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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/7/27/13526/4...
That faux facade is being ripped apart and devoured from inside by McCain's inner monster.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/27/mccain...
"...the Arizona Republican said he would have caused a "seismic event" had he, like Obama, been "told by the Pentagon that I couldn't visit those troops." The argument - echoing a harsh new McCain campaign attack ad - glossed over the fact that the Arizona Republican himself canceled a trip to military bases earlier this year because of Department of Defense prohibitions...."
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/04/03/mcca...
"... With Department of Defense rules prohibiting political campaigning on military bases, it was determined that in some cases McCain could visit the installations as a senator but could not engage in any political activity or have news media present.
McCain campaign officials said Thursday they intentionally did not campaign on military property.
"We follow the rules," said senior McCain adviser Steve Schmidt...."
Yup, the same "rules" McShame knows nothing about.
they cannot vote for a black guy
We can neglect the useful idiots these tactics are directed at.
Good BBC interview, Greg Craig has a laugh about Obama accepting McC's challenge to go abroad. He also discusses his "disloyalty" to the Clintons, how long we may need to stay in Afghanistan, and, included in other topics, he repeats the great phrase,
Obama: Right man at the right time.
The Obama team is being very careful, so we don't get much of detail or substance, but at least their pablum is nutritious and tastes good.
Pathetic, in fact.
Hagel is a highly competent and well respected Republican Senator who has expert knowledge on Iraq and other foreign policy issues. He was on the trip in question and he thinks the ad is inappropriate, just like normal intelligent people who are informed about the circumstances do.
Don't you feel even a little foolish to write such crap?
Hey BostonJoe (I'll just call you BJ for obvious reasons), here's the real story about the non-visit of wounded soldiers in Germany:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyXt2RsNShI
You right wingers are getting too damned easy to make fools of. Not that your type was ever all that challenging but lately it seems as if only the sub 70 IQs are left trying to pull shit like you are. What gives? The 70-85 IQs (the limit of right wing intelligence) have all quit?
if he goes, it's taking advantage of our wounded warriors-
if he doesn't go, he doesn't support the troops-
Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., who also accompanied Obama to Afghanistan and Iraq this week, called the ad "completely distorted."
(CBS)
"Senator Hagel, Senator Obama and I visited the combat support hospital in Baghdad to thank those nurses, those doctors, to see patients that were there, to bring a bit of greetings from home and profound thanks," he said. "That should be in the ad that Senator McCain is running.
"I think Senator Obama made a very wise choice [about Germany]. Any suggestion that a visit to a military hospital would be political, he made the wise choice not to go.
"But when we were in Baghdad, we made a point, at the end of a very exhausting day, to go in and see these magnificent young Americans and those doctors and nurses that give such tremendous care - without a lot of fanfare, just to say 'Thanks.'
"We went to Jalalabad to see the soldiers of the 173rd. We stopped in Basra to see our soldiers down there. We went into Anbar province to see soldiers there.
"That is a completely distorted and, I think, inappropriate advertisement."
The useful idiots can be neglected.
It is not ok to call another American a traitor, especially at this level of politics. These are fighting words. I really have to ponder if McCain thinks he can take on Obama, at his age?
"Michelle Obama glides into an empty Jungle Island banquet room looking fresh in a signature, white sheath dress that exposes toned arms and showcases that long, graceful neck.
[...]
''My hope is to be able to bring in the voices of what's happening on the ground with women and families,'' she says in her poised, deliberate way. She's speaking not just of her work these days but also of what she hopes to accomplish if she becomes first lady."
Good article.
Senior strategist Robert Gibbs said the visit to the military hospital in Germany had been in the works for about three weeks, with Gration serving as the campaign's contact with the Pentagon.
The Pentagon cleared the Obama plan to land at the base on either July 15 or 16, Gibbs said. The plane needed the clearance because of restrictions on landing nonmilitary aircraft there, he said.
But then on Wednesday, Gration told Obama aides that the Pentagon had informed him that the visit could be viewed as a campaign stop.
"They cited a regulation," Gibbs said of their point of contact, described as legislative affairs in the office of the secretary.
"We believed that based on the information we received that any presence, even his own and only his own, would get into a back and forth on whether his own presence was a campaign event," Gibbs said.
Obama decided on the flight Wednesday from Tel Aviv to Berlin not to visit the hospital.
Asked why he believed the Pentagon would clear the visit, then raised questions about it, Gibbs declined to speculate: "I don't know what to make of it."