McCain: Georgia conflict is the ‘first serious crisis internationally since the end of the Cold War.’
By on Aug 15th, 2008 at 9:51 am
McCain: Georgia conflict is the ‘first serious crisis internationally since the end of the Cold War.’
Speaking at the Aspen Institute in Colorado yesterday, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) said that recent Russian aggression in Georgia is the “first…serious crisis internationally since the end of the Cold War.” McCain seemingly ignored the Gulf War, 9/11, and the Iraq War, to name a few:
My friends, we have reached a crisis, the first probably serious crisis internationally since the end of the Cold War. This is an act of aggression.
Watch it:
In July, McCain said Iraq was the “first major conflict since 9/11,” leaving out Afghanistan. Matt Yglesias has more on McCain’s inflated rhetoric on Russia. (HT: Politico)
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With the help of Viagra, I’ll bet McNumbNuts could even get a woody over the prospects of this “serious international conflict”. It’s what republican’ts do.
August 15th, 2008 at 9:56 amAs if the Amerikan invasion/occupation never happened.
what an a$$phuck!
August 15th, 2008 at 9:58 amYou got to give him though … he’s hillarious! I’m rolling on the floor here.
August 15th, 2008 at 9:59 amI should amend my above post;
McPutz has his nose so far up W’s ass, he has to be Pinocchio
August 15th, 2008 at 10:00 amAgain, McCain shows that he is “confused”. He already forgot about our illegal invasion into Iraq. His brain must be fried.
August 15th, 2008 at 10:04 amMy friends, dementia is on the march.
August 15th, 2008 at 10:04 amGuido, I agree. McCain is clueless.
August 15th, 2008 at 10:05 amThe “cold” war (it wasn’t really cold if we were fighting Russia by proxy – through Osama bin Laden and his troops) ended in 1989.
Nohing significant has happened since then internationally? Really?
I suppose from his prespective, that could be true. However, a lot of people around the world from Bosnia to Iraq to New York to the Sudan to South Africa to North Korea and so on might disagree.
August 15th, 2008 at 10:08 amIn retrospect, it was probably a good idea for Obama to go to Hawaii for a week. Sometimes, the most effective thing to do when you’re running against a complete imbecile is get out of the way and let them hang themselves.
McNumbNuts is well on the way to self-destructing. Throw in a couple temper tantrums, a few revelations about his seedy lobbyist ties, bring up his illustrious past (Keating 5; children who won’t talk to him; cheating on his first wife; collaboration with his captors in Vietnam) and laughable performances in debates and viola — a republican’t debacle in November.
August 15th, 2008 at 10:09 amThe Democrats have to stop dancing around the issue of McCain’s age. He’s an old guy whose brain isn’t working well and it isn’t going to get any better. His age and memory lapses are a legitmate issue.
August 15th, 2008 at 10:10 amHad a spelling lapse. The word is legitimate.
August 15th, 2008 at 10:12 amI can’t wait for the debates between McCain and Obama.
August 15th, 2008 at 10:15 amI think that the Democrats just need to frame it so that age isn’t even a factor.
Just call him an idiot and be done with it.
August 15th, 2008 at 10:15 am#4, Guido I whis Obama would get off his A$$ and rip the old man a new one, your absolutely right his mental capacity is gone,this is Mcwars second gaffe on war this week and he is looking more and more senile everytime he says something.Obama better be charged up and ready to rock when he comes back from vacation.What is really sad is how Mcwars is politiczing this issue, it wouldn`t suprise me if he or the Shrub gave a wink and a nod to Geoergia also KKKarl was in the region when he was summoned to congress, just a coincedence or what.
August 15th, 2008 at 10:15 amDear John,
I am not your friend. It is presumptuous and pretentious of you to refer to someone you have no knowledge of, as your friend.
I can safely assume that if we were to meet in real life, you would not like me. You would brand me as a “Liberal” when in reality, I only wish for the same rights granted in the Bill of Rights and the Constitution be applied fairly to all, not just those that drink the republican Kool-aid or give money to your campaign. You are duplicitous and two faced, shallow, and lacking moral fiber. Your reference to everyone as a “friend” is pandering to the lowest level and I hope it bites you in the ass.
