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ABC News' Political Radar blog -- McCain hasn't been to any Afghanistan-related hearings in past two years: Republicans and their presidential choice's campaign have been critical of Democratic contender Barack Obama because the Senate subcommittee he chairs has not had any oversight hearings about NATO's role in securing and rebuilding Afghanistan and because he has attended just one other hearing about Afghanistan. But, "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. ... McCain campaign spokesman Brian Rogers, in a statement to ABC News, argued that McCain's years of previous foreign policy experience make up for his recent lack of attendance at hearings."

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Asleep at the switch. Lazy. Arrogant. The old fool probably was busy at the Czechoslovakia hearings instead.
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Obama is chairman of a sub committee on Afghanistan & he hasn't even held a meeting, not one. He's just now getting ready to even go to Afghanistan.
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ABC News' Political Radar blog -- McCain hasn't been to any Afghanistan-related hearings in past two years: Republicans and their presidential choice's campaign have been critical of Democratic contender Barack Obama because the Senate subcommittee he chairs has not had any oversight hearings about NATO's role in securing and rebuilding Afghanistan and because he has attended just one other hearing about Afghanistan. But, "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. ... McCain campaign spokesman Brian Rogers, in a statement to ABC News, argued that McCain's years of previous foreign policy experience make up for his recent lack of attendance at hearings."

Read more: http://blogs.usatoday.com/onpolitics/2008/07/whats-new-...




ABC Link: http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/07/hearing...

there is only one word to discribe McCain... Hypocrite
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ABC News' Political Radar blog -- McCain hasn't been to any Afghanistan-related hearings in past two years: Republicans and their presidential choice's campaign have been critical of Democratic contender Barack Obama because the Senate subcommittee he chairs has not had any oversight hearings about NATO's role in securing and rebuilding Afghanistan and because he has attended just one other hearing about Afghanistan. But, "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. ... McCain campaign spokesman Brian Rogers, in a statement to ABC News, argued that McCain's years of previous foreign policy experience make up for his recent lack of attendance at hearings."

Read more: http://blogs.usatoday.com/onpolitics/2008/07/whats-new-...




ABC Link: http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/07/hearing...
True McCain has missed all six hearings but he has been a Senator for 21 years. Obama on the other hand had been a Senator for all of 143 congressional days when he threw his hat in the ring for President. After 21 years I'm sure McCain can get by just fine reading the transcript. For a Senator with as little experience on capitol hill as Obama to miss 5 out of 6 hearings is ridiculous and show his arrogance when pretending to know what he's talking about.
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I disagree, there's two words, "next president"
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True McCain has missed all six hearings, , ,
Missed every hearing. That's experience.


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but he has been a Senator for 21 years. Obama on the other hand had been a Senator for all of 143 congressional days when he threw his hat in the ring for President. After 21 years I'm sure McCain can get by just fine reading the transcript. For a Senator with as little experience on capitol hill as Obama to miss 5 out of 6 hearings is ridiculous and show his arrogance when pretending to know what he's talking about.
Verses a Senator who has the experience of lying, manipulating, cheating, wife beating, racism, collaborating with enemies, faked/forced smiles, temper tantrums under pressure, war mongering, pandering. . .

Whew!!!

Guess you're right.

Problem is, , , America, wants change from all that. Senator Barak Obama, is living proof. I guess that's why he choose a stadium and not an arena for a convention address. Ya think?
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ABC News' Political Radar blog -- McCain hasn't been to any Afghanistan-related hearings in past two years: Republicans and their presidential choice's campaign have been critical of Democratic contender Barack Obama because the Senate subcommittee he chairs has not had any oversight hearings about NATO's role in securing and rebuilding Afghanistan and because he has attended just one other hearing about Afghanistan. But, "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. ... McCain campaign spokesman Brian Rogers, in a statement to ABC News, argued that McCain's years of previous foreign policy experience make up for his recent lack of attendance at hearings."

Read more: http://blogs.usatoday.com/onpolitics/2008/07/whats-new-...




ABC Link: http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/07/hearing...
As Senator Joseph Biden said of Obama during the primaries: "He's a 'Johnny Come-Lately" on Afghanistan and was late to the debate. Biden was correct.
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Missed every hearing. That's experience.

Verses a Senator who has the experience of lying, manipulating, cheating, wife beating, racism, collaborating with enemies, faked/forced smiles, temper tantrums under pressure, war mongering, pandering. . .

Whew!!!

Guess you're right.

Problem is, , , America, wants change from all that. Senator Barak Obama, is living proof. I guess that's why he choose a stadium and not an arena for a convention address. Ya think?
Did some one say lying?

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BY LYNN SWEET Sun-Times Columnist
WASHINGTON -- Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign, 46 days old on Tuesday, has run into some speed bumps, created because of a series of missteps magnified because he is under microscopic scrutiny.

It's too early to say whether the gaffes slow Obama's momentum -- or if they become barricades, extracting a more significant price for the Illinois Democrat's White House bid. They are getting noticed.

Consider the items that have been accumulating since Obama announced on Feb. 10:

• 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.

• Another Obama stump line -- he said it again Tuesday morning to the Communications Workers of America here -- is that "I've been long enough in Washington to know that Washington needs to change." He is running against Washington yet his campaign is populated with political professionals who are Washington insiders.

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In July of 2004, the day after his speech at the Democratic convention catapulted him into the national spotlight, Barack Obama told a group of reporters in Boston that the United States had an "absolute obligation" to remain in Iraq long enough to make it a success.

"The failure of the Iraqi state would be a disaster," he said at a lunch sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor, according to an audiotape of the session. "It would dishonor the 900-plus men and women who have already died. . . . It would be a betrayal of the promise that we made to the Iraqi people, and it would be hugely destabilizing from a national security perspective."

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In the Sept of '07 debate he said he didn't know if we'd have the troops out before the end of his first term, six months later, we'll be out in 16 months.

His website claimes he wants to save Social Security, but he voted against a bill that would stop congress form deficit borrowing against it,.

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Care to give an example of each?
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Care to give an example of each?
How typical. Another repub who backs a candidate he knows nothing about.
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