who won to be the leader than the guy who lost. also, it is his policies they want to bring back, so who better to lead them, and anoint the next presidential nominee?

    I doubt he will accept my nomination.....


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    You'd think Broder's tongue (none / 0) (#9)
    by gyrfalcon on Wed Aug 25, 2010 at 03:58:34 PM EST
    would get tired after all that.

    Apparently McCain is not just (5.00 / 1) (#32)
    by observed on Wed Aug 25, 2010 at 05:33:16 PM EST
    a smooth talker...

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    More Broder than thou (Broder-er than Thou?) (none / 0) (#13)
    by tworivers on Wed Aug 25, 2010 at 04:11:00 PM EST
    I see your Lieberman, and raise you a Lindsey Graham

    Terrific title. (none / 0) (#15)
    by oculus on Wed Aug 25, 2010 at 04:17:38 PM EST


    I thought so (none / 0) (#20)
    by Big Tent Democrat on Wed Aug 25, 2010 at 04:32:00 PM EST
    It's even better reading it from bottom to top... (none / 0) (#22)
    by Edger on Wed Aug 25, 2010 at 04:35:24 PM EST
    Orbital Broder. Maybe NASA could replace the space shuttle with him.

    McCain has always been a realist


    Not to be trusted (none / 0) (#26)
    by Saul on Wed Aug 25, 2010 at 05:06:27 PM EST
    I would not trust McCain and neither should Obama.  Yes he is a politician but the worst kind.  He would sell his grandma to win.  Will not stand up to his beliefs and will trade the few he has as soon as it is politically convenient.

    Please compare and contrast with (5.00 / 1) (#31)
    by oculus on Wed Aug 25, 2010 at 05:28:32 PM EST
    B. Obama.

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    Hmm...I think McCain will be (none / 0) (#34)
    by observed on Wed Aug 25, 2010 at 06:02:19 PM EST
    needed more for saving cat food.

    McCain is nothing, if not... (none / 0) (#39)
    by desertswine on Wed Aug 25, 2010 at 10:26:47 PM EST
    pathetic.  And it's time for Broder to hang up his spikes.