The Russia-Georgia back and forth

[babylonsister]

The Russia-Georgia back and forth
Posted: Wednesday, August 13, 2008 2:37 PM by Domenico Montanaro

From NBC's Domenico Montanaro


The McCain campaign seized on Obama foreign policy adviser Susan Rice's comments on MSNBC's Hardball last night, in which she said, "We cannot shoot from the hip. We cannot act on the basis of ideology and preconceived notions. When this crisis began, Barack Obama, the administration indeed, and all of our NATO allies took a very measured and reasoned approach, because we were dealing with the facts as we knew them. John McCain shot from the hip -- very aggressive, very belligerent statement, and he may or may not have complicated the situation."

Rice was responding to a clip of McCain overtly siding with Georgia, having told the Georgian President, "I know I speak for every American when I say to him, today, we are all Georgians."

McCain camp's Tucker Bounds offered this affront: “During an international crisis when bipartisanship is needed most, it’s disappointing that the Obama campaign has chosen to launch inflammatory and baseless political attacks.”

Obama camp took issue.

“It is the absolute height of hypocrisy for the McCain campaign to play the victim after launching attack after attack on Barack Obama for his strong and appropriate response to the conflict in Georgia, but it’s characteristic of the old Washington tactics that have failed the American people," Obama spokesman Hari Sevugan writes. "Empty words about bipartisanship mean nothing just days after the McCain campaign accused Barack Obama of being ‘in sync with Moscow’ and not putting his country first. Senator Obama is focused on what the United States and the international community must do to resolve this crisis, not on the tired political games that have stood in the way of progress.”

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[anonymous171]

1. McCain just got owned. He's old, politically I mean.