"UPDATE: A very interesting email from a source I must protect suggests that Obama's visit to the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center had the green light until a campaign staffer raised a stink about going with Obama. (There are rules meant to ensure candidates do not use soldiers or military bases for campaign purposes, and they state that personal and committee staff may accompany a sitting senator on a visit but campaign staff may not.) I am told that when one of Obama's campaign staff was told he or she would be denied access, the visit was canceled.
The last-minute cancellation speaks more poorly of this unidentified staffer than of Obama himself. But in the end, shouldn't Obama have been able to say, "fine, the staffer stays in Berlin (or where-ever) and I'm going to Landstuhl? Can he still say so?"
Really?
Just goes to show you where his ‘loyalties’ lie?
“I am told that when one of Obama’s campaign staff was told he or she would be denied access, the visit was canceled.”
This is the telling sentence, he’s terrified to go anywhere without key members of his campaign staff, can anyone say David Axelrod, Susan Rice and David Plouffe! This also speaks very poorly of his senate office staff, I guess he has no confidence in them whatsovever.
++ Obama Takes Time to Work Out ++
4:49 p.m.: Obama enters the luxury Ritz Carlton hotel wearing a T-shirt, black sweatpants and white trainers — apparently to work out in the hotel's gym. He kept up the campaigning on the way there, smiling and waving at tourists and other onlookers.
If this is what Jim Geraghty really thinks he is not working with a full deck.