'We Are All Suckers!" The McCain campaign fomented the Georgian invasion to reclaim South Ossetia for political electioneering gain (thanks Randy Scheunemann!) and now we're all supposed to wanna nuke Russia until it glows! And assume Obama is a giant wuss for not wanting to.
Gorgonzola
· 1 year ago
Why hasn't Bush ordered General Sherman back to Georgia to clean up the mess?
KarenMrsLloydRichards
· 1 year ago
Love seeing McCain's tortured facial expression as he realized his lil' buddy, Shaskabobli, ShakaKhan, LobsterShack, whatever, (McCain couldn't pronounce it) got his ass kicked by the Russkies and his dream of electioneering on Georgia's Victory crumbled almost instantaneously. Now the despised remnants of the Bush Regime have to try and clean up the mess.
Except that ol' Milky Loads is sending a slobbering valentine to McCain for his interventions in the Caucasus in this posting. We here at Americablog take a more realistic and jaundiced view of things...
seohio
· 1 year ago
Having 2 very good friends in Russia, I had to immediately email them when I heard Grandpa McCain's comments a couple of days ago. What has happened in Georgia has been occurring for nearly 2 years now! There are two Republics that want to be independent, and Georgia won't let them. Then the Georgians attacked the Russian troops! How should the Russian government have responded?
I saw on the news this week that there is a major petroleum pipeline that runs through Georgia. Now, that pipeline wouldn't have anything to do with the US wanting to be involved, would it??
BorninUSA
· 1 year ago
If mcshame is Georgian, they can have him.
KarenMrsLloydRichards
· 1 year ago
Michael Falcone in the NYT today: While Obama undercuts his cred on foreign policy by lolling around exotic Hawaii (and making himself too "exotic" for real, normal Americans), McCain has had a GREAT week being the defender of democracy in Georgia and being awesomely Presidential!
bumpkis
· 1 year ago
Ya know...in a way, we really are ALL GEORGIANS....our own government is over run with Israeli-firsters too...Chertoff, Mukasey, Schumer, Fienstien..et al.
Webster
· 1 year ago
What he meant to say was that we are all donuts. He gets his references confused sometimes.
jr
· 1 year ago
"we'll pretend Randy Scheunemann isn't a lobbyist for Georgia and say this helps McCain"-cable news
Soundboy_jeff_meanie
· 1 year ago
The fact that John McCain thinks Georgia - Georgia! - is as vital to US national interests as Soviet-occupied Berlin says a lot about McCain's approach to foreign policy, none of it good. ---
foreign policy based on oil/gas/natural resources... correct me if I'm wrong, isn't there a huge pipeline that's in our best interests in Georgia?
and mcsame supporters don't think he'll be the same as bush/cheney? It seems like he's pretty much ready to restart the cold war over natural resources, how do you think a war with Russia would wind up for us?
the man is insane, and if he's seriously thinking about getting into it with Russia... his foreign policy IS a little different than bush/cheney's... its WORSE!!
Aanya
· 1 year ago
What about our fearless leader calling Putin a "bully"? We have just got to get a grown up in the White House, and fast!
vkobaya
· 1 year ago
What this proves is Reagan won because of his low IQ, Dubya because it was essentially zero, and now McCain is going to win because his IQ score is a negative number. This seems to be a continuing Republican strategy. Offer the American people candidates with progressively lower and lower IQs to win the White House. Why do Americans think low IQs are so appropriate to lead this nation? Anyway, Obama blows it by being the most intelligent, articulate and capable candidate we have seen in a very long, long time.
Brace yourself for an even worse living, breathing disaster leading this nation.
SteamingPile
· 1 year ago
You beat me to it. The sad truth is, this sort of strategery has worked well in the past because a large majority of Americans really aren't all that bright, and this is why Republicans continue to use it. Turn on Fox Noise, and this "we are all X now" nonsense is all you hear, and people will believe it; just go out on the street and ask, or even listen to what your friends and coworkers are saying around the water cooler. Smart people who don't fall for this malarkey are in the minority, and this has always been the case. Orwell's worst fears have been made real.
