Putin accused America of provoking the Russian/Georgian conflict to get McCain elected. I read something about this a couple of weeks ago. It all started, if you’ll recall, about two weeks after Obama returned from his European power trip, and everyone was like, “clearly, McCain hasn’t got a chance, because Obama is the King of all Foreigners.” And then McCain was like, “whuuut? Watch me orchestrate this swift diplomatic resolution between Georgia and Russia.” And everyone in America, including me, was like, “I have no idea what’s going on in this conflict.”

I’m always impressed when newspapers include quotes from the Press Secretary as if they mean something. Dana Perino’s response to Putin’s allegations:

Dana Perino, a White House spokeswoman, said: “To suggest that the United States orchestrated this on behalf of a political candidate – it sounds not rational.

“Those claims first and foremost are patently false, but it also sounds like his defence officials who said they believed this to be true are giving him really bad advice.”

Can we just pretend the Press Secretary doesn’t exist from here on out? Her entire job is to deny. You could really program a robot to do this job with just a 1 and a 0.