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FSU92grad1 year, 3 months ago
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Success of his trip ? It was an absolute failure....The polls have barely budged because of it....And btw, attracting 200,000 people in Germany is no small task....David Hasselhoff does it all the time...He's very popular in Germany...
And this assertion is true....Do you need more proof for your pathetic candidate ? Read on:
"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."
http://www.politico.com/blogs/jonathanmartin/0708/DoD_spokesman_says_Obama...h
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Ratskii1 year, 3 months ago
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From the ABC article: But after hearing from the Pentagon, he said, "We decided, Senator Obama decided having made that decision he was far more willing to take the criticism from some political people or political opponents in a political atmosphere than to put our troops in the middle of our campaign back and forth."
After reading the ABC article (in full) and looking into the links in the huffington post article, it appears to me that Obama's campaign people were getting a bit of a run around from pentagon people. "No, you can't...yes, you can...well maybe if..." I think his decision not to visit and risk putting injured troops in the middle was a good decision.
Alpha, Locky, FUS, et al will use anything to push their agenda. The truth doesn't matter to them.
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