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McCain Attended Zero Afghanistan Hearings In Last Two Years
blogs.abcnews.com — 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
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- YouGotDugg, on 07/17/2008, -6/+40This sounds like the type of president we want.
- consonance, on 07/18/2008, -3/+9Hypocrisy? The new term for it is "straight talk!" We need a president who's full of it!
- Cwo655321, on 07/18/2008, -5/+4in all reality though, how much have we heard about Afghanistan? Its all been about Iraq anyways, much sexier if you ask me.
- blackb0x, on 07/18/2008, -0/+4yeah, Afghanistan was just the training grounds for the Iraq invasion. I wonder who they are going to invade next?
- ronjohn, on 07/19/2008, -0/+2Maybe you didn't hear about the 9 Soliders that died and how the Taliban overran us and the forces ran from the TALIBAN.
- withears, on 07/18/2008, -2/+6This sounds like the type of president we HAVE.
McAnus - The Third Bush Term. - runCMD, on 07/18/2008, -6/+3Soooo ... Is this any different than showing up and voting 'present' - you guys are so funny.
- zombies187, on 07/18/2008, -1/+2Hearing information and voting present is the same as not hearing information? How so? Also if you mean that Obama is just as qualified as McCain I would agree.
- CryRightardCry, on 07/18/2008, -3/+1Yes, *****, it's VERY different.
It's the difference between actually showing up, and being a thousand miles away.
It's the difference between doing your job, and ***** off trying to get a better job. - ronjohn, on 07/19/2008, -0/+1Better then not showing up at all..........
- jabberwolf, on 07/18/2008, -4/+4Article also inaccurate!:
Statement for the Record
Current and Projected National Security Threats to the United States
Lieutenant General Michael D. Maples, U.S. Army Director, Defense Intelligence Agency
*** before the Committee on Armed Services United States Senate ***
*** on Wednesday, February 27, 2008 ***
"Good afternoon Mr. Chairman, Ranking Member McCain and distinguished members of this committee."
In this committee (though not specific for Afghan):
"My testimony begins with an assessment of today’s global strategic environment, followed by trends and developments in Iraq and Afghanistan. I will also discuss today’s global terrorist threat before addressing countries, regions and transnational issues of special interest."
Mccain misses meetings because he is on so ***** many foreign committees along with many pork barrel busting investigative committees.
Mccain has ***** of committees to attend and reviews reports by all.
Obama on a few.. and almost always silent.
Obama barely travels on any fact finding missions as well:
"John McCain has visited Afghanistan four times, spent 22 years in the military, served for years on the Armed Services Committee, and is a recognized international leader on national security policy," he said. "Obama has never visited Afghanistan once before this week and has no other foreign policy or national security experience to speak of. It isn’t even close."- CryRightardCry, on 07/18/2008, -3/+1Well, as a rightard shill you know making claims like this is very easy.
Tell you what.
Break from rightard tradition and actually BACK IT UP.
McCain's schedule is available. SHOW where he was during those votes.
We all know he was not tied up in meetings, he was campaigning.
But I dare you to try to prove your statement isn't just another made up claim. - hmd1987, on 07/21/2008, -0/+1"Cry Rightard Cry"....you truely are a child and a troll.
Your name-calling is why you tend to get dugg down; because
people just think you're 12.
You are a disgrace to leftists and to extremists.
You think I watch Fox News - but I know it's as much of a joke as CNN.
You probably can't even answer the big question here: http://hmd1987.blogspot.com/
Here's what I posted on one of your digg submissions that simply made me laugh out loud as I typed it:
you are an extreme leftist. you mistakened me for an extreme rightist.
i'm an independent because I know there's not much of a difference between Republicrats and Democans.
Al Gore is misleading the public just like George Bush mislead many about WMD in Iraq.
Gore lied about his polar bear pic to exaggerate a point that man-made global warming is killing polar bears.
He also wrongly dictated to the audiences what his charts represent. CO2 levels rise before the temp and VICE VERSA.
I acknowledge that earth is getting warmer and will cause an inevitable ice age like it has 6 or 7 times before - which all scientists agree on.
Even your beloved UN Socialist Agenda-Driven Want to control the world nazis say this:
"Livestock production for human consumption produces more greenhouse gas emissions than all forms of transportation combined" -UN Food & Agriculture Organization
You probably don't even know who Maurice Strong is (until you google him and say you do know him just to spite me).
He's behind the UN Power-grab, that psychopath has already openly said that he wants the UN to have it's own army and hold guns up to foreign leaders in order to force change. You would probably like that since you give me the impression that your ideals are that of a socialist.
"You think different than me, you're a ***** retard. You're skeptical about man-made global warming; so I'll associate
you with Bush's camp. Never mind the fact that Bush's estate is greener than Gore's, I'll just not acknowledge the fact
that Al Gore is a tool that doesn't believe in his own lies."
