Republican Strategist: McCain Campaign Planned to Attack Obama If He Had Visited Troops

David Kiley of Business Week spoke with a Republican strategist recently who conceded that the McCain campaign was planning to attack Obama for using troops as a campaign prop, had he visited troops in German last week during the political part of his trip.

Here's an excerpt from the article:

"What the McCain campaign doesn’t want people to know, according to one GOP strategist I spoke with over the weekend, is that they had an ad script ready to go if Obama had visited the wounded troops saying that Obama was...wait for it...using wounded troops as campaign props. So, no matter which way Obama turned, McCain had an Obama bashing ad ready to launch. I guess that’s political hardball. But another word for it is the one word that most politicians are loathe to use about their opponents—a lie."

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