Why Barack Obama Blew Off American Troops
July 26th, 2008 at 09:55pm Matt Margolis
Obama’s excuses for canceling his visit with American troops during his European Let’s Pretend I Have Foreign Policy Experience Tour have changed on an almost daily basis.. but it’s quite obvious that Obama was only interested in visiting American troops if he could bring the media with him so he could exploit his visit for political gain.
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1. Douglas Fairbanks | July 26th, 2008 at 10:57 pm
The truth about Barack’s foreign trip
Lie:
Barack Obama didn’t take time to meet with troops on his overseas trip.
Conservative blogs, referencing an inaccurate email from abroad, have been spreading the rumor that Barack Obama gave troops the cold shoulder on his foreign trip.
Truth:
Barack Obama spent time throughout his trip visiting with and thanking our troops in Kuwait, Afghanistan and Iraq. He was proud to meet so many of our troops overseas and has repeatedly praised their service and dedication.
The Captain that started this Internet rumor has already retracted his comments.
2. Danish Artist | July 26th, 2008 at 11:09 pm
What version are we on again?
It is so hard to keep track of what he says from one nanosecond to the next.
It’s always been obvious that liberals use the military in ways that only further their political agenda. Other than that, the military are their personal whipping boys and cannon fodder for their political budget cuts.
They loathe the military as many have publicly stated. Of course, they loathe the average American citizen that they cannot exploit for their political gains. At election, they always go into the poor neighborhoods with the TV cameras, pass out some hot dogs, t-shirts, kiss a few babies and pretend they care and disappear for the next two years or more.
Obama is too stupid to realize that he is now under the presidential candidate microscope and everything he does and says is part of the campaign record.
3. Danish Artist | July 26th, 2008 at 11:13 pm
“Barack Obama spent time throughout his trip visiting with and thanking our troops in Kuwait, Afghanistan and Iraq. He was proud to meet so many of our troops overseas and has repeatedly praised their service and dedication.”
Right! He visited and thanked them, AS LONG AS HE COULD BRING HIS CAMERAS!!! We all could see those events. However, that is not the topic, is it?
4. Caleb | July 26th, 2008 at 11:16 pm
Matt Margolis and Mark Noonan support murder and torture. You wouldn’t expect adherence to honor and truth from these devil-worshippers, would you? This place smells like death.
5. js | July 26th, 2008 at 11:16 pm
the german magazine der spiegel was the source of the story
evidently, ramstein was ready to see him at the hospital…appointment set…floors scrubbed…windows waxed…etc etc….then shortly before he was supposed to show up….he cancelled….
no press….ramstein is a major US base, been attacked before…dont need the publicity…
6. cam | July 26th, 2008 at 11:49 pm
Caleb,
You don’t understand. It is the culture of life.
Ultimately they have nothing to support this story. So they resort to lies fabricated out of whole cloth.
It appears that these people have a deep hate for Obama driven by jealousy. They are haters.
7. The New Conservative | July 27th, 2008 at 12:08 am
Obama didn’t see the troops in Germany because he wasn’t able to bring the press. Since he wasn’t going to get any publicity he decided to pass.
http://www.thenewconservatives.blogspot.com/
8. cam | July 27th, 2008 at 12:25 am
New……
Source please…..
9. Nevada Pundit | July 27th, 2008 at 1:42 am
This is defiantly one of Obama’s bigger mistakes. You can write a lot of things off in a political campaign that people may bad mouth you about but are, really, just part of the game. Snubbing U.S. soldiers is not one of them, doing that upsets all but the most leftist liberals. While Obama’s experience in federal politics is laughable, he is a very good public speaker and (unfortunately) does have a good campaign shop running. This one they really blew, before we are any party we are Americans and snubbing our troops really eats at that part of us.
10. Mark Noonan | July 27th, 2008 at 2:29 am
Cam,
In one corner we’ve got the US military under orders not to lie.
In the other corner we’ve got Barack Obama - the man who absurdly claims he didn’t realise Wright was a racist anti-American.
And you’re choosing to believe Obama.