- You
oh and p.s. i didn't include this from before but ummm:
2,500 UN Scientists curiously defected all around the same time. I guess they made enough
money off of Gore's grants in order to say "okay, time to stop joking."
- CryRightardCry, on 07/18/2008, -3/+1Well, as a rightard shill you know making claims like this is very easy.
- jemka, on 07/18/2008, -0/+2He has the meeting minutes printed and mailed to him.
- consonance, on 07/18/2008, -3/+9Hypocrisy? The new term for it is "straight talk!" We need a president who's full of it!
- SheilaNoya, on 07/17/2008, -4/+40McCain learned everything he needed to know about Afghanistan when he flew there to hear Wayne Newton sing to the troops.
/s - yellowcakewalk, on 07/18/2008, -5/+29Not to worry, once elected he'll have his own "Cheney" named Joe Lieberman taking care of the day to day business of finishing off this once great nation..
- jackieblu, on 07/18/2008, -1/+3He won't be elected!
- alapoet, on 07/18/2008, -4/+31And he styles himself the expert on Afghanistan.
- cvindustries, on 07/18/2008, -4/+2Disclosure: I'm not a republican.
Obama was supposed to be chairing a committee on Afghanistan. He never held a hearing. McCain from 2001 till he was running for President attended dozens of hearings on Afghanistan. McCain has gone to nato security conferences every year on afghanistan to talk about the nato relationship with Afghanistan. Obama wasn't even in the senate then.- CryRightardCry, on 07/18/2008, -1/+1What?
Obama wasn't chairing any Afghanistan committee.
Maybe you need to find some proof of your claims, since your very first claim is a lie.
- CryRightardCry, on 07/18/2008, -1/+1What?
- cvindustries, on 07/18/2008, -4/+2Disclosure: I'm not a republican.
- AxmxZ, on 07/18/2008, -3/+18Hey, you can't expect a guy his age to keep ALL the wars his administration started in mind!
- baron42, on 07/18/2008, -9/+13this was posted 28 minutes after this was posted.
http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/McCain_Attended_ ...- Carbonlord, on 07/18/2008, -1/+5Obviously, he lied when he took the oath!
- patpl22391, on 07/18/2008, -13/+2I'm burying that one since it is from huffpuff.
- withears, on 07/18/2008, -0/+5Yes. "Huffpuff" (gay) made John McAnus miss all those hearings.
- MrTulip, on 07/18/2008, -2/+6someone should set up a poll to kick mrbabyman off digg for good... >:/
just kidding...or maybe - mimigins, on 07/18/2008, -2/+1But why does that one have a number then?
- Lyk4n, on 07/18/2008, -0/+2MrBabyMan steals submissions?! What?! No one knew that at all!
- slvrbullet87, on 07/18/2008, -5/+3Neither of them have been there for the last 2 years, actually pretty standard for nonminees for president.
- patpl22391, on 07/18/2008, -14/+4Yeah, because if he didn't attend the hearings, there is no possible way to know what's going on? I don't think any of you know how congress works. The surge has been such a great success, that Obama has scrubbed his website of any criticism of it, and now has (gasp) flip flopped on the issue.
- Wartyboskfapped, on 07/18/2008, -1/+11The surge hasn't been a success at all. It was a stop gap measure designed to reduce troop levels to below where they were when it started, to stop attacks on US soldiers and Iraqi military/civilians, and to push forward political change in Iraq.
Has any of that happened?
NO.
The surge amounts to putting more troops in there - which is what critics of the Iraq war said was needed from the beginning, by the way - and that is of course going to have the practical effect of allowing us to beat down the insurgents a little bit more effectively.
But at some point we are going to have to reduce those troop numbers, because troops wear out. What happens then? Back to the situation we were in when the surge began.
The Surge has FAILED. - pintomp3, on 07/18/2008, -0/+4"The surge has been such a great success" meeting 3 out of 18 of the administration's own benchmarks is a success? i guess 17% would seem like a passing grade to a person who graduated 5th from the bottom of a class of almost 900.
- Wartyboskfapped, on 07/18/2008, -1/+11The surge hasn't been a success at all. It was a stop gap measure designed to reduce troop levels to below where they were when it started, to stop attacks on US soldiers and Iraqi military/civilians, and to push forward political change in Iraq.
- brainscab, on 07/18/2008, -2/+14Well Duh, Iraq is the central front in the war on terror
*pulls hair out*- charm803, on 07/18/2008, -1/+6Well, it would have been ok, EXCEPT that
"the McCain campaign loudly criticized Obama this week for failing to schedule any hearings on Afghanistan in the last year and a half."
If McCain would have kept his mouth shut or at least looked at his own record before, then it would have been a different story. - Archer007, on 07/18/2008, -2/+3There has been combat, but we are not in a war, and have not been since WWII.
