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BERLIN (AP) — Sen. Barack Obama scrapped plans to visit wounded members of the armed forces in Germany as part of his overseas trip, a decision his campaign said was made because the Democratic presidential candidate thought it would be inappropriate on a campaign-funded journey.

A campaign adviser said the U.S. military saw the visit as a campaign stop.

“We learned from the Pentagon last night that the visit would be viewed instead as a campaign event,” the adviser, retired Air Force Maj. Gen. Scott Gration, said in a statement. “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.”

Sen. John McCain’s presidential campaign immediately criticized the move.

“Barack Obama is wrong. It is never inappropriate to visit our men and women in the military,” said Brian Rogers, a spokesman for the Republican contender.

Obama’s decision raised a number of questions because the visit, which had been scheduled for Friday, never appeared on the schedule of events distributed to reporters who are accompanying him on his travels.

The first word from the campaign about its existence was a statement from Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs.

Obama had been planning to go to Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany before a flight to Paris. Gibbs said the stop was canceled because Obama decided “it would be inappropriate to make a stop to visit troops at a U.S. military facility as part of a trip funded by the campaign.”

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Is there evidence of Barry’s tossing bombs, no—BUT, since the Presidency isn’t a one man job and he must drag a complete cadre of friends, favor-holders, like-minded policy wonks, and sympathizers with him, the nest from which the President comes is extremely important, or should be, in consideration of the man himself and whether he is worthy of a vote.

Barry is a lightweight ACORN community organizer with as much leadership experience as comes from representing factions of whiners seeking government handouts, with no ability to string together a coherent sentence without a tele-prompter, with not enough memory of what lie he told last to maintain a consistent story, and no sense of the magnitude of the job he’s being pushed into by his party leadership who thinks they can sell this doof and their puppet to the American people.

Unfortunately some, such as you, ignorantly buy his “change” routine even though his pockets are full of the same Democrat policy plans, really upstanding Americans such as William Ayers, winers and “victims” with their hands out for even more government goodies all sporting the same policy line and reading the same tired playbook the Democrats have proffered for the last 50 years. What “change”?

And McCain is a hold nose and vote for guy, but he’s at least got something inside his suit that qualifies him for the job. Is he the best available—far from it, BUT, unfortunately he’s the only real choice.

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But as long as we agree that the walker is not true (contra post # 8), I’m fine with that.

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Truth is we are almost 20,000 troops over pre-surge levels.

McCain is either lying, or McCain is out of touch with the realities of his and Bush’s war.

This is why I’m voting for BOB BARR in ‘08!

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Barack Obama is at it again! Holy Cow! Does this guy ever stop? Recently in Israel, Obama made a pledge:“In terms of knowing my commitments, you don’t have to just look at my words.You can look at my deeds. Just this past week, we passed out of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee, which is my committee, a bill to call for divestment from Iran as a way of ratcheting up the pressure to ensure that they don’t obtain a nuclear weapon.”

Whoops, only problem is Barry is NOT a member of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee. That’s not only a gaffee — it’s lying, IMO!

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