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UPDATE: Obama Campaign Blames Pentagon for Troop Snub in Germany
Thursday, July 24, 2008 | Kristinn

Posted on 07/24/2008 6:59:36 PM PDT by kristinn

The Obama campaign has issued a new statement blaming the Pentagon for Obama's controversial decision to scrap visits to U.S. troops and Rammstein Landstuhl military bases in Germany on Friday.

Der Spiegel initially reported this morning that Obama had cancelled the visits without reason. Then as word spread through the political world after the story was first posted at Free Republic, Obama's campaign issued a statement saying Obama thought it would be "inappropriate" to visit the troops while on a campaign trip.

After the McCain campaign issued a statement upbraiding Obama for snubbing the troops saying that it is never inappropriate to visit troops, Obama's campaign issued a new statement blaming the Pentagon:

"We learned from the Pentagon last night that the visit would be viewed instead as a campaign event. Senator Obama did not want to have a trip to see our wounded warriors perveived as a campaign event when his visit was to show his appreciation for our troops and decided instead not to go," Maj. Gen. Scott Gration, USAF (Ret), Obama spokesman.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: elections; gration; landstuhl; nobama08; obama; obamalies; obamasbigadventure; obamavisit; rammstein; snub; unfitforcommand
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To: kristinn
I don't care what the reasoning is. I'm just grateful that our brave wounded weren't subjected to even further pain.

My guess is most of those guys would've hurt themselves trying to pull a reverse Gen. Patton on Barry Obama.

41 posted on 07/24/2008 7:21:03 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (Barack Obama is lika a bowl of chili - - he's full of beans.)
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To: kristinn

This and after the snub of the troops in Afghanistan doesn’t look good at all!


42 posted on 07/24/2008 7:21:14 PM PDT by chris_bdba
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To: xkaydet65

Whatever; he gets faint at the sight of blood. He admitted this at a hospital in Iowa and MO.


43 posted on 07/24/2008 7:21:43 PM PDT by Pinetop
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To: PajamaTruthMafia

I would be REALLY frightened if he wanted to make a stop at Bayreuth.


44 posted on 07/24/2008 7:23:29 PM PDT by NewHampshireDuo (Earth - Taking care of itself since 4.6 billion BC)
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To: flyfree

bkmk


45 posted on 07/24/2008 7:23:37 PM PDT by g'nad
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To: ought-six

FYI!

Major General Jonathan Scott Gration

The general was raised in Africa and entered the Air Force in 1974 through the Air Force ROTC program at Rutgers University. He has previously served as a White House Fellow, operations group commander and two-time wing commander. Prior to assuming his current position, the general served as Director of Regional Affairs in the Office of the Deputy Undersecretary of the Air Force for International Affairs.

Gen. Jonathan S. Gration is (was) the Director, Strategy, Policy, and Assessments, United States European Command, Stuttgart-Vaihingen, Germany.

http://www.eucom.mil/english/CommandStaff/gration.htm


46 posted on 07/24/2008 7:23:42 PM PDT by PhiKapMom ( VOTE FOR McCAIN 2008! Support Florida's Gus Bilirakus, FL-9; McCainNow.com; LetsGetThisRight.com)
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To: PajamaTruthMafia

Frightened? No. The REAL Messiah is coming and He is ticked!


47 posted on 07/24/2008 7:25:43 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (G-d is not a Republican. But Satan is definitely a Democrat.)
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To: M1Tanker

You say it well. And yes, whether he was white or yellow and I’d still be scared of him. Working hard to see to it Obama is not #44.


48 posted on 07/24/2008 7:26:14 PM PDT by pacpam (action=consequence and applies in all cases - friend of victory)
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To: kristinn

Typical girlie man answer. I think Jaskass Jackson has already gotten to him.


49 posted on 07/24/2008 7:31:27 PM PDT by caisson71 (Times change, values don't.)
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To: kristinn

So when it comes to securing the country he said he will not listen to the Generals because he has a much broader vision and they are just there to get his job done.
Now when he is advised not to make something a campaign stop he suddenly is all obediant to the military.


50 posted on 07/24/2008 7:32:32 PM PDT by smoketree (the insanity, the lunacy these days)
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To: kristinn

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51 posted on 07/24/2008 7:37:19 PM PDT by KoRn (CTHULHU '08 - I won't settle for a lesser evil any longer!)
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To: don-o

Great!


52 posted on 07/24/2008 7:39:18 PM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie (WE NEED A TROOP SURGE IN CHICAGO !)
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To: txflake

Great Great line!


53 posted on 07/24/2008 7:40:17 PM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie (WE NEED A TROOP SURGE IN CHICAGO !)
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To: kristinn

Yet his choreography in Afghanistan and Iraq were not for political consumption and would not be viewed as politically contrived visits? Bull-onie.


54 posted on 07/24/2008 7:40:51 PM PDT by Texas Songwriter
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To: Texas Eagle

I agree..just the sight of him might have put one of our finest into cardiac arrest!

Wonder what the black troops in Landstuhl think about their hero now.


55 posted on 07/24/2008 7:43:16 PM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie (WE NEED A TROOP SURGE IN CHICAGO !)
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To: jwalsh07

But but but he wasn’t talking today as a presidential candidate - he was speaking as a citizen of the world. Can’t a citizen of the world, or at the very least, a junior f’ng senator visit our brave wounded military personnel? It could have been a great reverse-Patton moment to see an injured soldier slap the crap out of Barry, kicking Barry out and sending him to the front!


56 posted on 07/24/2008 7:44:43 PM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.....)
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To: kristinn
ap headline says "Obama urges Germans to collaborate"(for real).
57 posted on 07/24/2008 7:51:25 PM PDT by Eagles6 ( Typical White Guy: Christian, Constitutionalist, Heterosexual, Redneck)
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To: xkaydet65
Rather than simply tell the aide to stay behind and go accompanied by senatorial staffers the haloed one bowed out

That's because, without his handlers, Obama is a gaffe machine ready to implode at any moment.

58 posted on 07/24/2008 7:52:11 PM PDT by montag813
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To: kristinn
...Senator Obama did not want to have a trip to see our wounded warriors perveived as a campaign event when his visit was to show his appreciation for our troops and decided instead not to go

Simple. Just leave the press outside when you go in.

59 posted on 07/24/2008 7:55:02 PM PDT by Poincare
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To: kristinn

It has legs


60 posted on 07/24/2008 7:55:14 PM PDT by italianquaker
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