New McCain Ad Bashes Obama for Not Visiting Troops Using Footage of Obama Visiting Troops

McCain is not an honorable man at all.
I am more and more disgusting by McCain every day. And he is a liar.

Soldiers returning from Viet Nam were at best ignored and in some cases spit upon and cursed by those who did not serve. Obama at the very least ignored, and regardless of the reason, showed a basic lack of respect for the wounded troops.

The McCain camp is getting consistently petty and is drifting farther and farther from the issues. McCain’s envy of Obama is pushing him into increasingly poor campaign decisions. And it’s just making McCain look rattled and sour.

the mccain campaign is a big joke, even their negative ads are confused,just like the campaign head.

Seems the real reason Obama didn’t visit the troops had nothing to do with pictures or the press. They wouldn’t let him take his military adviser (retired general) in with him. Without the military adviser, Senator Obama wouldn’t know the protocol of how to deal with the troops. What if one of them asked him a question?

Think about it. The Pentagon made the right call. With the kind of overwhelming media interest in Senator Obama, some members of the media, or other organizations outside of US Government control, might have been tempted to do “whatever” to get a story or disrupt operations, during the senator’s scheduled visit. The senator, upon realizing that his notoriety might cause some risk to those wounded soldiers, and or hospital operations, decided that his visit would not be appropriate….at this time.

McCain was a poor fighter pilot.
A poor senator.
A poor choice for president.
OBAMA YALL!!!!

According to the Israeli press, McCain is an incompetent Bush clone who needed a full staff and Lieberman to provide answers to their questions. He often needed the staff to answer his questions as well.
In contrast, Barack had one aid who did not speak while he adeptly answered their questions. They were left with the impression that McCain was just incompetent. I have to fully agree.

It cannot be summed up any better than that, Grant. Based on that summary, McCain is the ill-informed, over his head puppet.

It could be said that McCain is using the wounded troops in Germany to attack Obama.

Another issue was the Pentagon not allowing Obama to bring anyone with him. Not having a witness to all conversations could result in false statements.
Taking the retired General would have given him a reputable witness.

You all are going get the failed government you deserve with Obama. Jimmy Carter all over again. Higher taxes, week military and more illegals, but hey we will be loved around the world again! Screw Obama!

Senator Obama is a poor excuse for a honest politician. He demands a podium , mike and audience to make a speech to 200,000 Germans but refuses to visit our wounded troops because he could not take his press and hanger-ons with him to make it a photo op and PR event. He should be ashamed. Considering the cost to taxpayers for part of the trip, he deserves no respect at all. He is a creep.

McCain is a dishonorable man
who received an honorable
discharge from the military.

Obama threw wounded American soldiers under the bus. If elected president, how long before he throws America under it?

McCain can not afford another week like this one. Obama has acquitted himself well overseas, whether you like it or not!

Obama is a disgrace, and history will treat him as such. Shame on all of you who would even consider voting for this fraud.

McCain desparately looks for something that will make Obama’s trip less successful, but when nothing shows up, they resulted to negative and insignificant ad campaign; what a waste of ad money. I predict a backlash from this ad and this will no doubt lead to another shakeup of McCain’s pathetic campaign.

John McCain is a bitter jealous angry GRUMPy OLD MAN!
Americans need to unite and put a true leader in the White House.
Obama ’08

Not visiting the troops in Germany shows poor judgement by Obama.
Letting his staff handle the situation on this issue shows poor leadership by Obama
By not being totally honest at first about the canceled visit and not admitting it was a mistake to cancel the visit, exposes a character flaw in Obama.
To those who continue to defend Obama and his campaign on this issue, I suggest you get another glass of Kool-aid.

Sen. Obama’s tour overseas has signalled the possibility of a new era in US relations with the rest of the world, quite different from the one his rival did!

Just like everything else Bush has touched, John McCains campaign is dying fast. He actually made some sense before he embraced the “BUSH” plan, but now, its just embarrassing. My mother and father always taught me that if you cant say anything good about someone……then keep your mouth shut! Dont mean to be telling a man like John McCain to “shut up” but I think we are all getting tired of it already and we still have 3 months to go.

OBAMA VISIT AROUND THE WORLD RECENTLY IS A MESSAGE TO US AS AMERICANS THAT THE WORLD IS EAGER FOR CHANGE. A CHANGE THAT WILL RESTORE OUR CREDILBILITY TO THE OUSIDE WORLD WHICH HAD BEEN BADLY DAMAGE FOR PAST 8 YEARS. MAY GOD BLESS AMERICA.

