McCain honors troops by partying

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http://www.suntimes.com/news/quicktakes/1081037,CST-NWS-qt30.article

July 30, 2008

BY ZAY N. SMITH Sun-Times Columnist

News Item: John McCain attends $1,000-a-head fund-raiser at the Fairmont Hotel on San Francisco's Nob Hill.

Think about it.

The San Francisco VA Medical Center is only 5.6 miles from the Fairmont Hotel.

But it seems John McCain would rather go to a party than visit our wounded troops.

Maybe that's why he's responsible for higher gas prices.

What else is he hiding?

[Virginia Dare]

1. Exactly. He should be finding time to visit the troops every day..

there are wounded Iraq war veterans in every state in the union. Or does he have more important things to do?

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2. I love Zay Smith. Great little tid bits column in the Suntimes.

:rofl:

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3. Ouch! How many people are going to read this?

Well, at least he wasn't off playing basketball.... Or WAS he???

On a serious note, too many of those men and women are confined to their beds and are a captive audience. Who among us would want that nasty old man coming to our bedside and spewing hateful nonsense about Sen. Obama for even a minute? I can't imagine many of them would be impolite enough - despite being appropriate - to tell him to get the fuck away from them.

Then again, every wounded vet he speaks to is a vote for Obama. I'm torn.

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4. why didn't mccain want to see the troops in March, when he was in Europe?

http://www.jedreport.com/2008/07/why-didnt-mccai.html

Why didn't McCain want to see the troops in March?

The curious thing about John McCain's dishonorable attack on Barack Obama is that McCain himself visited Europe in March, but didn't visit the wounded troops in Landstuhl, Germany.

It's true that McCain's trip to Europe bypassed Germany -- he only went to London and Paris. But as you can see in the map below, it turns out that London and Berlin are about the same distance from Landstuhl, and Paris is just a four hour drive away.

So if McCain wanted to visit the troops, it would have been trivial to arrange -- no seismic event needed. But it's clear McCain didn't want to visit them, and as a result, it should be fair to ask McCain why he now feels entitled to attack Barack Obama.