What would he do with his entire staff at the last minute?
Why didnt the pentagon tell him that when the visit was originally planned?
Has McSame ever visited troops with his staff at hand?
"So whats the problem...Obama obviously decided it wasn't worth his trouble to visit the troops if he couldn't get news coverage with his lapdog reporters at his heels....it ain't fuckin' rocket science...."
This is why McCain continues w/ this BS. His little hackity-hacks lap it up with a spoon...
Exactly so he should have kept the campaign away and the photographers and the reporters and gone and told the wounded how proud he and all of us are back home, instead of forgoing the visit entire."We advised that Sen. Obama would be welcome to visit Landstuhl or any other military hospital in his capacity as a U.S. senator, but his campaign staff would not," Pentagon press secretary Geoff Morrell said.
Leave them at their german hotel? Send them to a german beer hall? Have them sightsee in a country with a beer purity law older than our constitution. There are a couple of sites that would have kept them busy for several hours. Hell I lived there for 2.5 years and never ran out of stuff to do.What would he do with his entire staff at the last minute?
Why didnt the pentagon tell him that when the visit was originally planned?
Has McSame ever visited troops with his staff at hand?
No it was the pentagon who told Obama it would be politicing.
I wonder if they would have told McCain he should not visit wounded soldiers?
"We advised that Sen. Obama would be welcome to visit Landstuhl or any other military hospital in his capacity as a U.S. senator, but his campaign staff would not," Pentagon press secretary Geoff Morrell said.