WaPo: McCain's Focus on Georgia Raises Question of Propriety (breathtaking hypocrisy)

[Occam Bandage]

Standing behind a lectern in Michigan this week, with two trusted senators ready to do his bidding, John McCain seemed to forget for a moment that he was only running for president.
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.

The extent of McCain's involvement in the military conflict in Georgia appears remarkable among presidential candidates, who traditionally have kept some distance from unfolding crises out of deference to whoever is occupying the White House. The episode also follows months of sustained GOP criticism of Democratic Sen. Barack Obama, who was accused of acting too presidential for, among other things, briefly adopting a campaign seal and taking a trip abroad that included a huge rally in Berlin.

"We talk about how there's only one president at a time, so the idea that you would send your own emissaries and really interfere with the process is remarkable," said Lawrence Korb, a Reagan Defense Department official who now acts as an informal adviser to the Obama campaign. "It's very risky and can send mixed messages to foreign governments. . . . They accused Obama of being presumptuous, but he didn't do anything close to this."

(More at link.)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/14/AR2008081403332.html

Yeah, but Obama's totally the pretentious, presumptuous one.

[MagickMuffin]

1. How many Spunits have raised the question of McCaineyBush being Pretentious and Presumptuous?.?.?

I remember the video montage that was put together with most ALL the Cable Spundits doing that against Obama. It was very telling how they would use those words with their condescending voices.

I was wondering if they would be doing the same for McCaineyBush, but I know better. They will make excuses for him. After all he has "won wars":shrug: and he IS a war hero:shrug:

:puke:

[Occam Bandage]

3. None. We need to start some attack ads to get them talking.

[KittyWampus]

2. Yeah, it's EXPECTED if you are a republican

[unblock]

4. unfortunately, it's hard to pin things like "presumptuous" on the someone who's losing.

"presumptuous" is acting like you've already won when you ARE likely to win, it just hasn't yet come to pass.

what mclame is doing is "delusional" and "pretending to the throne". that's when you're acting like you've already won when you're NOT even likely to win.

[MarjorieG]

5. More than presumptuous, meddling to the point of helping start a war.

[Occam Bandage]

6. kick.