Obama - If he can't have cameras there, why bother visiting wounded soldiers?

[Hornet33]

I seem to recall seeing him walking into and out of those hospitals on the nightly news. Considering he was there as part of a Congressional deligation why was his campaign paying for the whole thing?

[midnight Target]

"On his trip he used his staus as a sitting Senator to get into medical facilities in Iraq and Afghanistan, where by the way there penty of cameras to see him do it, but in Germany were they have a strict no camera policy he ducked out."

Is this a truthful assesment?

No,

His trip to Afghanistan and Iraq was a Congressional Junket funded by the taxpayers that included Senators from both sides of the aisle. His trip to Germany was funded by his campaign. So his explaination that it was not appropriate to visit wounded troops on a campaign swing is valid.

[Hornet33]

Then why even try and schedual the visit in the first place? Maybe he should have thought about all that before he gets everything set up and then cancel at the last minute.

It all goes back to the same thing though. He was supposed to go, and when the Pentagon told him that doing it as part of a political campaign wasn't in the best interests of the soilders there, he bailed because then it wasn't in his best interests.

I would have been impressed if he had responded along the lines of, "Whatever is in their best interests is what I'll do, but I do want to meet with these guys. I'll leave the press and staff behind and just come on my own."

That would have shown some character and that he has a personal interest in their wellfare. Instead it was, "Well I can't use it as a campaign stop, so lets cancel this one and move on to the Berlin so I can talk to people that can't vote for me even if they wanted too, but it'll look good on TV."

He said he was going to go for 3 weeks, so he should have went. Alot of people busted their butts getting ready for him to show up and then he cancels for NO GOOD reason. Anyone who has ever been in the military knows what goes on weeks before a visit like that happens and it's a major pain for the people within that command to get everything ready.

He has no excuse for doing that.

[WWhiskey]

Anyone who is seriously considering voting for this guy is an idiot and you'll get exactly what you deserve if he wins.

  I said the same thing about Bush Jr. 

  The funny thing is, if he went, you wingnuts would whine about him not respecting the privacy of our wounded troops. 

 if he went he would have been seen as a good person!! taking the time (important time to him and his campaign)
 to do this, without his mindless followers.
 he would have been seen as presidential,
 not as an opportunistic arse, that he is usually perceived as!!
but he again has shown a lack of ability to understand human nature, and fell back on his own misguided learning's,
what if he does this while working with leaders of foreign countries ,,who could be as easily be offended , with much greater consequence, than to lose a simple election??
  he lacks the ability to understand the results of his actions, and that is a very bad thing to have in a leader!!