[griswold3]

As Johnny Cochran would have said:
“If there’s no photo op, Obama does not stop”

[kristinn]

More from Obama's team at the Politico:

UPDATE: My colleague Carrie Budoff Brown, traveling with Obama, sends over more information from a briefing ofered by Gibbs:

Senior strategist Robert Gibbs said the visit to the military hospital in Germany had been in the works for about three weeks, with Gration serving as the campaign's contact with the Pentagon.

The Pentagon cleared the Obama plan to land at the base on either July 15 or 16, Gibbs said. The plane needed the clearance because of restrictions on landing nonmilitary aircraft there, he said.

But then on Wednesday, Gration told Obama aides that the Pentagon had informed him that the visit could be viewed as a campaign stop.

"They cited a regulation," Gibbs said of their point of contact, described as legislative affairs in the office of the secretary.

"We believed that based on the information we received that any presence, even his own and only his own, would get into a back and forth on whether his own presence was a campaign event," Gibbs said.

Obama decided on the flight Wednesday from Tel Aviv to Berlin not to visit the hospital.

Asked why he believed the Pentagon would clear the visit, then raised questions about it, Gibbs declined to speculate: "I don't know what to make of it."

Asked whether he thought the Pentagon set up the campaign for a political embarrassment, Gibbs said no.

[Fresh Wind]

*******.

[Sacajaweau]

Obama is always "Going Back". If we had "gone back"...never had the surge...all would have been lost!

He still doesn't get "WAR". He's too busy promoting communism.

[kristinn]

Found this on My.BarackObama.com:

Hospital visit Cancellation

By Peter from San Diego, CA - Jul 24th, 2008 at 8:25 pm EDT

Hello all!

I am a die hard Obama supporter and thoroughly enjoyed the speech tonight, however I am disappointed that Mr. Obama cancelled plans to come to visit our wounded troops at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center! I am a nurse here at the Landstuhl Hospital and I as well as many of the wounded soldiers here were elated when we heard Mr. Obama was coming to visit. Let me tell you the troops would have appreciated it! I hope it is not too late to change the plans! We would welcome him with open arms!

[isrul]

They need not touch his garment to be healed/sarc

[Dick Vomer]

I'm thinking that Patton had it correct.

Why would those hallowed hospital rooms be a fitting place for a POS like Obamalamdingdong.

He has NO idea why men would fight, bleed and die for this country, when all he's had to do is suck off the nipple of affirmative action government/academic programs. He doesn't realize that sometimes real men have to fight and die to protect our freedoms and that "talking" and "HARD" diplomacy with evil men only encourages them to be more aggressive.

I hate to admit it, but I'm gonna vote for the douche bag McCain, cause I can't stand the turd sandwich Obamalamadingdong.

[kristinn]

Bloomberg News updates the story reporting European Command sent a letter to Obama saying he could only be accompanied to Landstuhl by one Senate aide and his security team. They nixed retired Air Force Maj. Gen. Scott Gration and another Obama staffer, Jeff Kiernan, for the visit because they are part of Obama's campaign.

[Miss Didi]

Rush is talking about this now...saying it’s the little stuff that sends out big red flags. Rush says Barry was just an innocent citizen walking through Berlin who just happened to see a crowd and make a speech. But to go see the troops, that was a campaign event.

[TigersEye]

Phoned in a visit to the wounded? I’m looking for the link to Scrappleface but I don’t see it.

[chiefqc]

obamawama is an arrogant empty suit, who if elected as POTUS will owe his soul to so may people that he will not be able to take a pi** without their approval.