Absentee Senator: McCain Attended ZERO Afghanistan Hearings Over Past 2 Years
By SilentPatriot Wednesday Jul 16, 2008 7:20pm
ABC reports tonight that McCain is 0-for-6 when it comes to Afghanistan:
ABC News' Z. Byron Wolf reports from Capitol Hill: 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.
By the McCain campaign's logic, Barack Obama is unserious and untrustworthy when it comes to Iraq because he hasn't yet visited the country. Leave aside for a moment the question of whether or not actually visiting the country somehow qualifies him better to make the right decisions -- was FDR ever at the front in France during WWII? With foreign policy discussions starting to turn towards an increasingly dangerous and hostile Afghanistan, it looks like McCain, by his own reasoning, may have a serious political problem emerging.
McCain surrogate Sen Jim DeMint busted open a can of worms this week when he sent Obama a letter chiding him for failing to hold a single hearing as ranking member of the Subcommittee on European Affairs. Perhaps Obama didn't hold a hearing, but he did attend the "full Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Afghanistan in March, 2007." The same cannot be said for absentee Senator John McCain. I wonder if his media will make these connections. Doubtful.
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Obama is a virile young man who can take it to hoop like Michael Jordan. John McCain is decrepit old man who can barely raise his arms.
We have barely survived one clueless, lazy, incompetent, intellectually challenged, disengaged Republican presidency. We want to go another 4 years with more of the McSame?
Yes you're not serious unless you've visited Iraq to illustrate what a galloping success the much vaunted "surge" is by walking around a secure zone in a flak jacket with air support visibly buzzing around over head.
It's these kinds of propaganda catapulting excursions that really give me a boner.
to quote Dean Wormer 'zero point zero' Mr McCain
Maybe they were scheduled late in the day.
Don't folks in McCain's demographic like to hit the Early-Bird Special at the Golden Skillet?
Hey, nobody said you had to be intelligent or informed. Look at the idiot we have in the White House now. Hell, he even got elected to office TWICE by this nation of idiots.
We're #1, we're #1....
But, He knows how to win wars! Ain't that good enough? Makes me want to suggest an IQ test for voting but, I'm smart enough to know how that would be manipulated. It'd make a poll tax look legit.
One hope, I've noticed that the poorly informed are still pissed off.
Aaaand the inept MSM is utterly silent about it because they are too busy calling McGrampa the strongest candidate on foreign policy and national security and keeping the earth on its axis.
OT but related to McCain's "experience"
Alternative universe New Yorker cover
McCain gets Social Security but criticizes system.
Disgraceful.
Saw a headline on Yahoo! News earlier tonight that said McBush was blasting the social security system - and then went on to comment that he receives social security benefits...
d'ya think the MSM is finally starting to get wind of some of Grandpa's double-talk?
Disgusting.
We need to remind the networks that Obama's millions of dollars in donations and millions of enthusiastic supporters are an important segment of their audience.
If they continue to burn Obama by this imbalanced reporting, we ought to remind them that we could boycott their shows and the products they advertise.
It would change their tune.
Thar's the link, me hearties...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080717/ap_on_el_pr/mccain_social_security
'twould appear the McBush's $6 million combined annual income isn't enough to get by on...
... arrrrr.....
Doesn't sound like McCain has showed up for work much in his political career. What a waste of taxpayer's dollars.
Hulk @ 6:
Superb comment! Spot on.
Dammit, John, but you know how to win wars! Do you hate freedom so much that you wouldn't go to any of these hearings and share your incredible war-winning super-duper-pooper-scooper powers?
Ruthless People @ 2:
I don't, but there are apparently 125,000,000 morons out there who are just okey-dokey with the thought! Forty-five percent of the American people should be charged with "inherent stupidity."
God help us all. We are surrounded by a nation of Wal-mart dunces.
it's just as well that he doesn't show up.
ralph @ 7:
They are. But unfortunately, they are still pissed off at the WRONG people! Goes with that "uninformed thingy" you mentioned!
"an increasingly dangerous and hostile Afghanistan"
Afghanistan has WMD? In that case, I stand %100 behind my President in time of grave national danger.
But on the other hand, maybe we could just slip quietly away and let them deal with their own problems. If Afghanis are fighting among themselves, maybe they won't have time to enrich that uranium, launch those missiles or have the extra men to come over and blow up our buildings.
Certainly I am not defending McShame, but I hope others noted that not only he
missed Afghan committee hearings/meetings, but so did Obama/Biden/Hagel/DeMint, so
as per usual "our Congress" is NOT doing the people's business and it is really quite
discouraging when Afghan is such a critical matter.
Stop picking on John McCainnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn.
One, two, five meetings. It's all the same for the Super Hero. He wouldn't remember anything anyway.
zero point zero
pmb @ 23:
Congratulations
HooverMc Lame you're at the top of the class.It would be easier to list the times that McCain has shown up for his job than to do the opposite.
Hey McOldie's online people. Please make him go on holiday and give this up now, the country does not need him or his surrogates. Bye, bye....have a good rest.
See ya. Toodles.
