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Uppity McCain

By The Daily Dish
Aug 13 2008, 2:07 AM ET

Who does he think he is? Ahem:

How would the trad media have portrayed Barack Obama if he had behaved as John McCain has done since Georgian President Saakashvili sent troops into South Ossetia? Would it have been 'presumptuous' to issue proposals to intervene in the fighting even before the President had spoken? To stake out an aggressive position far in front of anything the US wished to adopt? To attack a rival candidate for refusing to do the same? ... What if he claimed to be able to speak for the nation?



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