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Former Trauma Doctor From Landstuhl Slams Obama’s Cancelled Trip

By NancyA on August 1, 2008 at 2:10 PM in Barack Obama, Current Affairs, Obama, Patriotism

Earlier this week,
CW4 (Ret) Michael J. Durant issued a statement condemning Obama’s canceled troop visit. CW4 (Ret) Durant’s capture in Mogadishu was the subject of the movie, BlackHawk Down. And once more we hear from a voice in the past. A voice that understands the troops lying in beds in hospitals far from family and friends.

Yesterday, July 31, McCain’s campaign issued the following statement from Dr. Danny Jazarevic, former Chief of Trauma, Critical Care and Vascular Surgery at Landstuhl concerning Obama’s canceled visit to Ramstein and Landstuhl:

“Last week, Senator Obama skipped a visit with wounded U.S. troops at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany because the Pentagon would not allow campaign staff or media to accompany him into the hospital. I served as director of trauma surgery at that hospital for nearly four years and saw the effect that a visit from a celebrity like Senator Obama could have on morale. During that time, I do not recall a single member of Congress canceling a visit with the troops despite being just a few hours away, but Senator Obama seems to have been more concerned with how the visit would affect him than how it would affect the soldiers recovering from wounds received in the service of their country.”

Here is Dr. Danny Jazarevic’s history of service to not just our country but severely wounded troops:

Dr. Danny Jazarevic served as the Chief of Trauma, Critical Care and Vascular Surgery at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center. In 1984, Dr. Jazarevic joined the United States Army and later the Florida National Guard. He has since served in Honduras, Africa, Saudi Arabia, Bosnia, and Iraq. From December 2002 through January 2006, Dr. Jazarevic was assigned to the U.S. Army Hospital in Landstuhl, Germany, where he served as Chief of Trauma, Critical Care and Vascular Surgery. During this period, he deployed to Iraq numerous times, including with the 101st Airborne Division Forward Surgical Team and as Director of Operations for the 44th U.S. Army Medical Command. He is currently the Chief Trauma Surgeon at a civilian medical center in Florida, and also serves as a full Colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve. Dr. Jazarevic has been awarded the Bronze Star Medal.

Voices from the past echo Obama’s actions in Germany. Once again we must question Obama’s judgment, good or bad? The decision is yours. However, Obama has a long laundry list of questionable judgment decisions. And now it involves our injured men and women who are serving or have served giving Obama the opportunity to run for president. He throws them under the bus!

  • RepublicanChick

    While we’re all busy inflating our tires, I suggest Obama take time to deflate his ego.

    I don’t care for his reason for not visiting the wounded troops. He could have a million and they still wouldn’t sit well with me.

    The fact of the matter the man had the opportunity and didn’t do it. That speaks volumes about him.

    • Skiron

      He visited with injured vets at Walter Reed numerous times, with no reporters present. He also visited with them in Iraq. So your outrage is misplaced.

      • Elizabeth Reilly

        Misplaced outrage? I think not! Photo ops are all that Obama is truly interested in. How did the news about his other hospital visits get out? Perhaps, just maybe, his campaign staff put the information out there? Perhaps they only lately realized the potential for great photo ops from such a visit!
        The man is a phony, a shameful excuse for an American, and a man who collects the most gullible, infantile, Woodstockian members of American society as his followers. They are no more intelligent than the cultists who followed Jim Jones, or any of the other mentally weak cultists who fall for the promises of other Messiahs. I feel sorry for you fools.

        • Skiron

          Obama introduced the “Dignity for Wounded Warriors Act of 2007″ after the deplorable conditions at Walter Reed hospital came to light. The intent of the act was to “cut red tape, improve service, and require frequent inspections of all active duty military hospitals”. Doesn’t sound to me like the behavior of someone only interested in photo ops with the troops…

          • inconquisitor

            Did it Pass? This great bill he introduced?
            Did he write it? Probably not.

            • Skiron

              You are cynical beyond belief.

              • WildChild

                we’ll take that as a no.

                • Skiron

                  How is the question of whether it passed or not relevant to his concern for the troops? Do you think he introduced the bill only to want it to fail?

                  • WildChild

                    Anybody can slap a bill together after a national media outcry. Thats not evidense of concern for the troops.

                    • Skiron

                      But not many did, did they? Did Hillary?
                      And by the way, tell me, what do you consider evidence of concern for the troops? I’m curious because it seems your definition is very narrow indeed.

                    • Pragmatist

                      Just admist that Obama is a wimp and a weakling who has no spine.

                    • WildChild

                      well let’s see, as the chairman on the Subcommittee on European Affairs which oversight authority on US forces being deployed to Afghanistan, BOBO having subcommittee meetings on troop deployments would have surely been evidense that he had some concern for the troops…

                    • maria

                      Yes Wildchild he has such great concern for the troops that he never once held a meeting because “he was too busy running for president”. He said as much during the Russert/Williams debate against Hillary. Unfortunately the media was as mesmerized then as they are now, by the one we have been waiting for and didn’t bother to make a big deal about this small detail. Yet they continues to run on how Iraq was wrong and Afghanistan is what matters. Unbelievable

                    • Skiron

                      And if he came out that he did hold such a meeting, your quite predictable response would be “pffft…anyone can hold a meeting. that’s not evidence of concern for the troops”. There’s nothing he could do that would satisfy you at this point.

                    • WildChild

                      Actually anybody can’t hold a Subcommittee on European Affairs meeting, so no I wouldn’t have said that. Perhaps you’d like to try your hand at flailing about one more time?

                    • Skiron

                      no thanks, I’m done arguing with someone so close-minded as yourself.

                    • WildChild

                      Well, you frothed up in tizzy and have stomped off in a huff and from the down on the floor your feather boa gained enough velocity to shed. LOL nice job little BOBOweenie.

                    • TeakwoodKite

                      WildChild I wanted to compliment you on your post of late. Very well done Bravo! Reasoned and even handed dispatch of said trolls.

                      TGIF to you and yours! :)

                  • fif

                    Hey nitwit. We appreciate (not) that you are cutting and pasting excuses from Obama’s web site, but the truth is: it was only his second visit to Iraq and he went because he is trying to bamboozle voters into believing he is fit to be CIC. He hasn’t held a single hearing for the committee he chairs that is critical to our efforts in Afghanistan.

