Huffington Post: "McCain To Obama: Welcome Home, Troop Hater"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

McCain To Obama: Welcome Home, Troop Hater

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/26/mccain-to-obama-welcome-h_n_115143.html



John McCain is welcoming Barack Obama back to America with a hard right cross.

The message of the Republican's new attack ad that debuted Saturday both perfects and makes more harsh a theme that his campaign has been developing for weeks: specifically, that the Illinois Democrat does not care about American troops. Drawing from Obama's one tactical misstep during his week-long trip abroad -- a canceled visit with wounded troops in Germany, the cause of which was a debate with the Pentagon over political propriety -- the McCain campaign nevertheless believes they have a useful new plot point at their disposal.

When viewed alongside the 900 days that elapsed between visits to Iraq, and his symbolic vote against one round of funding for the war, the McCain camp now hopes the canceled visit in Germany provides a three-act structure to their dramatic imagining of a conflict between Obama and the troops.

Of course, in one particular aspect, McCain's playwrights have resorted to wholesale fiction in order to craft their narrative. However complicated the issue of Obama's canceled troop visit has become, no one -- not the campaign, and not the Pentagon -- has cited a prohibition on "bringing cameras" along with Obama as a reason for the trip's scuttling.

In another distortion that could be viewed as funny were it no so manipulative, McCain's video editor selected footage of Obama sinking a three-point shot to represent time spent at the gym instead of with troops. Of course, that footage was taken in Kuwait, not Germany, at an event for ... troops.

"John McCain is an honorable man who is running an increasingly dishonorable campaign," said Obama campaign spokesman Tommy Vietor in an email to reporters Saturday evening, adding: "Senator McCain knows full well that Senator Obama strongly supports and honors our troops, which is what makes this attack so disingenuous. Senator Obama was honored to meet with our men and women in uniform in Iraq and Afghanistan this week and has visited wounded soldiers at Walter Reed numerous times. This politicization of our soldiers is exactly what Senator Obama sought to avoid, and it's not worthy of Senator McCain or the 'civil' campaign he claimed he would run."

[BlooInBloo]

1. HAHAHAHA!!!

[Olney Blue]

2. Meet the new Republican, just like the old Republican.

[vixengrl]

3. Hmmmm, type "McCain visits wounded" in a search engine

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

Obama doing it probably will top your list. And what with the GI bill flap and a long hard look at McCain on Vet's issues, and also his frivolous attitude towards "let's use the military for everything" and it begins to look like *he's* the one who isn't supporting the troops.

Very interesting. Sad. But interesting.

[opihimoimoi]

4. McPain going NEGATIVE in a big way after promising a clean Campaign?? The LYING POS.

Guess who didn't support the troops? Esp the wounded troops...and the vets? guess who...thats right, the Ole Man turned his back on them....by supporting Bushies veto funding the troops...

McVain Hates the troops it seems.