Politico.com has an incredible article contrasting the naivete of Barack Obama and the broad experience of John McCain when it come to issues regarding Russia.

John McCain has illustrated his insight and instincts were correct vs the Bush administration when it comes to foreign affairs.

McCain was right about the surge in Iraq and now it seems he was right on the money when it comes to Russia. This shows that experience trumps sound bites when a "leader" is dealing with a critical foriegn policy issue.

Obama's message was weak and it changed hourly until it was almost as strong as McCains.

Here is the Politico article by Ben Smith-A must read.

—While virtually every other world leader called for calm in Georgia last Thursday morning, John McCain did something he’s done many times over his career in public life: He condemned Russia.

Within hours, Barack Obama would sharpen his own statement to include more direct criticism of the regime of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and President Dmitry Medvedev. Soon after, President Bush and an array of foreign leaders also began to place the full responsibility for the war on Moscow.

Obama, Bush and others made their shifts in tone as the brutal, disproportional nature of Russia’s response began to become clear. But McCain’s confrontational stance on the Caucasus crisis stems from a long, personal skepticism of Russian intentions, one that dates back to the Cold War and which eased only briefly in the early 1990s.

Indeed, McCain, who publicly confronted Putin in Munich last year, may be the most visible — and now potentially influential — American antagonist of Russia. What remains to be seen is whether the endgame to the Georgia crisis makes McCain seem prophetic or headstrong and whether his muscular rhetoric plays a role in defining for voters the kind of commander in chief he would be.  read more »