it's much more complex than your comment -and the sanctions - how many children suffered, died?
As to Joe Biden and Georgia - another war.  Are we nuts?  Diplomacy now - not ratcheting up another war.  We are as responsible for a second cold war as is Russia.  We need to get out of Russia's face.  Russia is rich in minerals/gas - and Europe is the beneficiary - guess which way they'll go.  I didn't hear Biden's speech.  Was he he really bellicose?  That is really, really dangerous.  This is the Vice Presidential choice of a man who got into office on his supposed opposition to the Iraq War.  OMG.  

  Separatist Abkhazia and South Ossetia claimed independence back in 1992 and since then, 16 years ongoing, have become Russian Citizens, with ties to North Ossetia, a part of Russia, and they can go back and forth, as citizens.  When Georgia invaded, thousands fled to Russia.

  I have a Kindle subscription to Slate and really enjoyed a fascinating older set of five dispatches sent May 23 by Joshua Kucera from Tskhinvali and surrounding areas.  It's more like a travel journal and, unlike the reports and stories we read in NY Times and other papers, this one gives you an idea of everyday life as it's lived there.

  As for the political news stories, President Saakashvili was feeling his oats and, according to Condi Rice, against our government's advice (but he felt they encouraged him) he attacked South Ossetia, killing many (that's an understatement) civilians in that town.  Estimates are between a few hundred and 2,000, depending on who's counting.

  It's a DIRECT provocation of Russia and he was angry that Bush and McCAIN (whose sr. staff advisor is a lobbyist for Georgia) had not come across with REAL 'support' for him yet, meaning some kind of military help.  McCain bragged that he was in regular touch with Saakashvili and they are old friends "I know him."

  Of course, as ever, there is oil access involved in the routes in those areas.  Russia was looking for a chance or excuse to get further into those territories and take out what they felt were threats and of course they just also want more.  

  Both sides have done terrible things.  But Georgia most definitely started it and their president is an Imbecile.

  I watched him prattle on when Rice visited maybe 10 days ago and gave visible signs of MORAL support while he railed on, loving his microphone, for probably 40 minutes, repeating over and over again "NEVER EVER..." this or that.

  Biden and Bush should NEVER get us into a war with Russia over this, but now we've made an agreement with Poland during this time for defense missiles for them, installed there, supposedly as a defense against Iran, I think.

  The Russians feel very threatened and have promised to attack Poland over this.

  So it's a very bad situation.  I'm sorry to see that Biden may be a hardliner on this.  

There is no substance in Hope & Change.  

I expect to hear another speech like his other great speeches; one that counts heavily on retelling "His Story" (Kenyan father, mother from Kansas, etc.), Hope and Change, a shout out to Civil Rights (because of the date), how we all need to do more work to make things right, and all that jazz.  

I'm torn on whether he will use the phrase "the failed policies of George W. Bush" since this should be an upbeat speech.

Maude help me if I were driving and drinking every time even NPR says something stupid.

Tonight they said something to the effect that Bill Clinton has reparations to make for his racist remarks during the primary.

I feel like I'm in another reality where everyone in the media is insane.

Thank you, Susan.

DK smacked him down by busting out his pocket size Constitution and said, "what about the part about promoting the general welfare?"  

BOOYAH!!!!   Long live Dennis!  And he was SOOO cool to be wearing a pin of Stephanie Tubbs-Jones' face.

people are just going to gripe and moan about Obama no matter what her does pretty much.

How about you just come to terms with the fact that when Clinton supporters say that the Clintons were called "racist", they mean to include the fact that Obama supporters and surrogates and official memebers of Obama's campaign (if not Obama himself) charged that the Clintons were doing any of the following

injecting race into the campaign
trying to ghettoize Obama
playing the race-card
trying to turn Obama into the "black" candidate
reminding voters that Obama is black

For example, Michelle Obama, official member of the Obama campaign, intentionally twisted Bill Clinton's "fairytale" remark to make people believe that Clinton had implied the entire Obama campaign was a fairytale.  She did this prior to the SC primary in order to anger black voters against the Clintons and increase Obama's support in the black community.  She led the black voters to believe that Bill Clinton had said (or implied) that it was a "fairytale" to think that a black candidate could successfully run for president.

Back to your question...  Many Obama surrogates and supporters made this same type of attack against Hillary over her historical remark about LBJ / MLK.  Did any of them say LITERALLY Hillary is a "racist", no.  Did they say literally that Clinton was "dissing" MLK, yes.

In all of the instances that occurred during the primaries, you can use the excuse that no one literally called either Clinton a "racist".  So what, that is just terminology.  What they did do literally is charge that the Clinton's were playing the race card and injecting race into the campaign.

I don't know what you've heard.
But race has been central to Obama's campaign - with surrogates and Obamabots choosing to pull the Race Card and accuse the Clintons of racism at every perceived opportunity, assisted by the media.