McCain Planned To Attack Obama If He Visited Troops Abroad

[fp1978]

Originally Posted by delusianne

GREG CRAIG (Obama senior foreign policy adviser): [O]bviously, Senator McCain had two press releases prepared, one -- if we had gone and seen the troops, he would've criticized us for politicizing and exploiting the troops in a political advantage. But we decided that that was something that we did not want to be criticized for, and so we didn't go, and now he's criticizing us for not going.

-transcript Media Matters - Morning Joe let McCain campaign manager describe attack ad as "the truth," despite colleague Mitchell's reporting that it "literally is not true"

A senior foreign policy advisor to Barack Obama is also a GOP strategist? Is that what you are implying? How exactly does that work?

Or are you saying that because an Obama advisor said it, that is automatically true?

I have yet to see anything here that can be attributed to an actual person in the McCain campaign. Anonymous sources don't count.

[nick is rulz]

...the polls you consider irrelevant yet cannot seem to stop yourself from posting? Yes, he tanked from "has a lead on McCain" to "still has a lead on McCain".

[delusianne]

Originally Posted by fp1978

A senior foreign policy advisor to Barack Obama is also a GOP strategist? Is that what you are implying? How exactly does that work?

Or are you saying that because an Obama advisor said it, that is automatically true?

I have yet to see anything here that can be attributed to an actual person in the McCain campaign. Anonymous sources don't count.

? "GOP strategist," "person in the McCain campaign?" Go back and read the posts. You seem confused.

You're snarking about sources. Greg Craig is a reliable source on this topic. Sorry.

[sanrene]

So we are to believe Craig's claim that McCain had 2 press releases? He works for obama - he better be careful, someone might ask him for proof of his allegations.

[fp1978]

Originally Posted by delusianne

? "GOP strategist," "person in the McCain campaign?" Go back and read the posts. You seem confused.

You're snarking about sources. Greg Craig is a reliable source on this topic. Sorry.

You are the one who seems confused. It was stated that a GOP strategist said that there were two ads. I asked for a source. The source given here was Greg Craig. Greg Craig is an Obama advisor. Does he have the name of a GOP advisor who said this? If he can't back up this claim, give a name, or state something other than what he thinks, than then his claim 100% worthless.

So I will ask again, what GOP/McCain advisor (meaning what is his/her name) "admitted" that there were two seperate ads? Is there any verifiable proof of this other than the word of an advisor from the opposition, someone who has nothing to do with the McCain campaign?
And no, Greg Craig is not an acceptable answer since, as we have already established, he is NOT a GOP/McCain advisor.

[sanrene]

No, McCain Didn’t Intend to Attack Obama if He Visited Wounded Troops*|*The American Pundit

Sounds horrible until you understand it’s already been debunked, per the original author’s own follow-up posting. David Kiley of BusinessWeek.com writes:

Gotta watch out getting info from those kook-left websites like HuffPo.