Here’s the thing. They both take jabs at each other because they are politicians. I thought Obama was so far above that “silliness.” I thought he was running a new kind of campaign that doesn’t dirty. Boy, was I wrong.
I STILL can’t believe his vote for FISA didn’t put up red flags for so-called “progressives.”

The Obama campaign has told at least three stories about why he cancelled his visit to the wounded troops in the hospital in Germany. No less than four high level members of the campaign have answered questions and given stories … er … answers. Make no mistake. They fully GET the fact that this is a blunder of epic proportions. When you parse everything through your personal value system of “what’s in it for me” and make all decisions based solely on that criteria you are bound to screw up. This one is huge. Military families see it for what it is. There are no do overs. He flunked his Commander in Chief test.

Bottom line – Obama is a U.S. Senator; if Senator Obama really wanted to visit the military troops it would have happened. The military drops everything to accomadate members of Congress; especially visiting wounded service members.
The entire “Summer of 2008 MidEast/Europe Obama Tour” was a big political photo op and press orgy orchestrated by Obama. If there was not opportunity for a photo op, it was of no interest to Obama.

Brooklyn Democrat
I wonder if the Obama people are piling up all this CRAP OLD JOHN is spreading just to hit him HARD with it while demanding REAL answers from him….

why on earth would Obama visit wounded American troops, when he could be praised by foreigners instead?
THere was no Photo op available for Obama’s visit of the troops, it was a waste ofhis time.

The personal attacks on McCain are very telling. He’s struck a nerve this time. The truth hurts, Obama people. Obama only cares about Obama. By the way, I’m not for either.

I think it must have been a pretty good trip if this is the one thing McCain can grab a hold of and attack Obama for. Fairly pathetic really, and just the reason people are tired of the same old politics as usual.

Obama: “If it’s not a photo-op, I’m not interested”.

Here is what is wrong with Barack Obama – and possibly his blind followers:
What is Wrong with Barack Obama?
[...]
A number of Conflucians have noted in comments that Obama is highly narcissistic. I’d say that’s an understatement. In fact, I would argue that he suffers from Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD). Personality disorders are enduring patterns in the way a someone perceives the world, relates to other people, and reacts to events. These behaviors are dysfunctional and affect a person’s functioning in many aspects of life.
[...]
People with NPD can be superficially charming, and they seem to have a special radar that attracts people who are needy and dysfunctional and will gladly provide “narcissistic supply” in return for basking in the narcissist’s reflected glory. For most people, the veneer of the narcissist soon grows thin, and his arrogant, entitled behavior soon becomes annoying and drives them away.
[..]
According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association (DSM IV-TR), NPD is characterized by
A pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behavior), need for admiration, and lack of empathy, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts, as indicated by five (or more) of the following:
1. has a grandiose sense of self-importance (e.g., exaggerates achievements and talents, expects to be recognized as superior without commensurate achievements)CHECK CHECK!!!
2. is preoccupied with fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty, or ideal love CHECK
3. believes that he or she is “special” and unique and can only be understood by, or should associate with, other special or high-status people (or institutions) CHECK
4. requires excessive admiration CHECK
5. has a sense of entitlement, i.e., unreasonable expectations of especially favorable treatment or automatic compliance with his or her expectations CHECK CHECK!
6. is interpersonally exploitative, i.e., takes advantage of others to achieve his or her own ends CHECK
7. lacks empathy: is unwilling to recognize or identify with the feelings and needs of others CHECK
8. is often envious of others or believes that others are envious of him CHECK
9. shows arrogant, haughty behaviors or attitudes CHECK CHECK CHECK!!!!!!
NOW, DOES THIS SOUND LIKE ANYONE WE KNOW??? hhmmm?
You really must read the whole article with its accompanying videos – go to riverdaughter and find out more.

mccain continualy acts like a child—-na na na na na i got you obama —doesent mccain have anything to offer—he makes bush look like a genius i could not imagine this nut running our country

BeMyGuest
So you want to put another SIMPLETON WARMONGER into the White House? A computer illiterate who can´t wait to bomb-bomb-bomb-bomb IRAN and start WW3 with the Chinese and Russians fighting with IRAN….a computer illiterate with the computerized, encrypted codes to defend YOU against those with NUKES…GAS 40 dollars a litre, if you can get it…SMART MATE…REAL SMART

obama said bring the troops home in 16 months and mccain made fun of that.
AND NOW THE SUPER PARROT SAYS THE SAME.
HOPE HE IS STOCKED UP ON DEPENDS. MORE LIKE A CHILD EVERY DAY

