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Refusing to trip over John GHW McCain’s dare to Barack Obama to go tripping with him to Iraq, Obama deftly said: No way. Not with McCain. Not to participate in a political show.
I wish he would have said “dog and pony show” or “media circus” as McC’s previous trips have been, as have everyone of Bush’s trips.
Obama also said he was planning on going without being goading by McC.
When he goes, his trip should be cloaked in secrecy to avoid all accusations of using G.I.’s as political pawns as W. constantly does, and Johnny did on his last trips.
And Obama won't need Joe Lieberman standing at his elbow whispering the difference between Sunni and Shite and Iran's backing of terrorists in his ear.
When he talks to the men uniform, I hope he picks them randomly and drags them off into a sandy corner away from their minders, so they can tell the truth as they see it, whether it’s pro or con on the continued occupation of Iraq.
After Obama comes back, without buying a crappy $5 rug while surrounded by soldiers and hovering choppers that are out of camera range in a pretense of “all is hunky-dory” over there as McCain did, he can tell us all about his trip.
I’m not sayin’, but if I were the candidate, I’m just sayin’, that’s how I would do it.
