Snubbing Wounded Troops?

McCain's New Ad and McCain's hypocrisy


Sat Jul 26, 2008 at 08:16:59 PM PDT

McCain is using Obama's canceled trip to a U.S. militay base in Germany as a reason to claim that Obama is anti-troops, even though Obama's trip was canceled by the Pentagon, not by Obama. Now with McCain going on and on in a political attack ad about what a horrible and un-patiotic thing it was for Obama not to visit those troops, come to find out, McCain knows better. How does he know? Follow me after the jump.


Barack Obama canceled a pre-planned visit to the troops in Germany yesterday after being told by the Pentagon that the trip would violate a Pentagon policy prohibiting campaign stops on military installations. No problem there.

However, the McCain campaign is now blasting Obama:

The McCain camp has nonetheless been using Obama's canceled trip to insinuate that he's anti-troops. "Barack Obama is wrong," McCain spokesperson Brian Rogers said in a statement yesterday. "It is never 'inappropriate' to visit our men and women in the military."
It turns out the same thing happened to John McCain himself back in April of this year.

Note: But of course when it happens to him, he brags that it "was a good thing" that HE didn't visit the troops, "because he always follows the rules."

The problem here is that the McCain campaign was denied a visit to a military base under the same policy back in April. Of course, there was no outcry or false outrage from Brian Rogers at that time.

From CNN:

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.
I have to ask, just how much lies, hypocrisy, and double-talk is this man willing to resort to in his quest for the presidency?

It was John McCain that went to Iraq and all the other Countries that Obama Toured last week...

It was John McCain that Challenged Obama to Tour Iraq an such, during or nearing the END of his Long Battle with Hillary Clinton.

It was Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh Screaming Obama was Afraid to go to Iraq & Afghanistan.

Note: Karl "The Big Cranium" Rove said that Obama's Tour was Successful and he's trying to Help Mccain, Win the White House...

Some of You Low Lifes, can't stand it...Neither can John McCain, Imagine how McCain and His Campaign Staff as well as his Few Fans Feel ?

It was also John McCain Begging to Tag alongside Obama, when he said he had planned all along to go to the MiddleEast and see how the land lays.

Note: When Obama was en route to the Middle East Region, it was john McCain, Dastardly and Bastardly Giving the Dates of Obama's Arrival to the Region, when in fact, that was a Security Risk !!!

Did You See Obama Stoop as Low, as to Broadcast McCain and that Troll of a Man, Joe Lieberman's Tour Dates...Of Course not, Just Think, an Over Zealous Nut in Afghanistan Or Iraq, could've Done the Un-Thinkable to Obama and his Comapany !!

Obama Marched Onward into the Most dangerous Areas...Afghanistan and Later Toured Iraq, in spite of .........McCain's Low Life Move Of literally Breaking Rules of Security Conduct and Courtesy.

Obama would Never do that...Never.


Obama also showed Class and Dignity, by Not Rubbing it in to McCain, when he could've...

He could've Met the Masses that Waited for him in France and Great Britain, but he maintained a more Subtle and Professional Manner, Opposed to going to the Eiffel Tower and Wimbley Stadium...Then McCain and his Staff would've had a Cardiac Arrest.

Obama has Class and Dignity and that is a Presidential Quality, to Look Above and Over Petty, Triteful and Busch League Politicians like John "Semi-Senile" McCain

The War sure as hell took a Long TIME to WIN and those WORDS are HOLLOW anyway, because it waas the Anbar Awakening that made PRESUMED VICTORY a Reality.

Whoever you are, Stop Believing Yourself and look to the facts, Mccain had nothing to do with Winning Wars, via his own Military Strategies, It was just 20,000 Additional Troops and the Military Strategy was MCFARLAND'S MILITARY STRATEGY ...........

NOT MCCAIN'S..

Got it...Great !!

John McCain Made Nothng but a Series of Desperate Political , Busch League Blunders During Obama's Tour and Fate gave McCain, what he Deserved...

The Ole Rock Concert Rhetoric...AGAIN

Obama is "The Rock Concert"....

Name the Headlining Artist that Attracted Over 200,000 People, Must've been a BIG NAME to Attaract Over 200,000 People ?

You can't !!

John McCain could'nt Attract a Crowd at a Ohio German Weiner Haus and You think the Germans, French Or Britains would come out to See him, as they did Obama....Please

McCain tried it in April and later in Canada, Columbia and Mexico and he ...FAILED !!!

Everybody in those Countries were saying, Who is this Old A!! Guy and why is he... HERE !!!

John McCain an his Planned Big Oil Rig Showcase, to Upstage Obama, instead McCain got a Category 2 Hurricane and Oil SPILL and thats just Fate having it's Way.