Sincerely,
Vinylspear
August 15th, 2008 at 10:17 am“The first probably serious crisis”
Obviously in this case, the $3.5 billion sale of Carlyle’s John Maneely Co. to a Russian steel maker needs to be stopped. Will some reporter ask about this timely lever?
August 15th, 2008 at 10:17 amTalk about a heavy handed attempt at an ‘October Surprise’
August 15th, 2008 at 10:17 amMcStupid is now the Official BOF! Befuddled Old Fart! He wanted to be like Reagan and he got his wish. McDipshit is way past ‘early stages’ of oldtimers disease.
August 15th, 2008 at 10:18 amthe first probably serious crisis internationally since the end of the Cold War.
So according to McCain, some 4,000 soldiers gave their lives in Iraq over some minor geopolitical tiff?
August 15th, 2008 at 10:19 amSo the 1000s of dead Americans, and huibdreds of thousands of dead Iraqs mean nothing whatsoever to McCain. It’s not even a serious crisis to him.
August 15th, 2008 at 10:21 amMcNutty leaves me speechless.
August 15th, 2008 at 10:23 amWOW!
Since when is Iraq not considered International?
Oh, that’s right, when the country involves OIL, that’s when.
Shall we call it Amiraqa?
Mucking foron!
August 15th, 2008 at 10:24 amminor geopolitical tiff? 10:a
Yes! it’s called ‘OIL’. geological tiff?
August 15th, 2008 at 10:25 am“So according to McCain, some 4,000 soldiers gave their lives in Iraq over some minor geopolitical tiff?”
moreover, 150,000 soldiers just found out that mccain thinks that “ied’s and getting shot at on a daily basis” doesn’t equal a “serious crisis”.
August 15th, 2008 at 10:25 amunbelievable Says:
I can’t wait for the debates between McCain and Obama.
I could not agree more! The outcomes of these debates will be Obama’s greatest on-air “ads” as the pundits try to spin McCain’s gaffs and misspeaks into something coherent.
I do think it sucks that two of the three debates will have the candidates sitting down, because Obama’s towering stature, coupled with his superior use of facts and ideas, would be beautiful to behold.
And agreed that the troops who lost their lives or were permanently disabled in Iraq and Afganistan did so for a “minor” incident. Way to acknowledge the sacrifices, McStain!
PEACE
August 15th, 2008 at 10:28 amSo the tens of millions of people who have died in the ongoing Rwanda/Democratic Republic of the Congo conflict don’t count, I guess?
No, probly not.
August 15th, 2008 at 10:29 amIs McCain high on drugs, or what? Is he completely oblivious to the idiocy of his remarks? Only the most obtuse of his followers could buy what he says about this being the first serious international crisis since the end of the Cold War, or his condemnation of invading or “bullying” other countries.
But by all means, keep it up, John. You’ll eventually cross the finish line hopping on one foot with the other one firmly planted in your mouth — only to find that Obama left you in the dust.
August 15th, 2008 at 10:31 amspencers mom Says: I could not agree more! The outcomes of these debates will be Obama’s greatest on-air “ads” as the pundits try to spin McCain’s gaffs and misspeaks into something coherent.
I’ll be great that McCain’s screw ups will finally get air time, since they certainly aren’t getting it from the corporate-owned news outlets. Will become impossible for them to hide what an idiot he really is, especially in contrast to such an incredible orator like Obama.
August 15th, 2008 at 10:33 amNow, there are times that I like to play devil’s advocate.
And since we have not had our troll du jour post yet,
I wonder, does McCain really mean “first international crisis with Russia since the Cold War?”
If not, then he’s an idiot.
If so, then he’s an idiot because one should never play guessing games when it comes to our brave men and women serving (or dead).
Hey McSame, way to show support for our troops!
Mucking foron!
August 15th, 2008 at 10:34 amtonight he’s gonna party like it’s 1989
August 15th, 2008 at 10:34 amhenry wallace Says:
minor geopolitical tiff? 10:a
Yes! it’s called ‘OIL’. geological tiff?
Maybe. Could also be that only Caucasian-on-Caucasian violence counts as a crisis on Planet McCain.
August 15th, 2008 at 10:35 amI guess for a warmonger like McCain, it’s not “serious” until there’s a possibility of the destruction of the planet in a quick rain of nuclear bombs over half the hemisphere.
