McCain makes statement on Georgia

John B, Des Moines, IA — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:31:35 GMT

The "Straight Talker" no longer wants questions since some members of the press no longer fawn all over him. When he actually has to justify his positions he doesn't come off very well.

McCain makes statement on Georgia

justthinkinoutloud — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:32:33 GMT

I watched McGoo on tv, and he read his whole statement that someone else wrote for him, then rudely walked away when a question was asked. The creepy white haired dude should scare all of us.

McCain makes statement on Georgia

Nashville_fan — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:33:21 GMT

"And he called on the secretary of state to travel to Europe and outline a "common Euro-Atlantic position" on how to proceed.

"Russian President Medvedev and Prime Minister Putin must understand the severe, long-term negative consequences that their government's actions will have for Russia's relationship with the U.S. and Europe. It is time we moved forward with a number of steps."
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Who's presumptuous now?

Shouldn't President Bush be speaking for the Republican Party on this matter, especially when it comes to when and where the Secretary of State will travel?

I'm am sure the media will feign just as much outrage about this presumptuous statement as it has about Obama's "exotic" vacation choice.

(I'm not holding my breath.)

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MI Chick — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:33:56 GMT

Trying to post AGAIN from earlier thread...

This woman knew exactly what she was doing. Disgusting. However, it doesn't mean he had to fall for it.

What is the reason that she wouldn't want the DNA test? My theories are (a) it's NOT his and she wants to keep riding the gravy train, or (b) it IS his and she wants to keep the story going.

Anyone else?
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"Having thought about this for thirty minutes, I still think the guy would be one hell of a VP. Not to minimize the misstep, but...

(MI Chick--okay, you're right.)
iowan (Sent Friday, August 08, 2008 4:45 PM)"

Not sure what I was right about, iowan, but thank you! It's always a good way to start a Monday!

McCain makes statement on Georgia

the Pajama Pundit — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:35:02 GMT

Cooler heads must prevail in this circumstance.

Calling for the UN to 'condemn' stuff is not the right move right now. Helping the situation would be providing food and aid for those innocents who are caught in the middle of the fighting. Humanitarian aid should be the first priority -- not condemnation.

http://thepajamapundit.com/

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Sherri Hussein, Charleston WV — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:36:36 GMT

This candidate is flying the banner of the party with absolutely 0% credibility in the realm of foreign relations and policy. Did he not see Bob Costas own Bush in his interview yesterday? He is sewn up in the hem of this debacle of an Admistration, and any and all statements he makes fall on ears tuned elsewhere.

McCain makes statement on Georgia

MK,MO — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:37:19 GMT

you know how ridiculous it is for the u.s. to criticize russia about this deal while we occupy someone else’s sovereign nation, please. I suspect mccains comments will have a somewhat muted impact.

McCain makes statement on Georgia

Jay, The Batcave — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:37:20 GMT

Everyone should read this...

It explains why my spidey-sense goes off whenever Johnny Mac is on my screen.

Obama '08

http://phoenixnewtimes.com/content/printVersion/848709

McCain makes statement on Georgia

Beth, Denton, TX — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:37:26 GMT

Has anybody seen the movie, "Wag the Dog"? This situation with Russia/Georgia seems eerily similar. The way McCain is seizing on it and politicizing it is sickening, like a "meal ticket" issue to garner support.

BTW, I saw "Swing Vote" this weekend. Pretty good flick. The main point is that every vote counts and that we should be informed of the issues. So true!

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Amy B Portland, ME — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:39:30 GMT

Russia doesn't care what we think. They are out to reclaim some Soviet-era power. What moral authority to protest do we have anymore? Can we sell them one used Mission Accomplished sign for 5 trillion dollars?

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Jason Writt, Texas — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:40:03 GMT

Asked for a comment, Barack Obama just said, "Hey, can't I just finish my waffle?".

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Nashville_fan — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:41:04 GMT

"Georgia is an ancient country, at the crossroads of Eastern Europe and Central Asia, and one of the world's first nations to adopt Christianity as an official religion."
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Why is Georgia's religion relevant? What is Senator McCain trying to imply, that this is a Holy War?

Partisanship aside, John McCain scares the hell out of me. Seriously.

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Nigel Stevers, Bronx — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:42:32 GMT

>> Calling for the UN to 'condemn' stuff is not the right move right now. <<

What do want the UN to do - say they support it?
Knowing that band of third world thugs though, they just might.