                    Talk is cheap, and he does a lot of it. The only person Obama has shown that he really “cares” about is himself.

                    • james

                      You’re the ones who seem to be blinded by their own smoke screen.

                      “John McCain skipped close to a dozen votes on Iraq, and on at least another 10 occasions he voted against arming and equipping the troops, providing adequate rest for the troops between deployments and for health care or other benefits for veterans.”

                      Talk is cheap. But the facts speak for themselves:

                      http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/articleid/9559

                    • WildChild

                      so basically you’re still pissed that McCain wouldn’t support your proposed troop pull out. But then he never let on that he would.

                    • james

                      I’m basically pissed that his votes on veterans and active service troop care and safety have never matched his talk about how concerned he is about them.

                      Troop draw-down is a separate issue on which legitimate differences of opinion exist.

                    • WildChild

                      Active duty troops get medical care and there is really no safe place in a war zone.

                    • james

                      The April and October 2003 votes were about increased funding for adequately armored Hum_Vees, body armor for infantry, etc. Our guys were beginning to get clobbered by IEDs back then. The increased funding bills were budget-neutral. The money was to be diverted from already-approved Iraq reconstruction funds. 2004 and 2006 bills to increase veterans’ health services were also budget-neutral. The money was to come from closing some egrevious corporate tax loopholes. There were 3 increased veterans’ funding bills and ammendments in 2006 alone that he voted against. In September 2007 he voted against the Webb ammendment calling for adequate troop rest between deployments. I have trouble reconciling all that with John McCain’s personal military record. It’s hard for me to take sides against another vet, but I can’t just disregard his votes.

                    • WildChild

                      So exactly what did adequately armored Humvee mean? Adequately a BOBO term. People can read into it whatever they want.

                    • james

                      The standard armor of troop carriers originally deployed to Iraq was easily penetrated by IEDs, armor-piercing rounds, and RPGs. I recall a couple of television exposes about the problem.

                      One Major General on the ground in Iraq had been pleading for upgraded vehicle armor through channels since 2003. He got no action until 2005.

                      http://www.defensetech.org/archives/001349.html

                      Infantry in Iraq were sometimes reduced to trying to buying ceramic personal body armor themselves. Some 40,000 troops had been deployed with inadequate protection–without even Kevlar Interceptor vests–which greatly increased their vulnerability to sniper fire.
                      http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,101061,00.html

                    • WildChild

                      That doesn’t answer my question. An IED creates a physical event. There’s always a compression wave and there may or may not be shrapnel. You say McCain voted against a bill to increase funding for adequately armored humvees. But adequately is a BOBO term. You can read what you want into it. Short of producing any specks, we can’t really say whether the armor would have been adequate. It may of been a big hand out to a defense contractor with limited return for the troops. It may have been the real deal. We don’t know. But we do know McCain supports the troops and that he doesn’t like wasting tax payer money.

                    • james

                      Diverting funds dollar-for-dollar from Iraqi reconstruction to safer equipment for the troops doesn’t strike me as wasteful of taxpayer money. Troop safety strikes me as a far higher priority. This was Dodd Amdt. No. 1817 to S.1689, which McCain voted to table. The ammendment was tabled, by a vote of 47 to 37. http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=108&session=1&vote=00376

                      I can’t quote specs for what constitutes “adequate armor”. I only know that the troop carriers originally deployed essentially didn’t have any. Troops were outfitting their vehicles with “hillbilly armor”. (Their term, not mine.) They were trying to protect themselves by welding on salvaged steel plates and stacking the floors with sandbags. “Not adequate”, to my way of thinking.

                      The fact that the DoD eventually recognized the problem and began ordering more protective vehicles surely tells us something.

                      I recently saw a video of a soldier being knocked down by a sniper in Iraq, only to get up a moment later and scurry for cover. His ceramic plate body armor saved his life. Had he been wearing one of the Kevlar vests originally issued to troops, he’d be dead. A lot of the soldiers we first deployed didn’t even get those. This is another situation I define as “inadequate”.

                    • WIldChild

                      So diverting funds that would rebuild Iraq, give its people jobs, get them out of their squalor and probably give them something better to do then blow up Americans is a good idea? LOL Nah, it’s a bad one. And the amendment you gave me wasn’t an amendment for anything. It was just throwing money at the problem with no accountability because there was no specifics. That amendment was what I said before, a give away to defense contractors. By the time they were done fighting over the cash who knows what the troops would have been left with. McCain was right to oppose that.

      • Lou

        DREAM ON-OBAMA DID NO SUCH THING. You are a victim of Obamas lies

      • RepublicanChick

        He’s visited Walter Reed numerous times? And that has what to do with Landstuhl? Nada. Nothing. Zip. Zilch.

        • Skiron

          Er, yes it does, because the claims being leveled against him are that he doesn’t visit the troops, or if he does it’s only for photo ops, etc. The fact that he visited Walter Reed on a number of occasions, with reporters kept outside the hospital, along with his visit in Iraq, should disabuse anyone of those notions.

          • WildChild

            The absence of the press release prior the visits and the characterization of the visit as being “solemn” might have disabused people of these notions

        • Katmoon

          The only thing it should have to do with Landstuhl is he knew the rules in advance, and tried to pull one over, it didn’t work.

      • pm317

        It is irrelevant he went to Walter Reed or how many times. What matters is he did not fulfill his obligation in Germany and that to over flimsy reasons. Shows his character or lack of it.

        • Idiocracy08

          It is easier to have your family visit you in Walter Reed. They are as close to home they can get…and are in the US. In Germany, these soldiers are homesick.

      • Brodie

        Oh, piss off, Skiron- one thing doesn’t count for another. He didn’t visit them THIS TIME when he clearly was a. there and b. had the time. He should WANT to visit the troops if he is nearby- just because of what the Dr. said- it means so much to them and asks so little from him. He’s just too damned selfish, self-serving and arrogant to put their needs over his own. And you want an ass like that for prez? Give me a break- just go away and peddle your crapola elsewhere.

      • steven Mather

        The outrage is that of Michael J. Durant and Dr. Danny Jazarevic, former Chief of Trauma, Critical Care and Vascular Surgery at Landstuhl. Are you saying that they are wrong?

        You must be very scared about your candidates fortunes thus far, or you wouldn’t be here trying to hijack and distort the thrust of the post away from reporting Durant and Jazarevic’s critique of Senator Obama by inferring that the outrage is ours alone.