Very, very strange - you know, slavish devotion is unbecoming in an American.
11. Dennis | July 27th, 2008 at 3:27 am
Mark, the US military and Obama are certainly not in two opposing corners.
Except in your mind, apparently.
Obama spent time during his trip visiting with American troops at several bases. It was even televised, and it surely didn’t look like there was any lack of affection there.
And what exactly does Wright have to do with your topic?
12. Dennis | July 27th, 2008 at 3:45 am
Oh, of course (smack self in forehead) - another chance to demonize our president-to-be with the funny name. Too bad he isn’t a Flanagan or a Smith or a Noonan, isn’t it?
All the same, you’ve got to hand it to Obama. He kept his focus well during his trip abroad. I really liked it when he was asked, “How does speaking to 200,000 people in Berlin not go to your head?”
His answer: “When you look at the very difficult problem of Iran, the very difficult problem of Afghanistan and Pakistan, continuing difficulties in Iraq, the challenges of Middle East peace, the next president is going to have his hands full. And that’s before you start talking about climate change, the economy, relationships with Russia, China and North Korea. The point is it doesn’t take much to puncture any euphoria you may feel because of a speech you’ve given.” http://www.newsweek.com/id/148986/page/2
Now that’s a statesman.
13. SEW | July 27th, 2008 at 4:36 am
His answer: “When you look at the very difficult problem of Iran, the very difficult problem of Afghanistan and Pakistan, continuing difficulties in Iraq, the challenges of Middle East peace, the next president is going to have his hands full. And that’s before you start talking about climate change, the economy, relationships with Russia, China and North Korea. The point is it doesn’t take much to puncture any euphoria you may feel because of a speech you’ve given.”
That explains it! Let the caliphate blaze through America as it is doing in EurArabia. No wonder the Eurarabs and Chavez, Ajmadman, and other world leaders back Hussein. Bush and the cons won’t rollover. And of course AGW is already producing global cooling, so it must be too late to combat global warming. Oh wait, Al said we have 10 years left.
14. SEW | July 27th, 2008 at 4:44 am
Opps, maybe BushHitler and the cons are right?
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article4407115.ece#cid=OTC-RSS&attr=2015164
15. Dennis | July 27th, 2008 at 4:56 am
BushHitler? Who’s that?
All you need to know is that President Barack Obama isn’t going to be asleep at the wheel like Mr. Bush was when the hijackers hit us on 9/11.
16. Faceplant | July 27th, 2008 at 6:10 am
“It’s always been obvious that liberals use the military in ways that only further their political agenda.”
Spare me. Remind me when Obama dressed up like a soldier and landed on an Aircraft Carrier, in pretty much the most obvious, pathetic, and shameless photo op ever done. Republicans use troops as props pretty much every chance they get. There is a reason that most soldiers groups give republicans horrible grades when it comes to voting on legislation that actually supports the troops. Repuiblicans are great at talking the talk. They pretty much never walk the walk.
17. Faceplant | July 27th, 2008 at 6:13 am
“Let the caliphate blaze through America as it is doing in EurArabia”
Christ, for all the talk of being strong, and resulute I have never seen a group that was more paranoid than the neocons.
I assure you Muslim law is not taking root in Europe, and I assure you terrorists aren’t going to make it happen in the United States.
Wow, it’s amazing how deathly afraid you are of Al Queda.
18. Faceplant | July 27th, 2008 at 6:19 am
“In one corner we’ve got the US military under orders not to lie.”
Because the military would never, ever, EVER lie…
“Soldier: Army ordered me not to tell the truth about Tillman”
“http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/04/24/tillman.hearing/index.html”
It doesn’t matter anyway. Nobody is claiming the army lied, and nobody is claiming that Obama lied. You just think he had differenet motives. In other words, you are just trying to throw up a strawman, which really is pretty much all you ever do.
19. phnx | July 27th, 2008 at 7:09 am
Want another source?
How about the Pentagon??