BorninUSA
· 1 year ago
Re: bright people. Did you see the "hog" caller on TV last night? This woman was at the Illinois State Fair and this was broadcast ALL OVER THE WORLD during the Olympics. How embarassing! Please world, know that she is not representative of all Americans.
Wesinoregon
· 1 year ago
Russian group buys largest US Steel company for 3 billion. Isn't it nice we are selling out American companies to foreigners?
This mess is yet one more of those bush family gifts that just keep on giving!
I trust all will remember this and other recent bush family gifts to the nation in November!
I can't reason why anyone in their right mind and not a republican fascist would vote for McCain or anyone who calls themselves republican for anything grater that dog catcher and I would question that vote too!
dciii
· 1 year ago
Since John McCain has admitted to being "Georgian", he should be disqualified from being POTUS. After all, only "true Americans" are able to hold that office.
therepguy
· 1 year ago
Why do old men spend all of there time try to send young men to there death in made up wars for oil... I would rather spend my time loving them! <GRIN>
ClayPotts
· 1 year ago
The pipeline in Georgia contains a valuable commodity. Although America draws its energy from many sources and has an abundance of resources at its disposal, its good for the markets to know that the pipeline is operational if needed in the future. The only thing McCain understands is war and tough talk. A good man like Barack Obama can be trusted to do the best thing for America's interests.
vwcat
· 1 year ago
notice how McCain is sending his envoys to Georgia and no one is calling him presumptusou? arrogant?
okojo
· 1 year ago
Only strategic purpose Georgia has for the US and the EU are the oil pipelines. It is actually more important to state "Today we are all Azeris" (as long as they oil). Another reason why the US and EU need a united front, to show Russia, they need to temper their behavior on other neighborly hotspots, especially ones that deal with energy, like the shutting off natural gas to the Ukraine.
I think what is important for this conflict, is how Russia reacts to Western action. Instead of giving middle finger to the West, and tell them to but out of Russian vested interest, they have rather done the stall for time plan, and then declared mission accomplish.
cowboyneok
· 1 year ago
Yes, two words:
Arrogant and Presumptuous
Two words that would have been used to describe Obama if he had dared to utter those same words that McCain proclaimed. "We are all Georgians, now."
The Republican's heads would have exploded if Obama had said the same thing... Gramps says it, and it supposedly makes him "a great leader."
Hell, Obama, can't even give an uplifting speech in Europe without being accused of presumption and arrogance, or pretending to be "commander in chief."
Mark in Florida
· 1 year ago
No, I am from Wisconsin originally, and now live in Florida. Too many bigfoots in Georgia. McSAME is a fool. No one is paying attention to this, and the knuckle draggers that make up the base of the repugnant party barely know that Georgia is a US state let alone a sovereign country. I guess if they had oil we would care.
PS: McSAME has recieved 2 million from the government of Georgia. Conflict of interest??? me thinks so......
econprofes
· 1 year ago
McCain response to the Russian-Georgia conflict gets more troubling when you take a close look at why he made the statement “we are all Georgians”. Randy Scheunemann, McCain Foreign advisor is a paid lobbyist by the government of Georgia to lobby for the country of Georgia to get favors or special considerations from the White House and Congress. Those words where not McCain’s words, those words came from Randy Scheunemann. Randy Scheunemann is not looking out for what is best for America; like Phil Gramm he is looking out for his own financial interests.
It is disturbing enough that McCain would have advisors like Phil Graham and Randy Scheunemann, who only care about making their on pockets as well as their rich associates’ pockets fatter but to know that McCain lacks the intelligence and judgment to know what advice he should reject and accept is down right scary.
McCain is showing time after time why he ranked third from the bottom in his Naval Academy graduating class time. McCain has become the puppet and Gramm, Scheunemann and others like him are the ventriloquists. We already have had 8 years of a dummy saying what his corporate sponsored ventriloquists want said and doing what they want done because he lacked the intellect to have good ideas of their own.
What is down right frightening is Obama has not jumped on this. There should be prime time commercials showing McCain saying this. I am not suggesting Obama should stoop to the depths that McCain has done like out right lying but Obama and his campaign should at least use the truth against McCain. The fact is McCain accused Obama of acting like he was the President and then McCain speaks for the entire nation because his lobbyist advisor tells him to. Something even George Bush had enough sense not to do. The Obama people should be on this like white on rice. Instead the Obama campaign is following in the same footsteps as John Kerry.
