Seems like political pandering, too. One of McCain's advisers was a paid lobbyist for Georgia. McCain looks like he's taking over for George, who's off to his ranch for vacation, rather than acting like a senator and a presidential candidate. Presumptuous?
It also seems to me that Russia is attacking Georgia to get at the U.S. and Georgia is playing the U.S. to get what it wants and the U.S. is in the middle without clout, thanks to you know who.
WaPo: Asked about his tough rhetoric on the ongoing conflict in Georgia, McCain began: "If I may be so bold, there was another president . . ."
He caught himself and started again: "At one time, there was a president named Ronald Reagan who spoke very strongly about America's advocacy for democracy and freedom."
With his Democratic opponent on vacation in Hawaii, the senator from Arizona has been doing all he can in recent days to look like President McCain, particularly when it comes to the ongoing international crisis in Georgia.
Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili says he talks to McCain, a personal friend, several times a day. McCain's top foreign policy adviser, Randy Scheunemann, was until recently a paid lobbyist for Georgia's government. McCain also announced this week that two of his closest allies, Sens. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) and Joseph I. Lieberman (I-Conn.), would travel to Georgia's capital of Tbilisi on his behalf, after a similar journey by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
