"there are reasons to believe the Georgia situation was orchestrated....". Look, I support Obama to the hilt--but I'd like to know what these "reasons to believe" are--aside from something similar to a song-- by Tim Hardin? Rod Stewart did a great job on the song also.

We've just been through a rather lengthy exploration of the "Scheunemann theory", which holds that Scheunemann, advisor to both Georgia and McCain, "engineered" Georgia's attempt in August 2008 to drag its erstwhile provinces back into the fold.

That thread unfortunately dissolved into two esteemed Mudcatters hurling profanities at each other, so the thread was closed.   However, if anybody has any actual evidence--, as distinguished from amorphous upset-stomach dark imaginings, in the grand tradition of conspiracy theories so beloved by many Mudcatters--it would be very welcome to hear such evidence. Up to now there has been precisely zero evidence.