Some people just don't know their place. And there's a word for such people: uppity.
Yes, you can say "presumptuous" if you want, but I find that word kind of weak. Doesn't pack the punch nedded. See, I'm an old-fashioned straight talker from way back, son, and I call 'em like I see 'em.
And what I see is Republican White House-wannabe John McCain getting awfully uppity for someone who has not been elected by the people of the U.S.A.
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A deadly foreign policy crisis has broken out this week -- the war between Russia and Georgia. It requires that politics be put aside, and that people without the proper authority to speak for the U.S.A. put a cork in their mouths for a few days as we figure out exactly what happened.
Ohhhhh, but not John McCain. He fancies himself a big celebrity, see, and thinks that the world is waiting for him to save it. The man actually believes that Russia and Georgia are praying for his intervention, when we have a sitting President -- a President who John McCain used to tell us we should support no matter what (that is, when that President was polling well).
John McCain is U.S. Senator who almost never shows up at the Senate, preferring to go on talk shows and do cute little parts in movies like WEDDING CRASHERS... but this uppity, presumptuous, uppity man has decided that he is already the President. U.S. citizens don't need to vote -- in fact, he'd rather just be declared President and skip the messy voting part, which might not turn out like he wants.
So McCain-the-Uppity has decided to run his own private foreign policy, and the U.S, will just have to accept that he is already the President. Today he announced that he's bypassing the current President, who is no longer of any use to him politically, and sending his own personal team to Georgia:
At a press conference just now, John McCain redoubled his efforts to thrust himself into a leadership role on the Russia-Georgia crisis front, announcing that two top campaign surrogates, Joe Lieberman and Lindsey Graham, are going on a visit to Georgia. McCain said:
"The situation in Georgia remains fluid and dangerous. As soon as possible my colleagues senators Lieberman and Graham will be traveling to Georgia. They're both members of the Senate Armed Services Committee. I hope that other members of the Armed Services Committee in the Senate will go together."
Lieberman and Graham, of course, are key campaign allies of McCain. The Arizona Senator has been using Obama's absence on vacation to associate himself more directly with the Russia-Georgia war in the mind of the public. The idea is to showcase himself as a man of action during a time of international crisis and to remind people that the world is a dangerous place that's still filled with aggressive actors, something that the McCain camp presumably thinks will play in his favor.
McCain's announcement of his key campaign allies' trip abroad also seems designed to shoulder Bush aside as the primary GOP leadership figure here.
Can you believe the gall? This McCain acts like the Chosen One. He thinks his many appearances on the Tonight Show have earned him the right to simply take over the government of the U.S.A.
What an uppity, uppity man. They don't come more uppity than John McCain.