        You should be scared. Obama is done.

      • navyvet48

        Not really Obama said himself he did not go see the troops because he couldn’t take his campaign aide with him. The Pentagon said he could visit as long as it was part of a Congressional Tour. Yeah! I have a right to be incensed about his canceled trip. I am a disabled Navy veteran. These people will more than likely be disabled too!

    • Clinton Fan

      I agree with you, and I agree with the doctor about the morale issue…and that’s not just for the patients, that’s for the staff as well, who in times like this, have to work doubly hard and deal with the pain of losing patients or seeing them so debilitated, with little hope for recovery, but having to remain upbeat and positive for their sakes.

      Anyone who has been in the military knows what sort of preparations are made in advance of a visit by a Distinguished Visitor. Wax is stripped from floors, the “buffer brigade” goes out in force, every surface is cleaned to gleaming, uniforms are picked and scalded, there’s a line to get haircuts…the whole nine yards. Many EXTRA hours in addition to regular duty hours are spent getting ready for the visit.

      They did all that, on top of their regular duties, which are much more onerous than they are when there aren’t so many casualties to attend to, and they got their hopes up…and the asshole didn’t show.

      It’s like some kid waiting for Santa, and getting nothing.

      He’s a jerk. He doesn’t get it, because he did not serve. “The troops” are not a BORG. Visiting them in Afghanistan or Iraq doesn’t mean you can blow them off, after you PROMISE, in Germany.

      • navyvet48

        I call it the “dog and pony” show. I did many of those when I was active duty because my ship was the “show me ship”.

  • suthrn

    yep the boy messed up when he refused to visit our troops…he is so selfish and only thinks of himself..he is killing his own campaign and will be glad when its buried and mccain is president since hillary can’t be this time around..he has lied and flip flopped so many times i have lost count…

    • fif

      This also reveals a fundamental and critical issue for the election: WHO UNDERSTANDS OUR MILITARY AND FEELS GENUINE EMPATHY FOR THEM? WHO IS PREPARED TO BE COMMANDER IN CHIEF?

      This is not just an ordinary Congressman doing the rounds. This is someone who is applying to be CIC–the ultimate military authority. I find it astonishing that anyone thinks this self-centered neophyte is in any way ready for that responsibility.

  • julie

    This is a very powerful statement because it shows us that Obama is not able to think of what is best for the world, only what is best for his path.

    Not good. Perhaps this will be the statement that everyone will be able to start seeing Obama for his true character.

    • Lou

      Fraudbamas extreme left agenda and complete inexperience in global affairs endanger the country.

      • Elle

        Well put. Thank you.

  • Judy

    The superdelegates must be very proud of their guy Obama.

    And, how about that John Edwards? What a team – I will never forget him giving his delegates to Obama, and those 2 on stage laughing/smiling. Scumbags come to mind.

  • Kevin

    content of his character
    soundness of his judgement
    depth of his experience
    quality of his associates

  • Matthew Weaver

    Anybody who has served in the military or has any level of patriotism, especially a candidate for president should be especially attuned to the challenges facing members of the military and, in particular, those wounded soldiers laying in a hospital. I’ve lost track of the excuses Obama and his cult following, including the MSM, have spewed out over this incredible disrespect. Add to this his comment about telling the military what to do, his slight back on Memorial Day where he focused on everything but the miliary, and you begin to get a picture of someone disdainful of the military except as a toy that he can wield. Very dangerous, very immature.

    • Lou

      I have been saying this since last Thanksgiving, that Obama is not a Patriot and neither is his roommate wife.
      Now is the time for everyone to come out from every corner of the nation and go to Denver to peacefully make Hillary our nominee. Remember, she suspended her campaign, she didn’t end it.
      Super delegates-As Obama’s ego grows, so does the budding discontent within his base and the party.

      Save America. Make Hillary our nominee! Hillary is the one who is qualified to lead. Put this bozo Obama out to pasture.
      Those who backed Obama will work twice as hard for Hillary to cleanse themselves of their political naivety. Put a Dem back in the whitehouse-Hillary! She’s a patriot and respects the troops. A man called her up recently during the primaries about the mold and rotten conditions in the barracks-Hillary took care of it. Super D’s and pledged delegates-YOU CAN CHANGE YOUR MIND-IT’s your patriotic duty to pick the person best able to lead. Hands down that’s Hillary! Don’t buy into Obamas politics of fear. Push BACK! Everyone go to Denver. Delegates vote for Hillary. America is crying for you to put Hillary in the whitehouse.
      Now go to it!

    • fif

      And a close associate of Maliki’s released a statement saying they were disappointed because BO wasn’t really paying attention/listening to them. HE IS NOT READY!!

    • navyvet48

      On Memorial Day, Obama was talking about this longline of dead veterans and said that he saw some of them in the audience that day….saw dead veterans in the audience. That was a very peculiar statement…and I wondered what he was thinking when he said that!

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/PaulFVillarreal Paul F. Villarreal

    John McCain crushes Obama in BRAND NEW video from his YouTube site, “The One”

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2dloF–BVg

    Obama is toast. He is done. McCain has him nailed and the hits just keep coming.

    Yes!

    • Mawm

      Thanks Paul,

      I am liking the new McCain ads. Everyone needs to be reminded what an arrogant, self-centered, empty suit he really is.

      • http://www.youtube.com/user/PaulFVillarreal Paul F. Villarreal

        It’s just getting better and better.

        He’s TIED in the Gallup poll and the GOP is only beginning.

        Obama is going to be destroyed if the super delegates nominate him. Ray Charles could have seen that.

        PUMA!

        • JoseyJ

          And now the Obama camp admits Obama played the Race Card on his ‘dollar bill’ comment…
          after they denied it all day yesterday.

          http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Politics/story?id=5495348&page=1

          Nobama!

        • skmf12

          Paul,

          to quote that submarine guy in
          ‘the hunt for red october’:

          OBAMA-

          ‘YOU ARROGANT ASS, YOU KILLED US INSTEAD….’

          LMFAO!!!!!!

          :)

    • roseeriter

      That was terrific. He is the one, by gawd, I’m convinced now…LOL!

      • http://www.youtube.com/user/PaulFVillarreal Paul F. Villarreal

        Ha ha ha. Love it!

    • SaraInPA

      That ad is awesome! I hope this makes into a national tv campaign. Brilliant.

