Taken away by the jealousy of a veteran whose rightful thrown as a foreign policy icon is being taken away by a young, rational, smarter fella, Sen. McCain and his surrogates have been trying with all their strengths to stay in the news cycles and remind voters that they're still there. For the past four days now, Sen. McCain and his allies have accused Sen. Obama of snubbing wounded soldiers by canceling a visit to a military hospital in Germany because he could not take reporters with him.
An article in today's Washington Post - along with countless other pieces - discusses how the McCain campaign is insisting on propelling this accusation, despite no evidence that the charge is true. Plain and simple.
There is no evidence that he planned to take anyone to the American hospital other than a military adviser, whose status as a campaign staff member sparked last-minute concern among Pentagon officials that the visit would be an improper political event.
Despite serious and repeated queries about this latest Republican invention, the McCain team keeps on rolling, desperately trying to make this appear to have the slightest bit of truth.
McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds said again yesterday that the Republican's version of events is correct, and that Obama canceled the visit because he was not allowed to take reporters and cameras into the hospital.Oh no?
"It is safe to say that, according to press reports, Barack Obama avoided, skipped, canceled the visit because of those reasons," he said. "We're not making a leap here."
Asked repeatedly for the "reports," Bounds provided three examples, none of which alleged that Obama had wanted to take members of the media to the hospital.McCain camp: stick to positive campaigning, you're really bad at making up stuff.
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