'Yes We Can!' No He Won't!

From Ed Morrissey, Hot Air:

NBC’s Jim Miklaszewski and Courtney Kube get the skinny on the abrupt cancellation of Barack Obama’s visit to Landstuhl and Ramstein yesterday. The campaign tried to excuse it by claiming that it wouldn’t be appropriate to visit while on a campaign-funded portion of his trip, but that wasn’t the real problem. When Obama found out he couldn’t use the visit as a photo op, he canceled:

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The official said "We didn't know why" the request to visit the wounded troops was withdrawn.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."

Morrissey concludes that Obama dropped his visits with the troops when it was learned that they couldn't be the photo ops that the campaign had hoped to get.

Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs had explained Obama's altered schedule with this statement:

"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."

What a load! What a pack of lies!

Respect for servicemen and women?

Give me a break.

This wannabe Commander-in-Chief should have demanded to visit the wounded troops. He should never have wanted to have press in tow.

Where is Obama's respect for the troops?

I don't see it.