After months of accusing Sen. Obama of being too presidential - merely for meeting with world leaders and delivering a major speech in Berlin - look who's actually stepping out of bounds.
As a presidential candidate, you do not send emissaries to foreign countries to try and resolve disputes. We've got an entire executive branch already working on it.
As Larry Korb, former Reagan Defense Department official, puts it:
"We talk about how there's only one president at a time, so the idea that you would send your own emissaries and really interfere with the process is remarkable. It's very risky and can send mixed messages to foreign governments. . . . They accused Obama of being presumptuous, but he didn't do anything close to this."
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Not only is this presumptous, Georgia might not even be the biggest emergent crisis. The change of power in Pakistan could be.
McCain's action in "dispatching 2 emissaries to Georgia, on the heals of the visit of our Secretary of State, is simply ludicrous. World leaders will see his ploy for what it is - - a grab for power by a candidate attempting to act "presidential". There is enough confusion in Georgia these days without this "delegation" wasting people's time. Will our Embassy in Georgia have to spend time and money on assisting this "delegation"??
McCain's action in "dispatching two emissaries" to Georgia, on the heals of the visit of our Secretary of State, is simply ludicrous. World leaders will see his ploy for what it is - a grab for power by a candidate attempting to act "presidential".
The President of Georgia, however, will perhaps revel in the added international attention.
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