Sarkozy Gave McCain 45 Minutes and he's a Conservative and Embraced Obama and called him a "Friend" also Sarkozy said he knew Obama.

Big Note: McCain Did take his Entourage and MEDIA with him on his Fact Finding Mission and they Covered his MisSteps, Misques and Forgetful Moments, all Caught on Film, You Tube...IDIOT !!

Face Facts...While Obama and Clinton were campaigning against one another....

It was John McCain that went to Iraq and all the other Countries that Obama Toured last week...

It was John McCain that Challenged Obama to Tour Iraq and Afghanistan, during or nearing the END of his Long Battle with Hillary Clinton.

It was Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh Screaming Obama was Afraid to go to Iraq & Afghanistan.

Karl "The Big Cranium" Rove, said that Obama's Tour was in fact ..SUCCESSFUL and he's trying to HELP John "Semi-Senile" McCain's Campaign !!

It was also John McCain Begging to Tag Alongside Obama, when he said he had planned all along to go to the MiddleEast and see how the land lays.

Note: When Obama was en route to the Middle East Region, it was john McCain, Dastardly and Bastardly, Giving the Dates of Obama's Arrival to the Region, when in fact, that was a Security Risk !!!

Did You See Obama Stoop to such a Low, as to Broadcast McCain and that Troll of a Man, Joe Lieberman's Tour Dates...Of Course not, Just Think, an Over Zealous Nut in Afghanistan Or Iraq, could've Done the Un-Thinkable to Obama and his Comapany !!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/28/andrea-mitchell-leads-med_n_115501.html

McCain Can Stoop No...LOWER !!!

It's a fact that Obama canceled a visit to Landstuhl Regional Medical Center at the last minute after planning it for weeks. And it's a fact that reporters and their cameras would not have been allowed to accompany him. Furthermore, Obama probably did go to the gym that day, as he does practically every day. So the bare facts stated in the ad are true, but they don't support McCain's insinuation.

We can't read minds and so are in no position to know Obama's motives, or McCain's for that matter. It's unlikely, however, that the absence of press coverage would have been a factor in Obama's decision, as the ad implies. Obama says he never planned to take reporters on the Landstuhl visit, and Department of Defense rules prohibited him from taking reporters on previous visits he made with wounded troops.

Big Note 1:Reporters were not allowed to accompany him when he visited wounded troops at Walter Reed Medical Center on June 28. The small "protective pool" of reporters that routinely accompanies him was told by Obama's staff to remain outside, in the van, according to a reporter covering the campaign. Similarly, Obama visited wounded troops in Baghdad earlier in his overseas trip, but he did so without reporters and "without a lot of fanfare, just to say 'Thanks'," according to Democratic Sen. Jack Reed of Rhode Island, who accompanied Obama.

Big Note 2: t's true Obama made time for at least one workout while he was in Germany. And he has been known to dedicate more than a few minutes to his exercise regimen. Two reporters who cover Obama, and who were on this trip, tell us that the candidate works out every day, and sometimes twice a day. However, the video of Obama playing basketball featured in McCain's ad is from his time in Kuwait, not Germany.

This is such sad politics on MCcain's part. I can only hope his supporters open their eyes before their vote is wasted on him. He knows nothing about helping us in this economy. Remember when Hillary (not attacking her, just remembering) tried to fool the people on a gas tax holiday and Obama foiled it by saying we will only save about 28 or so dollars over the course of the summer. Again, MCcain s trying to pull that drill now act, and he even believes that we will not see results for at least 5 years. Obama knows his stuff...clean energy and now! That's a President you can believe in.

Lawrence

San Diego
What's up to all f my misled co-workers.

The Mass Media is Bias as Hell !!!

Its a Known Fact, that John McCain has Not Visited (Afghanistan) in 2 Years and he was in the Region (Iraq) Heavily Gaurded by Our Military...

Hell Laura Bush Visited (Afghanistan) Today...

Yet McCain Attacks Obama !!!

Mccain, You Scolded obama for Not Traveling to (Iraq) yet your Pasty Pale, Sickly and Forgetful A!! has not gone to Afghanistan in 2 Years and You were in the Region...

Remember, Afghanistan and Iraq Share the ...SAME BORDER and Not Pakistan...

You have Such "Experience" in that Region of the World...Huh

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/28/andrea-mitchell-leads-med_n_115501.html

McCain Can Stoop No...LOWER !!!

It's a fact that Obama canceled a visit to Landstuhl Regional Medical Center at the last minute after planning it for weeks. And it's a fact that reporters and their cameras would not have been allowed to accompany him. Furthermore, Obama probably did go to the gym that day, as he does practically every day. So the bare facts stated in the ad are true, but they don't support McCain's insinuation.