Chief Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell confirmed to Politico that Department of Defense officials cautioned Barack Obama’s campaign that his planned visit to wounded American troops in Germany could not be political in nature and that he would be barred from bringing along campaign staff and reporters. He also said that Cindy McCain recently requested to visit sailors aboard the U.S.N.S. Comfort and was denied.
“Sen. Obama is welcome to visit Landstuhl or any military hospital in his official capacity as a United States senator,” Morrell said in a brief interview. “But there is a DOD policy which governs campaigning and electioneering at military facilities that would have to be respected if he were to visit. That distinction was relayed and made clear to campaign, and they made a decision on their own based on that guidance.”
Morrell, in a subsequent interview, added that military officials told Obama he could only visit the military facility with his Secret Service detail and Senate staff.
“We made it clear to him that campaign staff and press would not be permitted to accompany him,” Morrell said of Obama. “We relayed those ground rules. They made a choice based upon the information we relayed to them. It was their choice. We had nothing to do with it.”
http://www.politico.com/blogs/jonathanmartin/0708/DoD_spokesman_says_Obama_camp_was_reminded_of_political_rules.html
20. js | July 27th, 2008 at 7:18 am
“All you need to know is that President Barack Obama isn’t going to be asleep at the wheel like Mr. Bush was when the hijackers hit us on 9/11.”
there is no such thing as a us president named barak hussein obama….and there never will be…
and think about obama….if he cant keep up to speed in 20 years in a black supremacist church…what makes you think he is “awake” to start with…..
21. Bruce Adams | July 27th, 2008 at 8:00 am
Very, very strange - you know, slavish devotion is unbecoming in an American.
Indeed it is. It is exactly why we are in the sorry state in which we find ourselves…. what Irony.
22. SEW | July 27th, 2008 at 8:09 am
“I assure you Muslim law is not taking root in Europe” Faceplant
UK top judge- http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1031611/Sharia-law-SHOULD-used-Britain-says-UKs-judge.html
23. SEW | July 27th, 2008 at 8:14 am
“I assure you Muslim law is not taking root in Europe” Faceplant
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article4407115.ece#cid=OTC-RSS&attr=2015164
24. majoriot | July 27th, 2008 at 8:47 am
So, McCain, and yourselves, try to use the troops as political fodder because Obama didn’t.
I checked out this vote on veteran’s health benefits. It would seem that Sen. McCain didn’t support the troops in this case.
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=2&vote=00041
So…a flip flop? A case of using the troops for political means? A memory problem? )(not his…yours). Was preserving corporate tax loopholes more important than supporting our veterans?
Take your pick. But anyway you look at it, exploitation of the troops falls on McCain, not Obama.
25. neocon | July 27th, 2008 at 8:51 am
“Very, very strange - you know, slavish devotion is unbecoming in an American.”
“Indeed it is. It is exactly why we are in the sorry state in which we find ourselves…. what Irony.” - Bruce
The Bush administration is the most investigated, the most scrutinized and the most challenged in American history. So the facts just don’t support your propaganda. Care to try again?
26. kmg | July 27th, 2008 at 9:01 am
From one of the reporters on the trip:
UPDATE: Jake Tapper notes the ad also claims that Obama cancelled the trip because he was told he couldn’t bring the media. There is absolutely no evidence for that one. The campaign insists that the plan had been to leave us at the airport, and the military has confirmed that arrangements were being made to hold media and staff there at a passenger terminal.
As I have heard the campaign’s explanations for this decision over the past few days, I am convinced that it came down to something that campaign strategist Robert Gibbs told reporters on the plane: When the campaign learned of the Pentagon’s concerns (Wednesday night), they realized that, however they structured the hospital visit, they were going to come in for criticism.
So they had a decision to make, and they had to do it on the fly. Their choice was to take a hit for going (even if it was a private detour from a very public campaign swing, Obama was going to be accused of using wounded troops for political gain), or a hit for not going (the charge would be–and has been–that Obama didn’t care about wounded troops). They decided to take the latter. We’ll see, as this controversy plays out, whether this was the right decision.
http://www.time-blog.com/swampland/2008/07/obama_arrives_home.html
27. neocon | July 27th, 2008 at 9:02 am
majoriot,
That bill was just another disingenous attempt by Democrats to show support for the troops by passing a pork laden bill. The following is the list of pork the Democrats had in this ultimately failed bill.
