Retired SF 2-star campaigning for Obama

[unhappycamper]

Source: Army Times / Associated Press

Retired SF 2-star campaigning for Obama
The Associated Press
Posted : Tuesday Aug 5, 2008 6:24:00 EDT

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A retired Green Beret general plans to campaign in North Carolina for Democratic president candidate Sen. Barack Obama.

Obama’s campaign announced that retired Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Lambert would campaign Tuesday in Charlotte and Fayetteville for the Illinois senator.

Lambert was the commander of the Army’s Special Forces in the early days of deployments to Afghanistan and Iraq, taking over four days before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

Lambert is scheduled to campaign in Charlotte at 10 a.m. at Obama’s local headquarters and at 3 p.m. in Fayetteville at a Veterans of Foreign Wars post.

Read more: http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/08/ap_general_obama_080508/

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Rest of article: http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/08/ap_general_obama_080508/

[Frisbee]

1. He's a brave man...

The repugs will do everything the can to destroy his reputation, with the help of the WH.

[MicaelS]

2. Not surprising

If you remember back to the 1992 election, a number of retired Flag officers, among them Adm. William Crow, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, supported Bill Clinton instead of Bush, and some of them had served under Bush. Just proves that being in the military doesn't mean you're automatically a Republican.

[Tempest]

3. His patriotism and service will be questioned by the rightwingers

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