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carla — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:43:34 GMT

The Obamas went to Hawaii to see Obama's grandmother - but only Obama visited with her - for only an hour.

McCain makes statement on Georgia

Paul Miller, Woodbridge, VA — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:44:29 GMT

McCain: "Georgia is an ancient country, at the crossroads of Eastern Europe and Central Asia, and one of the world's first nations to adopt Christianity as an official religion."

I don't think so. I thought Georgia became a country somewhere in the 10th or 11th century. This is hardly ancient and well after many others established Christianity as an official religion.

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Ron Indiana — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:44:51 GMT

The reason McCain does not want to answer press questions is that he can not explain why it is acceptable for America to do a preemptive attack on Iraq and not acceptable for Russia to do a preemptive attack on Georgia. Such a hypocrite!!!

Also I'm not sure he knows the geography of the area, or the issues involved. Bush talks tough, Chaney talks tough, McOld talks tough. But we are so bogged down in Iraq and Afghanistan, there is little we can do...other than start WWIII. What Republicans do not understand is that diplomacy is not giving in. It is finding solutions do difficult problems. Putin knows we are "busy" with Iraq and he can do what he wishes. Another reason to get out of Iraq. Note: the Iraqis want a definite time table for us to LEAVE.

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Nashville_fan — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:45:08 GMT

"We have other important strategic interests at stake in Georgia, especially the continued flow of oil through the Baku-Tblisi-Ceyhan pipeline, which Russia attempted to bomb in recent days"
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Did somebody say oil? Funny how that keeps coming up . . . it's almost like we are a slave to oil and those who sell it - and yet the solution to every problem is to drill for more of it. Go figure.

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subgruvet, ok — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:45:59 GMT

This guy is so unqualified to take questions of importance it's sad that he's gotten this far. Keating Five McCain is not in Barack Obama's league. I hope the press makes as much of McBlinky's refusal to answer questions (acting like he's already president)as they have about things Obama has done like drawing 200,000 people to his speech in Berlin.

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Chele Roberts, Detroit — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:46:00 GMT

That's going to make a great commerical this fall for McCain. Barack Obama standing on the stage at that huge Michigan event with John Edwards, and Edwards endorsing him.

And, haven't the Michigan voters been abused enough by the Democrats? Not even counting Kilpatrick.

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Diane from Illinois — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:46:06 GMT

His "handlers" won't allow McFossil to take questions. #1. He won't know the answer without someone whispering it in his ear. #2. He still thinks Georgia is a state in US. #3. He might forget the question. This man should scare the bejesus out of everyone even remotely THINKING about voting for him. Obama '08

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Pete - Albany, NY — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:47:16 GMT

But if McCain is trying to own this issue while Obama is away on vacation, why isn't he taking questions from this press? Is he afraid of making policy on the fly if reporters press him on what those "negative consequences" for Russia would be?

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Shhhh...don't bother him. He's trying to look "Presidential" and pass the "Commander-In-Chief" test.

What are those "negative consequences"? Well, again, he represents the GOP...not big on details.

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kent, Victoria, BC — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:49:34 GMT

Re:"Russia’s assault on the sovereign nation of Georgia",it seems to me that USA is in no position to respond in word or deed against this conflict. Russia assault on Georgia,although it may be disproportionate,was provoked.The war declared and carried out by the USA on the sovereign nation of Iraq was unprovoked by Iraq.Perhaps any response of the USA to Russia should be prefaced with the qualifier,"Remember, Russia, to do as we say,not do as we do."

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Sandra Shakoor, Park Forest, IL — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:49:52 GMT

While our next president spends time taking a much deserved break on his "exotic" vacation, McCain sees fit to try and fill the president's shoes...and the press runs amuck over details of an affair over someone who is no longer in the running for president, while they ignore McCain's gesture to offer up his wife's body parts to be oogled by a bunch of bikers, known for their illicit conduct at an annual outing...what a circus.

Enjoy your rest, but please hurry back Senator Obama, and bring some semblance of order, balance and sanity to this world.

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Gail, TN — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:51:01 GMT

Nashville_fan: I think the administration purposely stepped back and let McCain speak for them on this issue to trot him out him as the next Republican
"commander-in-chief." Nice political move, though obvious.

I'm no John McCain fan, but this is a nice history lesson and a pretty good statement.

Obama '08

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Paul Miller, Woodbridge, VA — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:51:49 GMT

Oh my gosh. I just looked up Georgia in Wikipedia, to see if my memory was correct regarding when Georgia became a kingdom under that name.

