McCain has lost it on Georgia.

Not to be missed. "Sen. McCain has just announced that he's sending his own delegation to Georgia (Sens. Lieberman and Graham)...."

(And Obama was being Presidentially presumptuous by making a speech.)

There's a real question to be made about John McCain's judgment here.

After McCain's "League of Democracies" idea and the threats to throw Russia out of the G8, not to mention his recent statements on this affair, there's no doubt where McCain falls in the Russia/Georgia conflict or how the Russians feel about McCain.

So, what is he (or his delegation) going to do except shout and scream and muck everything up? The Russians aren't going to listen to him. They're not going to do anything for him. He's nobody. He's a losing Presidential candidate with no credibility before the Russians.

Let's remember the slap the Russian Foreign Ministry delivered about McCain just two weeks ago,

"Let him first become the U.S. president, and then we will listen attentively to him," the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told a news briefing.

So, is the plan to try and claim credit for the inevitable settlement that he will have had nothing to do with? Is that the great campaign gamble? And would the Russians allow him to do that? Probably not.

So, if anything, his posturing is likely to extend the human suffering.

(There's also a broader question of the wisdom of electing a guy President who comes in with such a personally, poisonous relationship with one of the top global players.)

Also today, The Georgian lobbying of McCain's top foreign policy adviser, Randy Scheunemann, is crawling up the headlines. The WaPo had its version this morning, here's the AP's,

John McCain's chief foreign policy adviser and his business partner lobbied the senator or his staff on 49 occasions in a 3 1/2-year span while being paid hundreds of thousands of dollars by the government of the former Soviet republic of Georgia."

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