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WASHINGTON (AP) - Burnishing his foreign policy credentials, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is traveling this summer to Iraq and Afghanistan - and the taxpayers will be footing the bill.
His Republican opponent, John McCain, visited Iraq in March, also during the campaign year, and taxpayers financed that trip as well.
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My Way News - Obama's summer travel partly courtesy of taxpayers
I for one find this utterly dispicable. This utilizing taxpayer funds, to get photo-ops with troops to further thier canidacies demonstrates that these canidates are business as usual washington insiders.
I will give McCain a slight, slight edge in integrity for timing his with this though it is crap vs poo all over:
"McCain's visit to Iraq in March was an official trip of the Armed Services Committee. Members of that panel frequently travel abroad to meet with troops and their commanders."
But it is transparent and not much better.
What do you all think.