We can't read minds and so are in no position to know Obama's motives, or McCain's for that matter. It's unlikely, however, that the absence of press coverage would have been a factor in Obama's decision, as the ad implies. Obama says he never planned to take reporters on the Landstuhl visit, and Department of Defense rules prohibited him from taking reporters on previous visits he made with wounded troops.

Big Note 1:Reporters were not allowed to accompany him when he visited wounded troops at Walter Reed Medical Center on June 28. The small "protective pool" of reporters that routinely accompanies him was told by Obama's staff to remain outside, in the van, according to a reporter covering the campaign. Similarly, Obama visited wounded troops in Baghdad earlier in his overseas trip, but he did so without reporters and "without a lot of fanfare, just to say 'Thanks'," according to Democratic Sen. Jack Reed of Rhode Island, who accompanied Obama.

Big Note 2: t's true Obama made time for at least one workout while he was in Germany. And he has been known to dedicate more than a few minutes to his exercise regimen. Two reporters who cover Obama, and who were on this trip, tell us that the candidate works out every day, and sometimes twice a day. However, the video of Obama playing basketball featured in McCain's ad is from his time in Kuwait, not Germany.

McCain's New Ad and McCain's hypocrisy


Sat Jul 26, 2008 at 08:16:59 PM PDT

McCain is using Obama's canceled trip to a U.S. militay base in Germany as a reason to claim that Obama is anti-troops, even though Obama's trip was canceled by the Pentagon, not by Obama. Now with McCain going on and on in a political attack ad about what a horrible and un-patiotic thing it was for Obama not to visit those troops, come to find out, McCain knows better. How does he know? Follow me after the jump.


Barack Obama canceled a pre-planned visit to the troops in Germany yesterday after being told by the Pentagon that the trip would violate a Pentagon policy prohibiting campaign stops on military installations. No problem there.

However, the McCain campaign is now blasting Obama:

The McCain camp has nonetheless been using Obama's canceled trip to insinuate that he's anti-troops. "Barack Obama is wrong," McCain spokesperson Brian Rogers said in a statement yesterday. "It is never 'inappropriate' to visit our men and women in the military."
It turns out the same thing happened to John McCain himself back in April of this year.

Note: But of course when it happens to him, he brags that it "was a good thing" that HE didn't visit the troops, "because he always follows the rules."

The problem here is that the McCain campaign was denied a visit to a military base under the same policy back in April. Of course, there was no outcry or false outrage from Brian Rogers at that time.

From CNN:

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.
I have to ask, just how much lies, hypocrisy, and double-talk is this man willing to resort to in his quest for the presidency?

McCain Was Against Raising Taxes Before He Was Maybe For It

Source:www.reuters.com

Another flip-flop from John McCain:

Republican presidential candidate John McCain drew a sharp rebuke Monday from conservatives after he signaled an openness to a higher payroll tax for Social Security, contrary to previous vows not to raise taxes of any kind.

Another position changed to mimic a policy advocated by Barack Obama.

Obama has called for imposing a new payroll tax on incomes above $250,000. ... When Obama announced his plan June 13, McCain's top economic adviser, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, told reporters that as president McCain would not consider a payroll tax increase "under any imagineable circumstance."


Perhaps McCain's imagination has improved. But don't worry. McCain will switch back to his original position tomorrow. But he probably won't return to his support for the privatization of social security until later in the week. His policies depend on his mood, apparently. Or on his moment-to-moment sense of what will play to voters.

The worst thing about McCain is his lack of polish. Just like Bush Jr., he seems gauche and awkward, cracks uncouth jokes and generally has a mirthless sort of humor - he doesn't seem comfortable in his skin.

But Americans will get the president they deserve. If they want a Geriatric Old Guard Fart to rule their country, then by God, they are FREE to vote that way.

Good luck to you, GOP supporters, you may bring down the ship yet - keep on trying. Cheat a little if things don't go your way. It's been done before. Bush did it twice in 8 years.

PS I beleive in his answer he said I had already visited the wounded troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. OK as in one wounded soldier is just like another and visit one is like visiting all???? Each is an individual person.

just because you aren't using my name directly, it doesn't make you any different. Sorry to shoot down your righteousness. And for the record I think it's a good thing to have different oppinions on politics but making broad, and blantently wrong, comments about history to make either side "bad" just isn't okay.

are you kidding me josemarti? All major wars? What are we in now? And if you are really worried about the Germans attacking their neighbor during Obama's soon to be time in office I can promise you they are past that...