GIVE US A LIST OF MCCAIN NEGATIVES like i said no more than ten pages please.

mccain keeps attacking obama for one reason—IT IS A SMOKE SCREEN TO HIDE HIS OWN INABILITIES—–just like a child

Obama is a disgrace for wanting to play basketball instead of visiting our SOLDIERS

you dont answer a question with a question—just want a list of mccain negatives–and as stated no more than 10 pages please.

Obama is a fraud. He is like opium. He will make you feel good. But he will distroy you and your country. Be careful. Last chance to save your country. You lost a chance in the primary..
From Paris.

These wounded soldiers will benefit from the vet bill that Obama stopped his campaign against Clinton to go to Washington and vote for. McCain who had won his primary, did not come to Washington to vote. Obama made no issue of McCain’s indifference to the needs of the troops. What is with McCain’s holy than thou attitude?

di
i would love to see biden on ticket—very good man

Why is Obama afraid to debate McCain on August 11th in front of military personnel and military families?
He said he would debate anyplace, anytime.
No free beer, free concerts,huge adoring crowds or staged speeches–just people asking questions.

Riley let’s be honest and clear…
it is not about being “afraid”
it is about grand standing in a debate.
John Mccain isn’t saying things people want to hear…so no one is covering him …he needs more coverage…he wants more debates… and he really wants to just talk about military tactics and the surge…
because everytime he goes off that subject… the fact that you put a post up asking why won’t Obama agree to this specific “in front of military debate” alreadys hows how Mccain is trying to frame it against anything the has to do with diplomacy, education , the economy, women’s issues, healthcare, the environment,
the falling support for our country from other nations,
the list goes on…
I saw McCain take quesiotns…
good on the first soundbite…but if their is a follow up or a second tough question…
it’s joke about it
dismiss his oppomnent totally off subject or say he’ll get abck tot eh questioner…
on every subject outside cold war military tactics
and that is the truth.
so it is not about Obama being afraind of a debate…
it is obama avoiding the sly Rovian tactics that were used in 2000 and 2004 that got us here in the first place by electing the idiot Bush.
If debates really did what they were supposed to…Gore would have trashed Bush in 2000.
Unfortunately debates are better for scare and jokes than they are for facts.
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obviously.

Is the media trying to control the U.S.?
Will the agenda of the press decide the future of the U.S.?
When donations are 100 to 1 for one side shouldn´t we be concerned with the power and agenda of the U.S. media?

Oh please, this is being really petty. Let’s get back to the issues and stop with this whining McCain. Obama is outshining you, get over it.

I just can’t stand Obama!

People, use your brains! McCain would have attacked Obama for visiting the troops during his campaign stop. We would then be debating that Obama is an opportunist. Since he didnt go, we are debating that he didnt take the opportunity to visit our troops.
We are debating nonsense! Lets get back to what matters.

This whole trip by Obama was a traveling political circus and he was the head clown. But it is funny, that most American voters are not laughing at his tricks. He showed his true colors by refusing to visit wounded American troops in hospitals. He is not an honorable man or candidate, just a circus clown. Obama is the most disgusting candidate on record in 50 years. McCain has certainly been more right about Obama than wrong. Obama will say and do anything to win. And yes, Obama could have visited the wounded WITHOUT HIS PR AND PRESS PEOPLE. He simply choose not to do so, no pictures or press, no visit.

Senator Obama has been “rebuilding bridges” for our country across the globe on this tour. Americans should be thanking him and Senator Hagel for this effort, not criticizing every move Obama makes. Regardless of who is our next President, the Bush administration has destroyed our country’s reputation around the world, and it will take much effort to restore it.

The longer this goes on, the more unhinged and desperate the McCain campaign seems to get. I used to respect him but the straight talk express has turned into the B.S. milk train. I never thought that he would descend into the kind of outright lying and groundless rhetoric that would lead to his friend, Senator Hagel, telling him that “he’s walking on thin ice.” Could have something to do with bringing Rove cronies into his campaign.
The photos and videos that we saw of Obama with cheering troops in Kuwait and cheering embassy staffers and troops in Iraq must have been some kind of collective hallucination.

