Then I think we may have gotten off on the wrong foot, and that it was my use of the word "imaginary" that set you off. I did not mean to imply that the problems of the world are imaginary, merely that the metaphorical six-shooters that the hypothetical McCain would be shooting in the air upon being awakened in case of a crisis, are.

I merely meant to convey my impression of John "bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran" McCain's tendency to, in any and all situations, only consider aggressive military responses. In that way (mindless belligerence in the face of any and all crises), he is both like Yosemite Sam and George W. Bush (okay, have I spelled out what I originally thought was a pretty pithy joke about McCain enough?)

As for your claim that "Democrats rarely ever admit we are even fighting a war let alone what to do about it," I don't know what to tell you, man, except that you're wrong. We talk about the war ad nauseam. But I think you mean Democrats don't claim to have some magic plan that will make it all okay (like, for example, simply repeating "the surge is working" over and over). There are no good options, and we're choosing from a set of bad ones, but choose from the set of bad ones we will, because that's what being responsible is.

And, as to your question of what we're ever going to do when we can no longer blame Bush for all the world's problems, I'll tell you.

We're going to start trying to solve them.