thinkprogress.org - 8/12/2008
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The McCain camp has been proud to note the Senator’s close ties to the President of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili. Randy Scheunemann, McCain’s foreign policy aide, boasted “ McCain and the Georgian leader rode jet skis together ” while visiting his presidential villa on the Black Sea. McCain even nominated Saakashvili for a Nobel Peace Prize in 2005. But in a speech yesterday, McCain ...
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Tuesday’s Mini-Report
Political Animal —
... * If McCain wants to demonstrate his expertise on foreign policy, and his support for Georgia in the midst of its conflict with Russia, someone probably ought to tell McCain how to pronounce the name of Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili. ...
DAY'S END ROUNDUP
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... . Think Progress points out that despite Scheunemann repeatedly boasting of how close McCain and Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili are, the GOP presidential candidate mispronounces the Georgian leader’s name three separate ways in a campaign appearance Tuesday. ...
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Saakashvili: Inglorious Democrat?
thewashingtonnote.com 8/11/2008 —
Belgravia Dispatch 's Gregory Djerejian publishes one of my favorite blogs. He wrestles issues down to their core and exposes the idiocy and nakedness of the foreign policy arena's blunderers. Today he writes about the Georgia-Russia conflict ...
"Russia Attacks Neighbor"
talkleft.com 8/11/2008 — That is CNN's headline. And strictly speaking, it is true. But obviously it is a ridiculously misleading description of the situation. But that does not really matter. As Matt Yglesias writes (btw Matt, who I often disagree with but ALWAYS read, an ...
Rove, Rice And Saakashvili —
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
What were they talking about last July ? Did Rove meet Saakashvili in Georgia? What has Scheuneman been promising Saakashvili for years - and what message was sent to Georgia after McCain won the nomination? Was Saakashvili goaded into goading Russia for campaign purposes?
These are all questions at this point. But given the record of Cheney and Rove of engineering foreign crises for ...
What to Do about Georgia —
Weekly Standard Blog
President Mikheil Saakashvili is understandably upset that Western leaders have offered little more than rhetoric:
Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili on Wednesday called for John McCain and other American leaders to do more for Georgia in their response to the conflict in his country.
“Yesterday, I heard Sen. McCain say, ‘We are all Georgians now,’” Saakashvili said on CNN’s ...
Saakashvili lets the cat out of the bag —
Left I on the News
CNN has an article about Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili calling on John McCain and other American leaders [sic] to "move from words to deeds." But the most interesting thing in the article is the next to last sentence: “We should realize what is at stake here for Americans,” he said. “America is losing the whole region.” That wasn't McCain talking. That was Saakashvili.
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