      I almost threw up when he said the light will come down and shine upon us and inspire us to vote for him. Gross.

      • http://www.youtube.com/user/PaulFVillarreal Paul F. Villarreal

        This should get a ton of coverage, and I’m sure it will at least be in battleground states.

        Obama is getting exposed, totally.

      • georgiapeach

        That one surprised me. I didn’t know he had said that, and I can’t believe I haven’t seen it quoted somewhere or linked to. Is it recent?

        • fif

          I think he is playing when he says it, but out of context, it fits in with everything else in the ad. To make it worse, his stupid supporters really believe it, starting with Oprah giving him that idiotic title: The One.

        • Wisewoman

          Folks this is what hillary said in repeating and and dramatizing Obama’s own words I believe before the OH and TX primary. The MSM made it appear that these were her own words trying to mock Obama. They did this by not showing the beginning of her remarks where she attributed the comments as Obama’s exact words. I think the McCain campaign filed that one away for future reference. The ass*hole Obama said it, Hillary brought it to the attention of the media, they covered for Obama.

    • Mr. X

      This should be on the front page. It’s going viral. I’ve seen it on 10 sites already and I wasn’t even looking for it. The Obama supporters are invading the Republican sites posing as Republicans who say this is beneath McCain and some of them even say they will now vote for Obama. It’s hilarious seeing the Obamabots scrambling like this and no one is buying the faux outrage. Notice how they’re not here right now? That’s why. On YouTube, it’s been copied plenty of times that you don’t even need to go on McCain account anymore. Tons of users have it listed.

      The funniest part is the Obamabots who scream that the “light coming down” is taken out of context. They don’t understand satire and what this will do more than anything is show how the Obama campaign is devoid of a sense of humour and fun.

      Probably the best political ad ever.

      • Mawm

        I commented on a couple YouTube’s of this. I noticed that too. Obamabots are going crazy whining, and saying is throwing “the kitchen sink”. Remember that from the primary?

        Ha Ha Ha, Pay back is due.

        • justme

          HILL YEA ~~

          Bless all our service men and women…
          Thank you all for keeping us safe….

    • fif

      That is hilarious. Talk about SNARK! I love that McCain is really going hard at him now. When Hillary did, and she was mild, he whined and cried and only made it to the end because Dean and Co. carried him over the finish line. The Republicans do not have to be protective of the Dem Party. Quite the contrary. And the DNC, the media and his supporters will scream and cry and gnash their teeth and SO WHAT?! People will be listening and wondering about this self-proclaimed “Messiah.”

    • AF catfish

      That is hilarious! Man after not being able to laugh at anything for so many months, for if you laugh or make a joke you’ll be called a racist, these ads are such welcome comic relief.

  • beebop

    saw the effect that a visit from a celebrity like Senator Obama could have on morale

    Are we seeing a theme?

    Americans generally are not impressed with the “level” of celebrities. They all have feet of clay.

    Not visiting injured soldiers far from home and their buddies is the height of stupidity. I’m no politician and I can figure that out. Is he trying to lose?

    • roseeriter

      Celebrity word popped out to me too. Well, wouldn’t it be the perfect culture class dumbed down moment if the American Idol Reality Show produced/gave us our first celeb POTUS for the kids?

      Then America would truly be the laughing stock. Wipe Out anyone??

      • jwrjr

        I’ve met a few “celebrities”. I was not impressed by them personally. Their biggest fans are usually themselves.

    • db

      Has anyone ever seen the movie A Face In the Crowd?
      It stars Andy Griffith and it’s a 1950′s film about a drifter turned radio celebrity who believes his own press and the results of his inflated ego.
      Watching BO is like watching that movie.
      A must see!

      Dumbocrat Drop-out

      PUMA!

    • Clinton Fan

      Is he TRYING to lose?

      That is, seriously, a very good question you just posed.

      Maybe he’s having second thoughts, fucking up deliberately, and then he can scuttle safely home, say he was “the first” to go as far as he did (if you don’t count another corrupt son of a bitch, the light, bright and passing Warren Harding) and blame “The Man” for all his woes.

  • Dan

    Obama visited troops in Iraq without cameras or staff. Why would you think he would suddenly care about it in Germany? Even the McCain campaign backed off this attack and it really only continues to thrive on sites like these. Moreover, there have been reliable reports that the McCain campaign had two attack ad scripts ready: one if he visited and another if he didn’t. (Please see BusinessWeek at http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/brandnewday/archives/2008/07/the_new_normal.html)

    Please also see the former Chief of Medical Operations statement on this issue..”Dr. Katherine Scheirman, who was Chief of Medical Operations during Operation Iraqi Freedom, said in a statement:

    “John McCain’s new ad is dishonest and shameful, and I say that as the former Chief of Medical Operations. Senators Hagel and Reed confirmed to Bob Schieffer yesterday that Senator Obama visited the Combat Support Hospital in Baghdad as a part of their CODEL, with no media present.

    “In Germany, Senator Obama made the right decision to respect wounded troops, and the doctors and nurses doing crucial and time-sensitive work, by not making a visit that was characterized as a campaign event by the Pentagon. Senator Obama should be thanked for putting our military above politics. And, I would hope that John McCain would think in those same terms, the next time he is put in a similar situation.

    “Senator Obama has voted for the troops when John McCain has not, most recently on the new GI Bill. I am happy that Senator Obama puts the welfare of our troops above politics.”

    • DoroB

      Obama visited troops in Iraq without cameras or staff. Why would you think he would suddenly care about it in Germany?

      Exactly, so why did he care so much about it?
      The Pentagon only said he was not supposed to bring the media with him. He did it before. Why didn’t he do it again?

      • Dan

        No, if you look, he did *not* bring the media in Iraq. That’s why the idea that he would suddenly only visit the troops *with* the media in Germany doesn’t hold up.

        • DoroB

          Right, but that was the excuse that he used–that it would be a campaign event. Well it wasn’t a campaign event in Iraq and it didn’t have to be a campaign event in Germany. It’s simple: just show up like he did before.

          • Dan

            I get what you are driving at, but my understanding is that once Hagel and Reed left the trip (before Germany), the trip stopped being a Congressional Delegation and the Pentagon framed it as a campaign trip. So, I think the classification of the trip changed and Obama was faced with the prospect of being seen as trying to score political points off wounded troops.