Bobie, He was visiting the soldiers when he was playing basketball. oh well who needs facts, right!
Posted by: jen | Jul 27, 2008 10:16:16 AM
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..AND THAT WAS IN THE WAITING ROOM OF… WHICH HOSPITAL?????

“New McCain Ad Bashes Obama for Not Visiting Troops Using Footage of Obama Visiting Troops”
That is a dishonest headline and reeks of partisan spin. In fact the whole article is sadly lacking in full information and context. But then I suppose that is what it takes to turn what should be a story harmful to Obama into something harmful to McCain instead.
Tapper has so-far been doing a fair job of keeping his personal biases from distorting his reporting, but this is definitely one story that that fails that test.

Some of you people are exactly the type of folks that this new McCain ad is designed to appeal to.
People who have no understanding of geography (but then what can you say when McCain himself doesn’t seem to understand that Iraq doesn’t have a border with Pakistan). The McCain ad tries to sell the message that all Senator Obama had to do was drive down the block to visit the troops at Landstuhl. The reality is that Landstuhl RMC is over 400 miles from Berlin. Once the military took away his ability to land the campaign plane on a military base there was no close air field that could accomodate a 757. The worst part of this ad is that it smells of hypocrisy. When McCain visited Europe in March with Sen. Lindsey Graham and Sen. Joseph Lieberman they all had ample opportunity to vist the troops at Landstuhl. Actually they were significantly closer to Landstuhl than Senator Obama was.
http://www.jedreport.com/2008/07/why-didnt-mccai.html
Perhaps Senator McCain decided the fund raiser in London was MORE important than visiting troops in Europe.

It is so funny how people cannot see what a fraud Obama is. He is not for the troops in anyway, shape or form. He doesn’t care about anything or anyone that will not give him the opportunity for a photo op. McCain made the same trip and left behind the campaign personnel and reporters (oh wait he didn’t have the barrage of reporters that Obama does, My Bad!) and went in and talked to the troops. There is no Pentagon rule that says that cannot happen. Once again, Obama uses a lame excuse, just like with Wright, Aires and every other problem that has come up to try and excuse his deplorable behavior. I dare anyone to tell me what good this man has done, Obama comes from a state with the highest taxes, highest gas, highest debt and the worst when it comes to education, health care and those issues that are important. Right now we have politicians who are considered the most crooked in the US and a senator running for President who deals with the biggest radicals and terrorists in this country.
Shame on anyone who cannot see through Obama’s lies. While McCain is not my first choice for President he is certainly better the alternative. COLIN POWELL FOR PRESIDENT AND GOD BLESS AMERCIA.

The McCain campaign complains that Obama wouldn’t visit Iraq, then they complain because Obama visits Iraq. On top of that, Obama visits the wounded soldiers in Germany but gets attacked by the McCain campaign for not taking cameras along to film it–as if the soldiers in the hospital needed that kind of aggravation.
McCain will insult anyone–our military, our media, our allies–as long as it gets him elected president. What a hollow, hollow man. He’s nothing like he was in 2000. He’s a total sellout to the right wing. It’s disgraceful.

Hillary will save our economy and our contry,But Hussein Obama will destroy it.Obama is not the Messiah, only the weak minded think he is, the cultish types. Hillary or McCain.Never Obama.

McCain is shameful as Bush which makes sense because they would basically be the same President.

The blogger, BeMyGuest, knows Senator Obama very well. He described him perfectly so do we want a man with NPD in the White House. I think not. He can not be trusted to tell the truth or led us in the right direction.

“and by the way, has anyone slagging off Barack Obama heard the news that he phoned and spoke with the soldiers waiting to see him in Landstühl Germany when the trip was canceled?
WOW! Maybe McCain’s valid comments about his despicable treatment of our wounded… finally got through!

GloryB said: “McCain is obviously a confused and incompetent individual at this point in his life. Why [anyone would] want another incompetent as our president is beyond me.”
I think the Obama camp is going to ride this particular wave: As long as Obama can continue to cultivate the perception that he’s fundamentally competent to function as a public servant, then it may well be the case that this is an election cycle where Americans are ready to respond to this need for competence in high office.
I think it’s a replay of Clinton vs. Dole.

McCain is clearly desperate – the genius who put this ad up should be fired. Or maybe not. People may not always be paying close attention, but they’re not stupid. More gems like this and McCain may just straight-talk himself into a corner.

