McCain Takes a Shot

On ABC news this evening, there was a preview of the interview McCain gave for This Week  tomorrow morning.  Since he can’t attack Obama on anything legitimate, he’s decided to claim that Obama disrespected the troops by not visiting Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany.  He’s even got a campaign ad out on it.

“If I had been told by the Pentagon that I couldn’t visit those troops, and I was there and wanted to be there, I guarantee you, there would have been a seismic event,” McCain told ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos in an interview to air Sunday on “This Week”.

The article doesn’t state if Stephanopoulos challenged McCain — not about the official reason Obama didn’t go — but rather about how MCain has followed Pentagon rules in similar situations in the past.  From Vote Vets:

The problem here is that the McCain campaign was denied a visit to a military base under the same policy back in April.

As they always say, go read the entire post and the comments at Vote Vets.  It’s worth the time.

I don’t think it’s tinfoil hat territory to speculate that the MCain campaign is getting a little help from the executive branch. (Remember his Colombia visit . . .)

Oh, and I just remembered.  McCain also recently put out an adblaming Obama for high gas prices.  But on the local news tonight, they reported that gas prices are declining — not because of anything Bush has said or done (which is what McCain thinks – and please just ignore McCain’s mixing of oil and gas prices . . .) — but because demand has fallen.