August 15th, 2008 at 10:38 amhussein toasterhead Says:
So the tens of millions of people who have died in the ongoing Rwanda/Democratic Republic of the Congo conflict don’t count, I guess?
No, probly not.
August 15th, 2008 at 10:29 am
Brown people, HT, brown people!! Oy…
August 15th, 2008 at 10:38 amMcCain’s just spouting the talking points, which make no sense to anyone operating from a long term, informed view. However, they get the adrenaline flowing from the clueless masses.
And when someone paying attention spills the beans about what’s coming? We get the usual Bush denial. It seems the Kuwaiti’s spoke too soon.
August 15th, 2008 at 10:39 amalso not “serious” nor “international” nor a “crisis” according to mccain: musharraf’s impending resignation
August 15th, 2008 at 10:39 amahem… the repigs want us to forget (and the MSM continue to ignore): all this shit happened / came to fruition under the BUSHIES’ watch!!!
instead of paying attention to WTF was going on in the world, they were (and wanted us to be) distracted by the war of (cough, cough… ON) “terror” rather than
developing and enacting an energy policy and developing and working a foreign policy…
instead: TERROR TERROR TERROR – oh look! another muslim wants to KILL YOU…
(all the while all this shit was developing right under their bloody noses…)
THIS is what they want us to forget and ignore
THIS is what we cannot ignore:
this happened under their watch…
August 15th, 2008 at 10:39 amOne word describes McLame BUFFOON !!!!
August 15th, 2008 at 10:42 amHow is McBane anywhere close to Obama? I need help understanding what kind of goober would vote for him.
August 15th, 2008 at 10:44 amMcCain: “My friends, we have reached a crisis, the first probably serious crisis internationally since the end of the Cold War.”
Reporter: Senator, you just said that this is the first probably serious crisis internationaly since the end of the Cold War. How—”
McCain: “–I don’t recall saying that”
Reporter: You just said it!
McCain: “No I didn’t”
Reporter: Well how WOULD you decribe the current Russia/Georgia situation then?
McCain: “I’d say we have reached a crisis, the first probably serious crisis internationally since the end of the Cold War.”
Reporter:But….
McCain: “And let me add, Obama is on vacation! And I am a POW—was…was a POW! You little jerk!”
August 15th, 2008 at 10:45 amDRxJ Says
August 15th, 2008 at 10:34 am
I wonder, does McCain really mean “first international crisis with Russia since the Cold War?”
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I’m sure he must have — not even McCain could be so stupid as to suggest that our invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq aren’t international crises.
And I’m sure that when McCain condemns the invasion of other countries, he’s merely saying that it’s a bad thing when Russia does it. When we do it, it’s OK.
If it was a genuine misspeak, where’s the usual “clarification” we’ve come to expect from McFlippetyflop? Or doesn’t he even bother anymore?
August 15th, 2008 at 10:46 amComing soon to a Theater of War near you: COLD WAR II: This time its International!!
August 15th, 2008 at 10:52 amHe is so pathetic we can laugh, but joking aside some folks think he can be the leader of the free world. I’m getting my passport updated today. scary shit
August 15th, 2008 at 10:52 amMcNumbNuts explains this latest gaffe:
“Sometimes I am given to hyperbole, my friends.”
August 15th, 2008 at 10:53 ammisshusseinmolly Says:
And I’m sure that when McCain condemns the invasion of other countries, he’s merely saying that it’s a bad thing when Russia does it. When we do it, it’s OK.
August 15th, 2008 at 10:46 am
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The Daily Show has been having a lot of fun this week with the Bush/McCain administration’s verbal gymnastics every time they make their “sovereign nations don’t invade other sovereign nations in the 21st century” talking point. They usually qualify it with “in Europe” or “that are functioning democracies” or “in bed” to avoid the obvious comparison to Iraq. Or not. Sometimes they just press on as if we have no long-term memory or old newspapers.
August 15th, 2008 at 10:57 amdareme: He is so pathetic we can laugh, but joking aside some folks think he can be the leader of the free world.
Indeed it’s all fun and games until someone gets hurt. I swear I didn;t think ANYONE could beat Bush for stupidity, but McCain seems to be matching him.
August 15th, 2008 at 10:57 amjust more proof you cant fix stupid.
