The REAL Presumptuous Nominee

Remember how your so-called liberal media snickered at Obama for coming up with a faux presidential seal and presuming to speak to foreigners and meet with heads of state in Europe? Just who the hell does that guy think he is, anyway?

Meanwhile, McCain is pulling an Alexander Haig-like power-grab in the middle of an international crisis, and no one seems to notice. Yesterday McCain bragged to a campaign crowd about expressing solidarity during his daily conversations with Georgian President Saakashvili, who replied:

“Yesterday, I heard Sen. McCain say, ‘We are all Georgians now,’” Saakashvili said on CNN’s American Morning. “Well, very nice, you know, very cheering for us to hear that, but OK, it’s time to pass from this. From words to deeds.”

The real presumptuous nominee is not only inserting himself into the Russia – Georgia conflict: He’s dispatching twin butt-gerbils Lindsey Graham and Joe Lieberman to that country as a delegation. WTF? Perhaps they’ll be accompanied by McCain’s foreign policy advisor / Georgia lobbyist Randy Scheunemann, who was paid big bucks to lobby McCain on behalf of the Georgian government before the campaign got underway. Client relations, you know.

Here’s another interesting tidbit via the Talking Points Memo:

President Saakashvili today told Georgians that the US military was moving in to take over control of the country’s air and seaports—which would be a pretty big deal since much of the country still appears to be an active war zone.

And about five minutes later the Pentagon said he didn’t know what he was talking about.

“We are not looking to, nor do we need to, take control of any air or seaports to conduct this mission,” said Geoff Morrell, Pentagon press secretary. “The role of the U.S. military is strictly to facilitate the delivery of humanitarian assistance to the victims of this conflict.”

John McCain says he’s talking to Saakashvili every day. What’s he telling him? Is he confusing the situation?

That’s a good goddamned question. If McCain is engaged in freelance foreign policy shenanigans that are confusing a head of state in a potentially very dangerous context, isn’t that worth looking into? Someone needs to get Britney or Paris to Tbilisi NOW so the media will start paying attention.

[Cross-posted at Betty Cracker]

Posted by Betty Cracker on 08/13/08 at 05:22 PM • Permalink

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