The presumptuousness of John McCain

Except that when it's a 72-year-old white guy, they don't call it presumptuous when he decides, just like his ads that declare him so, that he's already the president:

It took four days and a growing chorus of criticism from conservatives before George W. Bush on Monday matched John McCain’s tough stance on Russia. Having on Monday morning again been upstaged by the Republican presidential candidate, who had called for the US administration to come together with its allies in “universal condemnation of Russian aggression” in Georgia, Mr Bush finally followed suit.

Sayeth Josh Marshall about this:

I see George "Macaca" Allen is on Fox explaining why John McCain's gonzo antics trying to get us into a nuclear confrontation over Georgia shows why we desperately need to make him president as soon as possible. But I do notice that McCain is bragging about how he's been repeatedly on the phone talking with the President of Georgia (as has Obama) and generally conducting his own mini-foreign policy.

But of course only Obama is being presumptuous. Because the punditocracy does not feel it needs a synonym for "uppity white guy."