Yes, they went there. But hey, you can’t say we didn’t warn Palin. I railed against that idiotic “Russia/Alaska” assertion from day one, but the McCain camp continued to push it. And so they have to deal with copious amounts of ridicule and scorn. Not just because the point itself was dumb, but also because [...]

I thought Obama was better than McCain on the economy because that first 20 minutes for McCain simply wasn’t good. He was shaky, uncertain and didn’t really convince anybody he had a good command on the topic. Also, Obama certainly made the case that McCain was tied to the failures of Bush’s economic policy, and [...]

This one is much longer, and includes Palin’s previous Alaska/Russia foreign policy explanation, which Doug described as “Another Deer In The Headlights Moment For Sarah Palin.” But putting that aside, she reveals her views on Henry Kissinger, spreading democracy and not second guessing Israel…ever. Well, unless we agree with them. Then we won’t second guess [...]

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I’m sorry folks, but it’s getting downright comical at this point. Via Politico comes this revealing moment after McCain and Palins’ meeting with Georgian President Saakashvilli and Ukrainian President Yushchenko… McCain then looked around the room and gestured as if to welcome questions. The AP reporter shouted a question at Gov. Palin (“Governor, what have [...]

I watched part of CNN’s “The Next President: A World of Challenges” forum on Sunday, but I missed this bit that reveals Colin Powell not only saying that Georgia started it, but it also appears that he backs away a bit from McCain’s response to the crisis. As I’ve said before, Colin Powell’s endorsement could [...]

John McCain struggles to come up with a good way to make Palin seem more palatable… In a joint appearance, the Republican presidential candidate said defensively: “She has been commander in chief of the Alaska National Guard. Fact. On September 11 a contingent of the guard deployed to Iraq and her son was one of [...]

This is not good news… Surprisingly enough, Christopher Hitchens thinks Obama has the right plan when it comes to Pakistan… Sen. Barack Obama has, if anything, been the more militant of the two presidential candidates in stressing the danger here and the need to act without too much sentiment about our so-called Islamabad ally. He [...]

The other two segments will be on Good Morning America and 20/20. World News Tonight – Part 1 As mentioned earlier, her lack of understanding of the Bush Doctrine and the “head of state” excuse are extremely troubling. And, in general, it doesn’t really seem like she truly knows about what she’s talking about. I [...]

A couple things from today’s interview were revealing. First, Palin didn’t really seem to know what the Bush Doctrine is. I don’t know, maybe it was just nerves, but that was a pretty weak, “talking pointy” answer. For most anybody who follows politics, that answer would have been a gimme. Second, she tried to excuse [...]

This is just odd… McCain is traveling with the U.N.’s World Food Programme, whose work she monitored in Southeast Asia and Africa this spring and summer. McCain plans to meet with Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili and to visit wounded Georgian soldiers. She would also visit representatives of the HALO Trust, which works to remove land [...]

That’s right. Nobody there. Let’s hope this ist true… BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraqi Prime Minister Prime Nuri al-Maliki said on Monday that an agreement had been reached in negotiations on a security pact with the United States to end any foreign military presence in Iraq by the end of 2011. “There is an agreement actually [...]

With a start date of June 30, 2009 no less! From AP: The negotiations over a withdrawal timetable follow long insistence by President Bush that setting any schedule for U.S. troops to leave would be dangerous. The draft agreement with Iraq would link troop reductions to achievement of certain security milestones, although the details have [...]

And makes a lot of sense… “Obviously, America should encourage both countries to back down and resolve their differences peacefully,” explains Barr. But “the status of South Ossetia, as well as Abkhazia, another Russian-supported separatist zone within Georgia, matters a lot more to Russia, on which the two territories border, than to the U.S. Moreover, [...]

John McCain’s latest editorial is entitled “We Are All Georgians” and I have to say pretty bluntly that McCain absolutely does not speak for me. First off, McCain’s not the President. Obviously he knows this, but when he says something so broad it feels like he’s speaking for America. Perhaps this isn’t what he meant, [...]

Greg Djerejian echoes what many in the blogosphere are saying about McCain’s hardline stance… An honorable man who served his country well, it is clear his time has past and his grasp on the most basic foreign policy calls we’ll need to make in the coming years is very tentative indeed. He’ll be surrounded by [...]

At least that’s the latest report. We probably won’t have confirmation on this until sometime later today. From NY Times: MOSCOW — President Dmitri A. Medvedev of Russia announced Tuesday that he had ordered a halt to his country’s military operation in Georgia, although he did not say that troops were pulling out and he [...]

I’ve been incorrectly saying “Ossetians” so I’ll use the correct verbiage from here on out. (Looks like both can be used, according to Mikhail Gorbachev) This little factoid comes from the Times Online, which provides a very good timeline of what has gone down in the past, and sums it up as such… Russia’s policy [...]

Given the recent flare up in Georgia yesterday and into today, it was expected that the candidates would have to take a position. Both don’t view Russia’s actions as justified, but as Politico points out this represents one of the campaign’s first “3 a.m.” moments and could give us a glimpse into how the candidates [...]