August 15th, 2008 at 11:02 amdareme Says
August 15th, 2008 at 10:52 am
He is so pathetic we can laugh, but joking aside some folks think he can be the leader of the free world.
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Over my lifetime, I have seen some people wind up in the Oval Office whom I never wanted. I consoled myself with the thought that the United States was actually quite strong, and as long as we still had our constitution, the president couldn’t screw it up too badly — no matter what happened, we would survive and recover. Like a pine tree in a severe drought, it would bounce back once the drought ended.
The last eight years have caused me to doubt this, however. I have seen a consolidation of power in the Executive Branch that made Nixon’s power grab pale in comparison. I am watching the constitution — the backbone of our democracy — get shredded. I have seen our entire system of government checks and balances completely erode. I have seen our national debt skyrocket to heights that we couldn’t have imagined a generation ago and our dollar descend into laughable territory. I am watching our government being run by oil companies, Halliburton, KBR, and Blackwater as they see fit. And all without any accountability.
I have seen the respect we once commanded in the world plummet down to utter scorn. And I am watching our military — the best and most powerful in the world — strained to the breaking point.
I watch as the rich get richer, the poor get poorer, and the middle class gets smaller.
Where I used to think the United States was strong enough to endure anything, even a bad chief executive, I can now see some limits to this strength. For the health of our country, we MUST change course in November. Four more years down the same track may just finish us.
August 15th, 2008 at 11:05 amMcNumbNuts is showing what kind of presi-dunce he would be — just like GDumbya. Anther comatose, bellicose buffoon.
August 15th, 2008 at 11:07 amNow that I’ve parsed his statement, “probably serious crisis internationally,” I see where the qualifier lies. It’s the word “probably.” McCain is, of course, referring to quantum conflict, which is the logical successor to the old theory of Newtonian conflict.
While Newtonian law states that conflict is inevitable, quantum conflict theory assigns a probability distribution to the possibilities of an escalation of conflict. This theoretical warfare exists as a series of eigenstates that, due to the Uncertainty Principle, can’t be known until the waveform actually collapses.
Iraq, Afghanistan, DR Congo, Lebanon, Chad, Sudan – these are all collapsed-waveform conflicts. We know the forms they take. But Russia-Georgia, Colombia-Venezuela, India-Pakistan, China-East Turkestan, Israel-Iran – these are all merely quantum wars.
For now.
August 15th, 2008 at 11:07 amThe fact that the US has invaded a country with nothing to do with 911 and in the persian gulf which the neo con’s had advocated in writing invading, inorder to control Russia and China ,I quess there is no chance this is neo con’s last back door attempt to WWIII .
August 15th, 2008 at 11:09 amWithin the last month a massive joint training exercize with the georgian army and 1000 US soldiers took place which was proceeded by an official visit by Condi rice.
The US has been placing a missle shield around Russia which is of course as unprovocative as say China’s placing a missle shield on our borders in Canada and Mexico .
Maybe a one two punch ,say Israel attacks Iran unprovoked and the US goes to war with the Russians ! Good God are these guys for real !!!!!!!!!
This dude has never had a job in the private sector…Never.
While he laments the corruption in D.C. & how he’ll ‘fix it’, he
should always be reminded that he’s a huge part of the problem.
Tell him enough times, & he’ll blow his stack.
We need him to explode on live T.V., & is shouldn’t be too hard.
Q: What do the Baltic Sea & John McCain have in common?…
A: They’re both ‘Dead Zones’
August 15th, 2008 at 11:11 amhussein toasterhead Says: …….
Great an-alysis ht. (oops got moderated for a n a l) And you know, I believe McCain is probably correct. The US is attempting to surround Russia – missile defense (yeah right) in Poland; Georgia and Ukraine as part of NATO (How close are they to the North Atlantic anyway?). Russia will not sit quietly while the US sets up on their doorstep. Not only that, the US will have a “buffer” between Russia and the Middle East. It’s real life Risk.
August 15th, 2008 at 11:18 ammisshusseinmolly Says:
I have seen our entire system of government checks and balances completely erode. I have seen our national debt skyrocket to heights that we couldn’t have imagined a generation ago and our dollar descend into laughable territory. I am watching our government being run by oil companies, Halliburton, KBR, and Blackwater as they see fit. And all without any accountability.
August 15th, 2008 at 11:05 am
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While I certainly share your concern about the increasing corporatization of the government, I’m not sure that this is all entirely new.
