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Times Archives Reprint Requests Work for Us Home Delivery Customer Support Subscribe John McCain slams Barack Obama for canceling on the troops Also: the candidates in superhero format; a vacation for Obama?; Secret Service costs; and the latest poll numbers. By DON FREDERICK AND ANDREW MALCOLM, TOP OF THE TICKET July 27, priest lake vacation home rentals 2008 Barack Obama made an effort to defuse the flap surrounding a canceled visit to a U.S. military hospital during his overseas trip. But John McCain's campaign isn't about to let all inclusive vacation depart boston ma the matter rest. Indeed, the Republican elevated the contretemps to what passes for the height of political discourse these days: It's a key element in a new television ad. The 30-second spot zings Obama for making time for a nahalem vacation rentals gym workout while in Germany last week, but removing from his itinerary a stop at the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center. The ad continues: Challenges await Barack Obama at pet friendly vacation homes fl home In study, evidence of liberal-bias bias John McCain st augustine beach online vacation rental supports expansion of Americans With Disabilities national geographic vacation photo contest Act "Seems the Pentagon wouldn't allow him to bring cameras. "John McCain is always there for our troops. "McCain. Country first." (The last line recently was unveiled on McCain's vacation rentals isla mujeres mexico website as his campaign's latest stab at settling on a simple slogan it will stick with.) To take Obama to task more extensively over the canceled visit, McCain media aides also issued a release from retired Lt. Col. Joe Repya, a veteran of three wars, that scolds the presumptive Democratic kona hawaii vacation rentals presidential nominee for stiffing the troops while "flitting from one European capital to the next." Obama gave his version of the confusing chain of events that all inclusive vacation puerta vallarta mexico led to the cancellation in an interview that dauphin island vacation rental aired Saturday with Fox News Channel's Bill Hemmer. Asked by Hemmer about "taking heat" for the nixed visit and whether it was a mistake not to make the stop, Obama replied: "Well no, not at all. It was scheduled, we intended to go, and we got wind that there was some concern that this might be perceived as political because we were using campaign resources. And at that point, the tahoe vacation guide last thing I wanted to do is to in any way distract the terrific work that's being done in terms of jamaica vacation treating our troops, by getting it fouled up by a bunch of politics. . . . I didn't want it to be a distraction." But that's exactly what it's become for Obama, and it may reno vacation packages linger. Here they come to save the day There is now officially nowhere to hide from this endless presidential race that's probably already cost $1 billion and still has 15 weeks to go. You've got presidential stuff pretty much everywhere, even on "Access Hollywood," which used to be a refuge for the politically oblivious until some Obama people persuaded the couple to let puerto vallarta vacation their little girls be interviewed on TV, which they now regret. Anyway, Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama are going to both be getting their very own comic books. You could call them graphic novels if they were longer. But they aren't. So we won't. They'll both have cheap vacation websites heroic covers, hands on hips, eyes cast on the distant horizon. And the stories of their lives inside -- and in case all of this political stuff seems too complex for anyone out there, it'll all be in drawings. IDW Publishing plans to release the comics in October. 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