McCain: "Today, We Are All Georgians"

Ariz. Senator Phones Georgia's President; Obama Calls For "Action, Not Just Words" From Russia

(AP)  Republican presidential candidate John McCain phoned Georgia's president Tuesday to tell him all Americans back his country's efforts to thwart military attacks from Russia.

McCain told more than 2,000 voters in York that he spoke Tuesday morning with Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili to make sure he knows "that the thoughts, prayers and support of the American people are with that great little nation as it struggles today" for independence.

"I told him that I know I speak for every American when I said to him, today, we are all Georgians," McCain said to loud applause. He said Saakashvili asked him to express his thanks to Americans.

McCain said Moscow is using "violence against Georgia to send a signal" to "any country that chooses to associate with the West." Russian leaders, he said, must realize they risk "the benefits they enjoy from being part of the civilized world."

Both McCain and his Democratic opponent, Barack Obama, have called for a multi-pronged diplomatic approach to pressure Russia to withdraw from Georgia, a former republic of the Soviet Union. Georgia has been trying to keep the pro-Moscow province of South Ossetia from breaking away.

Obama, who is vacationing in Hawaii, said in a statement Tuesday: "Now is the time for action not just words. It is past time for the Russian government to immediately sign and implement a cease-fire. Russia must halt its violation of Georgian airspace and withdraw its ground forces from Georgia, with international monitors to verify that these obligations are met."

[peterp111]

Obama says it is the time for action not just words: mmm sounds like right out of the Clinton playbook- The man does not have a thought of his own. I mean what''s with the "celebrity" recap video at McCain? Is Obama not original? Oh, that''s right...He has no experiance to be his own man yet. DUH.

[johnpatrick9]

Speak for yourself Mcbush...I am for the Russkies in this one. The Georgians kicked a bear and lost an arm...dumb move, and there is nothing we can do about it due to the ongoing dumb moves of the past 8 years by a dumbell who McCain wants to emulate. Georgia is not in our sphere of influence and is not worth one of our cheapened dollars or one drop of our precious blood.

[sleepyric]

as usual,,,McCain has it all wrong....and it''s really none of our business...get all bent up about Georgia, and ignore what''s going on in Haiti; Darfur, etc...typical stupid OLD MAN response.

[lewiston14]

"McCain phoned Georgia''s president Tuesday to tell him all Americans back his country''s efforts to thwart military attacks from Russia."

Why dont he just shut up. I dont back anything he says how dare him speak for me.

[suzyku]

mcsame does NOT speak for me, he does NOT speak for the majority of this country. if, God forbid, it was up to him, he''d bring in our troops and start another war! He''s UNFIT!

[causeway_m]

Old McDepends called Sonny Pedue - Governor of GA to promise to send troops from the alabummy National guard if the russains threatened Atlanta.......Sonny Perdue was reportedly still perplexed by what the old buzzard was rambling on about

[causeway_m]

Speak for yourself Mcbush...I am for the Russkies in this one. The Georgians kicked a bear and lost an arm...dumb move,

Posted by johnpatrick9 at 02:24 PM : Aug 12, 2008"

Well said - if ole McDepends wants to defend GA let him get his *** into a fighter plane and go crash it into Tbilisi - his loss will not be one I''ll be mourning

[leftyintexas]

What''s McCain going to do? Bomb, bomb, bomb Iran? He sure ain''t gonna bomb Russia... the big phony.

[brianbwb-2009]

McSame may be a Georgian, seeing as how they tried genocide against pro Russian citizens of south Ossetia, and also as that part of the world used to have many of the world''s oldest living humans, he''d fit right in.

McSame ignores the genocidal acts of Georgians against their own Ossetian countrymen, just to take a pro Bush stance regarding the Tblisi oil pipeline.

Such a person wants us to believe he would be a good president. No thanks John, we had enough ignorance with Bush, we cannot take another 4 years of it.

[jlagat]

"I told him that I know I speak for every American when I said to him, today, we are all Georgians," McCain said to loud applause.

Sadly, most Americans couldn''t find Georgia (country) on a map nor figure out what the hell they are fighting about.

[macusweil]

"Today, We Are All Georgians" - McCain

That is unless of course you were amoung thoses enthnicly cleansed in South Ossetia last week by Georgia''s military.

Does this mean Johnny McSame will learn to correctly pronounce President Mikhail Saakashvili name?

[wothah]

Speek for yourself, you must be one of them people that is always being blame for something that you don''t do-nothing about, don''t no nothing about nothing, pure brain dead yellow belly coward!!

[dnsallday]

"I told him that I know I speak for every American when I said to him, today, we are all Georgians," McCain said.
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I AM OUTRAGED! HOW PRESUMPTUOUS! WHO CORONATED HIM PRESIDENT? THIS IS NO TIME TO BE PLAYACTING!
oops, sorry, I thought is was Obama who said that.

[future121]

McCain is like Bush-shooting from the hip without thinking things through. He does not speak for me. This tough talk is showmanship but not true leadership.

[wothah]

God Bless America an all other countrys that trying to be free of COMMIES.

