I have to say, when the news initially came out how Russia had rolled into Georgia and South Ossetia, I was quite surprised. I was significantly more surprised when John McCain was first on the television claiming that:

I speak for every American when I say to him today, we are all Georgians.

That just pissed me off. I am not a Georgian, I'm American. My wife? She's Russian. And there was a whole lot more to this story that was left out of the American Media.

I had originally planned writing something over the weekend about how with the election winding down to it's final days, we needed to do two things:

  - Volunteer and work hard to elect Obama (no time to slow down now!)

  - Start dialing down the partisan rhetoric to reach across the aisle post-election

Instead of writing that, I finished reading Conservatives Without Conscience by John Dean. And with that book finished, I realized that one of my points was utterly useless.

And it wasn't the one about volunteering.