The rat who dreams of a future in the White House.
Posted on 07/25/2008 7:09:01 AM PDT by flyfree
NBC’s Jim Miklaszewski and Courtney Kube get the skinny on the abrupt cancellation of Barack Obama’s visit to Landstuhl and Ramstein yesterday. The campaign tried to excuse it by claiming that it wouldn’t be appropriate to visit while on a campaign-funded portion of his trip, but that wasn’t the real problem. When Obama found out he couldn’t use the visit as a photo op, he canceled...
In fact, those same rules applied for the CODEL trip to Iraq and Afghanistan. They serve to keep politicians from exploiting military facilities for political reasons, and to ensure that all visitors get treated fairly. Andrea Mitchell, also of NBC, complained of this very issue during the earlier visits with the troops when she told Chris Matthews that the media couldn’t get access to Obama when visiting troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. This makes the decision track very clear. Obama and his team set up the visits to military installations before going overseas. After seeing how the media got excluded in Iraq and Afghanistan, they decided it wasn’t worth traveling to Ramstein and Landstuhl to visit the severely wounded troops because they couldn’t bring the campaign and get the photo ops they wanted. Instead, Obama went shopping in Berlin. As I wrote yesterday, that’s certainly a revealing set of priorities for a man who wants to lead these troops as Commander in Chief.
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Obama is a POS
and this will be on the front pages of the LAT & NYT...
yea, right!
Semper Fi,
Kelly
Sounds likely.
No free bratwurst, either...
The rat who dreams of a future in the White House.
Spelled capitol “J E R K”
I second that.
now coem on now, this is the Svengali candidate!
Did NBC actually report this?!? Seems way unlikely.
MM
If he shopped in Germany he must have paid a fortune for whatever he purchased with the value of the USD against the Euro!
We got problems to solve in the USA and he's SHOPPING???
Wonder if he was smart enough to figure out that gasoline in Germany costs around $11.00 a gallon?
I doubt that “time” constraint were the real reason behind his not visiting the Troops. He'd rather entertain the Germans than pay tribute to our Troops. Even the Germans gotta think this guy is a dumcoff.
Just as well he cancelled. Will save a bunch of soldiers from being asked to “volunteer” for photo ops.
This is far more newsworthy than anything this empty-suit phony said in his canned speech.
Ever!
LOL! YOU GOT ME! LOL!
I've heard MANY politicians (mostly Republicans) will visit VA hospitals WITHOUT A NEWS CREW - gasp! - because it is the right thing to do. Barry could have visited the troops in the hospital - maybe one or two would have been from Illinois - and visit as a US Senator! What a concept.
It would also be an opportunity to see a "reverse-Patton" whereby an injured soldier slaps the crap our of Barry for being a coward and stinking up a place of honor, then send Barry to the front.
And now she is putting out the BS that it was McCain that squashed Obama's trip to visit the troops.
Mitchell: 'Scuttlebutt' Says McCain Sabotaged Obama Military Hospital Visit
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