GLORY B:
“. Why would anyone want another incompetent as our president is beyond me.
exactly!
WHICH IS WHY I SAY:
HILLARY OR MCCAIN
but always
COUNTRY OVER BROKEN DOWN DONKEY KONG OF
A FORCE-FED DNC SELECTED PRESUMPTUOUS
EGOMANIACAL CANDIDATE!

It becomes more and more obvious that the right wing is in a panic when I read the spitting drivel that passes for comment on sites such as this one. It really stands out that the leftist approach is one that incorporates reason, while the rightish approach is oozing with rage and personal bias.
From Hal, who I’m sure is a wonderful fellow:
“You must admit, however, Sen. Obama has done poorly in most debates. I’m sure you also take notice that he is beyond the pale in his arrogance, cockiness, narcissism, vacuousness and blatant pandering.”
Yeah, Hal, he got his ass handed to him, didn’t he? And, Hal, as to that second sentence? Look in the mirror. All of those things you mention would seem to describe someone who would use invective in place of reason and, you know, actual facts.
Kind of like someone you know and love, if you are a twenty-something percenter.
But Hal, you make a great representative of your ilk. Keep it coming.

You can give me a president with an ego and brains over a president with just an ego any day!

It just amazes me how John McCain
can get away with falsity
that intellectual challenged people
believe concerning Barack Obama.
Just use the old nogging for a
moment Obama would never snub the
troops, hes to smart to do something
that would be used against him as the
world watches.
This is just a dirty smear a desperate
mean McCain is throwing out to damage
him.

Well that was stupid, how are you going to try to bash someone for not visiting troops using footage of him visiting troops.

McCain “supports” the troops even though he refused to cast a vote on Webb’s GI bill and is now proposing to substantially roll back health benefits for veterans, but Obama disrespects the troops because he doesn’t go to see them after being told it’s a political trip? (Even Sen. Hagel, who was also on part of the trip, agrees that Obama shouldn’t have gone: “I think it would be totally inappropriate for him on a campaign trip to go to a military hospital and use those soldiers as props. So I think he probably, based on what I know, he did the right thing.”)
But of course none of that matters; because Obama doesn’t wear a flag pin and has a funny name, he must hate America. And even though McCain is completely out of touch with everything going on right now, thinks Pakistan borders Iraq, and tried to schedule a campaign stop in the Gulf when Dolly was bearing down on them, none of that matters, either, because he was a POW and therefore understands the military and foreign affairs?
Oy. We’re in for a long three months until Election Day.

McCain is throwing sand in our eyes. Please see clearly!
Obama has visited troops many times, but only in his official role as senator. These so-called “congressional delegations” are taxpayer funded and bi-partisan.
For example, Senators Chuck Hagel(R) and Jack Reed(D) were with last week in Kuwait, Iraq and Afghanistan.
Instead, the German hospital visit would have been campaign financed and not bi-partisan.
The visit was canceled because the Pentagon and Obama wanted our military to remain non-partisan and not political. The issue had nothing to do with camera’s or his exercising.
The McCain camp is depending on your ignorance about this and so many issues. We are all in this as American’s and we need you to see this for what it is.

