Posted on 07/24/2008 6:59:36 PM PDT by kristinn
The Obama campaign has issued a new statement blaming the Pentagon for Obama's controversial decision to scrap visits to U.S. troops and Rammstein Landstuhl military bases in Germany on Friday.
Der Spiegel initially reported this morning that Obama had cancelled the visits without reason. Then as word spread through the political world after the story was first posted at Free Republic, Obama's campaign issued a statement saying Obama thought it would be "inappropriate" to visit the troops while on a campaign trip.
After the McCain campaign issued a statement upbraiding Obama for snubbing the troops saying that it is never inappropriate to visit troops, Obama's campaign issued a new statement blaming the Pentagon:
"We learned from the Pentagon last night that the visit would be viewed instead as a campaign event. Senator Obama did not want to have a trip to see our wounded warriors perveived as a campaign event when his visit was to show his appreciation for our troops and decided instead not to go," Maj. Gen. Scott Gration, USAF (Ret), Obama spokesman.
My guess is most of those guys would've hurt themselves trying to pull a reverse Gen. Patton on Barry Obama.
This and after the snub of the troops in Afghanistan doesn’t look good at all!
Whatever; he gets faint at the sight of blood. He admitted this at a hospital in Iowa and MO.
I would be REALLY frightened if he wanted to make a stop at Bayreuth.
bkmk
FYI!
Major General Jonathan Scott Gration
The general was raised in Africa and entered the Air Force in 1974 through the Air Force ROTC program at Rutgers University. He has previously served as a White House Fellow, operations group commander and two-time wing commander. Prior to assuming his current position, the general served as Director of Regional Affairs in the Office of the Deputy Undersecretary of the Air Force for International Affairs.
Gen. Jonathan S. Gration is (was) the Director, Strategy, Policy, and Assessments, United States European Command, Stuttgart-Vaihingen, Germany.
http://www.eucom.mil/english/CommandStaff/gration.htm
Frightened? No. The REAL Messiah is coming and He is ticked!
You say it well. And yes, whether he was white or yellow and I’d still be scared of him. Working hard to see to it Obama is not #44.
Typical girlie man answer. I think Jaskass Jackson has already gotten to him.
So when it comes to securing the country he said he will not listen to the Generals because he has a much broader vision and they are just there to get his job done.
Now when he is advised not to make something a campaign stop he suddenly is all obediant to the military.
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Great!
Great Great line!
Yet his choreography in Afghanistan and Iraq were not for political consumption and would not be viewed as politically contrived visits? Bull-onie.
I agree..just the sight of him might have put one of our finest into cardiac arrest!
Wonder what the black troops in Landstuhl think about their hero now.
But but but he wasn’t talking today as a presidential candidate - he was speaking as a citizen of the world. Can’t a citizen of the world, or at the very least, a junior f’ng senator visit our brave wounded military personnel? It could have been a great reverse-Patton moment to see an injured soldier slap the crap out of Barry, kicking Barry out and sending him to the front!
That's because, without his handlers, Obama is a gaffe machine ready to implode at any moment.
Simple. Just leave the press outside when you go in.
It has legs
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