THE GUN TOTING LIBERAL™

UPDATE BELOW (11:00 AM, CST) — Scroll

John McCain: “My friends, we will NOT simply stand by and allow Russia to annex our 4th state without retaliation and dire consequences”.

Barack Obama — Stunned and dazed by McCain’s comments, remains dumbfounded by his lack of knowledge of foreign affairs and United States geography…

Having been born in the third-world nation of Panama, Señor McCain knows all about what it’s like to have a “Superpower” suddenly flex its muscles and INSIST everybody in its path “assimilate”. This is what happened to “Panama John” in his youth and, frankly, it’s a rather tragic story — however; this story MIGHT just have one of those “Hollywood happy endings” we all love and adore — TEAR JERKERS such as “The Rookie“, “Rudy“, “Forrest Gump” and other such favorites, which leave nary a dry eye in the building.

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Can we say “Eye opener“, folks?

Now that we know the true “underdog” of this presidential election is not the “everyday guy” by the name of “Senator Barack Obama”, but our FIRST-EVER white Panamanian-born immigrant to the Great State of Arizona by the name of “McCain”, we can begin to critically assess their qualifications for the Oval Office…

For example — Barack Obama realizes there are TWO “Georgia’s” –

John McCain is ready to debate Barack on the topic — there were TWO “Georgia’s” in his graduating class of ’22 ALONE, for example — “Georgia Peach” and “Georgia Johnson” — how many freaking “Georgia’s” can there BE in the world, for Christ’s Sake?, Mr. Obama???“, asks Señor McCain…

Guess what? It’s time to get SERIOUS here. This is all “feckless” according to Slate’s Fred Kaplan (H/T to MemeOrandum). If you don’t know what “feckless” means, you are a DOOMASS you are exactly like MOI. Yep — “feckless” was a new one one me, but, always the one anxious to expand my vocabulary, I searched for HOURS to learn the definition, and I’m more than happy to spare you the bandwidth — it’s the very LEAST I can do for my compadrés:

feckless

Main Entry: feck·less
Pronunciation: \ˈfek-ləs\
Function: adjective
Etymology: Scots, from feck effect, majority, from Middle English (Scots) fek, alteration of Middle English effect
Date: circa 1585
1 : weak, ineffective
2 : worthless, irresponsible
— feck·less·ly adverb
— feck·less·ness noun

Last but not least, let’s take a glance at some of my favorite blogger reactions:

Andrew Sullivan of The Daily Dish (The Atlantic):

“… My only fear at this point is that by pointing this out, we may goad the Bushies and neocons into finding some kind of military escalation that would bring in the US. The US has no rational basis to be as committed to Georgia as Russia is; and has very little moral standing to protest an invasion of a sovereign country. …”

[Editor's Note: Andrew Sullivan is a CONSERVATIVE]

Matthew Yglesias (Think Progress):

“… This highlights, I think, some of the limits of the kind of bluff-and-bluster approach to foreign policy that seems popular among conservatives these days. Or, rather, it highlights the fact that popular as bluster-based policymaking is on the American right it can have some extremely high costs and that, tragically, a large proportion of those costs can wind up being borne by the people who were nominally supposed to be the beneficiaries. …”

Liberal Oasis‘ Bill Scher:

“… we on the left (including myself) were collectively slow to react, slow to offer deep context and message framing that would get ahead of neocon media rush.

And now we are once again in the humiliating position of reacting to gibberish, forced to make defensive arguments why more saber-rattling bluster and demonization of adversaries is unhelpful to freedom and stability. …”

at-Largely’s (and The Raw Story’s) Larisa Alexandrovna:

“… strategy is not the Bush regime’s forte. They first create the problem that they claim exists, then they claim to solve it, when in fact they make it worse. The Neocons have made the bed, now they must sleep in it – all of it, from Iraq, to Georgia. …”

UPDATE:

The New York Times‘ Helene Cooper is now reporting Russia has ordered a cease-fire against Georgia — H/T goes again to MemeOrandum for the pull. Still no word from Georgia governor Sonny Purdue, but give credit where credit’s due: John McCain has managed to scare the “dickens” out of Vladimir Putin — there is simply no other explanation for this “about face” by Russia. While I suppose it is possible President Bush and Barack Obama deserve credit for frightening the Russians into this retreat of sorts but not very likely.

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