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Friday, July 18, 2008

John McCain's record for attending Afghanistan-related Senate hearings over the past two years is worse than Barack Obama's. The top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, McCain missed all six hearings on Afghanistan over the last two years. Obama, serving on the Foreign Relations Committee, attended one of three hearings related to the country.

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Meanwhile, Obama attended the full Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Afghanistan in March 2007, although he used the opportunity to ask Gen. James L. Jones, then the commander of NATO, about Pakistan.

Wow. One meeeting for Obama, back in March '07, and he didn't even inquire about Afghanistan. I guess that Obama is really doing a whole lot, by your standards. Don't you think you could have found a better example to prove whatever your silly point was?

And... spin 2-3-4, dodge 6-7-8.

Turns out that not only did McCain attend 0 of 6 meetings about Afghanistan, but his surrogate that attacked Obama on the subject, Jim DeMint also went 0 for 3 on the same committee.

John McSame doesn't need to attend foreign relations meetings. Joementum will tell him what he's supposed to think and who Israel expects him to attack.

Gives him more time for naps...

"I guess that Obama is really doing a whole lot, by your standards."

More than McCain. Read the article. It's McCain's minions who've been yammering on about Obama's attendance record. Now it turns out their guy -- "Captain Experience" himself -- is more of a truant than the guy that's being attacked for truancy. Hipocrisy, thy name is politics.

"Don't you think you could have found a better example to prove whatever your silly point was?"

No, this'll do. The point is, McCain's even more guilty of skipping committee meetings that dealt with Afghanistan than Obama. QED.

McCain won't do weekends and now he doesn't do committee assignments, either. WTF does he do, other than Cindy (in his dreams)?

FREE CZECHOSLOVAKIA!

FF for Sanatonio.

In truth we should be demanding better from all of our representatives. Obviously both sides are guilty of neglecting their jobs. Why do we accept this from our leaders???

Proof that Obama is infinitely more interested in these affairs than his opponent.

Just do the math.

Thanks for the link!!!

Danni - agreed. I don't know how you can turn this into a partisan issue, they both dropped the ball. It's a disgrace.

It doesn't even need to be a partisan issue, because McCain doesn't stand much of a chance of winning. His sucky performance won't matter. Obama's performance sucks, and that will matter since he'll be president.

They both aren't doing their jobs.

John McCain and his 'Yeah but....' Campaign strategy.

Priceless....


In truth we should be demanding better from all of our representatives. Obviously both sides are guilty of neglecting their jobs. Why do we accept this from our leaders???

Posted by danni

Very lucid thought. I absolutely agree. "They" work for us - reminds me of a time that I went to buy a car and they asked who my employer was. I said the City of ____. The response on the other side of the desk was - oh, you work for the government - to which I replied, no I work for you. Totally took him off guard. Had to escape from that job though - the apathy was bringing me down.


FREE CZECHOSLOVAKIA!

Posted by SanAntonioRogue

57 STATES!

"57 STATES!

Posted by ELCIDCE90"

Yeahhhhh... unfortunately, McCain repeated his little "gaff" 3 separate times, in 3 separate places, in 3 separate interviews.

Guess Lieberman must have been in the men's room and unavailable to assist the great foreign policy guru.

Just do the math.

That's funny. Then again, my major was Mathematics.

WTF does he do, other than Cindy (in his dreams)?

Posted by Doc_Sarvis

I guess you are the man to know about that dreamin shit.

No -- although I've known a few guys who reached McCain's advanced years who might be able to tell you someting about it. But I do know that Jurassic John has been AWOL from those Afghanistan hearings.

he was likely out smoking crack and getting a blow job

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Yeahhhhh... unfortunately, McCain repeated his little "gaff" 3 separate times, in 3 separate places, in 3 separate interviews.


Guess Lieberman must have been in the men's room and unavailable to assist the great foreign policy guru.

Posted by SanAntonioRogue

Ok how about these:

Last May, he claimed that tornadoes in Kansas killed a whopping 10,000 people: In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died an entire town destroyed.-- The actual death toll: 12.

In Oregon, he redrew the map of the United States: Over the last 15 months, weve traveled to every corner of the United States. Ive now been in 57 states? I think one left to go.--

Explaining why he was trailing Hillary Clinton in Kentucky, Obama again botched basic geography: Sen. Clinton, I think, is much better known, coming from a nearby state of Arkansas. So its not surprising that she would have an advantage in some of those states in the middle.-- On what map is Arkansas closer to Kentucky than Illinois?

And for all of you who crucify McCain over the Sunni/Shite misspeak:

In Cape Girardeau, Mo., Obama showed off his knowledge of the war in Afghanistan by homing in on a lack of translators: We only have a certain number of them, and if they are all in Iraq, then its harder for us to use them in Afghanistan.-- The real reason its harder for us to use them-- in Afghanistan: Iraqis speak Arabic or Kurdish. The Afghanis speak Pashto, Farsi, or other non-Arabic languages.

Marking the anniversary of the March 1965 "Bloody Sunday" in Selma, Ala., Obama, speaking at a church, said his parents got together "because of what happened in Selma." Obama was born in 1961.

The Tribune dug this up: Obama, in his memoir, Dreams of My Father, writes of a story in Life magazine that influenced him -- about a black man trying to bleach his skin white. No such article could be found in Life or Ebony.

in his speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, said, "Jerusalem will remain the capital of Israel, and it must remain undivided." The next day, an unnamed adviser tried to "clarify" the statement to suggest it left room for Palestinian sovereignty.

Obama referred to the 'president' of Canada. Canada has a prime minister, not a president.

Mr. Obama erroneously claimed in New Mexico that his uncle helped liberate the Nazi concentration camp. Reporters noted Mr. Obama's revised claim, that it was his great uncle who helped liberate Buchenwald. They largely downplayed the error. Yet in another, earlier gaffe back in 2002, Mr. Obama claimed his grandfather knew U.S. troops who liberated Auschwitz and Treblinka even though only Russian troops entered those concentration camps.

Do you have a life? Some people amaze me! Unless you do this for a living, you are pitiful.

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