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‘Invasion of Georgia’ a ‘3 a.m. moment’
Yahoo/Politico ^
| 8/9/08
| Ben Smith
Posted on 08/09/2008 5:51:41 PM PDT by dervish
When the North Caucasus slid into war Thursday night, it presented John McCain and Barack Obama with a true 3 a.m. moment, and their responses to the crisis suggested dramatic differences in how each candidate, as president, would lead America in moments of international crisis.
While Obama offered a response largely in line with statements issued by democratically elected world leaders, including President Bush, first calling on both sides to negotiate, John McCain took a remarkably and uniquely more aggressive stance, siding clearly with Georgias pro-Western leaders and placing the blame for the conflict entirely on Russia.
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 3am; geopolitics; georgia; mccain; nationalsecurity; nato; obamamessiah; russia; southossetia
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To: dervish
3 AM, and Bush is still in China.
I suspect this was all planed out in advance, and we knew what was going on.
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posted on
08/09/2008 7:47:24 PM PDT
by
redgolum
("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
To: dervish
Well, Bush responds by flirting with hot volleyball players!
To: autumnraine
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posted on
08/09/2008 8:50:06 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
( This tag blank until football season.)
To: misanthrope
LOL Now that just might be the most reasonable political analysis of the year.
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posted on
08/09/2008 8:52:32 PM PDT
by
TigersEye
(Berlin '36 ... Olympics for murdering regimes. ... Beijing '08)
To: dfwgator
To: dervish
Georgia should blow up the Roki Tunnel and cut off the Russians in Georgia. Starve them out.
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posted on
08/09/2008 8:55:45 PM PDT
by
plenipotentiary
(Free the Oil, Topple the Saudis)
To: misanthrope
ding ding ding! We have a winner LMAO!
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posted on
08/09/2008 9:34:53 PM PDT
by
valkyry1
To: NavyCanDo
Good point. God bless our country.
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posted on
08/09/2008 9:35:19 PM PDT
by
dervish
(Obama: no preconditions to talk to Ahmadinejad, but needs preconditions to debate John McCain)
To: dervish
dervish, your country IS?
29
posted on
08/10/2008 3:55:53 AM PDT
by
King Lazar
(Pomoz Bog!)
To: King Lazar
I am American born and bred.
Why do you ask?
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posted on
08/10/2008 8:16:59 AM PDT
by
dervish
(Obama: no preconditions to talk to Ahmadinejad, but needs preconditions to debate John McCain)
To: dervish
it was just a ?
“I am American born and bred” ... ARE YOU AMERICAN?
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posted on
08/10/2008 11:35:20 PM PDT
by
King Lazar
(Pomoz Bog!)
To: Marine_Uncle
“The bear has awakened from his sleep. Those rusty old nuclear subs will be replaced with new ones using oil and gas sales to Europe and the US.”
Ok, McCain, hope you figure this out and if you end up as Prez, you start drilling for oil in ANWR as fast as possible. This is a national security issue, not an environmentalist-whacko issue. Time to stop playing around with the issue of drilling.
To: King Lazar
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posted on
08/11/2008 12:14:41 AM PDT
by
dervish
(I looked into Putin's actions and saw evil)
To: flaglady47
It would be a start in the right direction. But ANWAR is only one little piece of the whole oil/gas pie we must be allowed to explore and develop the drilling platforms and follow up pipelines that can go directly to US refineries, including new ones and vastly modernized ones that are already in operation.
Not to mention the vast coal reserves in the mid west and eastern US, that can be converted into petroleum products.
The real problem is getting the US congress to do a complete and honest turn around regarding oil/gas/coal extraction and refining. The President can only do so much.
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posted on
08/11/2008 5:40:55 PM PDT
by
Marine_Uncle
(Duncan Hunter was our best choice...Now we are left with a bunch of idiots.)
To: Marine_Uncle
The real problem is getting the US congress to do a complete and honest turn around regarding oil/gas/coal extraction and refining. The President can only do so much.
Actually, that is what I am worried about. Even if McCain wins, there is still the Congress, and unless a miracle occurs, it is likely that the Dems could gain more seats in Congress come election time. Hope I’m wrong. As I’ve stated on many a Freeper thread, we’ve got to do everything, on all fronts, to produce oil, every one of the things you listed plus more if possible. But I fear for the stupidity of X amount of people living in this country to not wise up to the predicament we are in. This is definitely a national security issue now. And if Obama gets in, we are scr*wed.
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posted on
08/11/2008 7:14:15 PM PDT
by
flaglady47
(South Ossetia = Kosovo - thanks Bill Clinton)
To: flaglady47
I could not agree more with what you had to say. The majority of American voters are so ill informed regarding the energy issues and the false global warming issues that they simply even if they had the time and resources to bug their representatives, simply are not in the position to do so.
History demonstrates the majority are always behind the eight ball when it comes to independent thinking, backed up by rigorous research into a given matter.
So yes, we are getting screwed any way one looks at it.
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posted on
08/12/2008 4:02:22 PM PDT
by
Marine_Uncle
(Duncan Hunter was our best choice...Now we are left with a bunch of idiots.)
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