Absent: McCain Attended Zero Afghanistan Hearings In Last Two Years

[Amerigo Vespucci]

McCain Attended Zero Afghanistan Hearings In Last Two Years



http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/17/mccain-attended-zero-afgh_n_113452.html

ABC News reports that McCain has attended zero of his Senate committee's six hearings on Afghanistan in the last two years:

The McCain campaign criticism of Sen. Barack Obama's hearing record on Capitol Hill led us to put the shoe on the other foot.

It turns out that presumptive Republican nominee Sen. John McCain, has attended even fewer Afghanistan-related Senate hearings over the past two years than Obama's one. Which is a nice way of saying, McCain, R-Ariz., the top Republican on the Senate Armed Service Committee, has attended zero of his committee's six hearings on Afghanistan over the last two years...

...The findings are surprising given the fact that the McCain campaign loudly criticized Obama this week for failing to schedule any hearings on Afghanistan in the last year and a half. Obama chairs the European Affairs Subcommittee of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which has oversight of military operations in Afghanistan.

The American public believes the war in Afghanistan is far more essential to the war on terror than the war in Iraq: 51% believe the U.S. must win the war in Afghanistan to succeed in the war on terror, whereas only 34% feel the same about the Iraq war.

[Mz Pip]

1. What does he do?

He's got the worst attendance record in the Senate. Why does he keep getting re-elected?

[TomInTib]

4. Because he is a War Hero, silly. eom

[mucifer]

2. awww isn't that sweet. It's just mccain. He's old and he throws a really fun barbaque

and we just don't need to hear about this. We need important news like what did fox news say Jesse Jackson said.

[patrice]

3. He doesn't need to.

He crashed an airplane and was taken as a POW, and, oh yeah, most of all he was TORTURED. How dare you dishonor that by expecting him to go to meetings about Afghanistan.