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  I woke up yesterday morning to CNN, they had a split screen, in one frame was  the President of Georgia being interviewed live on tv, the other frame showing images of Russian tanks rolling towards his town. 

I remembered a few years back, when Bush had pledged his support to Georgia, and their newly democratically elected government, and how the US had trained and equipped the Georgia's military. 

At first the scenes reminded of Katrina, when for 5 days the television news was filled with images of the people of New Orleans crying out for help, while the White House occupants did nothing.

Now, Georgia's President Mikheil Saakashvili was vowing that in spite of all the damage that has occurred to their country, and with an army that had been either killed, injured captured or striped off their uniforms and ran off, and in face of the impending threat, the president announcing that he and his people would never surrender.

I thought about how Putin and Bush. had sat next to each other at the Olympic games, while Georgia burned, and how when Bush tired of looking into Putins baby blues, he was next seen playing with the women's volleyball team, after which he needed help as he stumbling back into the stands, my thoughts were interrupted with Saakashvili said something about John McCain, I asked myself why with enemy tanks rolling his way, was The President of Georgia mentioning McCain's name?   I had no answer.  So, I did the only logical thing, I Googled "McCain and Saakashvili"

Had McCain encouraged Saakashvili with strategic advice to test Russia's resolve by moving into South Ossetia?

I had no idea that " Sen. John McCain's top foreign policy adviser prepped his boss for an April 17 phone call with the president of Georgia and then helped the presumptive Republican presidential nominee prepare a strong statement of support for the fledgling republic.

The day of the call, a lobbying firm partly owned by the adviser, Randy Scheunemann, signed a $200,000 contract to continue providing strategic advice to the Georgian government in Washington." (More->Washington Post)

Now, I got it.  Georgia had paid 'McCain's man' hundred's of thousands of dollars, (over $800,000, since 2004) John McCain had promised his support, and  now President Saakashvili was wondering out loud, where is John McCain and when and how is he was going to help them survive?

Next, jumpin' Joe Lieberman was proclaiming that "We've just seen over the last few days as the Russians invaded a sovereign nation, Georgia, and watch the response of this man, John McCain to that crisis, right, strong, clear, principled, the kind of president we need in the White House over the next four years, to be there to protect our country, our security and our freedom,”

McCain, the scourge of lobbyists, and at the same time a caricature of the kind of politician whose conduct is managed by a series of lobbyists who manage his actions on almost every point of policy.

President Saakashvili and the people of Georgia are watching, waiting, and wondering, when and how will McCain to keep his word and help his fellow Georgians.  Hell of a job Johnny.

McSame as the folks in New Orleans, who after Katrina were watching, waiting and wondering where is President Bush, and when and how is he was going to help them survive?

No joltin' Joe, we don't need 4 more years, to get the picture.