What I found was... the first few paragraphs of the McCain statement. They very quickly read through Wikipedia and then wrote the historical background to the McCain statement... making a couple mistakes, such as stating that Georgia was one of the first countries to establish Christianity. Its predecessor tribe countries, particularly Iberia, were among the first.

This is too funny. McCain went to the Cliff Notes of world history, and then misread that material.

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Johnny-gone-crazy for BSer in Chief — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:51:58 GMT

Let's see - we practice unilateral, first strike aggression anytime the administration thinks it can lie us into it, but the world should condemn this. The world condemned Iraq, but never mind that - that's us.

Besides, didn't prezidunt Puddin' head look into Putin's eyes and see a saint? ANd his judgement has always been so good.

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Dave, Tn — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:53:35 GMT

you know how ridiculous it is for the u.s. to criticize Russia about this deal while we occupy someone else’s sovereign nation, please. I suspect mccains comments will have a somewhat muted impact.
MK,MO (Sent Monday, August 11, 2008 10:37 AM)

So you're saying Russia is in Georgia under UN mandate like we have in Iraq?

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To your question — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:55:25 GMT

It's because he thinks Putin is the Prime Minister of Germany; hate to have that come up again.

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Paul Miller, Woodbridge, VA — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:56:01 GMT

McCain: "That makes Russia's recent actions against the Georgians all the more alarming. In the face of Russian aggression..."

It seems to come down to how one sees Ossetia. The Ossetians don't see themselves as Georgian. They don't want to be in Georgia.

The Georgians sent troops into this area, and the Russians responded to that move.

So if we see Ossetia as part of Georgia, then in a fairy tale world of black and white, Russia is clearly the aggressor. But if we see Ossetia's status as something more complex, then we see Georgia as a potential initial aggressor.

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Jim, Santa Cruz — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:56:01 GMT

McCain is showing his inability to answer tough questions in real time, something an effective president of our free country must do.

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Nashville_fan — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:56:01 GMT

"The Obamas went to Hawaii to see Obama's grandmother - but only Obama visited with her - for only an hour.

- carla"
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Carla,

Why?

Surely you are not this small, and no amount of "McCain blogger points" is worth selling your soul over.

Don't be one of those little people talking about little things this year.

Be the change.

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Walt, Ohio — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:59:15 GMT

Response to McLame's "celebrity" ad:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGIqGaWZOo0
Great rersponse to the McLame lies.

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Emily Litella — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:01:11 GMT

What’s all this fuss about Georgia? I thought that General Sherman took care of that problem when he burned Atlanta. And we even moved the “Home of the Braves” to Atlanta to make sure they were firmly in the Union.

Oh, you mean the old Soviet Georgia?

Never mind.

(And by the way, stop trying to confuse Miss South Carolina, who’s still looking for the State of Georgia on her map.)

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Paul Miller, Woodbridge, VA — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:01:50 GMT

Also, did anyone notice this was a different message than hot head initially delivered?

I seem to remember McCain calling for peace keeping troops. That was his big initial move. Where did that one go? Just another case of McCain being McCain?

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Owl,Idaho. — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:02:17 GMT

I am sure McCain has no understanding of what he said. He is not the one who wrote the statement, that is so obvious.

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Pacheck, Huntington Beach, Ca. — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:02:34 GMT

At this time the U.S. can not any creditable request of the Russians to stop and pull-out. This is the Russian equivalent of "Shock and Aweski." When you live in a glass house. Besides when you are a "bully," every once and a while you gotta smack someone to gain the fear factor.

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Nelson, Knoxville, TN — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:03:58 GMT

David Gregory is a disappointment:

Hello Chuck,

Please you guys need to save the MTP program from the partisanship that David Gregory is bringing to into. Agreed, he can do whatever he likes with his race to white house probramme but not MTP, the programme is too sacred to be left in the hand of a biased anchor like David. I know he deserves the right to support any candidate but he must realise that he is talking to a diverse audience so he needs to bury his partisanship and give the programme the crdibility that was given it by uncle Tim. People like David continue to let our hearts broken for the sudden death of uncle Tim by the biased mind. Watch his own race to the white house programme and see what am talking about. Ones again please stop him from anchoring MTP before he spoils this show for us.

Thank you

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Carrie in Texas — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:04:28 GMT

Oh, I see that McWarrior has backed off of his call from last week for NATO and EU to send troops. The thing that REALLY bothers me about this candidate is that his entire mindset and comfort zone revolves around military movements. Not a good sign for the future of American diplomacy as a first resort and WAR as a last resort.

