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July 24, 2008

Obama Cancels Meeting With Troops In Germany

He won't be visiting Ramstein Air Base or Landstuhl Regional Medical Center as scheduled. According to a statement from one of his advisers, the visit is off because his campaign is funding this part of his trip.

During his trip as part of the CODEL to Afghanistan and Iraq, Senator Obama visited the combat support hospital in the Green Zone in Baghdad and had a number of other visits with the troops. For the second part of his trip, the senator wanted to visit the men and women at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center to express his gratitude for their service and sacrifice. The senator decided out of respect for these servicemen and women that it would be inappropriate to make a stop to visit troops at a U.S. military facility as part of a trip funded by the campaign.

That's about the dumbest thing I've ever seen. Who cares if his transportation around Europe is being paid for by his campaign? He's a sitting Senator for God's sake. As a spokesman for McCain put it, "It is never ‘inappropriate’ to visit our men and women in the military..."

If he was worried about making a political spectacle of those serving there, especially the wounded, he could have gone without the press. I'm sure the US Air Force has the means to keep unwanted visitors off the base.

Pathetic.


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