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Randy Scheunemann, Senator John McCain's senior foreign policy adviser, is a friend of Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili and was for four years a paid lobbyist for the Georgian government, ending his official lobbying connection only last March, months after he starting to work for McCain.   He also worked on McCain's 2000 presidential campaign after which he headed the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq, which championed the US Iraq invasion.
In 2005, while registered as a paid lobbyist for Georgia, Scheunemann worked with McCain to draft a congressional resolution pushing for Georgia's membership in NATO. A year later, while still on the Georgian payroll, Scheunemann accompanied McCain on a trip to that country, where they met with Saakashvili and supported his hard-line views toward Russia's Vladimir Putin

Now, at a time when McCain's Presidential election campaign is floundering,  Saakashvili launches an attack on South Ossetia killing hundreds if not thousands of civilians and drawing the inevitable Russian military action in response.  McCain has now re-cast his entire campaign around "Russian Aggression" and the need to return to Cold War vigilance and values. - drawing attention to Obama's lack of experience and grounding in those values in the process.

It is not necessary to be a conspiracy theorist to ask the question: Cui Bono from the invasion of South Ossetia and the many who died?

"It's a mystery to me - the game commences, For the usual fee - plus expenses, Confidential information - it's in my diary..."

by Frank Schnittger (mail Frankschnittger at hot dotty communists) on Thu Aug 14th, 2008 at 01:49:39 PM EST
If the Russians were in Atlanta, Georgia this might be a crisis  to some Americans. Sure, this is a crisis for politicians and newspapers; that's their jobs and if there were no crises why would we need them. I am not in America now but I would guess that that other Georgia, the one in Europe is not nearly as much a crisis to most Americans as is $4 gasoline, and that this little outburst will have no effect on the American election which is almost three months from now.

Hey, Grandma Moses started late!
by LEP (rafifoon@yahoo.com) on Thu Aug 14th, 2008 at 02:59:54 PM EST
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I'd like to think this is true.  However Obama's poll numbers have already taken a down turn to 1 and 3% leads in Gallup and Rasmussen tracking polls.  Georgia sure isn't going to help him.

by Frank Schnittger (mail Frankschnittger at hot dotty communists) on Thu Aug 14th, 2008 at 03:46:09 PM EST
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I think the national poll numbers have been steady for the month of August. Obama's been on average 3 points ahead on the Gallup and one or two points ahead on Rasmussen. But I know you realize that national poll numbers mean nothing. We really need to study the the state by state leads. Kos has a front page piece today on the estimated electoral vote situation.

Hey, Grandma Moses started late!
by LEP (rafifoon@yahoo.com) on Thu Aug 14th, 2008 at 03:55:05 PM EST
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The Fates are kind.
by Gaianne on Thu Aug 14th, 2008 at 06:30:17 PM EST
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Glad to you you share in my frustration Frank. :)

"Pretending that you already know the answer when you don't is not actually very helpful." ~Migeru.
by poemless on Thu Aug 14th, 2008 at 06:33:30 PM EST
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A frustration shared is a frustration halved....

It's time I got out of this game....
by Frank Schnittger (mail Frankschnittger at hot dotty communists) on Thu Aug 14th, 2008 at 06:52:12 PM EST
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It is not necessary to be a conspiracy theorist to ask the question:

whew, that's ok then...i was getting a mite concerned there!

~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Thu Aug 14th, 2008 at 07:28:30 PM EST
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