McCain To Obama: Welcome Home, Troop Hater
Despite his promise to fight a clean campaign, McCain's is actually starting to get nastier by the day. He's now claiming that Obama cancelled a visit to the troops because he was not allowed to bring cameras along. In other words, he's now pedalling the filthiest of lies:However complicated the issue of Obama's canceled troop visit has become, no one -- not the campaign, and not the Pentagon -- has cited a prohibition on "bring[ing] cameras" along with Obama as a reason for the trip's scuttling.
Obama's campaign have been quick to respond:"John McCain is an honorable man who is running an increasingly dishonorable campaign," said Obama campaign spokesman Tommy Vietor in an email to reporters Saturday evening, adding: "Senator McCain knows full well that Senator Obama strongly supports and honors our troops, which is what makes this attack so disingenuous. Senator Obama was honored to meet with our men and women in uniform in Iraq and Afghanistan this week and has visited wounded soldiers at Walter Reed numerous times. This politicization of our soldiers is exactly what Senator Obama sought to avoid, and it's not worthy of Senator McCain or the 'civil' campaign he claimed he would run."
The Obama campaign has also released a speech McCain made from the floor in May 2007 in an attempt to embarrass him into stopping this nonsense:"How can we possibly find honor in using the fate of our servicemen to score political advantage in Washington? There is no pride to be had in such efforts. We are at war, a hard and challenging war, and we do no service for the best of us-those who fight and risk all on our behalf-by playing politics with their service."
This is gutter nonsense from a man who has already decried the very tactics that he is now indulging in. It seems "the Maverick" has performed yet another bloody flip flop.
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