What is wrong with the Media? Why can’t they investigate all of Obama’s stories and keep making an issue about them. He’s applying for the most challenging job in the “world”.
Thank God McCain has the courage to stand up for Americans with his ads.
Just one of many issues surrounding Obama is enough for me and my community.
Obama has minimal government experience, an anti American Pastor as a mentor, many co workers that are radical leaders, a non practicing Muslim father and an Atheist as a mother. Obama is a fast talker, flip flopper and a racist man running for President: The media and the authorities should be investigating this man.
Just knowing that Louis Farrakhan, anti Semitic, radical, Nation of Islam leader supports Obama should be enough to make our hair stand up on end.
Watch Louis Farrakhan and his followers on you tube
Farrakhan held a rally with 20,000 Islam members in Chicago just a few months ago.
Many questions need answering. Obama’s father was a non practicing Muslim. How do the Muslim nations view Obama? Aren’t we at war?
Why shouldn’t that be a proper question to ask Obama?
Obama is risky and scary. The media should be talking about Obama’s relationships with radical leaders and anti American supporters as much as they should be reporting about a nominee that was being supported by the KKK.
The reason Clinton supporters will not vote for Obama is because they are embarrassed of him, his life, his unfair tactics and his beliefs. And they still don’t know all about him.
1. They don’t want a candidate that has been in a twenty year relationship with Reverend Wright and the Trinity United Church of Christ.
2. They don’t’ want a candidate that has a twenty year relationship with Father Pflaeger as his compass in life
3. They don’t want a candidate that went to a church that supports Louis Farrakhan, an anti Semitic racist.
4. They don’t want to defend Black Liberation theology.
5. They don’t want a candidate that lies about his relationship with Tony Rezko, the Syrian Criminal that sold his property to Obama and supported his campaign.
6. They don’t want a candidate that could work with a domestic terrorist, William Ayers.
7. They don’t want a candidate that Hamas supports.
8. They don’t want a candidate that Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam support
9. They don’t want a candidate that has a wife that has just now realized she was proud of our country.
10. They don’t want a candidate that denies Florida and Michigan their voices
11. They don’t want a candidate that mentions 57 states in his speeches. 50 states in the USA and 57 states in the Nation of Islam (IOC website)
12. They don’t want a candidate that fights unfair and steals Michigan delegate votes from his opponent.
13. They don’t want a candidate that is inexperienced.
14. They don’t want a candidate that considers it a loss to not to be able to attend his anti American, racist Church.
15. They don’t want a candidate that has a “non practicing” Muslim father, but avoids the entire discussion of his father.
16. They don’t’ want a candidate that won’t debate
17. They don’t’ want a candidate that misleads the youth with an ‘Obama girl and her behind in their face”
18. They don’t want a candidate that says he’s an African American and missed the MLK Remembrance Day and the Louisiana Black Caucus meeting
19. They don’t want a candidate that enjoys laughing at sexism
20. They don’t want a candidate that switches his position on gun control, FISA, the war in Iraq, religion and government….
21. They don’t want a candidate that showcases his daughters on TV shows.
22. They don’t’ want a candidate that has poor judgment.
23. They don’t’ want a candidate named; Barack Hussein Obama
24. He is embarrassing.
25. He scares them to death.

Al from NJ, there is no courage in that ad. Pure fear is the only thing that leads a campaign to put out BS like that. Looking like Obama is headed for about 310 EVs right now. Your invective is wasted.

Great ad.
The more lefties whine about it, the better.

Is this all McToast has to offer. Attacks on Obama for the smallest BS possible. He John, what happened to running a clean campaign? When you have no substance of your own, you attack your opponent.
Looks like the wheels are falling off of the Flip-Flop Express.
He Mayor McCheese, Let’s see who really supports the troops…
McCain keeps mentioning his “service.” I believe the only Veteran he backs is himself. MCCAIN: ‘I Received The Highest Award From Literally Every Veterans Organization In America”The recognition McCain has received from veterans groups is not “high awards” but FAILING GRADES:Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America gave McCain a grade of D for his record of voting against veterans. (By contrast, Obama got a B+.)Disabled Veterans of America noted McCain’s dismal 20 percent voting record on veterans’ issues. (Obama had an 80 percent.)In a list of “Key Votes,” Vietnam Veterans of America (VVA) notes McCain “Voted Against Us” 15 times and “Voted For Us” only 8. (Obama voted for VVA 12 times, and against only once.)Vietnam POW Activists Called McCain ‘Songbird’ and ‘Manchurian Candidate’ We aren’t talking about a bunch of republican paid and funded operatives, we’re talking about all those who had to suffer at the hands of the Cong while McCain received special treatment.Sequentially, integrity is what I look for in someone running for President. Self-aggrandizement without end is a characteristic flaw that cannot be overlook in anyone running for that same position.
Some Vet’s might have forgotten, most haven’t.

When all is said and done, McWhiner is the best campaigner that Obama could ever have on his staff. Keep up the good work McWhiner. Oh by the way, kudos to the brilliant McWhiner staffer that encouraged him NOT to attend the Unity Conference where he would have had a lot of media coverage as it was a conference of ‘journalist’? Talk about bad judgment? I believe it is McWhiner who…say it with me now…just doesn’t understand.

McCain speaks surge, surge, surge. Over and over and over. Reminds me of someone; 911, 911, 911. Over and over and over.
McCain and Rudy…PERFECT TOGETHER!

Patrick – MSNBC you got your news from, that is Obama’s campaign headquarters!!
Think why would not a retired officer not be allowed to visit the troops?
It was the Press that was not allowed, ok Obama head campaign Officer already slipped by saying it!!

