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Thursday, August 21, 2008
The horses are now in the starting gate, and ….
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Nothing that has happened until now is going to have much impact on the final outcome of the presidential race. These past few weeks have just been the warmups, the prelude to the real thing.
But the conventions are about to begin, announcements about running mates loom in the near future, and the McCain and Obama camps have now agreed on a debate schedule and formats.
Four debates — three between McCain and Obama, and one between their running mates — with the first presidential debate on Sept. 26, focusing on foreign policy and national security and moderated by Jim Lehrer of PBS.
Then a town-hall format with Tom Brokaw as the moderator on Oct. 7, and the final presidential debate on Oct. 15, with Bob Schieffer of CBS on economic issues.
Let the games begin!!!!
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Why aren’t the hyenas howling?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Under the urging of U.S. Secretary of State Condi Rice, NATO members have agreed upon a course of action in response to Russia’s invasion of Georgia and its apparent refusal to live up to its agreement to withdraw.
In retaliation, NATO’s going to give Russia the silent treatment. That’s right, they’re going to refuse to talk to Russia again unless it withdraws totally from Georgia.
That’ll teach ‘em.
In reality, there’s not much else to be done. Once Georgia attacked its breakaway enclaves, and once Russia responded with overwhelming force, the options available to NATO and the United States dwindled to almost none. Success would have been in preventing that sequence of events, and we failed. At this point, no military response is feasible or advisable.
But I can’t help but think what the reaction would be in conservative circles if a Democrat was sitting in the White House right now, dealing with the very same circumstances confronting President Bush. Can’t you just hear it?
The howling and complaining would be deafening, with overheated accusations that the president lacked guts, courage and any other manly virtue. Limbaugh and his Dittoheads would be braying like a pack of cartoon hyenas, with congressional Republicans joining right in, demanding that the 82nd Airborne descend on Moscow and bring Putin’s head home on a stick.
It would be sickening.
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