Remember – as far back as the 1950s, our government was leading coups, overthrowing elected governments, and sparking massive civil wars in countries for the benefit of companies like British Petroleum and United Fruit. Completely without accountability or Congressional oversight. It was also conducting experiments with syphilis on black people and testing the effects of shock therapy at mental institutions, again without authorization. Checks and balances had been sacrificed in the name of Cold War hysteria.
I think the only real difference between then and now is that we’re able to see more clearly and more quickly what’s happening – not just here, but around the world. Yes, the government may try to be more secretive, but there are some pretty tenacious and courageous people shedding sunlight on whats happening as well.
I’m cautiously optimistic that we can change what’s happening to our country and our government, though I firmly believe that we can’t rely on the White House to do it for us. Nothing will improve until we change the anything-for-profit philosophy of the companies that actually run this country.
August 15th, 2008 at 11:22 amMsM’s response? “…what?!?!!? We can’t cover John McCain…Obama walked bare footed on a beach dammit!!!….”
August 15th, 2008 at 11:23 amThis kind of myopic arrogance is why so many around the world despise us. I suppose the war in the Balkans never happened. McCain himself knows full well how silly the statement is, but Rove knows that many Americans don’t. It is the same feigned ignorance that riles the left, making them look unpatriotic and elitist if they counter-attack. This is Roves bread and butter . He turned a Harvard graduate into a bumbling redneck, after all.
August 15th, 2008 at 11:25 amWhat a slap in the face to the brace men and women involved in the Afghanistan and Iraq.
If McLame is elected he’ll be the 2nd worst President in US history.
August 15th, 2008 at 11:27 amJebus. And here, I thought Chimpy was stupid…
Yikes.
August 15th, 2008 at 11:29 amI don’t think that any qualifiers can help with that statement. Not only does he disregard 9/11, but also our response to 9/11 including the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. He disregards the conflict in Serbia and Kosovo which is still playing out. He disregards, as does the administration, what should be a crisis with Pakistan selling nuclear secrets to the highest bidder. He disregards ongoing conflicts surrounding Isreal.
McCain is trying to present himself as “presidential” by dealing with this “crisis”, but in reality he is just an armchair general who is puffing up his own importance.
August 15th, 2008 at 11:33 amlivelongandprosper Says:
hussein toasterhead Says: …….
Great an-alysis ht. (oops got moderated for a n a l)
August 15th, 2008 at 11:18 am
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Thanks! FYI – I find the pole character (the | above the Enter key) works well in getting around the ana|ysis filter. :)
August 15th, 2008 at 11:35 amfletc3her Says:
He disregards the conflict in Serbia and Kosovo which is still playing out.
August 15th, 2008 at 11:33 am
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Specifically in Georgia. One of Russia’s major areas of contention with the EU and the west in general, as I understand, is the recent recognition of Kosovo as a nation, which Russia opposed strongly.
August 15th, 2008 at 11:37 amhussein toasterhead: Quantum conflict, Newtonian conflict, probability distribution, eigenstates, Uncertainty Principle, collapsed-waveform conflicts…..
That’s EXACTLY what I was thinking….but I didn’t want to say anything…..because my geopolitical gluons got their co-valences mixed up with my event horizons, so, you know…it was kind of awkward. :)
August 15th, 2008 at 11:37 am5th Estate Says:
hussein toasterhead: Quantum conflict, Newtonian conflict, probability distribution, eigenstates, Uncertainty Principle, collapsed-waveform conflicts…..
That’s EXACTLY what I was thinking….but I didn’t want to say anything…..because my geopolitical gluons got their co-valences mixed up with my event horizons, so, you know…it was kind of awkward. :)
The Neocons have shown their ability to telegraph their spin and are thus unable to avoid the black hole.
August 15th, 2008 at 11:48 amSo, the gravest international crisis since the end of the Cold War? The folks who hijacked the jets on 9/11 must’ve been Connecticut Episcopalians>
Boy, we were even farther off-target invading Iraq than I thought!
August 15th, 2008 at 11:54 amThe MSM needs to point out that it was Bush’s and McBush’s fault that Georgia thought that we would rush in there and save their butts.
On CNN this morning at least one of the commentators pointed that out, and also brought up that the Georgia Lobbyist of McBush was involved.
