"Barack Obama will not be coming to us," a spokesperson for the US military hospital in Landstuhl announced. "I don't know why." Well, Barack Obama clearly has his priorities in the right place during his time in Germany. A planned visit with wounded U.S. troops at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center was abruptly canceled today, but "citizen of the world" Obama still managed to squeeze in a workout at (where else?) the Ritz Carlton in Berlin. The campaign's pathetic excuse for the change? Obama adviser Robert Gibbs tried to spin the situation faster than Barack Obama on his elliptical machine, claiming 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." Wow, how ethical of him.
from Laura Ingraham
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I gotta agree with John McCain here: It's never inappropriate to visit the troops.
Those who aren't Obama fans have said he didn't visit the injured troops because the press couldn't go in with him and tape him meeting with and shaking hands with the injured. Others have said he would have known the press couldn't go in because the press is never allowed in the Medical Center - no exceptions.
My question is, if he knew that, or cared about the troops, why didn't he go in anyway? The press could have filmed him going in and coming out and he could have gotten great mileage of his visits with the injured.
I have to believe that he thought an exception to the press ban would be made because he's Barak Obama. When it wasn't, he couldn't be bothered to go in.
Or maybe it cut into his workout time.
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