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By FRANK RICH
Published: September 27, 2008

WHAT we learned last week is that the man who always puts his “country
first” will take the country down with him if that’s what it takes to
get to the White House.







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I saw this, this morning, (not using google)
and noted that Rich didn't really talk about the international politics
angle

I agree with McCain about his attitude about Putin (KGB) but not about
Russia

Putin is not Russia.
Russian people like their new found wealth. (Although they got a massive
pullout of investiment which is due in part to the global meltdown but also
due to the Georgia thing turning investors off. It's a risk no matter
what)

THe RUssians would rather be safe and sound and wealthy

They trusted Putin til now because they were the above, or at least, a lot
of people became so that weren't previously

now, Putin will lose a lot of ground

we may need their petrodollars in exchange for something
they may need our ability to court investors to get back in there and deal
with them

We need to work with Russia but not with Putin, that's not that subtle, but
McCain has made it black and white, which it is not

mk5000

http://books.google.com/books?id=dq9...d+dealing+with