It looks as if McCain and the RNC are going to try to make a fuss about the fact that Barack Obama hasn’t visited Iraq recently. Of course, the rational response is that a carefully guarded and guided tour of Iraq is a very-low-data-rate way of collecting information. But that response has isn’t especially effective politically.
If I were Obama, the next time I was asked this I would just say, “Our brave men and women fighting in Iraq have better things to do than babysit one more tourist from Washington.”