[dnsallday]

today, we are all Georgians," McCain said
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McCain really should stop pulling famous quotes off Wickipedia and plagerizing them. It is embarrassing.

[wothah]

Lets all send Russia some money to help them at this time of need, the same that Clinton did in the early 90''s when big bad Reagon knock down the Berlin Wall

[future121]

Everytime some country sneezes we want to go to war. Iran, Russia, Iraq, whose next? I am not for another world war just to satisfy the egos of a few.

[ddaryl1]

Screw that ***... speak for yourself McDumbass

[shingles1]

Georgia, ''that great little nation'', that less than a year ago was throwing dissidents in jail and closing down opposition newspapers, bringing about worldwide condemnation. A ''great little nation'' that kicked off its invasion of South Ossetia, by bombing Ossetia''s capital city and killing untold numbers of civilians.

Saakashvili''s like Stalin, but with better public relations people and lobbyists (like McCain''s chief foreign policy adviser).

We''re being fed such a pile of horsesh*t from our media on this issue.

[hasher471]

"I told him that I know I speak for every American when I said to him, today, we are all Georgians," McCain said to loud applause.
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McCancer speaks for every American....please!!

Georgia is like the mouse that fvcked with the wrong big cat. Georgia themselves entered separtist areas.

Granted, Russia''s response was overboard, but that''s the way they''ve always were. Back in the Cold War days, if 2 KGB agents got wacked. They''d find out who did it and wack FOUR of their agents.

[macusweil]

GOP~ The Gas, Oil & Petrolium party would like to see the Georgia government can provide an alternate route for the Caspian energy producers. It has nothing to do with human rights on either side from their perspective.

[future121]

I wonder if Mccain is hand oickinghis audience like Bush Adminstration did?

[future121]

Excuse me, Handpicking his audience. bad typo.

[tawpdawg111]

No thanks!

[whitemale08]

...but we''re not all Georgians, that''s the problem McCain.

Just like we''re not all Sudanese, Rawandans, Albanians, Iraqis, Irish.

So stop boxing us in with this type of rhetoric.

Focus on this economy which is what you know least about, and respect Russians right to protect itself just like you thought it was necessary to go into Iraq and practice "regime change".

[wothah]

I only wish that I could win a big Lotto, I would move to Russia and live like a King, going to football games every weekend, their theam parks is this worlds best, the night life is at it''s best, golf every day anywhere yuo go. America is about to fail because of all of the states that wants out of the union. DA-DA-DA

[hasher471]

"Progress on market reforms and democratization has been made in the years since independence, but this progress has been complicated by two ethnic conflicts in the breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. These two territories remain outside the control of the central government and are ruled by de facto, unrecognized governments, supported by Russia. Russian-led peacekeeping operations continue in both regions. "
Ref: CIA Factbook

The Georgians should have NEVER gone into South Ossetia and pi$$ off the Russians.

[dredre2k]

Oh boy, let''s not go down this road again...
I''d prefer that we not restart the cold war...

US intervention into this conflict would kickoff a new arms race and potentially WWIII. I don''t know who McCain was speaking about when he said "we", but it certainly wasn''t us... probably the neoconservatives?

[kmccliment]

Live at 3:30pm et:

Georgian president quotes John McCains support for the country of Georgia and calls for Russia to halt. Georgian president quoted John McCain not Barry Obama. The international community in a crisis does not recognize Obama. They do respect and support John McCain.

McCain 08

[misha128-2009]

How about the consequences of Bush''s Preemptive strategies against Iraq now that they are being practiced by the Russians against Georgia. McCain cannot find three combat brigades for Afghanistan in the US or in NATO. What troops would McCain propose to muster to assist Georgia? Will masses of neocons be signing up for immediate departure to Georgia without training or equipment? How will they effectively stop or slow the Russian advance?

[superdem]

McCain is just spoiling for a fight - especially if there''s oil involved. I have no idea what this fight between neighbors is about. Most Americans have no idea where Georgia is on a map, or Iraq either, for that matter. They don''t know the politics, they don''t know the language, they don''t know the religions, they don''t know ANYTHING but there goes John McCain leading us into another WAR. We showed the Russians that - if you don''t like how something is going in another country - just invade and put it right. We should have learned from them in Afghanistan, but no, they learned from us in Iraq. McCain can use this to rally voters - Obama should be careful, we don''t want WAR.

[whitemale08]

Georgian president quotes John McCains support for the country of Georgia and calls for Russia to halt. Georgian president quoted John McCain not Barry Obama. The international community in a crisis does not recognize Obama. They do respect and support John McCain.

McCain 08


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Posted by kmccliment at 03:49 PM : Aug 12, 2008--

I can give da** about Georgia''s president said or the so-called international community. We need Obama to collect some of this lost "tax cuts for the rich".

Americans are in no mood for another "Repulican Suicide Bombing" mission.

[shingles1]

kmccliment, are you saying that Georgia is the ''international community''? Funny, cause I don''t hear anyone else quoting McCain.

It doesn''t hurt, of course, that McCain''s lead foreign policy adviser has been a longtime paid lobbyist for Georgia. McCain scratches Saakashvili''s back and Saakashvili returns the favor.

