Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Obama Gains Last Minute Military Experience at the Arcade

National-On his way to a press conference in Reno, Nevada Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama stopped into Crown Royal Arcade to try his hand at Battlefield Vietnam and Men of Valor, games he hopes will give him last minute war experience.

After months of debate surrounding the Democratic candidate’s lack of military experience, the Obama campaign thought it would be the best effort of getting him fully up-to-speed with rival John McCain.

“These games are the real deal, with guns and grenades,” Obama spokesman Ray Knickler said. “Now, it’s as if Obama was right there in Vietnam”

Although Obama earned a silver star for his efforts during a machine gun operation on a Huey helicopter in Men of Valor, he had some difficulty maneuvering around the Cambodia Incursion and Fall of Saigon maps in Battlefield Vietnam.

"I believe that I can have a military resume that's as good as any other soldier's," Obama said.

To which a McCain aide retorted, “He may have done everything, but let’s see him pull off an over the hill birthday bash.”

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