……..(Sec. 301) Creates reserve funds, subject to specified conditions, for: (1) the uninsured; (2) health information technology; (3) the Asbestos Injury Trust Fund; (4) safe importation of prescription drugs; (5) reauthorization of the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act; (6) comprehensive immigration reform; (7) Indian claim settlement; (8) the National Flood Insurance Program; (9) protection of America’s competitive edge; (10) the Land and Water Conservation Fund; (11) (deficit-neutral) chronic care case management; (12) receipts from Bonneville Power Administration; (13) extension of the enrollment period for part D (Voluntary Prescription Drug Benefit Program) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA); (14) negotiation of the best possible price for prescription drugs through such Program; (15) pandemic influenza preparedness planning; (16) prevention of catastrophic loss; (17) (deficit-neutral) energy legislation; (18) fire and safety programs; (19) an increase in physician payments under Medicare; (20) a Commission for Accountability and Review of Federal Agencies; and (21) a Gulf Coast Protection, Reconstruction, and Recovery Fund………….
Nice try though…..
have a nice day
neocon
28. Blackandwhite | July 27th, 2008 at 9:22 am
I didn’t think it was possible for McCain to stoop to such slime campaigning. But when you have necons running your campaign and willing to do anything to stay in power, this is what you get.
If he keeps up such swift-boat tactics; I say it is time to question where his psych reports are after his stay at Hanoi Hilton. What were his real reasons for divorcing his first wife? Did he really say he would let his under 18 year old daughter make the choice if she wanted an abortion? Was anything that Karl Rove, Bush Jr and other prominent Republicans alleged about him in the 2000 South Carolina primary wrong?
I would prefer to talk about health care, mortgage crisis, the massive debt the Republicans have left our grandchildren and how to get out of the civil war in Iraq
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29. Sorta Blogless Sunday Pin&hellip | July 27th, 2008 at 9:33 am
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30. William Teach | July 27th, 2008 at 9:38 am
My eyes start glazing over when someone on the left starts with that type of idiocy that ends in “neocons,” which, of course, is the Left’s PC speech for “evil Jews.”
Say, Blackandwhite, as far as slime goes, what do you think of MoveOn’s Betrayus ad?
And how about the non-stop personal slime about George Bush?
And, it sure looks like you are going down the slime road against John McCain, you hypocrite, you.
31. neocon | July 27th, 2008 at 9:48 am
There’s a civil war in Iraq?????
Where??
32. Nevada Pundit | July 27th, 2008 at 11:26 am
Obama is applying for the position of Commander and chief of the armed services. The soldiers in those hospitals should have been a high priority. No one banned him from going, that choice he made on his own.
Oh yes it is easy to say he visited the military in the middle ease but he had his cameras with him there. The first chance he had to do what was right for the military, just for the sake of it being the right thing, he blew it. Now it is true that he may have taken slack for either decision but I would rather take it for doing the right thing.
Let’s be realistic, if he visited the troops without media how far could any attack on him really go.
Part of being President is doing what you believe the right thing is regardless of critics. I think he failed this one.
Black and White, I also would like to discuss domestic problems (except for the non existent Iraqi civil war you mentioned) but if Obama is in Europe with his puppet media then the candidate staying at home actually discussing these problems doesn’t really get the attention he deserves. Not saying that Obama shouldn’t have made an international trip but his timing is dubious.
33. Rana Quijotesca | July 27th, 2008 at 12:05 pm
and
–http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/07/new-mccain-ad-b.html
I like this part too:
34. Nevada Pundit | July 27th, 2008 at 12:18 pm
That is kind of my point Rana, at the gym there were pictures taken, the media was there. If there was to be no media in his trip to visit the injured troops then why didn’t he just go? I’m not talking politics here, I’m talking about the soldiers that were in the hospital waiting for his visit and what a visit from a presidential candidate would have ment to them. He let them down because he didn’t want to look politically bad. He should have done what was right for the U.S. citizens and for the soldiers that he wants to be commander and chief over. The people of the U.S. should be the most important issue to a president.
