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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: zeta1961 who wrote (29135)	8/30/2008 2:10:33 AM
From: brushwud	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 149317

That is such a broad brush, resentful-inspired, cynical statement and I'm just too tired right now to address it... You're certainly giving me more reasons to dislike Biden. It looks like he's a typical Democrat pandering to NOW that chicks are vics and big bad deadbeat dads are battering them. So big government will take the place of bad daddy and support mommy and her attorney.

To: zeta1961 who wrote (29135)	8/30/2008 8:07:37 AM
From: ChinuSFO	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

Georgia: a classic example of this Administration's belligerency and pre-emptive war philosophy that is frustrating Moscow and causing the Russians to take back their Empire. And McCain is promising that he would continue to pursue Bush's policies? Do we want to restore the communist USSR by electing McCain? ======================================= Georgia was the "last straw" for Russia Fri Aug 29, 2008 6:24pm EDT By Oleg Shchedrov - Analysis MOSCOW (Reuters) - A keen sense the West cheated Moscow out of promised warmer ties after the Cold War explains why Russia, recovered from post-Soviet collapse, has refused to be cowed over Georgia and demanded its views be heard. "It could have been Georgia or something else, but some kind of 'last straw' was waiting to come along," one Kremlin official commented. "We cannot endlessly retreat with a smiling face." Russia's military response to Georgia's bid to retake its Moscow-backed breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, and their subsequent recognition by Moscow, has fuelled Western speculation of a reborn Soviet empire striking back. ...contd at reuters.com