McCain Attended Zero Afghanistan Hearings In Last Two Years

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.

Comments

[BlueStateMan]

McThuselah is still attending his Armed Services Committee hearings on the Spanish American War... he should catch up to Afghanistan in about....... oh, 60 years or so.

[washington31]

I don't think he is going to live that long.......

[calichic]

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[GrouchoMarxist]

Huh?

[BlueStateMan]

I think you missed an "n".

[edwarvir]

What does that statement mean Bluestateman what about N??????

[thatsitfortheotherone]

AOXOMOXOA

[BhunduBoy]

He already as the fixation of escalating war all over the world. Why should he attend hearings on Afghanistan?

[calichic]

Is it not funny how the corporate media espouse Cain's Vietnam service as an advantage in the realm of "national security" but in 04, Kerry's service was either ignored or denigrated and his opponent (who did not serve and set a precedent for our much maligned image abroad and an ill-conceived and immoral war) was crowned as the king of "national security". It is ironic how the media endlessly ponder why Cain has this advantage in the polls while the media themselves have perpetuated these myths.

[LaFeminazi]

Mr Magoo "Philosophically I was there, do you have a psychological problem with that a***hole?"

[GrouchoMarxist]

But Magoo is a mavericky maverick LOL

Hiya, Femi

[LaFeminazi]

Hiya grouchy.

He is in fact a horse?

[Nochnoi]

Do not forget the gooey goodness that it is!

[LibDrummer]

Thats a perfect anaology. We should be putting out adds with Mr Magoo as McCain on them. You know how much the right loves to poin tout that it only a cartoon and only terorist get upset with cartoons.

Mr Magoo is McCain. Clueless and lost, fumbling around with no idea or comprehension of how little he sees.

[afgail]

Do you detect a pattern here? McCain accuses Obama of exactly that which McCain is guilty. The GOP handbook must have Tactic 101= absolution of political sins. Tactic: Accuse the other guy of your own worst sin, it doesn't matter that it is a lie. Lying is good. Outcome: The voters won't know who to believe when it is pointed out that the GOP candidate is the real culprit. Ergo GOP candidate not held accountable for the the original sin OR lying about his opponent. The perfect solution for avoiding accountability for being on the wrong side of an issue. WORKS EVERY TIME.

[Nochnoi]

Does anyone know when the first debate might be? I think it will be the first honest opportunity to see McDoofus in his true nature, and all this getting away with 10,000 gaffes will finally stop......

[GrouchoMarxist]

As far as I know, they're not settled yet. There's a proposed schedule, but it's up in the air.

[Nochnoi]

Ah.... must be all the hot air keeping the bs afloat.........

[thatsitfortheotherone]

As they say, the waiting is the hardest part. However, the rewards will be sweet.

I'm guessing 1-2 debates before the Repubes pull McTrollup and sub with mittens or some slightly less egregious loser.

[Nochnoi]

Waiting, for some things, is indeed the hardest part.... and yes, the rewards will be vastly entertaining... I am tending to agree with you on Mittens.... I see him more often than anyone else on the talking heads shows, and am beginning to wonder if they are going to switch up once people realize that McStoneAge doesn't stand a chance against O....

Mitts is great at lying with a straight face.......

[LaFeminazi]

Support the troops.

Hold a fundraiser

For your campaign.

[calichic]

No. stop.

[calichic]

Let me try this for the umteenth time. The corporate media espouse Cain's Vietnam service as an advantage in the realm of "national security" but in 04, Kerry's Vietnam service was either ignored or denigrated and he was maligned as being disadvanted in this realm (even though his opponent did not serve and set a precedent for alienating our allies abroad and Fing up the use of the military in fighting the "war on terror". It's ironic that the media endlessly ponder why Cain is up in the polls in terms of "national security" while they themselves have made this a reality.

[StillAmused]

Maverick don't need no meetings... learned everything he needs to know about war and national security and foreign policy as a guest of the North Vietnamese. Go 'head and ask him. He'll tell you... one evil nation's the same as the next, and he knows how to do war stuff.

[whizkid]

While in the meantime Obama has done what?
C'mon kiddies.
You're missing school.

[Nochnoi]

Is it just me, or are astoundingly lacking in under the bridge dwellers................ not that I am complaining, it just seems weird..........

[GrouchoMarxist]

They're waiting for their next mission: http://www.johnmccain.com/ActionCenter/BlogInteract/BlogInteract.aspx

I wonder if they can turn their Magoo points in for fabulous prizes?

[Nochnoi]

At first I thought that was a joke!!!!! Oh my.... I would imagine prizes such as gameboys, cheetoes..... and tin foil maybe? Maybe girlie mags?

[ZHarris]

LMAO!!! Go blog for M c C a i n but...

"The content of these sites is not controlled by the M c C a i n campaign and may contain offensive material."

Those poor, delicate M c C a i n trolls...

[SCG]

Nite everyone. : )

[Nochnoi]

Goodnight *my friend*........

[Kalima]

Being on a thread about McDoddle, makes you want to repeat that, over
and over again, I know.:)
I think I'll call it a night (your night, that is) and wish you a GN, Gute Nacht
and a heartfelt Oyasumi nasai!
GN, Noch, Groucho and anyone else who is still awake or waking up.
See you later, when I hope this refresh/next page business has been
fixed.

[Phylmom]

Here's my idea. Joe Six-Pack (beer, conservative) and Joe One-Pack (wine, liberal) buy the New Yorker with the Obama cover, one to save it, the other to trash it. They open the magazine to the article by Benjamin Wallace-Wells on quantum physics. They read. Their heads explode. Problem solved.

[byrdland49]

I wonder how much the MSM will report this story. Let's guess...how about not at all?

[Nochnoi]

Doubtful.... since the media has been unfair to McNotSoFunny but not giving him as much coverage and air time as O...........

[GrouchoMarxist]

The MSM is filled with mavericky goodness about the mavericky maverickness of the mavericky maverick candidate.

[Nochnoi]

A dose of gooey Mavericky goodness a day keeps the reality away...........

[donaldw6]

That's when the little Digg button up top can come in handy. Digg it, and let's try to get the story noticed.

[SCG]

The MSM took a poll, stories about John McCain are rating flops. So when on the rare occasion they do run a negitive Mc Cain story, (because they can't totally pretend there isn't an election) they must find a equally negative story to pair it with Obama somehow.

Example ....News, McCain's teeth are yellow. That story must contain the rejoiner that Obama has had dental work. This is a phenomena exclusive to Mc Cain reports. Negative Obama stories can stand alone, unchallenged other than the half-facts uncovered by FOX's Sean Hannity

[calichic]

The corporate media espoused Cain's Vietnam service as an advantage in the realm of "national security" but in 04, Kerry's Vietnam service was either ignored or denigrated and he was deemed disadvantaged on "national security" as compared to his opponent (who was absent from military service and created a new precedent in undermining our reputation abroad and massively blundering foreign policy). It's ironic how the media endlessly ponder the reasons for polls showing Cain is stronger on "national security" while they themselves perpetuate this myth.