National / World Politics 24 Jul 2008 10:12 pm
Can’t visit troops on campaign dime. wtf?
I will get back to the JFK comparison below, but not right now, the Great River Day’s parade is SAT and we’ve got some county meetings on FRI and SAT to kick start the Miller-Meeks campaign. In the meantime – I found this article pretty odd. I mean he just visited troops in Iraq and … this makes no sense – and shows how disconnected democrats are with reality. -pf
BERLIN (AP) – Sen. Barack Obama scrapped plans to visit wounded members of the armed forces in Germany as part of his overseas trip, a decision his spokesman said was made because the Democratic presidential candidate thought it would be inappropriate on a campaign-funded journey. The spokesman, Robert Gibbs, said Thursday that Obama made his decision out of respect for the servicemen and women, but Sen. John McCain’s presidential campaign immediately criticized the move.
“Barack Obama is wrong. It is never inappropriate to visit our men and women in the military,” said Brian Rogers, a spokesman for the Republican contender.
Obama’s decision raised a number of questions because the visit, which had been scheduled for Friday, never appeared on the schedule of events distributed to reporters who are accompanying him on his travels.
The first word from the campaign about its existence was Gibbs’ statement.
Obama had been planning to go to Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany before a flight to Paris. Gibbs said the stop was canceled because Obama decided “it would be inappropriate to make a stop to visit troops at a U.S. military facility as part of a trip funded by the campaign.”
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on 25 Jul 2008 at 4:21 pm 1.Libra Girl said …
Dare we hope that the media focuses attention on this. Certainly the military won’t take kindly to it.
on 25 Jul 2008 at 4:33 pm 2.Libra Girl said …
The BO is trying now to say that the Military asked him not to come — only they asked not to come with the media circus and that’s why BO supposedly canceled. My – what a mess this could be if enough point at it and make an issue of it. If BO wasn’t there in Germany as a candidate – then why was he raising money? And couldn’t he go visit the hospital as a sitting Senator wanting to check on the troops?