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

Sorry i meant Al from NJ not KenM

KenM i agree with you 100% , just one more thing if its wasn't all true all this obama whiner won't be offended and attack... we all know that a dog that bark don't bit

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.

So not visiting wounded troops is bad. Is it really? How many countries did Bush visit recently? How many stops to wounded troops did he make? Obama had it on his schedule to visit the troops, and then the politics came into play. He chose to not politicize his trip to see the troops, the media would not have been allowed to come but he knew how they'd spin it. But McCain has jumped on the bandwagon. With his limited funds you'd think he'd air a commercial about his own foreign trip to show he can compete with Obama on that tip and would have been a great counter attack...who are his advisors and why on earth would I want them in the white house?

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.

As ex military, this is one Independent that will not vote for Obama. May not vote for McCain but will under no circumstances vote for Obama.
He can meet with the leaders of Germany and France on his political part of trip but not with hurt service men.

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.

I feel sorry for McCain, his campaigns is going dowm in flames. He has to resort to outright LIES in a tv ad? What happened to the civil campaign? Anyone could see those were some doctored to blur out the soliders.

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.

John McCain IS AWESOME!
Look at his stats:
1) Defeated terrorists who had taken over a corporate building
2) Defeated terrorists who had taken over an airport
3) Defeated terrorists who had robbed the gold reserves in New York
4) Defeated terrorists who (tried) to rob trillions in electronic currency

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.

Spock - Obama DID visit Walter Reed. A simple google search could have saved you some embarrassment.

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.

Spock, You are right a retired officer can visit injured troops but deemed himself ineligeble once he joined the campaign cause now he's a politician or atleast considered to be under said umbrella. Besides Of course he wants to go to the hospital, dont forget Obama wants out of Iraq and his highest platform would be the loss of American lives. If you think about it McCain recieves no benefit in Obama visiting those troops except that Obama looks like a jerk using injured soldiers as props for his message.

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!!

Leon - please explain Obama's solutions, because you seem to be the only person on the face of the planet that hears his solutions

McCain has already given out sound solutions to issues!!

Now as far as why Obama did not visit the troops it was becasue the Pentagon has standing orders NO Press!! Obama was told he could only bring 2 people with him!! so he declined to go!!

When did Obvama visit any wounded in Iraq or Afghanistan!! or even Walter Reid, you libs make up all sorts of things, if the troops were playing basketball how were they injured!!

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!

When watching the political news shows yesterday, with both McCain and Obama (different programs of course), I couldn't help but notice that all McCain did was bash Obama without offering any solutions to "anything." Obama, on the other hand, discussed real issues and real solutions. Hmmm.........

Just remember: no war, no dead and wounded troops, no dead innocent Iraqis, no 3 trillion $$$ wasted and no surge. And nothing for McCain to whine about!

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.

MSNBC is the only one who got this story right. Obama was told by the Pentagon that he couldn't bring a retired military officer who is a member of his campaign staff. He never had any intention of bringing the press along. Obama visited wounded troops at Walter Reed without the press. McCain is just a LIAR.