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Title: Obama scraps visit to wounded troops
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URL Source: http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D924E4KO0&show_article=1
Published: Jul 24, 2008
Author: AP
Post Date: 2008-07-24 19:45:03 by Jethro Tull
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BERLIN (AP) - Sen. Barack Obama scrapped plans to visit wounded members of the armed forces in Germany as part of his overseas trip, a decision his spokesman said was made because the Democratic presidential candidate thought it would be inappropriate on a campaign-funded journey. The spokesman, Robert Gibbs, said Thursday that Obama made his decision out of respect for the servicemen and women, but Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign immediately criticized the move. "Barack Obama is wrong. It is never inappropriate to visit our men and women in the military," said Brian Rogers, a spokesman for the Republican contender. Obama's decision raised a number of questions because the visit, which had been scheduled for Friday, never appeared on the schedule of events distributed to reporters who are accompanying him on his travels. The first word from the campaign about its existence was Gibbs' statement. Obama had been planning to go to Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany before a flight to Paris. Gibbs said the stop was canceled because Obama decided "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."
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#1. To: Jethro Tull (#0)
Bitter small town white trash.
I consider it inappropriate for the SOB to be campaigning for the Jew vote in Israel.
Ya' think the Os will sent their kiddies off to Afghanistan to answer Obama's call to arms?
This is insane. I guess he'd prefer to use taxpayer's money directly to fund his next trip to visit troops rather than the funds of his supporters, especially since he was already there!
Rivers of blood were spilled out over land that, in normal times, not even the poorest Arab would have worried his head over." Field Marshal Erwin Rommel
Jethro..History lesson for you. Prior to 1940 there was a constant drumbeat by MSM and Jew pundits for America to get into the war to stop Hitler. Yet when the draft was instituted, the high level Jews all found comfortable hiding places in government service etc etc. Bottom scale Jews were left for the draft. The war mongers assured their own personal safety than as will happen now.
A year from now he will have the opportunity to visit his own wounded from Afghanistan and God knows where else.
Yes, going to a hospital to visit the sick, and wounded, is always a poor idea. B-HO, you are a Butt-HOle.
Africa. That's his little surprise for us, we will be nation-building and toppling dictators in Zimbabwe and other unholy pieces of real estate on that continent.
It's not a surprise or a secret. Obama references Darfur and Zimbawe and Somalia in his speeches. Example - his most recent speech in Germany on Thursday: "...Now the world will watch and remember what we do here - what we do with this moment. Will we extend our hand to the people in the forgotten corners of this world who yearn for lives marked by dignity and opportunity; by security and justice? Will we lift the child in Bangladesh from poverty, shelter the refugee in Chad, and banish the scourge of AIDS in our time? Will we stand for the human rights of the dissident in Burma, the blogger in Iran, or the voter in Zimbabwe? Will we give meaning to the words never again in Darfur? ...The poverty and violence in Somalia breeds the terror of tomorrow. The genocide in Darfur shames the conscience of us all." I hope the Obamaphiles and/or their children have their malaria shots up to date because they will need to heed their hero's call to pursue do-gooder missions in Africa 'cause people like me will not. Obama is the Democrat's real life Chauncey Gardiner. Who would have thought Junior could be out- done in rank stupidity and grotesque anti-Americanism? The Dems have found that man.
They won't be going, or sending their loved ones on Obama's missions. Just like the Neos, the Os will outsource the dirty work to those less fortunate in life. They will cheer, but they'll never, ever post pictures the soon-to-be mangled bodies of the innocent Afghanis as they did the Iraqis.
He might like to try civilizing Harlem first, just for experience. Start on a small scale.
"We learned from the Pentagon last night that the visit would be viewed instead as a campaign event," the adviser, retired Air Force Maj. Gen. Scott Gration, said in a statement. "Senator Obama did not want to have a trip to see our wounded warriors perveived as a campaign event when his visit was to show his appreciation for our troops and decided instead not to go." Eff the Pentagon.
Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things. T. S. Eliot
#2. To: Jethro Tull (#0)
Obama decided "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."
#3. To: Cynicom (#1)
#4. To: Jethro Tull (#0)
thought it would be inappropriate on a campaign-funded journey.
#5. To: Jethro Tull (#3)
#6. To: historian1944 (#4)
#7. To: Jethro Tull (#0)
#8. To: Cynicom (#6)
God knows where else.
“The best and first guarantor of our neutrality and our independent existence is the defensive will of the people…and the proverbial marksmanship of the Swiss shooter. Each soldier a good marksman! Each shot a hit!” Schweizerische Schutzenseitunt (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
#9. To: X-15, iconoclast, Ferret Mike (#8)
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Africa. That's his little surprise for us, we will be nation-building and toppling dictators in Zimbabwe and other unholy pieces of real estate on that continent.
#10. To: scrapper2 (#9)
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I hope his Democrat fans/voters and/or their children have their malaria shots up to date because they will need to heed their hero's call to pursue do-gooder missios in Africa 'cause people like me will not
#11. To: scrapper2 (#9)
#12. To: Jethro Tull (#0)
Obama scraps visit to wounded troops
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