Seashell--Thanks for the LAT poll--very interesting and suggests, as you note, that Americans might reasonably resist the "We're all Ukranians now" line. As for Yushchenko agitating, that's worrisome enough, isn't it? McCain and the right have primed Americans to see Ukraine as faultless victims and lovers of democracy, whatever the precise causus belli. Would Obama then defend Russia? Uncomfortable, no?
Needless to say, the Powell endorsement from this morning, wonderfully, would give Obama more room to maneuver.
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