On Friday, John McCain painted a bullseye on Barack Obama's back:

"I believe that either today or tomorrow -- and I'm not privy to his schedule -- Sen. Obama will be landing in Iraq with some other senators" who make up a congressional delegation, McCain said at a Republican fund-raiser.

Since Bush's invasion of Iraq turned into a clusterf**k, trips by U.S. officials have been top-secret - including trips by Bush and McCain.

So who exactly gave Obama's schedule to John McCain? As bmaz writes,

Who was foolish enough to tell McCain in the first place? Bush or Cheney? Administration underlings? Brown nosing members of McCain's base, the press corps? Karl Rove?

We know that George Bush, Dick Cheney and their Administration consider the Presidency to be nothing more than their own personal permanent campaign tool, their own officials admit that. We also know that Bush and his Administration political bagmen and henchmen have been abusing their governmental power and privilege to affect the presidential election by leaning on the German Chancellor Angela Merkel to deny Obama his previously planned appearance and speech in front of the Brandenberg Gate.

So, is the Bush Administration using their power of office to play more political mischief and endanger Obama and his traveling companions?

There's another word for "political mischief" - it's called ratf**king and it's exactly what Karl Rove does - morning, noon, and night.

Whoever told John McCain about Obama's schedule should have known it could have resulted in Obama getting killed. And whoever did it, should face criminal charges.

And what about McCain? Why on earth did he share what he knew with anyone else? Here's bmaz again:

Irrespective of McCain's motivation for callously leaking the details of Obama's trip into the war zone, or the leaking source of his information, it was a foolish, ignorant and pathetically selfish act. Is McCain such an addled septuagenarian that he can't help but make these fundamental errors? Does McCain not have the mental faculties remaining after all these years to keep even the most basic things straight? Perhaps he is just no longer up to the task.

Because it is either that or he is such a dishonorable vindictive cad that he did this intentionally. Which one is it Senator McCain, the citizens of this country deserve an answer once and for all. Either way, he is patently unfit for the job he is applying for, President of the United States.

Exactly.