35. cam | July 27th, 2008 at 12:30 pm
Mark,
It is not that I have chosen one over the other. Its just that your argument is based on the cartoon where you clearly put words in Obama’s mouth. If you have a source, cite it. Obviously the entire military didn’t make this ascertion. I saw the video of Obama meeting with the military on several occasions during the trip and it looks like he was well receieved in those situtuations. So it appears that no matter how many times Obama takes time to talk with the military, you will always find fault. I suspect if you or Margolis had a source you would have used it instead of writing such a weak piece.
36. phnx | July 27th, 2008 at 1:43 pm
“If you have a source, cite it. Obviously the entire military didn’t make this ascertion.” CAM
No, only the SPOKESMAN for the PENTAGON, tghat should be sufficient even for a leftist like you.
Oh wait, that’s right, you leftists don’t trust the military. Sorry my mistake.
37. Joshua Wright | July 27th, 2008 at 2:05 pm
John McCain is lying. Obama had to cancel that visit of the troops because the Pentagon told him that he shouldn’t take his campaign staff there. Obama wanted to respect the troops and not make this into an issue, so he canceled the visit. Of course, Obama has visited troops without cameras present in the past, so McCain is simply a liar.
John McCain is trying to make the troops a political issue. Totally despicable — while Obama made a decision to not make the troops a campaign issue, McCain is putting them in his ad and using them as a cudgel!
John McCain’s attack is tasteless. See #1 and #2. Any claim that Obama doesn’t care about the troops is pure trash.
John McCain is desperate. Why else go so negative three months before election day? His polling must suck worse than his speech-making ability.
38. Dennis | July 27th, 2008 at 2:06 pm
Mr. Teach, why such outsized outrage about the word “neocon” and “evil Jews”? I think most people understand that neoconservatism is characterized by ideology, not ethnicity. Or are YOU saying it’s ethnicity?
Who cares if the early neoconservative theorists happen to be Jewish? Certainly their enablers in the Bush admin and the GOP have been Gentiles (Rumsfeld, Cheney, Addington, DeLay, Rove and the list could go on and on). It’s the neoconservatives’ utopian ideas, bellicosity and willingness to allow people to die en masse in wars of choice to implement their theories that makes most people I know angry - not their ethnicity.
Of course we might add that their insistence on putting the interests of another nation ahead of the United States seems unpatriotic. Who cares if it’s Israel, Iraq or Timbuktu - we don’t need to be led by the nose by any other country.
39. cam | July 27th, 2008 at 2:08 pm
phnx,
Are you saying if he went as initially planned you would have expressed a positive review of his trip?
40. Dennis | July 27th, 2008 at 2:11 pm
To clarify, Mr. Teach, it was YOU who used the term “evil Jews.” Nobody else.
41. Tractatus | July 27th, 2008 at 2:27 pm
It doesn’t matter anyway. Nobody is claiming the army lied, and nobody is claiming that Obama lied. You just think he had differenet motives. In other words, you are just trying to throw up a strawman, which really is pretty much all you ever do.
Exactly. Game, set, and match right there.
However, this whole “Obama blew off the troops!” line has been adopted as an Official Wingnut Talking Point, so expect it to be regurgitated often.
42. Mark Noonan | July 27th, 2008 at 2:32 pm
Rana,
Doesn’t ring true - Obama has been eagerly lapping up positive media coverage and it has given him a slight bounce in the polls…the explanation that they were selflessly sparing the troops is absurd. The likely explanation is that Obama didn’t go because there was no media upside to his going…and now he’s trying to back and fill.
43. SEW | July 27th, 2008 at 2:54 pm
” Obama wanted to respect the troops and not make this into an issue, so he canceled the visit”
J. Wright
Obama wanted to respect the troops so he stiffed them. Plain and simple.