            • WildChild

              or…. BOBO could have visited the wounded troops

              • Dan

                Yes, and as the Business Week article I cited notes, McCain would have attacked him on that too. Also, regardless of the politics, I think the last thing any decent person would want is to be seen as exploiting the troops.

                • WildChild

                  Business Week has no idea what McCain would have done in an alternative circumstance. BOBO alone, without props, visiting the troops couldn’t be viewed as exploitation.

                • justme

                  he should of shut up and gone without all this rigmarole….

                  he cannot do anything without shouting about it or needing the cameras showing how wonderful he is

                  he’s a sad case to put himself forward to run for the highest position in the land

                  the citizens of the USA deserve the best
                  not a show stopper stomper
                  yes we can yes we will??? WHAT THE HELL IS THAT???

                  YES WE WILL all show him in November who can do it!

                • beebop

                  He could have gone alone. Period. He — as others have pointed out — managed to meet with HRC without the media being tipped off. When it’s important, you do it. No questions asked. He and his Major General stuck their chins out at the hospital and wouldn’t take no for an answer. He could have gone alone. Do you have a “business week” answer for that?

                  • Isolde

                    He has Secret Service so he is really never alone, so he would have only been without a campaign worker. Can’t he talk to the staff and patients without a helper?

                • alexei

                  Sometimes the right thing to do is also the best thing to do for you politically. Obama could have visited the troops and then “righteously” attacked any McCain snipes by proposing measures to improve health care for veterans and active duty. It is beyond stupid not to be able to see the politics and how to counter any negatives to your planned iterinary. That article just underscores the ineptitude of the Obama campaign.

                  This is the worst scenario that has played out for him and demonstrates again that Obama and his team are not ready for prime time. Your campaign should anticipate and actually be proactive in this.

                  • beebop

                    On the money.

                    They are back on their heels because they expected the Empty Suit Tour to give him a boost. Now they are making HUGE gaffes and mistakes … pulling the race card out before the convention can’t have been part of the plan.

                    On the other hand, the McCain ads are perfect. And on the money. And appeal to the American’s that voted for Hill. They are doing all of the right things. Now. They just need to nail him down to a debate. And this would be a good time to try to negotiate that. He SUCKS at debate.

                • DoroB

                  Assuming that Obama visits the wounded troops without cameras, reporters, or any other type of publicity and then gets attacked by McCain, wouldn’t it still be better than not visiting the troops and being (rightly) attacked for making the wrong decision? If he really is going to be attacked either way, it’s better to be attacked because of doing the right thing.
                  As I see it, Obama would not lose anything if he had visited the troops by himself. It could only have been a gain for him.

                • MsSoAnd So

                  Dan the point is, it would have been the moral thing to do. If McCain attacked Obama for doing the morally correct thing that would have reflected bad on McCain for being so negative on such a generous act.

                  But of course Obama doesn’t have it in him, sooooooooooo no visit.

                  • imustprotest

                    And….do the wounded troops care if it was a visit that was “technically” political or “technically” senate business?? No. Because, cameras/no cameras those brave men and women will still be lying there in those hospital beds! This isn’t about YOU obama….it’s about THEM!

            • Zeke

              Dan,
              The only significant point when Barry did visit in Baghdad was that he was part of a Congressional Delegation.
              Not only is your point disingenuous and off point, so is the ignorant ‘opinion’ of a former Chief of Medical Operations. Obama was there as part of a delegation.
              How would he, whose *savvy* political ass you kiss, even think of risking the bad press he’d get if he didn’t go?
              Your excuses for him are as weak as he is.
              Barry, quite simply is:
              “a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”
              William Shakespeare

              • Dan

                Yeah, aside from the Shakespeare quote (which I appreciate) I am not going to bother to respond to a series of personal insults. Frankly, I think they make you look worse for hurling them than I do for being the target of them. That said, I do disagree that he was still part of a CONDEL (or CODEL) once the others had left.

                • WildChild

                  LOL you BOBOweenies are so sensitive. We’re going to have to toughen you weenies up is the DEM party is going to have any future

                  • Dan

                    Actually, “WildChild” (and that is some handle you’ve got there), I am not really being sensitive. If I were, I would probably get all defensive and touchy. I just ignoring the irrelevant parts of Zeke’s post, addressing the relevant stuff and even complimenting his use of Shakespeare. It’s called common courtesy. It’s how some of us were raised.

                    • WildChild

                      You poor baby. It’s funny when you BOBOweenies get so sensitive about personal insults that you feel the need to take the time to respond to them by telling us you’re not responding to them and then telling us how we look when we use them. LOL most of use just ignore the person insults when you BOBOweenies hurl them our way because we don’t have your delicate sensitivity issues.

                • DoroB

                  “Personal insults?” Oh please. If you can’t come up with a good response, you can just go away or say you’re busy.

                  • Dan

                    I don’t know about you, DoroB, but saying that I kiss someone (anyone’s) ass is insulting.

                    • WildChild

                      you should seek professional help to work through this injury of yours.

                    • one eyed jack

                      The destruction of a nation is much worse than any insult you may suffer.

                  • Katmoon

                    No Kidding. Actually you Obots look bad, real bad to other Americans right now, you don’t care what your candidate does as in a commitment to visit wounded soldiers you only care that his excuses work; you don’t care about Fisa, you don’t care how far each of you go as long as you get your man elected. It’s backfiring, people are sick of your blame game stunts. Just as I am responsible for what I type right now, your candidate is responsible for what comes out of his mouth. Excuses don’t work, and no one is obligated to have to clarify for your candidate what he said. That’s his job, if he can’t get it right the first time, too damn bad.

    • Mawm

      Ha Ha Ha, you are such a Kool-aide drinker. Obama doesn’t care about anything unless he can get it on camera.

      • Dan

        I see and what is the basis for that statement given the citations I included in my post?

    • HARP

      LOL…Hit a nerve did we?

      • Dan

        Not really, no. I am just trying to have a reasoned discussion. Are any of those responding taking the time to read my post or is your only response “OMG, Obamabot!”

        • HARP

          No…we are not interested in WORM.

          • Dan

            I’m sorry, “WORM”?

            • jus messin wit you man

              WORM = What Obozo Really Meant.

              • Dan

                Gotcha, thanks.

            • HARP

              What Obama really meant.

