Snubbing Wounded Troops?

I rarely post anything negative about Sen. Obama but I have to say on this one I was very disappointed that he did not keep his "appointment" with the injured soldiers. Ok so he couldn't bring cameras and the person he had advising him. So what....go alone but go anyway! You know news like a big celeb or politician coming to visit the soldiers gets around quickly and I bet that more than a few of these soldiers very much wanted to meet Sen. Obama. Let's face it- they are injured and hospitalized an ocean away from home and probably would love to talk with someone from "home" besides their drs and nurses. Imagine the lift to their spirits that Obama's brief visit would have brought. Sen. Obama spent a very large part of this European visit talking to people that aren't Americans, so would it have been so bad to spend even an hour talking with a few of our injured military people. I'm sorry but I think Obama owed them at least that much, after all he is now telling us that he is not going to end the war quickly like he initially did so some of these injured may very well be going back to fight again before it's all said and done. Sen. Obama you blew it on this one. BTW I have a son-in-law in Iraq. So I am watching very carefully how you treat our soldiers and on this one you lost points in my personal opinion poll.

Some people just post anything on these blogs WITHOUT any research....McCain has been to Iraq many,many times and continues to offer his support and well wishes to the TROOPS, after all, he was one of those guys...Just remember, do we want a patriot, or a crack head???
The staged event in Germany is just that....does anyone really believe that German people walk around with American flags tucked in their pants???? NO, consider the FACT that those people could NOT undersand what he was saying and I doubt sincerely that any of them were sober enough to care what he said...think about it..he handed out flags, paid those guys a few bucks and grabbed the PHOTO OP...Unfortunately, he thought erronously that the American people would be more impressed with his world tour, than a picture of him consoling some wounded WARRIOR/PATRIOT....JUST SAY NO TO O

Even if we had more refineries ... what makes you believe that the oil companies ... Amreican or not would sell it to us cheap? The issue is demand. Irrespective of the flow ... we are now competing with China and India for oil. Gas and Oil are not in short supply. what is in short supply is cheap gas and cheap oil.

From our friend who is serving in Afghanistan


Hello everyone,
As you know I am not a very political person. I just
wanted to pass along that Senator Obama came to Bagram Afghanistan for
about an hour on his visit to 'The War Zone'. I wanted to share with you
what happened.
He got off the plane and got into a bullet proof
vehicle, got to the area to meet with the Major General (2 Star) who is
the commander here at Bagram.

As the Soldiers where lined up to shake his hand he blew
them off and didn't say a word as he went into the conference room to
meet the General. As he finished, the vehicles took him to the ClamShell
(pretty much a big top tent that military personnel can play basketball
or work out in with weights) so he could take his publicity pictures
playing basketball. He again shunned the opportunity to talk to Soldiers
to thank them for their service.

So really he was just here to make a showing for the
American's back home that he is their candidate for President. I think
that if you are going to make an effort to come all the way over here
you would thank those that are providing the freedom that they are
providing for you.

I swear we got more thanks from the NBA Basketball
Players or the Dallas Cowboy Cheer leaders than from one of the
Senators, who wants to be the President of the United States. I just
don't understand how anyone would want him to be our
Commander-and-Chief. It was almost that he was scared to be around those
that provide the freedom for him and our great country.

If this is blunt and to the point I
am sorry but I wanted you all to know what kind of caliber of person he
really is. What you see in the news is all fake.

In service,
CPT Jeffrey S. Porter
Battle Captain
TF Wasatch
America n Soldier

McCain and his mentors Bush & Cheney CAUSED those troops in Iraq to become wounded. The McCain-Cheney-Bush Iraq War, built on lies about WMDs, lies about Saddam and Osama tag teaming, led to these brave soldiers, airmen, sailors and marines sustaining injuries. Please, Senator Obama, squash this old bug!

McCain does not insinuate anything. Obama was told he couldn't bring the media or his campaign staff so he decided not to go. Simple. You must be terribly desperate for news to make up such a silly story.

Of course what you said says more about YOU than about McCain.

You poor dear...

Am I missing something? Obama knew long before his decision not to visit the troops that the press wouldn't be allowed to go...it's Pentagon rules. So his decision not to go could not have been based on this fact. Some people hear....but they don't really listen.

McCain is such a liar. He had an ad blaming the whole energy crisis on Obama when he's the one whose been in the senate forever and has never done anything to prevent this. Now he's got one out there comparing Obama with britney and paris. What?! McCain has obviouly lost his marbles.

You know what I find funny here is that it says John Mccain is here for our troops and Obama isn't. Yet in the past year, Obama has visited troops in Iraq three times, and Mccain hasn't gone once. Oh yeah, and Mccain also voted against funding our troops as well as voted against benefits for war veterans. Aren't these ads just hilarious.

