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In an ad that started running over the weekend, the McCain campaign is slamming Barack Obama for canceling a visit to a VA Hospital in Germany during his recent European visit. Obama passed on the visit after deciding that mixing his campaign with members of the military might not be such a good idea. Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs said:
...the senator wanted to visit the men and women at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center to express his gratitude for their service and sacrifice. The senator decided out of respect for these servicemen and women that it would be inappropriate to make a stop to visit troops at a U.S. military facility as part of a trip funded by the campaign.The McCain camp, however, doesn't see it that way.
McCain is already taking heat for the ad - including from some Republicans. Nebraska Republican Chuck Hagel told Bob Schiffer on CBS's Face the Nation:
The next president will have to bring the country together and lead the world, and that's going to take a bipartisan consensus. They are better off to focus on policy differences. I think John is treading on some very thin ground here when he impugns motives, when we start to get into, "You're less patriotic than me' and 'I'm more patriotic." I admire and respect John McCain; we talk often. John's better than that… It's just not responsible to be saying things like that.
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This isn't all that surprising. The only thing the republicans can throw at you is to throw out the "you are not a patriot" card. Not that it really sticks anymore but then again, they don't strike me as a real creative group. I can just imagine the campaign meetings..."well John, it worked for lil george in his last election run, I think it will work this time around too."
That whole theme seems 2004 to me.
Imagine if Obama would have visited those wounded troops, with or without media. He would have been charged with politicizing the military, as if that does not happen all the time.
Sometimes, you are damned if you do, damned if you don't.
As we now know, Barack's trip to Europe and the Middle East was all about creating images for the campaign. What good would a short visit with wounded soldiers be if there were no photos?
If I remember correctly, McCain was the one who suggested Obama go to Iraq and Afghanistan to see how things were there. The same McCain who walked through an open market in Bahgdad with a few hundred bodyguards and a few helicopters and declared that Bahgdad was a safe place to visit.
You would have to be pretty naive to think that either of these guys do anything that is not political and worthy of a photo op. The only difference is Obama does things on a grand scale and McCain seem to be crashing wakes lately.
It has been a week now, we should soon see another reference to Obamas lack of a lapel pin...
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John McCain makes me want to vomit. All talk of promises for a civil, respectable campaign and all LIES when it comes to actually following through on that promise.
Pathetic. Totally pathetic. McCain's eyesight is definitely going bad, because in the video of Obama playing basketball he is PLAYING BASKETBALL WITH SOLDIERS IN AFGHANISTAN! Instead of doing something kind of fun and non-war-ish like this, McCain would be busy trying to say very little about how he voted against funding for the GI Bill and other Veteran's benefits.
Is John McCain in the race? After his Mr. Magoo style antics of late (Let's have a press conference on an oil derrick, in hurricane season!) I think he's just looking for a way to stay active and avoid the zombie wife.
Though I don't side with the man on any number of issues, Obama's going to beat the stuffing out of that tired old fool.
Boy, are we Republicans in trouble. THIS is McCain's idea of a campaign commercial?
There are plenty of reasons to NOT vote for Obama, but this non-story about the "snubbed soldiers" isn't one of them.
In short, this negative ad isn't just bothering Democrats. It will bother Republicans who want McCain to focus on the ISSUES.
I just wish we had a Republican nominee who believed in lower taxes and tougher immigration enforcement. Oh, well. Maybe in four years. Make that eight. Obama will drift to the center enough to get two terms.