Mike Madden, Salon, August 14, 2008
Russia has decided not to withdraw from Georgia after all; its foreign minister says to “forget about any talk about Georgia’s territorial integrity,” and NATO powers are scrambling to figure out how to end the war.
But don’t worry, because John McCain has a plan: Joe Lieberman and Lindsey Graham are on their way.
McCain and Barack Obama have been waging a low-level battle of their own ever since Russian troops moved into the neighboring former Soviet republic on Aug. 8. While Obama initially called for restraint on both sides, before gradually ratcheting up demands that Russia back off, McCain immediately blasted the Russians for the invasion. When it became clear that McCain was taking a harder line than the White House was, Obama’s aides started pushing the idea that McCain’s ties to lobbyists for Georgia were the reason.
What, exactly, McCain hopes to accomplish by packing his two closest Senate pals off to a war zone isn’t entirely clear. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is also on her way to Tbilisi, with the ability to negotiate on behalf of the U.S. government (instead of just the McCain campaign). Graham and Lieberman are, like McCain, members of the Senate Armed Services Committee; they frequently accompany him on trips to the Middle East and joined him on a mission to Colombia and Mexico earlier this summer.
But considering that one of the main lines of attack Republicans are pushing against Obama these days is that he’s presumptuously declared himself president before Election Day, it’s a little curious that the GOP nominee thinks sending campaign surrogates to visit the war is a good idea.
5 responses so far ↓
Emilio // August 14, 2008 at 5:14 pm |
Micky Mouse and his band of odd-fellows. What a strange place this has become? Choreography, lies and deception is the essence of the New World Order and we all stand by like impotent sheep as they destroy our way of life. Revelations talks about the end times when Satan is given power over the Earth and that he’ll go into perdition; I think we need not look any further than the White House to understand what perdition means. JSM is just another part of the machinery Satan is constructing in order to accomplish his dominion over the Earth, and it will not matter that the majority of our citizens reject such rule, as we are powerless in the presence of the light bearer, Lucifer. Why is it that an under educated baffoon with such little support can have his way, and so often?
Hovey // August 14, 2008 at 6:09 pm |
What!? Does he think he is President already, the arrogance! Here he is already playing President, every news organization should be asking the question, is McCain arrogant in his ignorring of the electoral process. Should someone with this attitude be elected?
Joseph C // August 14, 2008 at 8:53 pm |
Hey Mcsame knows how to win wars. Tell him to go win this one. And make sure all his lobbist friends are in command.
Carol Burns // August 14, 2008 at 11:12 pm |
McCain has stepped up to the plate, all right, only it’s not his game and I think he might be in the wrong stadium. What he is doing is interfering in the diplomatic process and risking escalation of another conflict, which he thinks will put him in the White House! Also, why would anyone send Lie-berman anywhere? He should be back here, spit-polishing McCain’s shoes. “Hey, kids. Watch Grandpa! Grandpa knows what he’s doing! Uh-oh!”
Ken Duerksen // August 15, 2008 at 2:48 pm |
The State Dept has started putting out the “CYA” message that Georgia was warned repeatedly NOT to move on S. Ossetia; but here is McCain belligerently pushing on Russia, and declaring that “we are all Georgians”…and now dispatching his personal envoys!!
The arrogance is palpable, and clearly is muddling up our government’s ongoing foreign policy in a crisis situation (such as that may be).