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Vote Democratic~Vote Obama — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:04:42 GMT

Mccain's camp can't even put out a factual statement. I'm sure they don't want their candidate 'shooting from the hip', so they have supressed him.

Major warning flags are going up all over folks! Pay close attention!

Mccain does ONE event a day and sleeps in late. This is absurd,to push off this candidate as fit to enter the White House. Mccain is not fit physically, morally or dispostionally. The thought just scares me with shudders to think of him in the White House, but if the majority of Americans buy the lies, like they did with Bush, I hope they get all they deserve and more. It will not bode well for them.

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Vote Democratic~Vote Obama — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:05:28 GMT

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NOMcClueless — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:05:59 GMT

He's not taking questions because his handlers, who haven't been real successful at handling him, can't afford to find themselves in the position of having nothing better to say than that McCain doesn't speak for the McCain campaign. Best to just let him read his piece and give him the hook.

How can any sane American can contemplate putting this man in the White House at a time like this? He constantly demonstrates lack of knowledge, wisdom and complete inability to manage his own campaign. How's he going to manage his administration?

That's exactly what we've had with the Bush and another 4 years of it could guarantee for good that the 21st century will NOT be another American century.

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J. Ellis, Virginia — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:06:59 GMT

Sen. Obama has done a superbly effective job of joining McCain and Presi-dunce Bush together on a number of issues, particularly foreign policy. McCain is posturing and trying to act presidential, but can't quite pull it off, especially when he begins to speak from his Cliff Notes. No surprise that he will not take questions since he clearly is not capable of answering on the fly.

GWB has had a perpetual look of "deer caught in headlights" for 7.5 yrs and the U.S. cannot afford to take a chance on John McCain's obvious lack of know-how, judgement, and brain power to govern in these dangerous times. That is, unless, he can get Dick Cheney to run as hs V.P. The Bush apron strings would therefore, be complete.

Hurry Back Sen Obama!

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banko — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:07:07 GMT

John McCain... The War Monger?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlX9l1g1ZE0&eurl

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C.K. Steele Fort Lauderdale, FL — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:07:14 GMT

Good catch on that Wikipedia article! McCain just doesn't know what he is doing and it becomes more evident by the day. Since he has the whole week to himself he should have to field some questions about the Russia-Georgia situation. Remember this is the guy that claims that he "knows how to win wars" and also has been crowned by our lazy media to be a foreign policy expert. My 5th grade social studies is 10x the expert that John McCain is. Just make sure that Lieberman or any of his other cronies aren't there to whisper the answers in his ear.

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Mkd — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:07:44 GMT

He didn't take questions - b/c when he does, it becomes glaringly obvious that he thinks it is still 1983.

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jeff D Evanston IL. — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:07:49 GMT

why isn't first read commenting on the event that john mccain was at on friday where he spoke to a group of veterans, barack spoke as will, what came out from this was that the veterans were not happy that mccain spoke very bad about obama and did not talk about veterans issues!! in the end they did a pool and 80% of those who attended said they are not voting for john mccain, including a decorated vietman vet!!!

this is the type of story you should be commenting on, not the silly stupid ads!!!

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SMS — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:09:08 GMT

Black children are told by their elders that a Black man has to be twice as good. Well, Obama is that and more. He’s not only twice as good, but I’m convinced that there’s a depth to his character that we haven’t even begun to recognize. So if by some chance Obama happens to fail in this effort, it won’t be his failure, it’ll be ours.

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Brian, Cedar Hill, TX — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:10:42 GMT

Did McShame really say Russia should withdraw their troops? Isn't that cutting and running and deciding to lose a war?

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A Charles, LA, CA — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:13:25 GMT

Magoo is delusional. He's so obvious. No one is listening to all these statements he's making. He's a toothless tiger.

What I see is that under Magoo we would have a very impotent military that would be continually over extended.

And with all of Magoo's undiplomatic statements, there would be no other influence in critical matters like this.

In other words 4 more Bush years.

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Let's sow alittle mercy — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:21:53 GMT

Carla, Senator Obama's grandmother is 85 yrs. old and in poor health. She may be dying. She may not be able to handle alot of commotion going on around her. I'm sure Senator Obama is trying to respect her as you appear not be by insinuating that he isn't doing the right thing. Bill Clinton's mother died shortly after the convention that she attended and looked great! I was surprised when she died and hated it for President Clinton.