McCain To Obama: Welcome Home, Troop Hater

John McCain is welcoming Barack Obama back to America with a hard right cross. The message of the Republican's new attack ad that debuted Saturday both perfects and makes more harsh a theme that his campaign has been developing for weeks: specifically, that the Illinois Democrat does not care about American troops. Drawing from Obama's one tactical misstep during his week-long trip abroad -- a canceled visit with wounded troops in Germany, the details of which are still controversial -- the McCain campaign nevertheless believes they have a useful new plot point at their disposal. When viewed alongside Obama's opposition to the "surge" strategy, and his symbolic vote against one round of funding for the Iraq war, the McCain camp hopes the Germany debacle provides a three-act structure to their dramatic imagining of a conflict... [read full story]