The McCain campaign, seeking to take advantage of the controversy surrounding Sen. Barack Obama's canceled visit to the Landstuhl military hospital while in Germany this week, released a new television spot titled "Troops." The ad takes Obama to task for the cancellation and hits him for his lax oversight of Afghanistan as chairman of a Congressional committee charged with keeping tabs on the war effort there.
The controversy over the hospital snub is causing Obama's week-long foreign trip to end on a sour note, and McCain is using the opening to raise questions about Obama's readiness to be commander-in-chief. The ad will run in battleground states beginning immediately.
ANNOUNCER: Barack Obama never held a single Senate hearing on Afghanistan.
He hadn't been to Iraq in years.
He voted against funding our troops.
And now, he made time to go to the gym, but canceled a visit with wounded troops.
Seems the Pentagon wouldn't allow him to bring cameras.
John McCain is always there for our troops.
McCain. Country first.
JOHN MCCAIN: I'm John McCain and I approve this message.
This is a hard-hitting ad of the kind that the McCain campaign has thus far been averse to airing. No doubt the campaign sees an opportunity in Obama's decision to forgo his planned visit to the hospital at a U.S. air base in Germany. It is the kind of mistake that can be very damaging to a political campaign because it is almost universally and easily understood as wrong by the general public, and it seems to paint the candidate as uncaring. If this ad gets significant airplay, it could help McCain cancel out all of the good press earned by Sen. Obama on his trip.
What no photo op? Of course the Obama Boy could find better things to do. It was said...
"This is a nearly psychotic man with a deep-seated need for larger-than-life approval. The expression of this need eclipses everything else in his world to an extreme, sociopathic degree.
When he gets up in the morning, if he sleeps at all, he has no free choice except to seek another audience to bolster his arrogance and his ego. What this maniac doesn't realize yet--what he wont permit himself to admit--is that he will fail in his mission to become the President of the United States. His arrogance and lack of conscience will catch up with him and bring him down."
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Linda
8:22PM Jul 26th 2008
He is very arrogant and that is someone we don't need in the white house.... He has too much garbage with him. and much less he can't make decisions for himself and the ones he has made has been wrong.
Oh and something will bring him down.....
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Bettybb
8:24PM Jul 26th 2008
It is about time McCain started pointing out the fraud which is Obama.
In Iraq, Obama also did not speak to troops, instead he hurried to his photo op playing basketball.
How about some ads on Obama speaking out both sides of his mouth?
May 19, Oregon: He says Iran has never posed a threat to the USA. May 20, Montana: He says he has long held the position that Iran poses a serious threat to the USA.
He states to one group that he will be flexible on farc. One week later to the Cuban Americans he says he will be hardlined on farc.
He states he is against immunity for telecom companies and pro constiutional rights for Americans against gov wiretaping. He votes for immunity for telecom companies and to increase wiretaping against innocent Americans.
He states he is for an immediate pull out from Iraq without respect to conditions on the ground. Now he states he will pull COMBAT troops out in 16 months depending upon conditions AND says that does not mean other troops will not remain for training, security etc? All he has to do is classify the combat troops mission as security and he is home free... to keep troops there as long as he wants.
etc. etc.. etc
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BEST MAN FOR THE JOB
8:31PM Jul 26th 2008
Another act of desperation and spin by Johnny McLiar. He must be getting senile. I vividly recall Johnny McLiar saying, I will not run a smear campaign. Course, that was before he knew he would face off with Barack Obama. Chicken Shit comes to mind!
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Bob
8:35PM Jul 26th 2008
What? Obama said he was in Walter reed three weeks ago , but NO-ONE Knew about it ? " Fake Fainting " falling to the Ground, bump head on countertop , hit floor , both legs a jerking , and health care went up = TYPICAL OBAMA SUPPORTER
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Liz
8:47PM Jul 26th 2008
Dear Dr. Dean,
This is your Presumptive Nominee??? This is the person you ask Americans to support??? We have now witnessed your Presumptive Nominee trash America on foreign soil, we have watched as he canceled visiting with America's wounded soldiers. Please do not again shift the blame for his not visiting these soldiers on the Military, please do not again say he is misunderstood. Americans know the choice was his, he made his choice, and he is responsible for those choices.
I will tell you, and I am not alone with my opinions of this Senator, he is NOT QUALIFIED to be President. This Senator has not unified a party, he has destroyed one, with your help, I might add. In my opinion, there are very few men/women who wore the uniform of the United States that will fall for your lame explanations, or excuses for the inexcusable actions of a United States Senator who seeks the highest office of the land. There are very few parents of children who have been injured in this war that will forget that Sen. Obama would not visit there child. This Senator is a disgrace.
The McCain whose ad blasts Obama for not going to see the vets in ermany. Isn't that the same Mccain who voted against veterans benefits, the veterans GI Bill, and increasing payments to wounded vesats. And wasn't it McCain who was aprt of the Bush team that created the horrible conditions at Walter Reed and had to fix it when the Democrats complained. And isn't this the same TRAITOR, McCain who supported the VietCong while a prisoner against his own country.
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Tuffyz
8:53PM Jul 26th 2008
Obama has no military experience whatsoever and his trip to the middle east has proven itself to be an embarrassment to his campaign. The man was wrong about the surge and he isn't even intelligent enough to admit his own mistake. If he can't admit to this mistake what makes anyone believe he would admit to any potential wrong doing ever?He hasn't and he won't.He is Mr. Goodbody himself. His own ego caused his campaign to come crashing down. PATHETIC!
