MORNING READ

by Walter Alarkon - 08/12/08 9:22 AM ET

President Bush is being blamed by his blogging critics for promising too much to Georgia. John McCain hears it from liberal bloggers for running an ad featuring “hot chicks” and Barack Obama. And Mark Penn again comes out the villain to bloggers on both sides in the latest post-mortem of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s (D-N.Y.) presidential campaign.

The Bush administration, which has shown “feckless” support for Georgia, has failed to carry out its foreign policy with the required prudence, writes Swampland’s Joe Klein. With the United States having no reason to be as committed to Georgia as Russia is,

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