The McCain-Obama Ouroborous

Nothing is more twigi than politics. Political gesturing trying to win the Homecoming Queen crown of Presidential office brings out some of the most ridiculous of maneuvers.

Obama's been travelling around the world generating a bunch of press and one of his stops was Germany. While in Germany, Obama was planning on visiting wounded American soldiers at the Ramstein Air Force base but he cancelled the visit.

McCain's campaign swooped down like a turkey buzzard criticizing Obama for choosing political leaders and cheering crowds over wounded American soldiers.

Obama's campaign, like a gunslinger, shot back that the visit was cancelled after the Pentagon was concerned about political activity at a military base.

Hold the press...Ok, well, let's face it...Politicians have been visiting wounded soldiers for a long time. I don't know the Pentagon's exact policy about political visits to wounded soldiers, but I know it's not forbidden. Which makes it easy to believe the McCain's campaign add running in Colorado, Pennsylvania, and Washington D.C. saying that it "Seems the Pentagon wouldn't allow him to bring cameras."

Obama's people say Obama didn't want injured soldiers "pulled into the back-and-forth of a political campaign." Fair enough, in theory, but why was the visit sceduled at all if that was a concern?

And the Pentagon says, "Obama would have been required to conform to the Defense Department prohibition of political activity, but that the senator was never told he couldn't visit the hospital." So tell your press people and staff, tell the press in general to back off, and visit. That was the original plan anyway.

I know...so far it seems only Obama is twigi so where does the self-eating ouroborous come in?

McCain's criticism...McCain is criticizing Obama for what may be a sincere concern, though late coming, that the trip would be seen as a cheap political photo-op, though without the press, but word of mouth is still powerful. Meanwhile, where are McCain's trips to American soldiers wounded or not in foreign lands? He visited Iraq, Paris, London, and Israel but I don't see anything about visiting wounded soldiers. McCain said, "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." Which means your criticizing a man who second-guessed doing something you haven't done.

If you can confirm that McCain visited wounded soldiers under the Pentagon's restrictions, please let me know, because right now, their political bickering is making them look both like schmucks. They both look...twigi.

My source: MSNBC