Replies

Hi, thank you for Sanity Island. It is always a good evening when we can hear from President Bush. His Presidential broadcast is not on radio anymore, that I can find. The media does not cover him at all. Such a shame.
Today showed how elementary the O campaign is, choosing Biden is going to get tiring very rapidly. Two people who are over the top arrogant.

TOTTEN IN TBILISI
Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 8:49:30 pm PST

Michael Totten has filed a Report from Tbilisi at City Journal.

Senator John McCain may have overstated things a bit when, shortly after the war started, he said, “We are all Georgians now.” But apparently even rank-and-file Russian soldiers view the Georgians and Americans as allies. Likewise, these simple Georgian country women seem to understand who their friends and enemies are. “I am very thankful to the West,” Maya said as her eyes welled up with tears. “They support us so much. We thought we were alone. I am so thankful for the support we have from the United States and from the West. The support is very important for us.” She tried hard to maintain her dignity and not cry in front of me, a foreign reporter in fresh clothes and carrying an expensive camera. “The West saved the capital. They were moving to Tbilisi. There was one night that was very dangerous. The Russian tanks were very close to the capital. I don’t know what happened, but they moved the tanks back.” And my translator, whose husband works for Georgia’s ministry of foreign affairs, made a similar guess that the West helped save the capital. “The night they came close to Tbilisi,” she said, “BUSH and McCain made their strongest speeches yet. The Russians seemed to back down. BUSH and McCain have been very good for us.”

[For additional perspective and information (to be shared with Freepers who don’t think the President is doing enough), I strongly encourage you to read the comments section!]
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/31009_Totten_in_Tbilisi/comments/#ctop