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Saturday, August 30, 2008


Obama vs. Palin   [Greg Pollowitz]

Unlike Senator Obama's staged trip to the Middle East,Governor Palin went to visit the troops in Kuwait before she was ever under consideration for Veep:

Tue, July 24, 2007 
Posted in Alaska News, Top Stories

Governor Palin today visited with a National Guard unit from Alaska serving in Kuwait. In a press conference with Alaska reporters, the governor said she had spent “an amazing day with the 297th infantry battalion and other National Guard troops.”

And a year before Senator Obama felt the need to go.

Photos here.

Oh, and by the way, she found time to visit Landstuhl.

UPDATE:  I stand corrected.  Obama was in Iraq in 2006.




 





 

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