Citizens of Georgia?

A few weeks ago the rightwing squawk machine was cranking out the usual noise, slightly louder and more distorted, when Barack Obama addressed the folks in Germany as fellow "citizens of the world." According to them it's only appropriate to be citizens of the United States. Others out there, they don't count. You can't be a "citizen" of the world, they said.

Now, all of a sudden, John McCain has not just declared himself a Georgian, he has spoken for all of us (!) to say "We're all Georgians." Shouldn't it be like it was a few weeks ago? That we're all Americans? Or are we now all ex-Americans?

It seems like a nice sentiment that McCain was trying to make, although you have to figure it's about 99% politics and 1% sincerity, if that. You got invaded by the Russians; that's not a good thing; we're here with a casserole if you need it.

Now that we're all Georgians, though, maybe the president of Georgia will draft us and we'll be fighting with our fellow Georgians, I don't know. If we've been stripped of American citizenship just like that by our presumptous new president, I'm not too sure what to do!