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2008/07/27/missing_from_that_berlin_speech/
44. phnx | July 27th, 2008 at 4:35 pm
Cam, if Obama would have visited the wounded troops without the press corp and his entorage there would be no issue. The fact that he chose not to do so speaks volumes about his insincerity.
45. Faceplant | July 27th, 2008 at 4:46 pm
“He declared: ‘Those entering into a contractual agreement can agree that the agreement shall be governed by a law other than English law.’
In his speech at an East London mosque, Lord Phillips signalled approval of sharia principles as long as punishments - and divorce rulings - complied with the law of the land.”
Two people voluntarily agreeing to enter into a contract under Sharia principles is hardly an example of Sharia law being forced on the people of Europe. Man you people are paranoid. Jews, and Christians and any other group are free to do the same thing. Does that mean Judaism is taking root in England?
46. cam | July 27th, 2008 at 4:57 pm
Phnx,
So how many times does he have to visit the troops to gain your approval?
47. cam | July 27th, 2008 at 5:02 pm
Mark,
Why is it that the explanation that Obama was trying to avoid making the troops into a political football or as you say “sparing the troops” is absurd? Are you a mind reader now. Or is it just true because you have said it. And you accuse Obama of the messianic complex.
48. William Teach | July 27th, 2008 at 5:28 pm
So, Dennis, what do you think of the Betrayus ad?
49. Dennis | July 27th, 2008 at 5:47 pm
This whole Obama and the troops issue recalls the New Testament parable of the children playing in the marketplace.
Jesus said “To what can I compare this generation? They are like children sitting in the marketplace and calling out to others, “We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not mourn… But wisdom is known by her children…”
The generation Christ was speaking about rejected John the Baptist for being an ascetic, but they also rejected him because he ate and drank with sinners. They would not be satisfied with anything.
Likewise the critics of Obama will find some basis to revile him no matter what he does. Be sure if Obama HAD gone to visit troops in the hospital, no matter how he conducted himself he would be roasted alive for politicking in a sacred place and campaigning to a captive audience.
It was a damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don’t situation, he knew it and so does most everyone else. If the troops missed out, blame the malcontents who pick apart everything Obama does.
50. 42 | July 27th, 2008 at 5:50 pm
“neocons,” which, of course, is the Left’s PC speech for “evil Jews.”
excuse me Billy, “evil Jews”??? you’re a pathetic excuse for a person, much less an American
antisemitic POS
51. Dennis | July 27th, 2008 at 5:51 pm
Teach, I think the Betrtayus ad was juvenile and insulting - both to Gen. Petraeus and to principled critics of Bush’s policies.
52. Blackandwhite | July 27th, 2008 at 5:51 pm
Lets have a countdown clock as to when McCain and his campaign staff make a visit to the hospital to visit the troops. Or McCain could go it a lone. There are business class seats available out of New York each day.
McCain knows this issue is absurb.
53. William Teach | July 27th, 2008 at 6:21 pm
And you should leave the kool aid in the fridge, 42, and try and pay attention to the actual meaning of a comment.
When it comes to Jew hatred, y’all on the left bow to no one.
And, just for reference, my Mother is Jewish. Her parents escaped from Poland in 1939.
Thanks for answering Dennis. Still waiting for Blackandwhite, though, who started the whole thing.
But, let’s face it: politics is dirty and nasty. Always has been, always will be. Which is what makes it fun!
On the flip side, the massive partisanship keeps each party from throwing out its idiots, of which most who are elected get to be. They are not in it to serve, but, rule and get perks. People in both parties. Most of them do not listen, and think we are all idiots.
54. Danish Artist | July 27th, 2008 at 9:24 pm
Joshua Wrong….
“John McCain is lying. Obama had to cancel that visit of the troops because the Pentagon told him that he shouldn’t take his campaign staff there. Obama wanted to respect the troops and not make this into an issue, so he canceled the visit.”
Why could Obama go WITHOUT his staff? Rather than cancel the visit? What’s the matter? He cannot go anywhere without his staff? In over his head?