              • imustprotest

                And how nice that the acronym W.O.R.M. for What Oblah Really Meant….worm also means:

                . to move or act like a worm; creep, crawl, or advance slowly or stealthily.
                15. to achieve something by insidious procedure (usually fol. by into): to worm into another’s favor.
                16. Metallurgy. craze (def. 8a).
                –verb (used with object)
                17. to cause to move or advance in a devious or stealthy manner: The thief wormed his hand into my coat pocket.
                18. to get by persistent, insidious efforts (usually fol. by out or from): to worm a secret out of a person.
                19. to insinuate (oneself or one’s way) into another’s favor, confidence, etc.: to worm his way into the king’s favor

        • Yesbama

          “reasoned discussion” on this website!? HAHA!
          That would assume you were dealing with reasonable people, not lunatics.

          • WildChild

            We’ve never assumed you were anything other than a lunatic.

            • Yesbama

              You post on this website a lot. I feel sad for you and your lonely pathetic life.

              • WildChild

                You really shouldn’t confuse my life with your own. LOL the men in the white suits might come to get you with their big net.

              • WildChild

                You really shouldn’t confuse my life with your own. LOL the men in the white suits might come to get you with their big net lunatic boy

          • HARP

            You spend an awful lot of time here putting up with this. My sense is you secretly like it here and would love to join us. There is NO other reason any sane person would tolerate all this abuse.

            • Yesbama

              First of all what abuse?

              Cult member huh? You are the ones that spend your day trolling the internet for every last tidbit of information you can find on the guy. Some of you have written songs and poems!!! You’re all pathetic. She lost, get over it. She wasn’t perfect either, and if you think she would have been up by 20 pts in the polls right now, you’re as dumb as I think you are.

        • Bigtime

          “OMG another Obot cult member” is normally what I think because I did not drink the cult-aide. But seriously, how much do you get paid and is it by the post, by the replies, by the letter count, by the hour and how often do you have to check in with the mother ship?

          • Dan

            See, that’s a shame. I believe you are honest in what you believe, can’t you even accept that I am as well?

            • Isolde

              Yes I absolutely believe that you are being honest in what you believe. But I am also.

              • Dan

                Well, thanks, but Bigtime was stating I was being paid. Which, hey, would be great, but ain’t happening.

                • WildChild

                  Bigtime didn’t state anything. He asked you how much were getting paid and the break down of payment. If you were honest, you would have answered him.

                  • Dan

                    Yeah, I ultimately did. Frankly, I didn’t really feel it deserved an answer at first. It’s a pretty silly thing to accuse someone of.

                    • WildChild

                      an accusation would have been a statement. LOL but we’ve already gone through that.

              • Zeke

                “For he is superstitious grown of late,
                Quite from the main opinion he held once
                of fantasy, of dreams, and ceremonies.”

                “But when I tell him he hates flatterers,
                He says he does, being then most flattered.”

                W. Shakespeare
                Julius Caesar
                Act 2 Scene 1

                Four hundred years ago and he saw Obama’s type more clearly than we do…

                • Dan

                  Ah Zeke, great language even if I utterly disagree with the use you put it to!

                  • Zeke

                    Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.
                    Winston Churchill

                    • Dan

                      BTW (for language geeks only) some controversy whether he ever said that one…..

        • Idiocracy08

          Dan, in my opinion, Obama should have visited the troops. We had no idea what his itinenary was and would have probably never have known – until afterwards. I had no idea that he went and worked out at a gym, and probably wouldn’t have known if he didn’t do an interview. See, to me, he’s going where the cameras are.

          I, myself, would not have belittled that trip. It’s not important to Obama, it’s important to the troops. We are hearing a lot of “he went to Walter Reed” arguments, but it really isn’t the same. Germany is so much further away, and there is much less of a chance for a Senator to just drop by and thank you for your service. I really do think it means a lot to them. Think of the TROOPS, not Obama. Imagine being one of them – getting excited about meeting someone who may be the next president. This is why it bothers me.

          Honestly, the more and more I get to know Obama, the more I dislike & distrust him.

    • one eyed jack

      Obama once said ” I was not fortunate enough to have served (Militarily)”. That is not because he did not have the opportunity but because serving in the Armed Forces was not his priority. Obama’s priority has always been the advancement of his political career, even if he thinks it means shunning the wounded troops. Obama is 48+ years of age (no one knows because he is so secretive about his own birth), meaning he could have served in Desert Storm or he could have served in Afghanistan or Iraq following 9/11, but he chose not to (serve) because his political career was more important to him. Senator Obama could not care less about the wounded troops, else he would have made the time needed to visit them.

      • jus messin wit you man

        Relating back to TD’s thread re Obobo possibly having Indonesian citizenship… If he this is true and he is an Indonesian citizen, or Kenyan, for that matter, would Bobo have been required to register with the Selective Service?

        Do you think that this might be how he weaseled out of that, if he didn’t register?

        • one eyed jack

          I don’t know the answer to that. I do know that all US born citizens are required to register with the Selective Service when they reach the age of 18. Leastwise that is the way it was in the 1950s and 1960s, I think that is still true. I do not think foriegnors have to register but they can serve and through their service they can now acquire American citizenship.

          • navyvet48

            Registration with the Secret Service is a requirement for any type of financial aide! I think that settles that but still doesn’t prove anything!

    • C.S.

      Could it be the residents of Iraq had guns and bombs and suicide bombers kept in check by the military while Germany was considered safe – unless he ran into some neo Nazis.

      The main point of this international tour is why did he take his campaign staff to a war zone and foreign capitols instead of his SENATE staff because if he had, there would have been no controversy over his taking the Senate staff with him to the hospitals…”Welfare of the troops over politics“? Yeah, sure. Wanna buy my bridge in Brooklyn?

    • Postmaster

      yeah, right

    • Deke

      Dan your post is so obviously a plant by the Obama campaign it is laughable. There is no excuse for his cancellation other than it did not suit his needs. It is again a demonstration of the narcissism Obama display at every opportunity.
      And again Dan I find your posts and post of all the other trolls who come here disgusting that a campaign must reduce themselves to infiltrating web sites to spread their propaganda. Obama and his staff truly see Orwells 1984 as a model on how to run a campaign. It is frighten and the fact that you are too stupid too see the impact on your deeds does not bode well for your generation or our country.

      • Dan

        Well, I am not with the campaign, and there is no way I can be considered a troll unless the new definition of troll is “person who politely disagrees with you.”

        Also “your generation?” Hey, I am flattered, but I am no spring chicken. I waved goodbye to 40 quite awhile ago as my wife often reminds me!

