Landstuhl Medical Center: Who is Telling Truth? Pentagon? Or Hussein The Liar?
Da Magic Popolo (my new name for Hussein) could have visited the troops, he should have gone over to that hospital, sans media, looked those guys in the eye, shook their hand, or patted them on the shoulder, and said “Thank you.”
But no, he couldn’t bring his harem full of groupie journalists with him, so fuck that.
The Pentagon said he could visit them with his Secret Service Staff, and that arrangements had been made. He should have gone.
Just as an American citizen, even more so as a U.S. Senator.
Fuck him. He spits on the troops. He spits on our country while abroad. He spits on Israel.
Fuck him. Geez, I’ve been cussing a little too much today…
Chief Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell confirmed to Politico that Department of Defense officials cautioned Barack Obama’s campaign that his planned visit to wounded American troops in Germany could not be political in nature and that he would be barred from bringing along campaign staff and reporters. He also said that Cindy McCain recently requested to visit sailors aboard the U.S.N.S. Comfort and was denied.
“Sen. Obama is welcome to visit Landstuhl or any military hospital in his official capacity as a United States senator,” Morrell said in a brief interview. “But there is a DOD policy which governs campaigning and electioneering at military facilities that would have to be respected if he were to visit. That distinction was relayed and made clear to campaign, and they made a decision on their own based on that guidance.”
Morrell, in a subsequent interview, added that military officials told Obama he could only visit the military facility with his Secret Service detail and Senate staff.
“We made it clear to him that campaign staff and press would not be permitted to accompany him,” Morrell said of Obama. “We relayed those ground rules. They made a choice based upon the information we relayed to them. It was their choice. We had nothing to do with it.”
Military personnel at Ramstein Air Force Base, where the senator was to fly into, had already made arrangements to accomodate Obama’s traveling press pack and campaign staff while he visited the wounded troops, Morrell said.
Obama’s campaign tells a different story.
Obama adviser David Axelrod told the Chicago Sun-Times that the Pentagon “viewed this as a campaign event, and therefore they said he should not come.”
In a briefing to Obama’s traveling press corps, another adviser stopped short of saying they were told to not come but also suggested that even a visit by Obama alone may have been at issue.
Robert Gibbs said one of Obama’s military advisers had been informed by the Pentagon that the visit may be seen as a campaign stop.
“They cited a regulation,” Gibbs said of their point of contact, described as legislative affairs in the office of the secretary.
“We believed that based on the information we received that any presence, even his own and only his own, would get into a back and forth on whether his own presence was a campaign event,” Gibbs said.
Gibbs also pointed out that that their plane had been cleared to land at Ramstein and the Pentagon subsequently issued the reminder about political activity at military posts.
Obama, who was not traveling with any Senate staffers, decided on the flight Wednesday from Tel Aviv to Berlin not to visit the hospital.
Trying to make clear that this was not an attempt to undercut the Democratic nominee, Morrell also noted that when McCain officials asked the Pentagon for permission to let Cindy McCain visit the massive U.S. hospital ship, the U.S.N.S. Comfort, the request was rejected.
“Had she gone with Sen. McCain, it would have been OK,” Morrell said, underlining the delineation between what are official and campaign activities.
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“Obama adviser David Axelrod told the Chicago Sun-Times that the Pentagon “viewed this as a campaign event, and therefore they said he should not come.””
So if it can’t be a photo-op why go at all right, you fucking piece of shit.
July 25th, 2008 at 11:45 amFuck this. This guy doesn’t even deserve to be a fucking State Senator. let alone a US Senator or President. Compared to Obama, Bill worshiped the troops.
July 25th, 2008 at 11:53 amasshole should have went anyway with out his douches
for obama ever
July 25th, 2008 at 11:56 amno
mccain goes all the time,,, but he leaves the camera home… the only ones taken are by the heros and their families…
July 25th, 2008 at 12:13 pmMy god it must be bad. im actually remembering the good times with Bill Clinton and his wife looks like a saint compared to this guy. and normally i wouldnt come close to giving them any kind of a compliment. Obama is just that horrible in my view.
McCain will beat him in November because despite the giant turnout of people he has at his rallies the polls just do not show him doing very well, in fact the polls are showing him consistently slipping. i think people just see him as a rockstar type and not a serious candidate POTUS. others might just be showing up out of curiosity. piss on you Obama, i dont vote for or tolerate communists
July 25th, 2008 at 12:13 pmI was talking to a friend of mine the other day and said I pray that the American people have enough common sense to not elect this guy. I live in Maryland so my vote is going to be pissed away, hopefully people in the Midwest and the south can save the day.
July 25th, 2008 at 12:48 pmLet’s see…should I believe David Axelrod or a military man…hmmmm…wait a minute…let me think about it…
NO BRAINER…military man is telling the truth and Axelrod is a political hack liar. There.
July 25th, 2008 at 12:59 pmWhere abouts in Maryland?
And yea on of my friends is voting for Obama. Her reason is that he’s for change, charismatic, and get this….CUTE.
Although after taking a few articles and giving her the links I think she finally is reforming. 
July 25th, 2008 at 1:12 pmObama is a liar. Only Axelrod is worse.
July 25th, 2008 at 1:37 pmLet’s weigh the options…
The Pentagon and any official release from that organization is vetted, twisted, examined, and given a cavity search.
The Hussein campaign is given wet pants and Obamagasm coverage by the media. No lies are ever investigated nor is his relationships with anarchists and racists.
Dimwit Axelrod (if the axle is a freaking matchbox car) would swear the sun didn’t rise if Hussein slept in.
Yea, I’m sticking with the Pentagon, besides their regulations are in writing so they can be checked. Hussein’s are made up as he goes.
July 25th, 2008 at 10:19 pm