Obama Quietly Visits Wounded War Vets

[Ichingcarpenter]

Source: CBS NEWS

Barack Obama stopped by Walter Reed Army Medical Center Saturday to visit wounded war veterans, a group that he has said endures substandard care under the Bush administration.

The presumed Democratic nominee, who was in Washington to speak to the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials, slipped into the facility shortly after 9 a.m. without stopping to speak to the small group of reporters who follow him. The visit wasn't on his public schedule.

Obama has criticized the Bush administration for its treatment of veterans returning from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, and has suggested Republican rival John McCain would continue Bush policies if elected.

The administration was roundly criticized last year after it was revealed that veterans at Walter Reed were housed in rundown accommodations and suffered neglectful care.

Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/06/28/politics/main4216681.shtml

[TwilightGardener]

1. Yep--he has done it before, he will do it again. McApplesauce is flailing on this one. Total lie.

[speedoo]

2. Run an ad on THAT, McWhine. nt

[liberal N proud]

3. Leaving Mr McGoo with pie on his face

ONCE AGAIN!

LOL

[Ian David]

4. THAT is how it's DONE! n/t

[Blaq Dem]

5. McCan't had ads that critized Obama either way

Had Obama gone, McCan't would've complained regardless. It didn't matter.

[hedgehog]

6. Now - if someone could only make an ad showing both of those ads

and somehow labeling McCain a flip-flopper!

[truthisfreedom]

7. That's why he's now perceived as McComplain. All he does is wave his arms and whine.

He doesn't have a position on anything other than "Obama sucks."

[endarkenment]

8. As per DOD requirements: not a campaign event.

it is time for the McCaint Complain to stop making visiting military hospitals a political issue and to stop using wounded soldiers as pawns in their endless whining and misleading mudslinging against Obama.

[GeorgeGist]

9. June 28 is not breaking news.

[TwilightGardener]

10. Let's make an exception today, shall we?