McCain Camp Continues Unsubstantiated Inconsistent Attacks on Obama Over Germany Trip

Hey Time, McCain is on the Armed Services Committee and has missed every single meeting on Afghanistan over the last two years. I can only assume that's because he's been busy running for president.

Dear JOHN......ASK THE AMERICAN SOLDIERS IN THAT HOSPITAL HOW WELL OBAMA CORRECTED "THE CAMPAIGN" PROBLEM HE CAUSED WITHOUT MUCH BRAINPOWER ON HIS PART IN THE MESS......THINK ABOUT IT, DUDE.....AND YOU WANT ME TO VOTE TO HAVE HIS HAND ON THE RED TELEPHONE? I DON'T THINK SO, JOHN........THINK ABOUT IT.

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.

Mary wrote:
"Senator Obama playing basketball with the troops was not POLITICAL but visiting wounded troop would have been. That is a fake excuse."

I guess if it is 'bad' the GOP LIKES IT. And so it is easy to see why the country is in bad shape. NOTHING GOOD COMES OUT OF THE GOP!

THOSE AGAINST OBAMA ARE WITH BUSH AND MCSAME...CHANGE IS INEVITABLE ..EMBRACE IT, AND LOVE IT. YOU WILL AGE..THAT IS CHANGE, FOR THOSE HAVING DIFFICULTY COMING TO THAT REALIZATION. WE THE PEOPLE ARE SUPPORTING OBAMA...WE THE PEOPLE..AND THE REST OF THE WORLD SEES WHAT WE THE PEOPLE SEE. GET OUT OF YOUR EVIL WAYS, GOP!

If this is an indication of Mr. Teflon's preparation, I must say that this country would be among the last to know of whatever he drags us into.......hope he hops off the World Citizen crap soon ( said it again in Washington....just so the media folks know). Does he know the gravity of the problems we have in THIS country....we can no longer shore up the world while we go broke.......forget being World Citizen, Obie...if you get in, you got enuff to do here.....what were we supposed to get out of your trip....that u r FDR? I don't think so...again, to the media: stories suggesting that the big German crowd was there...at least, partially...for reasons other than the appearance of the rock star.....like beer tents all over...and, indeed, an outdoor concert...and the World Order speech by the Dude? Somebody dig into that, ABC.NBC. Fox, CNN....Der Spiegel.....will some 4th estater do something besides spilling just what is on his/her mind? It's like looking/reading the news in 60 seconds or less.

I wouldn't say that a short-term communications problem within the Obama campaign that was corrected relatively rapidly is "grim." McCain's dishonesty and dissembling over the past week and a half has truly been on another level.

Otherwise, good article.

There's another "fact" that deserves some "vetting" from that McSlime ad. How on earth does he get away with claiming he's "always been there for our troops" when he:

1) Opposed Senator Webb's GI Bill and then didn't even bother to show up for the vote, and,
2) received a "D" rating as opposed to the "B+" given to Senator Obama in 2006 from the The Iraq and Afghan Veterans of America for "supporting our troops."

This guy's lies, distortions, and flip flops are piling up so deep that we're going to need snow plows to get through them by November.

Sorry, Jake. No matter how many explanations, how much reasoning, the fact remains: Obama ought to have made the trip IN PRIVATE. Leave cameras behind, leave reporters behind, leave Gration behind. Make the trip...issue a statement AFTER the fact, no need to make one before.

There is so much opacity to Obama the private citizen, Obama the Senator, Obama the candidate. Wasn't this all planned? Only at the last min. did the campaign wizards deem the visit inappropriate? Come on....

As Chairman Of The Subcommittee With NATO Oversight, Obama Has Failed To Hold Any Hearings On Afghanistan:

Hillary brought this up at one of the many debates and Obama's answer was "he was to busy running for president."

Obama is a politian, so if you shake his hand make sure you count your fingers afterwards.

Senator Obama playing basketball with the troops was not POLITICAL but visiting wounded troop would have been. That is a fake excuse. No press, no camera, no PR, no visit was what Obama wanted.

This just points out what we know to be true - Obama thinks he can manipulate and control the media. It never occurred to him that his initial story would be questioned. What a dangerous ego!

Mary, maybe because there isn't anything to it. So who do you want to be his running mate.

Why aren't the Feds looking at the $300,000 gift from criminal political, government contractor Tony Rezko to the Obamas? He did not list this as gift or pay taxes on it. He now knows it was wrong--bone-headed, he calls it.

If Obama truly wants to visit the wounded troops, he can do so without the appearance of inject politics into it. Simply goes there with only Senate staff or alone. He can do it with another plane if his chartered plane is full of his campaign logo. He can do it at night, or secretly. The fact that he didn't go and gave this half truth about Gration, just shows that his mindset was stuck with his concern about his campaign, and lack of concern for the real subject of this story - the wounded troops. It is not the context of his excuses, but his mindset and thinking at the time that is most revealing. For a journalist like JPT to be so superficial in his reporting, he must be duped by the messiah Obama. McCain has every right to point out Obama's "true" motive for not going. There may be some extrapolation by McCain from what Obama actually said, but the extrapolation, IMO, is close to the truth that falsehood.

I believe Obama shot some hoops with the troops...how come there is sooo much dwelling on the cancelled visit and no applause for other good things Obama did. I guess if it is 'bad' the GOP LIKES IT. And so it is easy to see why the country is in bad shape. NOTHING GOOD COMES OUT OF THE GOP!

So, when Obama addressed Downing St. "we got an answer seemingly close to the truth on this all."

Since when is an answer "seemingly close to the truth" acceptable? That is the same as saying it wasn't "a complete lie".

Is this now the press's standard for level of honesty?

Now, now...The more I read and see the GOP tactics the more I realise that the Country is in the state it is in because this guys are just plain evil liers. In the two terms Bush has been in office the people have wisened up! Its not the same old, same old! How come the lies for the war have not been visited from Mclellans book. GOP is evil. America does not need another dose of that.

Rasmussen's poll says most of the undecideds are Democrats(Clinton supporters). There is an Obama landslide loss in the making.

The "entourage" description is fair enough. Obama has been less than forthcoming about his reasons for canceling.

The idea that Gration not being allowed to go and therefore the trip would be seen (by someone) as political is preposterous. There is nothing about Gration not going that could change the perception of the trip in the public's eyes. In fact, Obama going in alone would be the least political, most noble thing of all.
I understand that Obama was not planning on bringing the media entourage, but Gibbs told reporters they had not ruled out a pool report. So they hadn't closed the door to some sort of media coverage, and it's hard to know what they had asked for or planned in that regard.

Bottom line- Barak Obama COULD HAVE visited our WOUNDED soldiers-- BUT HE CHOSE NOT TO.

ALL BY HIMSELF- HE CHOSE NOT TO GO. (The Pentagon didn't make him cancel- like his campaign originally implied)