August 15th, 2008 at 11:55 am5th Estate Says:
That’s EXACTLY what I was thinking….but I didn’t want to say anything…..because my geopolitical gluons got their co-valences mixed up with my event horizons, so, you know…it was kind of awkward. :)
August 15th, 2008 at 11:37 am
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Pff – that’s nothing. Just wait until asymmetrical conflict is replaced with supersymmetrical warfare based in string theory. Now THAT’ll get your bosons moving!
August 15th, 2008 at 11:56 am#50 toast
August 15th, 2008 at 11:59 amwhere’s harry seldon when you need him ?
And watch Amerika elect this moron. This country is SO going down the toilet. Welcome to the United States of Amazingly Stupid. The rest of the world is passing us by . . . fast.
August 15th, 2008 at 12:02 pmCheck this out. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20507.htm
August 15th, 2008 at 12:07 pmYou know, as someone who experienced the 2006 Lebanon War, I just have to say that this is history repeating itself all over again. Saakashvili is the March 14 of Lebanon. Here is a Western puppet, propped up, armed and encouraged by the Neocons and it backfires on them. Why? Because these people, both men and women, are a bunch of delusional morons who played way too many video games and watched too much 24, and their only care now is how much money they can siphon before their reign ends. They either have no idea what they’re doing and only go with what sounds good to them, OR, they do know, but don’t care, because to them, THERE IS NO PROFIT IN PEACE!
By the way, here is an outstanding article by Pat Buchanan that sums up this whole mess in its proper context:
August 15th, 2008 at 12:08 pmhttp://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/08/blowback_from_bear_baiting.html
livelongandprosper The Neocons have shown their ability to telegraph their spin and are thus unable to avoid the black hole.
Ah yes, it;s all about the spin! And CHeney would be the Dark Matter that is implied but is so difficult to find. :)
August 15th, 2008 at 12:10 pmchristopher wiwi Says:
What is really sad is how Mcwars is politiczing this issue, it wouldn`t suprise me if he or the Shrub gave a wink and a nod to Geoergia also KKKarl was in the region when he was summoned to congress, just a coincedence or what.
I don’t Shrub had anything to do with it. I believe it was totally McCain and his campaign. The timing is a little suspect. Right when Shrub is safely tucked away at the Olympics. I think this was McCain’s “October surprise” timed for Bush and Obama being out of the country so McCain could step up to the plate and be “presidential”. Actually all it did was make him look like “man shouting at clouds”.
Like most everything else McCain has done in the last couple of months, this one is bouncing back at him showing him to be the fool he is.
August 15th, 2008 at 12:16 pmspencers mom Says:
unbelievable Says:
I can’t wait for the debates between McCain and Obama.
I could not agree more! The outcomes of these debates will be Obama’s greatest on-air “ads” as the pundits try to spin McCain’s gaffs and misspeaks into something coherent.
That’s why I don’t understand why Obama only agreed to three debates, and no “town hall” meetings. I know that McCain wanted the “town hall” meetings to be scripted, invitation only, but Obama could have gone public with that fact and said that he agreed to X number of “town hall” meetings, but that they had to be unscripted and open to anyone who wanted to attend. I think that Obama is playing it way too safe on this one.
August 15th, 2008 at 12:18 pmtoasterhead: Pff – that’s nothing. Just wait until asymmetrical conflict is replaced with supersymmetrical warfare based in string theory. Now THAT’ll get your bosons moving!
Sorry toasty, string-theory is for looserons and my bosons aren’t going anywhere, my strangeness and charm will see to that!
( Yeah, that’s the best I can do–I’m totally outclassed!)
August 15th, 2008 at 12:21 pmThe RNC must have some computer problems today, the Trolls have not been fed their talking points…it’s way too hard for them to think on their own.
August 15th, 2008 at 12:30 pmBuckie Boy Says:
On CNN this morning at least one of the commentators pointed that out, and also brought up that the Georgia Lobbyist of McBush was involved.
OMG, what is happening at CNN. Have they realized that pushing Bush and McCain’s BS is going to end up making them look foolish?
August 15th, 2008 at 12:31 pmHey I’ve been moderated , this is like a rite of passage. I’m delighted. I’ll have to brush up on my expletives .
