Was I Not Supposed To Say That?

The blogosphere is in a late Friday minor uproar, especially those worried that Obama may be the target of some unfriendly fire now that McCain may have possible exposed him to some of the same, TPM has the Reuters piece:

Republican presidential candidate John McCain said on Friday that his Democratic opponent, Barack Obama, is likely to be in Iraq over the weekend.

The Obama campaign has tried to cloak the Illinois senator's trip in some measure of secrecy for security reasons. The White House, State Department and Pentagon do not announce senior officials' visits to Iraq in advance.

"I believe that either today or tomorrow -- and I'm not privy to his schedule -- Sen. Obama will be landing in Iraq with some other senators" who make up a congressional delegation, McCain told a campaign fund-raising luncheon.

And Josh comments:

It's known that Obama is leaving on his foreign trip this weekend and the Journal OpEd page this morning said that Obama could arrive in Iraq "as early as this weekend." And with a slew of reporters in tow, it's not exactly highly classified information. But there is a reason definite information about these sorts of trips aren't released in advance.

Hypothetically, maybe McCain was just guessing. But even so it would still be a serious lapse of judgment on his part.

Let's everyone grab a paper bag and breathe in and out. Without the McCain comments, there was enough public information that an enterprising Al Qaeda agent intent on doing some mischief could have put two and two together. Are we really suggesting that Al Qaeda would prefer to attack Obama and throw the election to Hillary or the Republicans?

And if Obama gets hurt it's McCain's fault because he repeated what the entire world's press corp already knew? Color me skeptical.