But whether you agree or not with what I said last week, I hope the intention behind those words can be the basis for a real conversation about national leadership and the importance of confidence and optimism in framing America’s way forward. I hope also that our president will start acting and speaking in a way that draws sharp, clear distinctions between us and those who threaten our way of life.

Because what we really need is a President who will project the optimism of bedwetting Conservatives that ISIS will murder us all in our beds, because this situation is SO MUCH SCARIER than when the USSR had 10,000 nukes all pointed at us and a bunch of Vodka-soaked old guys in charge, or when the two mightiest war machines in the history of mankind - and Italy - were blowing up our shipping and had just sunk a big chunk of our Pacific fleet.