    • fif

      LOL! How much are they paying her? I guarantee she has a serious Obot connection.

    • Clinton Fan

      Some of those troops had their cellphones and minicams, and he knew he’d get good press from them. Also, there were some embed press there who covered …you can watch film of him “shooting hoop” in the ME theater with a bunch of adoring fans on YOUTUBE–they’ve already shown that footage over and over on CNN and MSILoveOBAMA.

      When I was in service at many different installations we hosted a number of very senior leaders from the civilian sector, from the executive as well as the legislative branch. The most memorable visit with which I was personally involved was from a Vice President….who was ON VACATION.

      The press never knew the guy was there until he left. They were calling the media liaison/Public Information/Public Affairs for details and majorly pissed when they found out he’d been there, been briefed, conducted morale visits, had lunch with a tableful of service personnel, and already left.

      You don’t have to “announce your arrival” and you do not need a fucking entourage–these things can be, and have been, done very privately.

      When I was a patient at Walter Reed, I saw tons of “celebrities” from both sides of the aisle (one who lived there, Strom Thurmond) but rarely, if ever, saw mention of those visits in the newspaper.

  • The Real Hope

    This is completely inexcusable on the part of Obama! He can make all the excuses he wants, blame it on this person or that, but the simple fact remains that Obama hasn’t the depth or the heart to visit with the injured troops. In other words folks: HE DOESN’T GIVE A HOOT!
    If he cared, he would have said fine, leave the cameras out, I want to thank and support the troops. BUT NO! The biggest egomaniac in the world couldn’t have been bothered to dirty himself! What a fraud! What an anti-American creep! His allegiances are elsewhere as evidenced by his behavior. I wonder if he would have visited them had they been a “Global Army”? Since he’s such a citizen of the world, a “global citizen” as he calls himself, I highly doubt he wishes to honour anything American let alone the troops. His actions speak louder than any of his scripted speeches.

    This guy cannot be president!

  • fred

    McCain best Ad todate
    This will get under Barry’s skin
    http://countusout.wordpress.com/

    • roseeriter

      Precious ad for Precious:-)

    • beebop

      The number of responses at ABC are running very high loving the heck out of it. I think the media is starting to get the picture that not everyone loves them some Barack as much as Barack does.

  • rw

    “but Senator Obama seems to have been more concerned with how the visit would affect him than how it would affect the soldiers recovering from wounds received in the service of their country.””

    Incredibly powerful statement.

  • http://dakiniland.wordpress.com/ Dakinikat

    Must see video from SimoFish on a Hillary event in the East Bay–she’s talking on Denver, vp, and her supporters being respected.

    http://dakiniland.wordpress.com/2008/08/01/731-hillary-video-by-simofish-must-see/

  • beachnan

    mememememememememememememememememememememememememememememememememememememememememem. Visiting our injured service members would have meant focusing his energy on someone other than himself–something Obama doesn’t do well. In Obama’s world, it’s all about him. There isn’t room in his enormous ego for concern about anyone other than himself. I can’t believe his staff, didn’t force him to go to this facility. I’m sure they thought they could spin this in their favor. They made a HUGE mistake.

    • HARP

      May be the military are just clinging to their guns.

      • beebop

        hahahahahahahahaha oh, Harp! That is sooooo good. First laugh out loud today. The rest have been chuckles. t/y :)

  • doublestandard

    LOVE the ad, so accurate!

    But WHY isn’t the media bringing up this soldiers Obama criticism? It is very timely and relevant? Of course, they are still afraid to, for, after all, that would be racist.

    He’s going to say: “It’s all racist!” Even this new “the One” ad is racist! How dare you compare Obama to Moses, who is a Jew! Racist, racist, racist!

    When Obama runs out of race cards, will he have another deck? LOL!

  • J in MN

    HuffingtonPost had breaking news that HRC has decided not to be nominated at the Convention:

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/01/hillary-clinton-asks-not_n_116336.html

    • roseeriter

      Anoymous source so consider the source- Just another Axelrod/Rove moment- repeat a lie long enough.. and Obama is tanking in the polls so O’s campaign needs to feel the babybots with just another lie.

    • Lou

      This is a LIE. Hillary never said that she didn’t want to be nominated! Of course she wants to be the nominee. Our country is at stake.
      Obama’s inexperience and extreme left-wing voting record is more dangerous than any threat we face today.

  • katmandu

    http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/latestpolls/index.html

    McCain is up by 21% in Kentucky. Research 2000 did the polling. KY, where Obama is not popular, generally picks the winner. Are readers aware that Clinton won it twice?

    • beebop

      Thank GOD Bill is in Africa with the Foundation for the next ten days. No one can ask him to campaign if he’s out of the country. Please, Bill, find someplace else to visit. I’ll help pay for the ticket!

  • one eyed jack

    I have read several blogs today where the people are saying Obama is not running against McCain but rather he (Obama) is running against god.

    • jwrjr

      How can Obama run against God when he thinks he is God.

      • one eyed jack

        OH YEAH? THAT IS THE POINT! Obama is in a contest with God.

        • Clinton Fan

          No, he’s running against McCain, and in the Year of the Democrat, he is managing, in his incompetent way, to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

          He may think he’s God, but aside from some of his crazed supporters, he’s alone in that belief.

  • BJ

    OT

    This is a big deal-

    You know how you see on any website those ads they want you to click, often those ads are about Obama and his run for presidency? we’ve seen them ever sine the primaries and they are ALWAYS positive in their way of posting a question about obama- they want you to click the ad and take a survey or answer a question –

    Well i was just on a sight that has zero to do with politics, obama, totally off topic site and the ad to click, the giant bar across the middle of the site said, “is it over for obama?”

    that is a big deal! that is the first negative ad i’ve seen about obama on a site of any kind.. i think that speaks volumes about the way the tide is turning- let’s hope it keeps up!

    Hillary ’08

  • cdo

    Drudge and Huffpo can spin their made-up nomination crap all day long, it doesn’t make it true. They are very busy trying to CREATE a truth, hmm I can’t help but wonder why.

    If any article about Hillary doesn’t quote her or someone she pays, then it is totally bogus.

    Obama is tanking. That whistling sound you hear is the air escaping from his LURV ME! balloon floats.

