Filed under: Author - ACG, Politics, Talking Points | Tags: Democracy, Spin, War
In what just feels like a planned PR coup, the Pentagon recommended that president candidate Barack Obama abandon a planned trip to America’s wounded soldiers in Iraq, while right wing pundits – was anyone else listening to Hannity today? – blasted Obama for acceding to the Pentagon’s request.
Aside from the fact that Obama’s failure is of the Republican’s own creation, meaning the worst he can be accused of is waltzing into a GOP trap, let’s not forget who got those soldiers wounded in the first place, by starting a poorly planned war, under-armoring our soldiers, and giving them inadequate medical care. If it weren’t for Bush, and the Republican policies of irresponsibility and failure, there would be no wounded soldiers for Obama to visit and cancel at a political request.
Support our troops. Vote Obama in ‘08.
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The thing that has been annoying me recently is the hypocrisy coming from McCain and the Republicans about his trip.
They’re trying to play up that McCain’s at home focusing on domestic issues while Obama is running around the world. http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2008/07/mccain_im_focus.html
But all during the primaries and semi recently, McCain had been traveling internationally quite often, and was urging Obama was pushed to visit Iraq. One week abroad and suddenly he doesn’t care about domestic issues? It’s silly and just wrong.
Comment by oneiroi July 26, 2008 @ 6:05 pm