While John Sidney McCain uses Georgia as a campaign issue, people are dying

By GottaLaff

If Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili is mentioning John McCain in his speeches, and calling on McCain to do more for Georgia ("We are all Georgians now" much, J Sid?), does that mean McCain is being his usual bellicose, provocative self purely for political gain at the expense of thousands who are dying? Sure looks that way.

Is Randy Scheunemann intentionally initiating this conflict, using it as a campaign issue, while we're risking world war? That's what Thom Hartmann is starting to believe.

Scheunemann is making money, J Sid is portraying himself as "strong and decisive" while people are being killed. All in a day's work.

More about this:

The Washington Post reports today that Sen. John McCain’s senior foreign policy adviser Randy Scheunemann may have used his position in the McCain campaign for his own financial benefit by advancing the interests of his former lobbying client, the Georgian government:

Sen. John McCain’s top foreign policy adviser prepped his boss for an April 17 phone call with the president of Georgia and then helped the presumptive Republican presidential nominee prepare a strong statement of support for the fledgling republic.

The day of the call, a lobbying firm [Orion Strategies] partly owned by the adviser, Randy Scheunemann, signed a $200,000 contract to continue providing strategic advice to the Georgian government in Washington.

The McCain campaign responded saying, “Georgia’s lobbying contract with Orion Strategies had no bearing on the candidate’s decision to speak with President Mikheil Saakashvili and did not influence his statement,” they said. [...]

Rather than simply advocating on behalf of the Georgian government, is Scheunemann, in fact, able to manipulate McCain’s policy statements for his own financial gain?

There's more at Think Progress.