Kudos to karpaty lviv for venturing over to the dark side to find the transcript from this morning on Bully Joe And His Lapdogs. The background is yesterday the wingers started frothing over a report that Obama had cancelled his visit to Ramstein AFB to visit injured troops. Of course, they gnashed their teeth proclaiming that Obama was more interested in German love than our brave soldiers etc etc. (pick your favorite winger meme and insert- they used them all)
When I was talking to Gotta last night I had already read that there was a legit reason-
Obama senior adviser Robert Gibbs told ABC News in a statement, “During his trip as part of the CODEL to Afghanistan and Iraq, Sen. Obama visited the combat support hospital in the Green Zone in Baghdad and had a number of other visits with the troops. For the second part of his trip, the senator wanted to visit the men and women at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center to express his gratitude for their service and sacrifice. The senator decided out of respect for these servicemen and women that 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.”
Seemed legit enough, especially since if Obama had gone the wingers would have just attacked from the opposite direction.
But this morning, Andrea Mitchell on BJ&HL said this-
JOE SCARBOROUGH: It's curious, if that's the case, why the campaign didn't make that announcement yesterday, and allowed stories to go like this. I'm sure there's going to be a lot of he said/she said in the days to come about this.
MITCHELL: But they thought that they couldn't win. Yeah. They thought that they were, you know, you know, no-win situation, that the Pentagon, perhaps the military with cooperation from some Republican operatives and, that's the sort of scuttlebutt, that there have been some foreign policy advisers of John McCain with connections in the Pentagon who had something to do with this. But that is, perhaps, just the normal political paranoia of the season.
Video above is from the Today Show this morning, fast forward to 1:55 to hear what Mitchell is saying about the broohaha now.
So, what do you guys think?
UPDATE- Ta da!!
Pentagon Confirms That It Told Obama He Couldn't Visit Army Base With Campaign Staff
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