I heard about the following sickening piece of Obama news while listening to Mark Levin’s show from last Friday. In it he read a portion of MSNBC’s First Read where it reads:
*** UPDATE *** From NBC’s Jim Miklaszewski and Courtney Kube
A U.S. military official tells NBC News they were making preparations for Sen. Barack Obama to visit wounded troops at the Landstuhl Medical Center at Ramstein, Germany on Friday, but “for some reason the visit was called off.”One military official who was working on the Obama visit said because political candidates are prohibited from using military installations as campaign backdrops, Obama’s representatives were told, “he could only bring two or three of his Senate staff member, no campaign officials or workers.” In addition, “Obama could not bring any media. Only military photographers would be permitted to record Obama’s visit.”
The official said “We didn’t know why” the request to visit the wounded troops was withdrawn. “He (Obama) was more than welcome. We were all ready for him.”
It’s incredibly sad that a man who would want to be Commander in Chief of our brave fighting men and women would not visit wounded troops because Obama could not get the media coverage that would provide the correct cost-benefit analysis that would make the troop visit worth his while. Please forward this story on to anyone you can.
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