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Let's just have a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing to get all the facts. Please Senator Levin, I want you to call under oath General Gration and Senator Obama, and throw in a few wounded amputees as well. Lets say an October date?

McCain is counting on ignorant voters.

Andrea Mitchell, a conservative reporter, was with Obama's trip and is on the news pointing out the McCain camp is 'making things up'. That in fact McCain cancelled a visit with wounded troops for the EXACT SAME REASON. We don't use our kids as political props.

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Over at the Atlantic, Marc Ambinder has an interesting reaction from former McCain strategist John Weaver to the Arizona Republican's new ad attacking Barack Obama's celebrity status (complete with references to Paris Hilton and Britney Spears). Calling it "childish," Weaver also claims that harping on Obama "reduces McCain on the stage".

McCain wants to become a president by all means and so the only way is to become negative on Obama. The problem is how many months will McCain last as a president. Americans have dignity and respect. We wont want our president to collapse in the middle of his speech with world leaders.

SO WHY WAS OBAMA PLAYING BASKETBALL INSTEAD OF WORKING?

Posted by: geevill | Jul 30, 2008 3:03:03 PM

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A little R&R with the troops. Keep morals up and the like.

Do try to pay attention or leave the talk to the grown ups.

I have always liked McCain. He was independant and honest. Unfortunately he has decided to take to low road with this and other issues. I am shocked and disappointed. He just lost a swing voter.

Obama is a fraud. He could have left General What's-His-Name behind and visited the troops. It's as simple as that. Fraud. Liar. Lightweight. Nobama '08.

There goes the bitter republican again. I guess he's still suffering from what the people of Vietnam did 2 him. I guess he'll start another war in 2009.

Whenever I hear McCain all I hear is "drilling" or "Obama" Does the man have any ideas on how he would run the White House? McCain is an old man wanting to be president. He would be a diaster for this country!

It is sad, unfortunate, and tragic that during our severve economic and global challenges, the GOP, RNC, FOX & friends, Hon.senator McCains surrogtes, and now he himself has got into this pitty stuff. I believe its more of his temper and senior moment based than his past personality.

We can afford to him to be our next president.

Strange how in all this we totally ignored the fact that McCain cancelled a visit to the troops stateside in April for exactly the same reason... he was told by the Pentagon it would be a political visit.

Guess sauce for the goose isn't sauce for the gander... I wonder why

McCain doesn't present any evidence that Obama cancelled the trip because the press couldn't be there and furthermore, he has been debunked by Factcheck. It is obvious that he was trying to generate some controversy about Obama, but to stoop to such lies when all this is so easily verifiable is disgusting. The funny thing about this is that McCain has been in a similar position in which he did not visit wounded troops and the media has not called him about it. check it out from CNN:

Look at how pathetic some of you are -- you're basing your votes on the fact that Obama visited some wounded troops and chose not to visit others when he thought it would be seen as political. And if your main concern this time around is who wears a flag pin where, you deserve exactly what a McCain presidency will do this country.

Obama at UNITY 08 yesterday:

"I personally would want to see our tragic history, or the tragic elements of our history, acknowledged," the Democratic presidential hopeful said.

"I consistently believe that when it comes to whether it's Native Americans or African-American issues or reparations, the most important thing for the U.S. government to do is not just offer words, but offer deeds."

Why are the troops in the hospital in the first place. They are in there as a result of being patriotic and fighting for their country. Now, the GOP used such conviction and sense of duty. BUT, it was a lie to got to war in Iraq. GOP EVIL AGAIN.

Although I'm an Obama supporter, I didn't think as badly of John McCain until this. It shows that McCain is going for the old style politics and playing on the lack of knowledge of the "low-info voters". People should check on Factcheck for the truth.

Well, well, another "low info" voter.

Mary, the "playing basketball with the troops" was during the CODEL (Congressional Delegation) part of the trip (to Kuwait, Iraq, Afghanistan...)
The trip to Germany was during the campaign-funded part of the trip. THAT's the difference. Do try to keep up.

SO WHY WAS OBAMA PLAYING BASKETBALL INSTEAD OF WORKING?

To tell the truth is an honorable thing to do and Senator McCain has been telling the truth about Obama's trip and his flimsy excuses in not visiting wounded troops. Senator has given 3 or 4 reason, all flimsy excuses.
And when will Obama say we need to drill for oil off our coast and ANWAR?

It is obvious that if you are pro-Obama you think McCain is lying, if you are pro-McCain, you think Obama is lying. Half of these posts are knee-jerk thoughtless reactions. The fact of the matter is that Obama could have gone to see the troops and then made several lame excuses to cover up why he didn't, including blaming the Pentagon. This is how I, as an independent who has voted both Dem & Rep in the past 6 elections, sees it. I do not think McCain is lying or being dishonest about it - he has always supported the troops. I would say the same think he is - the whole thing smells fishy and he's calling Obama on it. That's good politics. The only reason Obama doesn't have to stoop to that level is that the media does his dirty work for him. If Obama did not also have the flag pin incident and the Michelle Obama proud for the first time incident people might believe him. Also, there are other things about this trip that are suspicious. The speech in Germany where 200,000 young people showed up - that was advertised as a free concert - Obama spoke before the bands came out. Of course no one mentioned that on the major networks. As always my presidential vote will be for the lesser of two evils, this election year that is McCain.

This is WAY more important than actual issues. Not.

Somebody should tell Republicans that they are going to lose for one simple reason: They do not appear capable of being reasonable. This is a shame because most Republicans aren't like Mccain or his campaign at all, Fox News notwithstanding.