{"id":2134,"date":"2008-07-25T13:05:48","date_gmt":"2008-07-25T17:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=2134"},"modified":"2008-07-25T17:08:41","modified_gmt":"2008-07-25T21:08:41","slug":"why-barry-wouldnt-visit-landstuhl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=2134","title":{"rendered":"Why Barry wouldn’t visit Landstuhl (UPDATED)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Folks have been emailing me the story about Obama foregoing a visit<\/a> with troops recovering from their injuries at the Landstuhl medical facility in Germany.<\/p>\n

Sen. Barack Obama scrapped plans to visit wounded members of the armed forces in Germany as part of his overseas trip, a decision his spokesman said was made because the Democratic presidential candidate thought it would be inappropriate on a campaign-funded journey.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course he did. There was no winning way to look at it from the stand point of a political campaign. Either he took cameras with him or he did the reverent thing and forbid the media to follow him. Why would he waste his time doing something he couldn’t make into a photo-op? And if he let cameras in, he’d be accused of using the wounded as props (I’d have been the first to say it), and why would he want a photo op with someone who’d draw the viewers attention away from the Messiah.<\/p>\n

From a political standpoint, there was no up side. And we all know that Barack Obama doesn’t deviate from the politically expedient decision. AFP<\/a> points out why he couldn’t make the visit;<\/p>\n

Pentagon officials said the restrictions were in keeping with Defense Department guidelines aimed at avoiding the appearance of military support for any particular candidate.<\/p>\n

“Because his visit is official only, Senator Obama may not be accompanied by members of his campaign staff,” a Pentagon memo seen by AFP said. “He may only be accompanied by one member of his Senate staff, and the appropriate number of security personnel.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Only one handler with him? What if one of the troops asked him a question about the surge and Obama’s failure to support it? Who would be there to whisper the answer in his ears? Rush would have had another 2 minutes of “uh” to add to his unscripted Obama tape.<\/p>\n

Nope, there was no up side for the politically adept Obama…no up side except for the troops he would have had to make a personal sacrifice to visit. I guess that was asking too much of the messiah.<\/p>\n

UPDATED: <\/strong>Zero Ponsdorf emailed a link to a Free Republic article<\/a> by Kristinn (a local FReeper whom I’ve met a few times) that pulls together a bunch of articles and sources;<\/p>\n

\u00a0This explanation by the Pentagon that Obama’s plane would be allowed to land and his staff and press taken care of leaves a big question as to what was so objectionable that Obama cancelled.<\/p>\n

It couldn’t be the media restriction as some have speculated. Obama visited wounded troops at Walter Reed Army Medical Center last month without the press. He visited troops in Kuwait, Afghanistan and Iraq without the media. The military released official photos of the war zone visits, the only exception being of Obama’s visit to a military hospital in the Green Zone in Baghdad.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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