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Stafford Williamson
September 01, 2008
PUTIN BLAMES U.S. FOR GEORGIA ROLE
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has accused the US of provoking the conflict in Georgia, possibly for domestic election purposes.
He said his defence officials had told him the provocation was to benefit one of the US presidential candidates.
The White House dismissed the allegations as "not rational".
Hmm, White House spokesperson, Dana Perino, says the conclusion isnīt "rational"? Do you think perhaps the Kremlin reads my column and the White House does not?
If you haven't noticed my link on the above story is to the British Broadcasting Corporation, the paragon of news reporting integrity. A similar story appeared in the Huffington Post as well. It was actually a link to THE TIMES online, in which correspondent Tony Halpin, reporting from Moscow, says, "Vladimir Putin accused President Bush tonight of orchestrating the war in Georgia in a plot to get John McCain elected to the White House." In fact that's an overstated and inflammatory version of Putin's interview, because he said that "Americans were there," (soldiers) and that obviously they were taking orders from their commanders. But the point remains that Putin has signed on a believer in my theory of why and when the Georgia conflict flared, and while it is not all that often I agree with statement from ANY government, municipal, or federal, foreign or domestic, I would suggest that you pay attention to what Senator McCain says about the "Russian situation" at the Republican National Convention next week. I will offer dollars to donuts that he'll be pushing on the fear of "soviet" (small, "s" you notice) aggression towards its neighbors. In fact I have a nickel bet that Senator McCain, sometime during the week, (not necessarily "on-camera") will slip up and actually say, "Soviet" when he means, "Russian," because many people of his generation were still calling the CCCP (USSR) "Russia" well into the 1960's and 1970's.
Paul Begala, a former advisor to the Clinton White House, and President Clinton's successful election campaign of 1992, headlined his column this way: "Is McCain Out of His Mind?," but he also goes on to say that in picking Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin he, "has shown he is willing to endanger his country, potentially leaving it in the hands of someone who simply has no business being a heartbeat away from the most powerful, complicated, difficult job in human history." I am not saying that Ms. Palin is not an impressive person. Her bio says that she was, "a fisherman" before taking the Alaskan Governorship, but she is already, in her first term as Governor, tainted with scandal, what TIME magazine writer Mark Halperin called, "at least one ethical flap." There are unproven claims that she tried to have her brother-in-law fired from his job as a State Trooper. Reportedly a campaign of phone calls from her husband to the ex-brother-in-law's bosses met with resistance, so, allegedly, Governor Palin fired Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan. A "legislative panel" has authorized spending US$100,000 to investigate the matter. I hardly need remind Democrats of the name Kenneth Star to show how "legislative" investigations can go, but the fact that there is an ongoing investigation is expected to give Republicans some troubles during the next 8 or 9 weeks.
The same Associated Press article, dated August 14, 2008, also contained this: "I would be very surprised if Sarah Palin didn't become a larger figure within national politics and I would be very surprised if she wasn't a part of a McCain administration," said Todd Harris, a Republican aide on McCain's 2000 White House bid. So apparently we were told, well in advance and no one was "listening" carefully enough.
Governor Palin's main success is a substantial increase in taxing oil companies that is making the State of Alaska rich, and giving citizens of the state a grant of US$1200 each to offset high fuel prices. (No wonder she's considered the country's most popular governor.) Taxing oil companies might be a popular accomplishment in today's political climate, but it tends to take the wind of that traditional sail on the Republican platform of calling the Democrats, "tax and spend" liberals.
BIODIESEL? YOU WANT TO KNOW ABOUT BIODIESEL? Do you really want to UNDERSTAND the process of making biodiesel from ALGAE? Yes, people are doing it on a small scale, and companies around the world are rushing to get a commercially viable version up and running. Then I've got a source for you.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has accused the US of provoking the conflict in Georgia, possibly for domestic election purposes.
He said his defence officials had told him the provocation was to benefit one of the US presidential candidates.
The White House dismissed the allegations as "not rational".
Hmm, White House spokesperson, Dana Perino, says the conclusion isnīt "rational"? Do you think perhaps the Kremlin reads my column and the White House does not?
If you haven't noticed my link on the above story is to the British Broadcasting Corporation, the paragon of news reporting integrity. A similar story appeared in the Huffington Post as well. It was actually a link to THE TIMES online, in which correspondent Tony Halpin, reporting from Moscow, says, "Vladimir Putin accused President Bush tonight of orchestrating the war in Georgia in a plot to get John McCain elected to the White House." In fact that's an overstated and inflammatory version of Putin's interview, because he said that "Americans were there," (soldiers) and that obviously they were taking orders from their commanders. But the point remains that Putin has signed on a believer in my theory of why and when the Georgia conflict flared, and while it is not all that often I agree with statement from ANY government, municipal, or federal, foreign or domestic, I would suggest that you pay attention to what Senator McCain says about the "Russian situation" at the Republican National Convention next week. I will offer dollars to donuts that he'll be pushing on the fear of "soviet" (small, "s" you notice) aggression towards its neighbors. In fact I have a nickel bet that Senator McCain, sometime during the week, (not necessarily "on-camera") will slip up and actually say, "Soviet" when he means, "Russian," because many people of his generation were still calling the CCCP (USSR) "Russia" well into the 1960's and 1970's.
Paul Begala, a former advisor to the Clinton White House, and President Clinton's successful election campaign of 1992, headlined his column this way: "Is McCain Out of His Mind?," but he also goes on to say that in picking Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin he, "has shown he is willing to endanger his country, potentially leaving it in the hands of someone who simply has no business being a heartbeat away from the most powerful, complicated, difficult job in human history." I am not saying that Ms. Palin is not an impressive person. Her bio says that she was, "a fisherman" before taking the Alaskan Governorship, but she is already, in her first term as Governor, tainted with scandal, what TIME magazine writer Mark Halperin called, "at least one ethical flap." There are unproven claims that she tried to have her brother-in-law fired from his job as a State Trooper. Reportedly a campaign of phone calls from her husband to the ex-brother-in-law's bosses met with resistance, so, allegedly, Governor Palin fired Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan. A "legislative panel" has authorized spending US$100,000 to investigate the matter. I hardly need remind Democrats of the name Kenneth Star to show how "legislative" investigations can go, but the fact that there is an ongoing investigation is expected to give Republicans some troubles during the next 8 or 9 weeks.
The same Associated Press article, dated August 14, 2008, also contained this: "I would be very surprised if Sarah Palin didn't become a larger figure within national politics and I would be very surprised if she wasn't a part of a McCain administration," said Todd Harris, a Republican aide on McCain's 2000 White House bid. So apparently we were told, well in advance and no one was "listening" carefully enough.
Governor Palin's main success is a substantial increase in taxing oil companies that is making the State of Alaska rich, and giving citizens of the state a grant of US$1200 each to offset high fuel prices. (No wonder she's considered the country's most popular governor.) Taxing oil companies might be a popular accomplishment in today's political climate, but it tends to take the wind of that traditional sail on the Republican platform of calling the Democrats, "tax and spend" liberals.
BIODIESEL? YOU WANT TO KNOW ABOUT BIODIESEL? Do you really want to UNDERSTAND the process of making biodiesel from ALGAE? Yes, people are doing it on a small scale, and companies around the world are rushing to get a commercially viable version up and running. Then I've got a source for you.
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