Not even you can believe it is OK for McCain to call for military intervention from a campaign event.

He also sent members of his pretend cabinet over to address the situation (Lieberman and Graham).

He criticized the presidents response in a foreign military crisis.  Sometimes I feel sorry for you that you have to defend obviously indefensible crap like this but then I realize you choose to do it.

McCain has now:

Given a speech about the end of his first term

Referred to himself as President McCain (a lot)

Sent representatives into a shooting war as if they were his cabinet members

Publicly announced American policy in reaction to a major political crisis

Forgot he was still a candidate and called himself the president ("Another president, Ronald Reagan, stood up to the Russians...")

Considering the ineptness of his campaigning and his endless blunders (he called the Georgian crisis the most significant foreign policy event since the end of the Cold War*) I think he's lost it and thinks in 2012 and he is running for reelection.  Or maybe he thinks its 2004 and he won in 2000 but either way, its not good.

*Since the end of the cold war: 9/11, Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan, Kashmir, South Korean Nuclear crisis, Chechnya, Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Somalia, Dar fur, Rwanda

Could it possibly be a question about how to act appropriately in a situation like this? Last I checked Bush is still the President, and for right or wrong, he and his administration have the responsibility to present the U.S. stance in any foreign situation or crisis.

That John McCain preempts the administration's statement and official position, and furthermore proceeds to send his own "emissaries" to Tbilisi and speaking publicly directly to Georgia and Russia, has the possibility of undercutting confidence in America's position. I think it might also have the adverse effect of limiting what options the White House has to choose between.

Bottom line. You touting "John McCain immediately went on the attack" as virtue is missing the point. The first thing you should consider is: Was it a good idea?!!. So I'd suggest to you KenTX that Obama wasn't slow. He was honoring the American Polical System, by acknowlegding that there is only one president, no matter if he agrees with him or not.

no more you tube propaganda videos. See, those are not credible sources.

I guess what you are saying is that we should take on Russia militarily on this one. With what troops and what equipment? If you haven't heard, ours are busy right now.

Sure as hell not you.

People like you don't give a damn if Russia reverts to totalitarian communism, and returns to the days of domination of all the countries of Europe and Asia.

You're one to complain while your government borrows its torture manual from the communists.

Your head must be splitting like the anti-gay bigot Ted Haggard's did on the day that he realized he was spectacularly gay. George W. Bush and John W. McCain with their incompetent leadership have created strategic space for Iran to become ascendant in the middle east, and now they have enabled the ascendancy of the russian Bully, Vladimir Putin.

Your president was asleep at the wheel and allowed this to happen. He looked into Putin's soul and saw that it was good. Remember? The world was laughing at us on that day.

You lash out in your shame over your own vile subservience to the party that weakened our once great country militarily and economically to the point where others snicker privately when our president declares that "there will be consequences". Those of us who are not pacifists but were nonetheless opposed this war in Iraq from the beginning  predicted that this would happen.

We were right. You were wrong.

That is the subject of this thread. In fact, it was the punchline. Apparently you can't read. If you had an ounce of patriotism at all, you would be calling for W's head on a platter. But you don't.

This is a masterpiece of confusion, self contradiction and delusion.

Bravo!