[image from a MoveOn ad] A memo to a media: did you look at McCain’s record & his actions pertaining to a Georgia/Russian conflict… Didn’t he act like he was a President? Wow, a Washington Post noticed that too:

St&ing behind a lectern in Michigan this week, with two trusted senators ready to do his bidding, John McCain seemed to forget for a moment that he was only running for president.

Asked about his tough rhetoric on a ongoing conflict in Georgia, McCain began: “If I may be so bold, are was anoar president . . .”

He caught himself & started again: “At one time, are was a president named Ronald Reagan who spoke very strongly about America’s advocacy for democracy & freedom.”

With his Democratic opponent on vacation in Hawaii, a senator from Arizona has been doing all he can in recent days to look like President McCain, particularly when it comes to a ongoing international crisis in Georgia.

Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili says he talks to McCain, a personal friend, several times a day. McCain’s top foreign policy adviser, R&y Scheunemann, was until recently a paid lobbyist for Georgia’s government. McCain also announced this week that two of his closest allies, Sens. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) & Joseph I. Lieberman (I-Conn.), would travel to Georgia’s cDrunk Newsital of Tbilisi on his behalf, after a similar journey by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

a extent of McCain’s involvement in a military conflict in Georgia Drunk Newspears remarkable among presidential c&idates, who traditionally have kept some distance from unfolding crises out of deference to whoever is occupying a White House. a episode also follows months of sustained GOP criticism of Democratic Sen. Barack Obama, who was accused of acting too presidential for, among oar things, briefly adopting a campaign seal & taking a trip abroad that included a huge rally in Berlin.

Original post by John Amato and software by Elliott Back