August 15th, 2008 at 12:33 pmCongrats, freeman
You’re not an official ‘TP’r’ until you’ve been moderated.
Kind of like frat rush week…
August 15th, 2008 at 12:49 pmMcCain: Georgia conflict is the ‘first serious crisis internationally since the end of the Cold War.’ Involving white people on both sides.
August 15th, 2008 at 12:55 pmMr. Evil @ 69,
August 15th, 2008 at 1:41 pmThanks for that link – it’s a very good article.
Audio from the clip is up here.
August 15th, 2008 at 2:33 pmDoes the prospect of McCain getting elected count as a serious international crisis?
August 15th, 2008 at 2:42 pmMcCain: Georgia conflict is the ‘first serious crisis internationally since the end of the Cold War’ involving white people on both sides and where the side opposed to the U.S. is not pathetically weak, so it can’t be crushed.
August 15th, 2008 at 2:54 pmIt’s a crisis, when mccain’s foreign police adviser, Randy “Sugardaddyman” promises Georgia influence for his $ 800,000 and can’t deliver jack.
August 15th, 2008 at 3:30 pm“policy” advisor
August 15th, 2008 at 3:31 pmUSA / Iraq is not international if one considers Iraq a protectorate of the USA.
August 15th, 2008 at 3:33 pmI think some Serbs, Bosnians and Croatians might take issue with Grandpa’s rhetoric. Then again, when you are pandering to a base which has about the same long-term memory of about ten minutes, most won’t take issue with it since they won’t remember it after the news stops mentioning it.
August 15th, 2008 at 4:31 pmWhat possible yardstick is McCain using?
Off the top of my head I can name Gulf War I, Bosnia, Lebannon/Palestine, Pakistan/India, Afghanistan and Iraq.
It seems as though McCain only consider conflict with Russia as an international crisis. I think those other countries would beg to differ.
August 15th, 2008 at 5:04 pm“Abskaya” is probably the first new name for a region recently discovered, my friends. And its leader Mr. “Shish ka vili” is currently hiding in the nearby State of Georgia which shares a border with Alabama. Where is my medication when I need it, my friends?
August 15th, 2008 at 5:17 pmDallasNE
Unless you’re a country that adds to the McCain campaign piggy bank, you’re about as important as a substantial policy issue to him and his man diaper changers.
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August 15th, 2008 at 5:24 pmAre they serious???!!! Are they really serious??? I think they are joking with us… Statements like this are so out of reality, they MUST be KIDING!!!
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So, the illegal invasion and continued occupation that NEVER was an imminent threat to America which has caused over 5 MILLION refugees, set the chain of events that caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands isn’t an international crisis? Especially when the leader of the country that initiated this unwarranted aggression actually convinced other international parties to join him.
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August 15th, 2008 at 6:28 pmOh my. Well, Now Bush is saying that Russia is bullying and intimidating Georgia…as if Bush didn’t do that with Iraq…what a joke.
August 15th, 2008 at 6:32 pmOh! ….. Great!…… Now let the Arizona cowboy pull out his big guns and send our military into Russia. Please tell me why the European’s who are Georgia’s neighbors are not permitted to negotiate this matter? After all they have more to lose. Why does the USA always have to be in charge of all the world’s issues?
August 15th, 2008 at 7:27 pmIs John McCain in the pocket of oil companies? Is John McCain in the pocket of insurance companies? Is john McCain in the pocket of pharmaceutical companies? What countries is john McCain in the pocket of? Here is a list of lobbyists and employees of major companies working in major positions in the McCain campaign. It will answer any questions you might have about the people who are advising and influencing him.
August 15th, 2008 at 7:30 pmhttp://mccainsource.com/corruption?id=0006
Ops! here is that link
August 15th, 2008 at 7:32 pm@ Kwaayesnama: Very useful link there. I was just researching Exxon and found that McCain proposed giving them a $1.2 billion tax break. (And this year they’ve recorded the highest profits ever by any American corporation in history….).
As regards the Russia/Georgia conflict, I do wish the mainstream media would recognise the US’ role in helping Saakashvili to power, funding and training the Georgian military and sending 1000 US soldiers to Georgia for ‘war games’ in the weeks preceding the conflict.
The least they could do is make the proper distinctions between Georgia and South Ossetia. But, never mind, eh? :-)
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