[mcvet-1]

Georgian president quotes John McCains support for the country of Georgia and calls for Russia to halt. Georgian president quoted John McCain not Barry Obama. The international community in a crisis does not recognize Obama. They do respect and support John McCain.

McCain 08

Posted by kmccliment at 03:49 PM : Aug 12, 2008

LOL ARE YOU on another PLANET?? LOL Were YOU in some sort of CAVE when Obama visited Europe?? LOL You Fascist are far to hung up on your party and have lost any idea of what the World is REALLY all about. We have NO friends anymore thanks to Bush, McSame and the Republican Party. THAT isn''t going to change just because you replace ONE War Monger with another! We are a Paper Tiger right now because of the FASCIST and their desire for War, we haven''t enough troops to protect THIS nation let alone help anyone else!! SIEG HEIL McBush

[drillusion4u]

GREAT IDEA LETS START A WAR WITH RUSSIA

[jonileri]

Well, leave it to McCain to commit another gaffe! How presumptious of him to act as the Commander-in-Chief in speaking to the President of Georgia on behalf of the United States and taking side in a conflict that is none of our business! Bomb, bomb, bomb, who''s next?

[whitemale08]

...sorry, we can''t help ya out on this one.

You done f***ed around and pissed off the wrong jokers.

[pvperson]

So McCain supports the invasion of independent countries. Well of course he does, he wants to stay in Iraq doesn''t he. When Iraq said they wanted the US out, McCain simply said that he knew what they REALLY wanted and today he says that the Ossetians don''t REALLY believe that Russia came to their aid. He has that same clairvoyance that Bush had, that ability to see what isn''t there or true.

[pvperson]

There you go again McBush, first I''m not "your friend" and I''m not a backer of Georgian invasion of independent people.

[superdem]

The Georgian President is quoting John McCain because this old white haired dude from the olden days is shooting his mouth off against the Russians. The old white haired dude from the olden days is already a war monger in Iraq, and Afghanistan, and probably Iran, too. War is all old white haired dudes from the olden days know, that and shooting their mouths off. Younger people have to do the fighting, they should know better. This should make everyone question John McCain''s judgement. Another military involvement, and more enemies in this world, are the LAST things America needs.

[pvperson]

Both McCain and Obama need to see that Georgia is the problem here. They won''t sign the cease fire because it requires BOTH countries to agree to non-agression and Georgia refuses.

[briannorwood]

Geez, I think McSame is acting "presumptuous"!

I mean, he is just a candidate for president, not president! And can you believe he is saying we are "citizens of the world?" Where have I heard that before? Oh, yeah, IT WAS OBAMA!

[whitemale08]

I got news for John McCain,

One of these days you''re going to recognize that you''d squeezed and popped off one too many at the mouth.

[hasher471]

Check this out!
Barack + GOP = %u2018Obamacans%u2019
http://www.newsweek.com/id/107476

[pvperson]

When McCain talked about arrogance, I thought he was talking about Obama, but he''s the one being arrogant. Is he the president, is he the one to be calling other countries, is he the one to be making statements regarding ALL America? NO, it''s just plain arrogant of him.

[obama8years]

Challenge 1 - Obama went to a church where hamas was welcomed.

Challenge 2 - Hamas has donated to Obama

Evidence for Challenge 1:
Reverend Jeremiah Wright, Jr., long-time pastor of Barak Obama, published an op-ed piece signed by a Hamas leader. The item appeared in the July 22, 2007 edition of his Trinity United Church newspaper on the "Pastor''''s Page." The op-ed piece justifies attacks on Israeli civilians, and carries a supporting introduction by Mr. Wright.





Evidence for Challenge 2:

The contributions also raise numerous questions about the Obama campaign%u2019s lax online donation form, which apparently allows for the possibility of foreign contributions.

Last week, the Atlas Shrugs blog outlined a series of donations in 2007 made to Obama%u2019s campaign from two individuals, Monir Edwan and Hosam Edwan, totaling $29,521.54.

In an online form on Obama%u2019s campaign site, the Edwans listed their street as %u201CTal Esaltan,%u201D which they wrote was located in %u201CRafah, GA.%u201D

Rafah is not a city in Georgia. The Atlas blog immediately raised concerns that the money may have been donated from the Gaza Strip town of Rafah.

The Edwans%u2019 donations are listed in both FEC filings and other election filing sites, such as CampaignMoney and donordata.org.

Speaking to WND, the two brothers praised Obama and admitted giving the money online to his campaign. They said they are not U.S. citizens but are citizens of %u201CPalestine.%u201D

[pvperson]

obama8years, I''m sorry, your post has to do with, "Today, We Are All Georgians" how? Or did the space ships in your head get out again?

[drillusion4u]

mccain has lost his mind again!!

[obama8years]

obama8years, I''''m sorry, your post has to do with, "Today, We Are All Georgians" how? Or did the space ships in your head get out again?
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I see your all attacking Mccain. Isnt Obama saying the same things. Obama is going to start a war with Russia, watch out. Obama is a war monger , what is he doing making statements to Russia, he isnt president. Obama trying to impress the Center will get us into a War. Read the article carefully.