    He is tied with McCain when he should be holding a big fat lead. He has just ended a non-stop publicity tour, after a non stop publicity primary. Americans are sick and tired of Bush, suffering in a bad economy, losing their homes and can’t afford health insurance or gas to get to work. And Gallup shows a tie?!

    Obama’s camp needs Hillary out of the way more than ever, and are trying to create the reality that she is no longer an option.
    The sad fact of the matter is that even after Hillary endorsed him, he still has not wrapped this thing up. Hillary still could be the nominee, that isn’t wishful thinking on my part folks, that is simply teh rulz.

    And it isn’t the GOP smear machine bringing Obama down, nor McCain’s evil-genius operatives…it is Obama’s own crap backfiring that is killing him. I can hardly wait for the 5 million in ads he bought during the Olympics! You are gonna see some real tanking then!

    • Postmaster

      you are so right, if Obama didn’t always act the fool, McCain wouldn’t have anything to portray in the ads. Obama is what he is.

      • one eyed jack

        Obama may not have always acted the fool but Obama has always been fooled from the time he was a teenager and given free whiskey by “Frank” his mentor. Now Obama is trying to fool everyone the way he was fooled into accetpting socialism/communism as the path to paradise.

  • samb

    The troops take a back seat , especially when there are no cameras there. Obama or (the chosen one} comes first all always.

  • Lou

    It won’t be politics of change with a President Obama — it will be radical extreme liberal politics as usual

    If he were commander in chief — he’d be a serious threat to our national security.

  • Lou

    The Wright debacle revealed Obama’s poor judgment of character and deceitful nature.

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  • Lou

    Fraudbama is imploding and grabbing at straws. Can you hear the sizzle fizzle? I hope his OBOTS get through his failure Okay..

  • pasmalltowngirl

    Of all the things Obama has done or said, this one upset me the most. This is the answer to “who the real Barack Obama is.” He basically brushed them off his shoulder. Threw them under the bus, they were of no use to him or rather, since he couldn’t use them to make the world see why we should vote for “the one we have all been waiting for” Just like him giving Hillary, a Senator, a Presidential Candidate, A Former First Lady, a Mother, Daughter, Wife, an American Citizen, A Human Being, the finger. This absolutely gives us our answer. He is an ignorant, egotistical, self-centered, Un-American Male. Notice I didn’t say “Man”. Just because you are grown up and pretend that you are a somebody, a President, doesn’t make you a MAN. You have to earn that. What I know of Barack Obama, he doesn’t even come close.

  • nobonomo

    Today is the beginning of the end of Obama Nation and none to soon if you ask me.

    There is no acceptable excuse for why he did not visit the troops in Germany, none. He should apologize and all of his sycophant followers should give up with the excuses too. They are as bad as he is so their opinion doesn’t matter.

  • james

    I wonder what Dr. Danny Jazarevic thinks about John McCain’s dismal voting record on veterans’ health care access, veterans’ benefits, and his 2003 votes against funding for safety equipment for military personnel in combat zones?

    Or about his strong opposition to the 2008 GI Bill, followed by his failure to even vote on it?

    Not that any of that stuff begins to compare in importance with the dreadful consequences of a single cancelled hospital visit, of course…

    • james

      Here’s a brief overview of John McCain’s recent voting record on bills relating to veterans’ benefits, veterans’ health care, and the care and safety of active military personnel. There are plenty of links to more detailed information, specific legistlation, etc.

      If you haven’t considered his record, you haven’t got a clue.

      http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/articleid/9559

  • http://thekatrinatour.com sherry moore

    so many of these posts are missing out on a real discussion about our nations heroes. it feels sad to me as you all go after one another with such mean spirited words,what is being accomplished?
    i appreciate those of you who are trying to bring the issue of the treatment of our troops. sen. obama’s excuses for skipping his planned visit to the hospital are just that Excuses.
    (i hope it is true that he has visited the troops in other military hospitals.)
    what if our soldiers decided to sit one out, to take a gym break, to pack it up?
    a visit to these injured soldiers by the senator would have lifted the spirits of everyone involved. why not give this to them? whomever was involved in canceling this trip were short sighted, immature and disrespectful. oh and throw in insincere, rude, dismissive, and frankly abusive.
    did you know that after released from the hospital to home, the soldier has to pay their own way home?
    if elected this man will become the Commander in Chief.

    • navyvet48

      I will disagree, the military member is usually flown home by military aircraft. Otherwise they are provided airfare. The only time they pay their own way home is when they are on leave! There have pictures of this in the past…wounded troops arriving home at various bases…..Ft Hood, TX comes to mind! When I left the hospital stateside, the military flew me to meet my ship! So you are wroong on your assertion.

  • TeakwoodKite

    If Bo had a once of humility he would have paid for the visit himself. None of the service members at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany gave any excuses and deserve the deepest respect and support. BO does not understand this.

    How can he? He sat his buttscrapin ass in a church for 20 years listening his rev Wright denigrate the Armed forces of this country.

    Rev Wright was a marine and did serve. As far as he goes, I give him the respect for that, but other Marines will be the judge of his Simpre Fi.

  • politicsIsdirty

    Judgment, it is all about judgment Mr.Skiron. Yes Pres Obama may have visited the troops at Walter Reed at one time. But not visiting the troops at Lanstuhl shows the inconsistency in his judgment and character. That is the problem if deeds are not really inherent upon an individual and actions are just part of grandstanding. You tend to be inconsistent.

    Karma is creeping towards those who committed injustice.

  • Connie

    Plain and simple!!! BHO is all JUST WORDS!!!. BHO DOESN’T CARE!!! What a big disappointment EVEN IF I REALLY DON’T EXPECT ANYTHING GOOD FROM HIM. Kerry, Pelosi, Dean, Brazille, etc. what do you think about your wonder boy? Is he really the one the world is waiting for? LOL

  • Marty

    My brother laid wounded in VA hospitals after losing a leg in the Phillipines in WW2, 2 of the most memorable times he talked about was when Bob Hope and Alan Ladd came to see him, he also talked about the the Bob Hope shows before he was wounded, it brought a little bit of home to him. For Obama to “pass on by” our troops in the hospital is unforgivable. You better believe that John McCain would have been there. Jim asked one of the guys in the ward to take a picture of him with Hope, Jim didn’t have a camera, but that picture went with him in his wallet till he died. He told us Ladd sat on his bed and they talked for an hour. Publicity stunt, I don’t think so, there was no media there and only the guys with cameras to take the pictures.

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