T Minus 91 Days

"I don't want nations feeling like that they can bully ourselves and our allies. I want to have a ballistic defense system so that we can make the world more peaceful, and at the same time I want to reduce our own nuclear capacities to the level commiserate with keeping the peace."

- Des Moines, Iowa, October 2000

Oh. My. God. How did this quote not kill his run? (By the way, "commiserate" is not a typo.)