The Chicago Sun Times, B. Hussein’s home town newspaper, notes that McCain has it right on the Georgian crisis, not Obama.
McCain, not Obama, was right about Georgia
…One who was up to speed on Georgia and the menace it faced from Russia was veteran Sen. John McCain. He had visited the Caucasian nation three times in a dozen years. When fighting erupted, the presumptive Republican presidential candidate got on the phone to gather details and issued a statement Friday summarizing the situation, tagging Russia as the aggressor and demanding it withdraw its forces from the sovereign territory of Georgia.
It took first-term Sen. Barack Obama three tries to get it right. Headed for a vacation in Hawaii, the presumed Democratic candidate for commander in chief issued an even-handed statement, urging restraint by both sides. Later Friday, he again called for mutual restraint but blamed Russia for the fighting. The next day his language finally caught up with toughness of McCain’s.
Making matters worse, Obama’s staff focused on a McCain aide who had served as a lobbyist for Georgia, charging it showed McCain was “ensconced in a lobbyist culture.” Obama’s campaign came off as injecting petty partisan politics into an international crisis. This was not a serious response on behalf a man who aspires to be the leader of the Free World. After all, what’s so bad about representing a small former Soviet republic struggling to remake itself as a Western-style democracy?
As the crisis escalates, more are recognizing how “>we seem to have abandoned an ally in the face of ridiculously overwhelming aggression by a Soviet, uh, Russian state. If we so obviously don’t take our allegiances seriously, how can we expect states around the world to commitment to us in what is supposed to be secure alliances? Georgia helped us when we needed them in Iraq. And now when they need us?
Putin sees the situation for what it is. We are mired in Bush’s nation building experiment. It’s a slow, grinding activity, sort of like rebuilding L.A. after a 10.6 earthquake, only with snipers and I.E.D.s, with cooperation of only 1/3 of the residents. This is going to cost about 1.3 trillion dollars. Add a housing and finance bailout of $1.6 trillion, and watch over the next 7 years as entitlements dwarf the budget and it’s easy to see us as impotent to raise a hand to help Georgia, who actually embraces democracy, the west, and liberty.
Where are Putin’s chess pieces? He’s buying up, or flat out asserting dominion over vast energy reserves. He has a virtual stranglehold on Western Europes natural gas supply. (The pipeline through Georgia was an attempt to bypass Russia with a alternate route to the Caspian sea, and that’s why the Russian slap-down of Georgia.)
Where are we? Well, we’re just stuck. If we cross Russia we hurt our (other) allies in Europe. If we take our eye off the ball in the middle east, we could easily loose that fight. We can’t get our own congress to help us get at least moving toward reduced foreign energy dependence. So at this point, we can’t win, we can’t break even, and we can’t quit the game. To cap it all off we’re headed toward electing a card carrying Socialist in the Castro-Che Guevera-Karl Marx mold that’s going make Jimmy Carter look like Teddy Roosevelt.
What is it going to take to get America to dump these polititians and unleash our own potential. It took a Carter to give us a Reagan. Will it take an Obama to give us … Who?
I also saw the analysis of how Obama responded and his statements of the Georgian crisis. If anything exposes this man for how he thinks it was his first answer.
Obviously his Puppet Masters corrected him on the second and third response until they got it right and gave it the correct spin. A clue to the true Obama and how he really thinks is the first response.
How many times is this man going to show his true colors before the American voters see him for the fence sitting stradler that he is. I see no leadership here. Just a man who puts a wet finger in the air to see which way the wind blows.
As a student of the Soviets, I think this war is about restoring the Soviet Dominions. Obama has studied with many terrorists and communists and is more than willing to allow the Soviets to reform their empire so that he can surrender the US to it.
We are in trouble if this lovable moron gets any power.
Rather than mock the American people for their supposed inadequate language skills, Obama should explain his ham-handed response to this crisis, and discuss the likely consequences of such amateurism if (God help us!) he becomes President. Randy.
RICH B & RANDY, yep. Total empty suit. Barry’s probably a nice guy who you could have a beer or an iced tea with on the patio, but he’s got NOTHING to commend him to be POTUS. Scarily incompetent. Indeed, God help us. Again. And again. We don’t seem to learn. After Jimmah & Billy Jeff (twice)…
Condi Clueless Rice is supposed to have been a “Soviet expert” but she got caught with her jaw dropping at Putin’s aggression b/c she worries too much about the Paleostinians.
I remember when our military went into Iraq, how the Russian citizens protested against the over throw of Saddam saying the USA invaded just for the oil…now look at the Russians…going for the oil…quite a twist, don’t you think?!!!…
and by the way, where is that oil?!!!!!
Good Krauthammer column today on Georgia and what the USA should do.