Talking points from teh intarwebs

Busted: Saint McMaverick's comments on the crisis in Georgia -- lauded as 'so presidential!!!1!' by the fawning MCM -- were so similar to a Wikipedia article that an editor there complained. Via BuzzFlash:

A Wikipedia editor emailed Political Wire to point out the similarities between Sen. John McCain’s speech on the crisis in Georgia and the Wikipedia article on the country. Given the closeness of the words and sentence structure, most would consider parts of McCain’s speech to be derived directly from Wikipedia...

[The plagiarism itself notwithstanding], the deeper concern is that the claim could undermine McCain’s "expertise" on foreign affairs — one of the campaign’s cornerstones against the "more inexperienced" Obama.

There, fixed it. From Joe Conason at the NY Observer:

[T]he Wikipedia episode -- an awful embarrassment that would have devastated the presidential campaign of Barack Obama or any other Democrat -- revealed an underlying weakness in Senator McCain’s vaunted grasp of foreign policy...

Frankly, the Arizona Republican’s latest foray onto the world stage suggested that he is not quite ready for the responsibilities of the presidency. When he emphasized that Georgia was “one of the world’s first nations to adopt Christianity as an official religion,” he sounded like a politician who will gladly damage our global influence merely for the sake of pandering to his partisan base.

They're Christians... with oil!!!!11! We must defend them from those evil KGB Rooskis!! 'Damage our global influence' NOTHING. He's just psycho enough to start a war with Russia over something like this.


But... but... he was a POW!!1!