McCain buys ad on troop visit (Obama camp needs to go on OFFENSE!)

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Saturday July 26, 2008 · 2:20 PM PDT

2008/07/26 · 14:20

Signaling a new aggressiveness, aides to Sen. John McCain (D-Ariz.) said Saturday that he is going up immediately with an ad called "Troops" criticizing Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) for canceling plans to visit wounded troops at a U.S. military hospital in Germany.

The 30-second ad is to run during NBC's "Saturday Night Live" in Denver. Colorado is one of this election's most important swing states.

The spot is to begin Sunday in the Washington market and in Harrisburg, Pa., another key swing state.

An announcer says: "Barack Obama never held a single Senate hearing on Afghanistan. He hadn't been to Iraq in years. He voted against funding our troops. And now, he made time to go to the gym, but cancelled a visit with wounded troops. Seems the Pentagon wouldn't allow him to bring cameras. John McCain is always there for our troops. McCain. Country first."

This is unbelievable and the Obama team MUST RESPOND QUICKLY with a FORCEFUL ad. They need to take McCain to task for using the troops as a political football. This is DISGUSTING and can't be allowed to go unanswered.

UPDATE Here's the ad:

UPDATE 2:
My first time on the rec list! And I was so upset about this ad that I didn't even remember to post a "tip jar" :-) So here it is: TIP JAR

UPDATE 3:
Obama campaign response

Obama spokesman Tommy Vietor responds, "John McCain is an honorable man who is running an increasingly dishonorable campaign. Senator McCain knows full well that Senator Obama strongly supports and honors our troops, which is what makes this attack so disingenuous. Senator Obama was honored to meet with our men and women in uniform in Iraq and Afghanistan this week and has visited wounded soldiers at Walter Reed numerous times. This politicization of our soldiers is exactly what Senator Obama sought to avoid, and it's not worthy of Senator McCain or the 'civil' campaign he claimed he would run."

UPDATE 4:
Please DONATE to the Obama campaign RIGHT NOW to fight this sleaze.

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