My opinion of the Clintons is they are no better than Bush or Cheney. In 1992 I believe they had genuine values and morals but they have been corrupted by power. Bill Clinton is the only Democratic Presidential nominee that has had the intestinal fortitude to trade punches with the Republicans. Bill Clinton was a master at using surrogates. When Obama gets a good surrogate (General Wesley Clark) to take on McCain, he denounces him. If Obama looses this election it will not be because he is African American, it will be because he was too timid and weak.
LeesiD
· 1 year ago
This whole issue about Russia/Georgia, and the way the Bush govt is handing this...is pretty bizarre....As for "We are all Georgian" heck....the only thing even remotely close to being Georgian is that I live next to a state that bears the same name!!!
All Comments
Andrew Sullivan yesterday on the same subject
I saw on the news this week that there is a major petroleum pipeline that runs through Georgia. Now, that pipeline wouldn't have anything to do with the US wanting to be involved, would it??
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foreign policy based on oil/gas/natural resources... correct me if I'm wrong, isn't there a huge pipeline that's in our best interests in Georgia?
and mcsame supporters don't think he'll be the same as bush/cheney? It seems like he's pretty much ready to restart the cold war over natural resources, how do you think a war with Russia would wind up for us?
the man is insane, and if he's seriously thinking about getting into it with Russia... his foreign policy IS a little different than bush/cheney's... its WORSE!!
Brace yourself for an even worse living, breathing disaster leading this nation.
http://www.moscowtimes.ru/article/1010/42/36977...
I trust all will remember this and other recent bush family gifts to the nation in November!
I can't reason why anyone in their right mind and not a republican fascist would vote for McCain or anyone who calls themselves republican for anything grater that dog catcher and I would question that vote too!
I think what is important for this conflict, is how Russia reacts to Western action. Instead of giving middle finger to the West, and tell them to but out of Russian vested interest, they have rather done the stall for time plan, and then declared mission accomplish.
Arrogant and Presumptuous
Two words that would have been used to describe Obama if he had dared to utter those same words that McCain proclaimed. "We are all Georgians, now."
The Republican's heads would have exploded if Obama had said the same thing... Gramps says it, and it supposedly makes him "a great leader."
Hell, Obama, can't even give an uplifting speech in Europe without being accused of presumption and arrogance, or pretending to be "commander in chief."
PS: McSAME has recieved 2 million from the government of Georgia. Conflict of interest??? me thinks so......
It is disturbing enough that McCain would have advisors like Phil Graham and Randy Scheunemann, who only care about making their on pockets as well as their rich associates’ pockets fatter but to know that McCain lacks the intelligence and judgment to know what advice he should reject and accept is down right scary.
McCain is showing time after time why he ranked third from the bottom in his Naval Academy graduating class time. McCain has become the puppet and Gramm, Scheunemann and others like him are the ventriloquists. We already have had 8 years of a dummy saying what his corporate sponsored ventriloquists want said and doing what they want done because he lacked the intellect to have good ideas of their own.
What is down right frightening is Obama has not jumped on this. There should be prime time commercials showing McCain saying this. I am not suggesting Obama should stoop to the depths that McCain has done like out right lying but Obama and his campaign should at least use the truth against McCain. The fact is McCain accused Obama of acting like he was the President and then McCain speaks for the entire nation because his lobbyist advisor tells him to. Something even George Bush had enough sense not to do. The Obama people should be on this like white on rice. Instead the Obama campaign is following in the same footsteps as John Kerry.
My opinion of the Clintons is they are no better than Bush or Cheney. In 1992 I believe they had genuine values and morals but they have been corrupted by power. Bill Clinton is the only Democratic Presidential nominee that has had the intestinal fortitude to trade punches with the Republicans. Bill Clinton was a master at using surrogates. When Obama gets a good surrogate (General Wesley Clark) to take on McCain, he denounces him. If Obama looses this election it will not be because he is African American, it will be because he was too timid and weak.