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New McCain Ads Attack Obama’s Canceled Troop Visit
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| Contributor | ArmyDem |
| Last Edited | ArmyDem Jul 26, 2008 07:26pm |
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| News Date | Sunday, July 27, 2008 01:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | By Sarah Wheaton
It would seem that Senator Barack Obama and his campaign staff traveled to several countries during his overseas tour without saying or doing something that would fall into the “gaffe” category. But it appears to be what he didn’t do – meeting with wounded soldiers, as he had originally planned – at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany, that is continuing to reverberate after Mr. Obama’s trip.
Senator John McCain’s campaign has just released a new television spot that it says will be broadcast “in key states” about the canceled visit.
“And now, he made time to go to the gym, but canceled a visit with wounded troops,” an announcer says. “Seems the Pentagon wouldn’t allow him to bring cameras. John McCain is always there for our troops.”
Mr. Obama did visit wounded troops in Iraq, without telling the press, and he has noted private visits to Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington.
Mr. Obama and top aides have offered their reasons for canceling the trip several times.
The most recent comments center around retired Air Force Gen. Scott Gration, who is now a campaign aide and was traveling with Mr. Obama throughout his tour. According to NBC News, the Pentagon told General Gration that, as a member of the campaign, he did not have authorization to visit the troops.
Today, in an interview with Fox News Channel’s Bill Hemmer, Mr. Obama said:
It was scheduled, we intended to go and we got wind that there was some concern that this might be perceived as political; because we were using campaign resources. And at that point, the last thing I wanted to do is to in anyway distract the terrific work that’s being done in terms of treating our troops, by getting it fouled up by a bunch of politics. |
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