I doubt McCain is taken seriously by most of the GOP, he's simply a sacrificial lamb. They know Obama will crush Gramps in November. So, who the hell cares what his lame campaign has to say.
Bottom of his class at the Naval Academy. We don't need another dumbshit like Bush again.
McCain would walk around all day in soiled Depends if he didn't have a staff to change him 3 times a day. Do you really expect him to remember meetings?
John McCain has missed 62.6% of the votes for the 110th Congress. http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/110/senate/vote-missers/
He has only showed up on the Senate floor 6 times in 2008.
The Medicare vote was the 76th consecutive tally McCain missed.
And the bastards are all over CNN, MSN and Fox, with this notion of Senator Obama needing to go international as a training tool and to somhow gain some so call experience, when he has spent a good part of his life on the international circut and has more travels and experience under his belt before taking office then most of the presidents that has taken office, especially George Bush, who never left Texas before they pushed his ignorant ass into the white house and none of them brough up the subject or minded that small issue. They want to make sure this brother has all the qualifications, that none of the others were ever questioned about, or ever will be.
I believe they are going to curse the day they challenged Obama to go abroad, when they see just how overwhelmengly popular he is all over the world. He is going to put the minds of people in countries all over the world, that George Bush and the republican trash, has given such a vile impression of American people a more positive outlook.
I would be remist if I did not mention all the money the Obama campaign has raised in the last month. Lou Dobbs, Wolf Blitzer, and all the jack asses on MSN, do not even want to go near the subject of Obama, raising another fifty million dollars. They would rather continue demeaning and stomping around in black folk business instead. It simply makes the trumped up polls they promote of McCain being so close to him, a void issue.
I often wonder how many of these ass holds in our national media are going to get their asses fired when they are unsuccessful in their cheap efforts to demonize and distroy the true immage of Senator Obama in the eye's of American people to the point he loses this race to the old dried up, uninformed as well as ignornat McCain?
Not to worry though, because with a new administration who will be appointing a new FCC Chairman, I suspect there will be several of these trashey networks up for sale as their jobs of lying, cheating and distracting us will soon come to an end..
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OMG... That's so Johnny McAbsent of him... NO?
Johnny most certainly McCain't be qualified if Johnny's McAbsent all the time?
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What a great endorsement.
McCain is even worse that McObama.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpGH02DtIws
great to know we have WONDERFUL people to vote for.... both are a total joke
But, but isn't Mccain's years of captivity in a North Vietnamese prisoner of war camp more valuable than knowing what's going on today?
Does anyone know if this story was actually aired on ABC national news, or was this posted only on the blog? I think it makes a difference when determining to whom this story is preaching -- the choir or the audience.
proving yet again that workshy unemployable Repugs like Jim DeDumb and McDumb are a pair of clowns,
and unfit to find work outside of that sheltered retirement establishment we call the Senate.
toomuchsun @ 30:
and when Chimpy tried to complain about the Dem 110th and its workload and running out of time, its beaten the workshy Repug 109th hands down in debating, passing bills, and congressional workload.
Republican = living in a dream state
That just shows what great executive material McCain is, because he knows how to manage his time. McVictory just got done telling us that, by God, he knows how to win wars, so it wouldn't be a very intellegent use of his highly valuable time to sit in on meetings where they're trying to figure out the things he already knows.
Obviously, he rates a check mark in the "Uses time wisely" box on his fitness report.
McSame and his campaign are geographically and globally challenged; the last time I looked Afghanistan was located in central Asia. So what does that have to do with a committee with the "Subcommittee on European Affairs"? Sure there might be some discussion about relations but nothing that would more likely be discussed by the "Senate Armed Service Committee".
A few more senior moments were witnessed with respect to McSame's handle on geography lately when he referred to Czechoslovakia and not the Czech Republic, not once but on two separate occasions.
The independent republic of Czechoslovakia was created in 1918, just before McSame's high school graduation. I guess then we can see that he may have a vivid memory of geography class. On 1 January 1993, the country peacefully split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
let me know when you've made a concerted and successful campaign to bombard the mainstream media with the facts that are illustrated on C and L. Until then, it's my deep seated feeling that we are all just preaching to the choir. Want to do some real good, get the facts to the mainstream media and watchdog them until they present the info in soundbits that middle america can understand, just the way they do now with conservative rumours and innuendos. please tell me that i'm wrong, that publishing facts on this blog and writing opinions is going a long way to change the hearts and minds of middle america.
I don't think this is really true...it's not reported at FOX news on their website
McBush is a total embarrassment to normal older people with smarts.
Loonie @ 16:
Knows how to win wars??!!....given his track record--'nam, Afghanistan, Iraq--he doesn't know shit from shineola when it comes to winning a war.
B Bu But he is a war hero who knows how to win wars. But I guess that is OK because that is McCain being McCain. Obama has been ahead of this issue for over a year.
Wait a minute, McSame emphasized that he knows how to win a war, can anybody tell me which one he won?
He is riding high on his POW history, but forgets to publish the rest of his history: bottom 5 of his West Point class (of almost 900). Well what an accomplishment. I think this country DESERVES(finally) an intellectual President and not another embarrassing person like Bush-
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