He simply could have gone and seen the troops without his staff. What is so hard about it? No, instead he cancels the visit and then comes up with different versions of the real reason. The “official” campaign reason has changed from one version to the next.
Sorry, your guy is in over his head and cannot think without his staff present to give him the “correct” answers. No wonder, he wants limited and infrequent debates.
55. Tractatus | July 27th, 2008 at 10:52 pm
Sorry, your guy is in over his head and cannot think without his staff present to give him the “correct” answers.
You mean like Joe Lieberman having to explain very basic things to John “foreign policy expert” McCain? And McCain still getting very basic things pathetically wrong?
Right.
56. phnx | July 28th, 2008 at 7:23 am
“It was a damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don’t situation, he knew it and so does most everyone else. If the troops missed out, blame the malcontents who pick apart everything Obama does.” Dennis
This is just a taste of what it will be like if Obama is elected President. The messiah has already informed the public and the media that discussion of Michelle is off limits. He’s also branded as unfair any discussion of his long standing personal relationships with racists hate mongers like the Rev, Wright, radical anti-American terrorists like Bill Ayers, or corrupt sleazeballs like Tony Rezko.
Some of his minions have already claimed that criticism of Obama is racist. After he’s elected any criticism of the messiah will be initially declared hate speech. His minions will probably call for laws to be enacted to prevent criticism of the messiah, as if this were Zimbawe or Cuba.
57. Percy Beezer | July 28th, 2008 at 3:45 pm
Tragically, McCain didn’t even know we have 57 states.
58. Percy Beezer | July 28th, 2008 at 4:01 pm
McCain also thought that Auschwitz was in Poland.
59. Blackandwhite | July 28th, 2008 at 6:31 pm
Goes back to judgement. Once the tax payer funded congressional part of trip ended in Iraq, Obama chose not to use our wounded troops in Germany as a prop in his paid by the campain portion of the trip. Good judgment. By the looks of McCains ad, we find out McCain would see no problem in making a campaing stop in a U.S. militray hospital in Germany. Bad judgement
60. Danish Artist | July 28th, 2008 at 8:51 pm
B&W, again with the liberal talking points.
Obama had a visit scheduled. Does that fall under your good or bad judgement. Once the Pentagon told him he could not bring cameras, he cancelled the trip. When the visit was scheduled, it was still on a trip paid for by the campaign. Only until he could not bring the cameras, did he cancel it. Plain and simple. Why could he not visit the troops without his media entourage?
The solution was so simple - visit the troops without his media entourage and on to the next campaign stop. Instead, obama never leaves campaign mode and f*cks the troops instead. He was hoping the media would cover his ass and for some strange reason they did not.
In either case, the visit was scheduled on a trip paid for by the campaign - result - another poor excuse infused with a lot of spin and variations in the excuses continue.
But, you can pat yourself on the back for being a good Obamaton.
61. Sunny | July 29th, 2008 at 5:24 pm
Nevada Pundit | July 27th, 2008 at 12:18 pm
That is kind of my point Rana, at the gym there were pictures taken, the media was there. If there was to be no media in his trip to visit the injured troops then why didn’t he just go?
OK Nevada, why don’t you do a little research before making an ignorant statement. It just so happens that the military took the pictures of Obama play bb and published them. None of the press that went with Obama took any of those photos. Why don’t you critize something legit? If this is the best you can do, please stop!
62. Sumofabit | July 29th, 2008 at 5:42 pm
Wounded Soldiers Shouldn’t Be Photo Ops.
I never ceases to amaze me how arrogant the left can be. They are against winning the war in Iraq but will stoop to photo opping a wounded veteran, but if they are denied the media coverage they pass.
OBAMA IS A SCUM BAG FOR DOING THIS.
63. CRACK | July 29th, 2008 at 5:53 pm
IMPERFECTIONS.
I know we have imperfections but don’t friggin go round apologizing for my imperfections. I will weigh my imperfections against the Germans any damn’ed day of the week.
How dare this little weasle apologize for me in Germany or anywhere else.
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