Posted by
Tzimisce on Saturday, August 02, 2008 11:43:44 AM
This is insane. Since when is telling the truth about someone stumping in a political campaign considered “out of bounds”? It’s a rhetorical question. We all know when the facts are to be ignored if they make left-wingers look bad.
Case and point: Barack Obama’s globe trotting non-campaign trip. Actually, it was a campaign trip for the purposes of tax exempts and photo ops, but it was a non campaign trip.
The part of his trip that is getting him in so much trouble right now is the German leg. After making a glorious and monumental campaign speech, Obama decided not to visit with wounded troops at a military hospital. The key word here is “he”. The media has tried to twist and turn it so that it’s the Pentagon’s fault. But anyone paying attention knows the truth.
The Obama campaign’s version of the story is that the Pentagon knew Barack was going to the military hospital three weeks before the fateful day. Thus they were surprised when uponst touching down on German soil the Pentagon told them the media wouldn’t be allowed to accompany him. He would only be allowed to take a handful of aides in with him. Denied his fawning entourage, Obama decided to go shopping instead. There is a sweet irony in the fact that the man who wants to socialize everything is complaining about poor government service, but I digress.
The Pentagon’s statement said that military policy dictated that they can’t get involved in political campaigns.
And it’s probably a good thing for Democrats that the military doesn’t. If it did, it probably would have let Barry on to the base in Afghanistan only so they could officially kick him in the butt and arrest the media horde following him as enemy combatants. After all, Liberal Democrats like the ones that support Barry are the ones responsible for the laws closing military bases overseas. During the Florida 2000 fiasco, it was Liberal Democrats working tirelessly to throw out the military vote. And when Gore didn’t win, it was Liberal Democrats who proposed legislation that would close voting booths on domestic military bases.
Other left wing ideas include making military personnel subject to international courts. They pushed for enemy combatants to have “rights” making the military’s job harder. While enemy combatants will get millionaire Harvard and Yale graduates to defend them, the best our soldiers accused of doing wrong can hope for are tired, overworked government lawyers.
Worst still is the left wing media thugs that followed the Obama camp overseas. We’re talking about some of the exact same people who reported the Haditha “Massacre” as if it was true (it wasn’t.) They run stories about soldiers flushing pages of the Koran down the toilet. That wasn’t true either. They also happily make stars out of “whistleblowers” who report on military “tragedies” such as Jesse Macbeth. Turns out Macbeth was a liar – not that the media has apologized.
In light of all of this, I wouldn’t have let reporters in either. Who knows what footage, pictures, quotes or sound bites they would have taken out of context? Just like everything else the “unbiased” media presents it would have colored by how it makes their side of the argument look. Thus suddenly the trip is no longer a campaign tour.
I have always liked to judge people by their own standards. That said, a lot of people don’t live by their own high benchmarks and libs like Obama and his friends are no exception. Leftists have been screaming about Bush’s “Big Oil” friends making our energy policy for over seven years. With this in mind, I have to say that I’m a little nervous about having Barry’s Code Pink friends making our foreign/military policies.
Code Pink are the antiwar activists who think that our soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq right now should be arrested and tried in world courts for the “illegal” war, despite an act of Congress authorizing action. These are the same people who carry signs saying things like “We support our troops that kill their commanding officers” and “honor” vets coming home by spitting on them.
These people compare the war in Iraq to Vietnam – which is really funny when you stop and think that McCain not only fought in Nam, but he was captured and tortured there. You’d think McCain would be the libs number one guy. It’s funny cause skin color isn’t supposed to matter (unless it’s black.) But that’s another column in and of itself.