John McCain has a new TV ad out in three swing states blasting Barack Obama for not visiting wounded soldiers while in Germany. But the spot is drawing incoming fire from both sides of the aisle.
On CBS's "Face the Nation," Hagel (Republican Senator Chuck Hagel who accompanied Obama) agreed with Obama that since his campaign was funding his visit to Germany "it would have been inappropriate for him and certainly he would have been criticized by the McCain people and the press" for him to visit the military hospital, saying he would have been "accused of using our wounded men and women as props for his campaign."Hagel added that he was also troubled by McCain's remarks that Obama "would rather lose a war in order to win a campaign."
"I think John is treading on some very thin ground here when he impugns motives and when we start to get into, 'You're less patriotic than me. I’m more patriotic,' ” Hagel said.
Obama campaign spokesman Tommy Vietor said Obama and McCain both believed that troops should be honored and noted that Obama had visited troops in Iraq and Afghanistan last week and had made numerous trips to Washington's Walter Reed Army Medical Center. ''Senator McCain knows full well that Senator Obama strongly supports and honors our troops, which is what makes this attack so disingenuous. This politicization of our soldiers is exactly what Senator Obama sought to avoid,'' Vietor said.TPJ: Obama did, however, get a chance to speak with many of them by phone. This kind of attack smacks of serious desperation on the part of the McCain camp and is wildly inappropriate, especially for a war veteran. McCain seems only interested at this point in whining and low blow attacks instead of talking about the issues that matter most to Americans. I think that this is because that most Americans don't agree with him on many of the important issues but especially the economy, Iraq and health care. He's desperate and when Republicans like him are desperate they turn to Rovian slime ball tactics.
4 comments:
this blog is brilliant!!
I'd like to invite you to join a national movement of positive bloggers for Obama: we've pledged to write a positive blog post once a week about Obama for the next 10 weeks. The only guidelines are that the 10 posts be both positive and honest.
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-Ruby
If McCain were in front of me, I'd smack him! I'm so over this line. As you say, he's just desperate. Truth is, if Obama had worked out a visit to the troops, the McCain camp would probably be saying that he's exploiting them for a campaign advantage. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
Ruby Reid MSW:
Thanks for the invite. I'll take a look at the setup. I'm running several blogs right as well as doing my art and writing a book so I'm pretty busy.
Riverwolf:
Unfortunately his typical Republican disinformation works on a lot of Americans. People who are too lazy or uneducated to think on their own.
st Pledge" doesn't take any extra work for a blogger like you who is already posting more than once a week. the posts don't have to be long--just positive and honest about Obama. and you'll probably get a ton of extra traffic on your blogs since we have 50+ blogs linking to each other...
take care and thanks for the great work you're doing!
YES WE CAN!!
-Ruby
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