President McCain Sends Secretary of State Lieberman and Defense Secretary Graham to Tbilisi

Here we have a felony violation of the Logan Act. Too bad nobody ever gets prosecuted for this. There should be an investigation into whether Saakashvili acted upon representations made by Mr. McCain when he launched this suicide attack last Thursday.

McBush is openly misusing the young and poor Georgian president to get elected by promoting fear and war as usual. America wake-up, your destiny is being stolen from you by McSame-Joe-Graham, and Corsi-Mary Mattlin

I think it is very sad that John McCain cannot get passed the fact that he definately has memory issues. He truly shows this by concentrating on Georgia rather than his campaign. We need th stay out of this Russian affair and let them settle this on their own. By supporting Georgia we are only making matters worse. McCain is errogant and presumptuous about his chances of winning.

At least someone is acting presidential.
Perhaps Obama will “sit down” with the Russians (then the Iranians, then the Pakistanis) and “talk” to them to get them to stop. What has he said of substance about this?
The only thing that will stop the Russians from overthrowing the Georgian government is US military protection of the Georgian capital. We should not just sit on our hands and let 40 years of cold war diplomacy, sweat, and effort fall down the tubes.

I think we are all RUSSIANS today. Georgia was the one who started this latest crisis. McSame is on the wrong side. We should be supporting Russia. Russia is our ally, not the current president of Georgia who’s lobbist is McSame’s foreign policy advisor.

Mccain has shown is foreign policy credentials with the crisis in Georgia. Obama said “let the UN handle it,” apparently, without knowing that Russia has veto power within the UN. Now, Obama has adopted McCain’s position on the conflict. How many times has Obama shifted his policy to that of his opponents (both Hillary and McCain)? Obama is frighteningly unprepared. And, sending press releases from your vacation in Hawaii makes me think of Bush on his ranch in TX during the Iraq conflict. Can someone please tell the American people that Obama is a MEDIA FABRICATION, not a real candidate? Real candidates have held full-time jobs, devoted themselves to thier country or devoted themselves in some way for more than a handful of years.
McCain 08/PUMA Democrat

I think it’s absolutely unseemly that a CANDIDATE for President is attempting to influence, confuse, or what have you, United States foreign policy.
Someone needs to remind McCain that we have ONE President at a time. The fact that’s he’s auditioning for President doesn’t qualify.
The press vilified Obama for his silly seal, his Berlin speech, and his so-called self confidence, yet (until this morning’s Washington Post) has been largely silent about McCain’s presumptuousness.
Barack Obama’s statement on the Georgian disaster was inline with President Bush’s response, as well as other world leaders, and then John McCain makes a uniquely bellicose statement. Later going so far as “speaking for American’s” and saying “we are all Georgian’s now”.
The double standard is glaring. It seems that when the media narrative has been that Obama is “presumptuous”, and another candidate truly is presumptuous, it’s difficult to derail the prevailing story line.
Finally, the straw that is breaking the camel’s back, McCain decides to send his two surrogates to Georgia– to do what exactly? Bush, the REAL President, has dispatched the Secretary of State. Is McCain creating some shadow government to subvert our Commander in Chief? What the hell’s going on?

It’s about time we had some competent people over there.

Can you imagine what would’ve been said if Obama sent Chuck Hagal and Jack Reed to Georgia?
We would never hear the end of it.
John McCain is as arrogant as they come.

—-From a POW—
McCain’s military record has little to do with his qualifications, but everything to do with his love of country. Many who never wore the uniform are loyal citizens, but most of those who served in combat zones have a special affinity for their place of birth. Neither candidate inspires great confidence, and you may disagree, but in my opinion, McCain’s mother hit the nail on the head when she suggested we had to “hold our nose and vote for John”.

I’m an older, white working stiff who’s very troubled by McCain’s obvious love affair with the wealthy. He’s from a distinguished Navy family. Although he followed in his father’s footsteps, he does not share the idealism of his father. John McCain has always been the upwardly mobile playboy son of a distinguished family in search of a fortune and a place in history. It seems to me that he is a man of limited capacity overreaching to earn the approval of his father. Ordinarily that would not be a problem. However, as president, his belief that the best use the nation’s young people is service as cannon fodder in a military whose mission is to serve the interests of the wealthy is a disservice to all those he would sacrifice to secure his place as a member of the moneyed classes.

>The only thing that will stop the >Russians from overthrowing the Georgian >government
Is for the Georgians to stop trying to start wars against the Russians.

So why is Obama considered “presumptuous” when he exhibits Commander-in-Chief-like actions while in Europe, but McCain’s meddling in the Georgia-Russia conflict is considered “leadership”?

LJ: “It just means McCain is distrustful of Saakashvili and wants reliable assessment of the situation in Georgia”
And he’s going to get that from sending Joe Lieberman there for a couple days? HA HA HA HA HA HA!

geevill: “What is wrong with Senators Lieberman and Graham going to Georgia to actually do something.”
And what precisely is that?

McSame is protecting his lobbying firm which is working for Georgia. If you take lobbyist money from Georgia for your campaign McSame you will pay something back. That is what McBush is doing and America should understand that his presidency will be under the direct control of lobbysts. God save America from McSame. God bless America and God bless Obama. OBAMA08.

I find it terribly interesting that those on the right find the Georgian folly of invading S. Ossetia, etc. to be a grave crisis in the realm of American foreign policy. This Georgian invasion was in part caused by the puffery (and unrestrained arms dealing)of the current ruling class on Pennsylvania avenue. Should we again pay in American lives for a hypocritical ideology that values nationalist self-determination only if it is the correct, Western loving kind?
The Georgian president blithely thought that the US would come to his aide if his best laid invasion plans went the way that they have gone. Sadly for Georgia, we can’t really afford to get involved in their screw-up, namely trusting that this administration (or any Republican administration really has the wherewithal to stand-up to a country that still has plenty of nukes to send us all back to the Stone-age or before. This of course is geo-political reality, something the presumptuous candidate McCain can afford to ignore at his convenience, while inflaming tensions that at least appear to be subsiding as Russia fundamentally kicks Georgia’s butt.
The real crisis of course has been in American leadership since the inauguration of GW Bush. That is something that will not be repaired by a political dilettante like McCain. Most like the leadership crisis will worsen and we will continue to see the slow collapse of the American experiment.

At least if you call *McCain* presumptuous, you won’t get accused of using racist code words.

McCain has always been the I, I, I candidate.
McCain declared, “Look, I know the area, I’ve been there, I know wars, I know how to win wars, and I know how to improve our capabilities so that we will capture Osama bin Laden — or put it this way, bring him to justice… We will do it, I know how to do it.”
“I know how to win wars. I know how to win wars… And if I’m elected President, I will turn around the war in Afghanistan, just as we have turned around the war in Iraq, with a comprehensive strategy for victory, I know how to do that.”
What’s really amazing is how the media narrative is always so far from reality. Like the media narrative that 0bama is the arrogant and cocky candidate when it is really McCain.

President McCain. Get used to it.