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Tuffyz
8:54PM Jul 26th 2008
hmmm.... I wonder if Obama will now go around the country telling citizens here that his anti war plan rhetoric should be viewed as more about political positioning than a clear articulation of policy plans? ...:P
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EGObaMANIAC
9:00PM Jul 26th 2008
Oh but Obama got great military training in Kuwait. They let him sit in a humvee LOL
Just in case there is any doubt that the Obama boy is qualified to be the Commander-in-Chief here is proof of his newfound military experience and his joy at finding such a big toy.
Is this what they mean by a "boy toy"...hmmmm tht that was something different lol
MCain was part of the Bush team which for the last 8 years has wrecked America and there are fools who still want more from this mental midget. And being in a prison camp for 5 years doesn't qualify McCain to be a commander in chief. Moreover, Mccain was a TRAITOR who sold out his country by making favorable comments for the VietCong against his country. Add to this Mc cain abandoning a wife and 5 kids to marry a beer queen he was shacking up with in Hawaii. And is this really what you want in your next president ?
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Billy
9:08PM Jul 26th 2008
Senator Mccain is reaching the bottom of the barrel in this ad. The pentagon said that if Obama went it would be viewed as a political event and Obama didn't want to use wounded soldiers as campaign propaganda. He did visit thousands of troops and the clip of him playing basketball is with US troops.
McCain is part of the reason the world no longer respects the US. Every leader Obama met with, including General Patreus, had great things to say about Obama. When is the last time foreign crowds waived US flags without them being on fire? McCain is willing to pander a gas tax to get votes and won't tell us that any new oil sites wouldn't produce oil for at least three years. Then when those run out we're back to the same place we're at now. Yet now it's worse because we used that oil to fuel cars and produce electricity when they're are other renewable resources that can do the same thing. McCain doesn't care about the oil crisis. He'll be long gone before the world is facing drastic oil shortages. At least Obam knows he'll be around to face the consequences if something isn't done to find alternative energy now.
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jan
9:13PM Jul 26th 2008
I used to like McCain but he's turned into this nasty, petty, querulous old man. He seems to sit on the sidelines, watching Obama like a hawk, ready to pounce on everything, legitimate or otherwise. No valid ideas of his own, just hammering away at a very able, intelligent young man who is poised to become our next President. Is that all McCain has left?
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S. Merritt
9:13PM Jul 26th 2008
McCain is seriously in need of help. Why don't some of you Mccain followers point out to him the difference between a Shiite and a Sunni and while you're at it, explain to Mccain there is no Czechoslovakia, and if you're going to elect hime president give him a few lessons on economy that he knows nothing about.
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Adrian A. Robinson
9:15PM Jul 26th 2008
A SNUB? THAT IS WHAT McCAIN'S PEOPLE CALL IT. AS FAR AS I'M CONCERNED, McCAIN IS SO DESPERATE TO FOLLOW UP ON OBAMA'S SUPER SUCCESSFUL TRIP, THAT HE NEEDS TO STOOP TO THE SAME OLD DIRTY REPUBLICAN TRICK'S OF EITHER SMEARING OR LYING ABOUT THEIR POLITICAL OPPONENT!
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Meg
9:40PM Jul 26th 2008
John McCains has really hit a nerve with you lib Osama Obama supporters. My my, can't take the truth. Your boy the black radical muslim convert is a useless politian. His stage show this past week didn't prove anything but that he will go to another country and bad talk our country in a heart beat and ignore our wounded soldiers. He was playing to the socialist America haters.. Why wouldn't they love him, he is a marxist and he hates our military, he hates the companies, the professions and the workers who are the producers in this country. He wants to analyze our military programs to see where he get cut. How about if he analyzes the food stamp program, medicare and social security. Maybe some of those food stamp recipients are in his family. How about if he explains why he wants raise taxes 1 trillion dollars worth, how about you ask him about his uni-lateral disarmament plans. He hates the military and he is going to shrink it so we are no longer a super power.. THATS WHY THE ASSES, smelly asses I might add in EUROPE LOVE HIM!!! He is a piece of garbage and the American people must kick him to the curb. VOTE for a real American who has the experience,judgement, character and moral conviction to oversee our country and control this disaster we call the United States Congress. Screw the Europeans, we don't need them.
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Grace
9:41PM Jul 26th 2008
That's exactly what they do, Adrian A. Stoop to the same old dirty republican tricks, smearing and lying.
Almost everything about McCain and his campaign, disgust me.
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jay
9:48PM Jul 26th 2008
GUNBOAT MC.CAIN IS AGAINST VETERANS. HE RECENTLY VOTED AGAINST THE RETURNING VETS EDUCATION BILL. HIS REASONING WAS " I VOTED AGAINST IT BECAUSE I WANT THE VETS TO RE ENLIST INSTEAD OF GOING TO COLLEGE". HE HAS VOTED AGAINST SO MANY VETERANS BILLS,HE IS A SHAMELESS DISGRACE LIKE BUSH. BUSH ANDMC.CAIN ARE ONE AND THE SAME
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RIChris
9:52PM Jul 26th 2008
Obama's snub of the American troops was the only telling thing about the entire world tour. He wasn't there to be bothered with Americans, he was there to proclaim himself 'Master of the Universe'.