Posted on 05/31/2008 9:25:58 PM PDT by John Semmens
Presidential contender Senator Barack Obama (D-Ill.) rejected rival Senator John McCain’s (R-Ariz.) suggestion that the two of them make a joint visit to Iraq to assess the situation.
“Anyone who wants to be president has got to have a first-hand view of the situation on the ground in Iraq,” McCain said. “Visiting the area, talking to the commanders, troops and Iraqi leaders is essential to understanding what’s going on.” McCain’s currently planned trip would be his 8th since the war began in 2003. Obama went to Iraq once, in 2006, and pronounced it a “a grievous mistake in which I had no part.”
Obama characterized McCain’s invitation a “crass political stunt.” “Does he think I’m fool enough to share my limelight with him?” Obama sarcastically asked. “I think that if I’m going to Iraq, I need to go on my own so I can be the center of attention, not as a tag-along with a former war hero.”
The Illinois senator blamed his lack of opportunity to travel and build up his foreign policy credentials on his Democratic presidential rival Senator Hillary Clinton (N.Y.). “If she’d just concede like everyone is asking her to do, I could bolster my resume with a few high-profile visits to countries like Iraq, Iran, and Africa,” Obama said. “I could get a head start rebuilding the bridges President Bush has buried.”
In related news, Obama denied that his claim to have seen many of the nation’s fallen soldiers during his Memorial Day speech was a “gaffe.” “I have better vision than most people, especially my esteemed 70-year-old, bifocal-wearing opponent,” Obama bragged. “And when the votes are tallied next November, I expect that the vast majority of these soldiers will have had their ballots cast for me.”
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Obama is a real dirtbag. If he thinks that the country is divided right now, wait until he's sitting in the Oval Office. He hasn't seen anything yet.
He could no more visit Iraq with McCain than he could disown his church.
He can be the center of attention as a surrendering douche bag, but thats about it.
As a contrast to a war hero, the Obamessiah just doesn't measure up.
He's afraid that one of the Iranian Shiite fighters, who "aren't in Iraq", might run in to him and forget protocal and say, "What up Hussein, my homeboy".
Strike this one for McCain.
Obama is willing to sit down with the president of Iran but will not meet with Gen. Petraus?
I know that its satire, but it passes for O’ sama bama
“And when the votes are tallied next November, I expect that the vast majority of these soldiers will have had their ballots cast for me.”
Is he forcasting MORE Democrap voter fraud? ie he visited fallen soldiers and when THEIR (the fallen) votes are tallied....????????????
Put them boys in, posthumously, for the Medal of Honor for going above and beyond the call of duty...... doing their patriotic duty and voting from beyond the grave.
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