I received this email from a friend who forwarded it to me,
From our friend who is serving in Afghanistan


Hello everyone,
As you know I am not a very political person. I just
wanted to pass along that Senator Obama came to Bagram Afghanistan for
about an hour on his visit to 'The War Zone'. I wanted to share with you
what happened.
He got off the plane and got into a bullet proof
vehicle, got to the area to meet with the Major General (2 Star) who is
the commander here at Bagram.

As the Soldiers where lined up to shake his hand he blew
them off and didn't say a word as he went into the conference room to
meet the General. As he finished, the vehicles took him to the ClamShell
(pretty much a big top tent that military personnel can play basketball
or work out in with weights) so he could take his publicity pictures
playing basketball. He again shunned the opportunity to talk to Soldiers
to thank them for their service.

So really he was just here to make a showing for the
American's back home that he is their candidate for President. I think
that if you are going to make an effort to come all the way over here
you would thank those that are providing the freedom that they are
providing for you.

I swear we got more thanks from the NBA Basketball
Players or the Dallas Cowboy Cheer leaders than from one of the
Senators, who wants to be the President of the United States. I just
don't understand how anyone would want him to be our
Commander-and-Chief. It was almost that he was scared to be around those
that provide the freedom for him and our great country.

If this is blunt and to the point I
am sorry but I wanted you all to know what kind of caliber of person he
really is. What you see in the news is all fake.

In service,
CPT Jeffrey S. Porter
Battle Captain
TF Wasatch
American Soldier

McCain: ???I Said We Would Have An Easy Victory??? In Iraq And ???We Did???»
In late 2002 and early 2003, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) was a fixture on cable television, assuring Americans that an invasion of Iraq would be ???easy.??? ???I believe that the success will be fairly easy,??? McCain told CNN in September 2002. ???We will win this conflict. We will win it easily,??? he told MSNBC the following January.

Over the years, McCain has often claimed that he made never made rosy predictions, saying in 2006 that he ???fully understood from the beginning??? that Iraq ???would be a very, very difficult undertaking.??? In January 2007, however, he wasn???t sure what he believed. First, he said that he knew it was ???going to be long and hard and tough,??? but six days later he claimed, ???I said the military operation would be easy. It was easy.???

On Larry King Live last night, when asked about the decision to invade, McCain went back to saying that he predicted America would have ???an easy victory??? and that ???we did???:

MCCAIN: I think we did the right thing. I think that it was a colossal intelligence failure on the part of the United States and every other county as to whether he had them or not. But again, I would remind you, I said we would have an easy victory. We did.

Watch it:



Just as he can???t figure out his current position on timetables, McCain can???t keep his rhetoric straight on whether he???s a cheerleader or critic of the Iraq war. As Matt Duss points out in the Wonk Room, McCain believes it???s ???a job for the historians??? to figure out if invading Iraq was a good decision.

With his haphazard declaration that the initial invasion was ???an easy victory??? and his refusal to reconsider the decision to invade, McCain ignores the numerous disastrous consequences of that invasion, including over 4,000 U.S. soldiers killed and over 30,000 wounded.

Transcript:

KING: If this would go back, start all over again, would you go into Iraq if you could go back?

MCCAIN: I think the world is better off knowing what I know at the time and the fact that Saddam Hussein was bent on acquiring weapons of mass destruction, $12 billion Oil for Food scandal. American airplanes were being shot at. Sanctions were breaking down. It???s clear that he wanted to go back and acquire weapons of mass destruction and use them. I don???t think there is any doubt. I think we did the right thing. I think that it was a colossal intelligence failure on the part of the United States and every other county as to whether he had them or not. But again, I would remind you, I said we would have an easy victory. We did.

And then we employed the wrong strategy which doomed us to failure and we were losing this war when I said we had to have this new strategy all along and stoop up for it when most political pundits said that my career was finished.

When Obama saying this,I Know what he's refering on,the future the Gas Price shall be increase tremendously up in few years time to US 12 per gallon.He's well advance to know that the fossil Oil from Planet Earth can only produce is depleting.

Experts have already estimated the total reserves of the world oil can only produced 800 billions of barrels left with us, world consumption: 76 millions per day, it looks like planet Earth has oil for about 10,000 days left for us or Its about 27 years from now.

Obama is VERY right to Prepare Americans of the REALITY before it's too late.He has the Vision of the Future for America,unfortunately many Americans still dont realise

John McCain is the either the Biggest Liar or just Plain Idiot

Note how this article carefully says "press" and not campaign staff. That was who Obama wanted taking pictures. He knew the press would not be allowed, but hoped he could bend the rules to get the photo ops he wanted. Had to settle for some hoops video instead.

Poor Obama

McCain's facts are literally true