Pay me a couple hundred grand and I'll be Georgian too

Earlier this week John McCain declared that all Americans are (former Soviet) Georgians, oddly comparing the "crisis" in Georgia, a country most Americans have never heard of, nor do they need to ever hear of it, to the Soviet occupation of Berlin. Then it hit me. No wonder McCain has devoted the entire week to talking about the Georgian cris. As has already been reported, McCain's top foreign policy adviser took hundreds of thousands of dollars to lobby for Georgia. And now, suddenly, John McCain devotes an entire week of his campaign to championing the cause of a government that paid his top foreign policy aide hundreds of thousands of dollars (I wonder how much you'd have to pay McCain's foreign policy advisers for us all to be English - I've always liked the English). Kind of puts McCain's "interest" in Georgia into a whole new light (compounded interest, I'd call it). It would have been nice to see the Democrats devote the past week to hammering McCain repeatedly, in a coordinated effort with surrogates, grassroots, press conference, and more, on whether McCain is calling us all Georgians simply because a foreign government bought him off. But I guess that would be mean. And smart. And we don't tend to do either.