Georgia on My Mind.
It's quite simple. Russia is doing what Russia always does when she is strong. She pushes her borders and gobbles up smaller neighbors. It's been going on since Czarist days and it caught the Bush administration, again, with its pants down. Not even Condi Rice, the Russian studies expert, was on this.

We relaxed as a country after Bush famously looked Putin in the eye and saw his soul. Problem is that Putin then spit in Bush's eye. McCain, the resident neo-warrior and tough guy, with worlds of experience was caught off guard. It's only a matter of time for the Republicans to blame Barack Obama for situation and tie it to 1) his lack of experience, 2) his naivete, 3) Michelle Obama.

Russia knows very well that we're helplessly bogged chasing weapons of mass delusions in Iraq in a war that we were to win by expending a blitzkrieg force, subduing the country and reaping it's oil crop. All at little or no cost to us as the oil revenues would rapidly recover initial expenses and then roll in monthly profits like the rose petals Iraqis were going to strew in our path.

Bush was soul sighting when he should have been soul searching, and he was definitely wishfully dreaming while a mesmerized, stars in the eyes, bunch of Washington politicians got in line behind him as their constituents cheered the U.S.'s grand march to mediocrity. Obama opposed all that crap, and he's portrayed as the poor innocent who knows nothing, while at the same time as a cynical grasping, effete, elitist politician who is bound to ruin the country. Well it's too late for the latter, the Republicans have already managed to do the job.