What a nasty, bitter old man.
I felt sorry for him when I saw him on TV trying to explain his way out of his latest Czechoslovakia gaffe, but no more.

Obama fully intended to visit the wounded troops in Germany until he was told that he’d have to leave his media entourage behind. What part of that is so difficult to understand? No photo-ops, no Obama, simple as that! The man isn’t fit to be CIC.

McCain is a desperate old man, He counted down the moments till Obama went to Iraq, and then his bluff was called and the world has embraced him.
If was a lose-lose for Obama, one way or the other this desperate campaign was going to find something to smear him with. It just lets you know how scared the republicans are. There party is still not united. Ron Paul backers are going to the convention to raise hell. And Bush is still President and will go down as the worst president of our generation. Bad year for the republicans.

Some of you people are exactly the type of folks that this new McCain ad thats slams Obama for not visiting the troops is designed to appeal to.
People who have no understanding of geography (but then what can you say when McCain himself doesn’t seem to understand that Iraq doesn’t have a border with Pakistan). The McCain ad tries to sell the message that all Senator Obama had to do was drive down the block to visit the troops at Landstuhl. The reality is that Landstuhl RMC is over 400 miles from Berlin. Once the military took away his ability to land the campaign plane on a military base there was no close air field that could accomodate a 757. The worst part of this ad is that it smells of hypocrisy. When McCain visited Europe in March with Sen. Lindsey Graham and Sen. Joseph Lieberman they all had ample opportunity to vist the troops at Landstuhl. Actually they were significantly closer to Landstuhl than Senator Obama was.
Perhaps Senator McCain decided the fund raiser in London was MORE important than visiting troops in Europe.
The worst lie in the ad was the suggestion that Obama only wanted Cameras. Several members of the press delegation traveling with him stated today that there was NEVER any suggestion that they would be allowed or encouraged to go with him from Ramstein to Landstuhl RMC.

JimG, I am also ex-military and an Independent voter. I will absolutely not vote for John McCain and it is precisely because he is politicizing the military.
While I may have reservations about Obama, he has been far more above-board and consistent with regard to his foreign policy and he’s been correct in his judgment. This is why he has earned my vote.
1. We should never have invaded and occupied Iraq in the first place.
2. How we did so was a strategic blunder and the reasons why it would be were known beforehand.
3. Afghanistan and the Afghani/Pakistani border are the lifeblood of Al-Qaeda and where our efforts should have remained.
John McCain was flat-out wrong on all of these issues and Barack Obama was right.
Also, I am sick to death of Bush and McCain using David Petraeus as a political tool. At one time, McCain understood that military men do not establish or dictate policy. Now, because it is politically expedient, the General is some sort of omnipotent force or Delphic Oracle who must be heeded. It’s a horrible position in which to place the General and an abdication of McCain’s, or the future president’s, responsibility. Civilians command the military for a reason and John McCain seems to have forgotten this vital lesson.
As I see it, we the people, and that includes our beloved men and women in uniform, cannot stand by while another President falls down on the job.

MANY AMERICANS ARE MISSING THE BIG PICTURE
McCains tactics are to throw as much untruths out there as he possibly can in order to HIDE the big picture from America. Some Americans are so busy talking about the troops Obama did not visit in Germany for whatever reason, that they miss all the other visits he has done, both at Walter Reed and abroad…they are missing the “forest” because the trees are in the way and blocking their view.
An American Presidential candidate is being LOVED by the whole world and YET, McCain can use this to say that Obama has no experience in world politics…THE FUNNY THING is that some are SO IGNORANT that they can´t see BOTH McCain and BUSH jumping onto the Obama way of dealing with world, world leaders and worldly situations…the world is agreeing with OBAMA PEOPLE…of course those trees are in your line of vision YET AGAIN….just can´t see the forest can you???
McCain these past weeks has run a NON campaign of unreasonable attacks on NOTHING…..”AIR ATTACTS” with no substance or TRUTH….and yet there are those who listen and believe the HYPE and LIES….. WHY????
NOW PEOPLE, if McCain will lie and make up stuff right before your very EYES as a candidate…what will he do once he is the POTUS???? Will he become HONEST JOHN or will he be 10 times WORSE than the idiot you people voted for TWICE????
YOU CAN`T SEE THE FOREST BECAUSE THE TREES ARE IN THE WAY.

Sorry i meant Al from NJ not KenM