- charm803, on 07/18/2008, -1/+6Well, it would have been ok, EXCEPT that
- kosser, on 07/18/2008, -10/+4I hear Obama's been doing his followers some justice...where's the articles about him? Ohh i see just try to forget his voting for FISA bill and threats to attack Iran, and wanting 1 million child militia bigger than the military....yea shove that under the rug and keep up w/ the obvious McCain news...we already know he's horrible now if people knew that Obama was horrible too then we could get somewhere.
- VinnieDaMac, on 07/18/2008, -0/+6It'd probably be easier just to compile a list of all the hearings he HAS attended.
- ZenMojo, on 07/18/2008, -0/+1What's his attendance rate for votes over the last two years? 30%? And this is a guy who won't campaign on weekends.
- everlast88, on 07/18/2008, -3/+11...and there's still people who ACTUALLY believe he'd make a good president... just flabbergasting, I imagine those are the same people who didn't necessarily vote FOR Bush but AGAINST Gore just because Clinton got his dick sucked, voting should require an IQ test.
- Babazoz, on 07/18/2008, -4/+1I wouldn't call for that, if I were you, because if voting DID require an IQ test, you'd probably be deported upon completing it.
- redxii, on 07/18/2008, -0/+5An IQ test probably doesn't matter, the election goes to the highest bidder.
- Wartyboskfapped, on 07/18/2008, -5/+14McCain is a chump. The guy is a ***** idiot. He will never be President. Not even Republicans (the real ones) like him. When the debates happen, oh my god, you are gonna have some laughs at this guy's expense. They better come up with some homosex drug & bestiality scandal to pin on Obama, because otherwise this old fool has no chance. He proves it more and more each week.
- YodaJones, on 07/18/2008, -5/+10*****.com domain still available.
- huszar02, on 07/18/2008, -8/+3Yeah, obviously McCain is out of the loop.
I mean, how many times has he traveled to the region in the last few years? Oh, wait, a hell of a lot more than Obama, to both Iraq AND Afghanistan.- jackieblu, on 07/18/2008, -0/+5And the guy's still clueless! He went there for fake photo opps, just like his fake town meetings!
- edebolt, on 07/18/2008, -5/+3ignore this poor analysis. Elected officials are busy people and can't sit in one place for 3 or 4 hours to basically get little or no information. Every representative has staffers and AA's (Administrative Aides) who attend hearings and take notes and make sure the office asks certain questions. Sometimes they have friendly Rep's who will ask it... It just shows Obama and McCain are not stupid and know how to be efficient with their time.
- publiclurker, on 07/18/2008, -0/+1Is there any depth to which you won't publicly debase yourself for this being?
- argo2d, on 07/18/2008, -3/+6wait what's the point of him showing up anyways? Doesn't he just always end up falling asleep ?
- Lyk4n, on 07/18/2008, -0/+1Hah! Remember when grandpa fell asleep at the wheel? Now that was a memory!
- waggdogg, on 07/18/2008, -3/+5
Obama chairs the European Affairs Subcommittee of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which has oversight of military operations in Afghanistan.
And he went to one of the six hearings.
Sens. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., and Richard Lugar, R-Ind., were the only senators who spoke at the hearing. No Biden. No Dodd. No Obama. No DeMint- jackieblu, on 07/18/2008, -1/+1NO McCain!
- deathsythe, on 07/18/2008, -0/+1But no Obama either.
When was the last time Obama even made a trip the middle east before McCain called him out on it.- publiclurker, on 07/18/2008, -0/+2What's that have to do with the subject at hand. When my children try to BS themselves out of a bad situation, they always try the "But look at what my brother did" cop out. I don't buy it from them, so why would I buy if from supposed adults.
- deathsythe, on 07/18/2008, -0/+1I wasn't justifying it either way, I'm just pointing out to all the deluded diggers that Obama is no better if not worse.
Whats the old saying about he who is without sin casting the first stone? - Lyk4n, on 07/18/2008, -0/+1But McCain wants the war, Obama doesn't. McCain should be showing up to these things because he's a warmonger. I wouldn't expect a politician who says we are losing a battle to want to go into that war zone. That doesn't make sense at all..
- quesi, on 07/19/2008, -0/+1"But McCain wants the war, Obama doesn't."
What crap is that!?! You didn't hear the AIPAC speech? Oh, you said THE war, so he can just screw us into other wars. I get it. - avengingturnip, on 07/19/2008, -0/+2@Lyk4n - Not paying any attention at all are you? Obama wants to start drawing down in Iraq so he can move the troops into Afghanistan and eventually into Pakistan. He is just as eager to be a warlord as McCain is.
- stealthc, on 07/18/2008, -11/+8McCain is an ass.
The degree to which Obama is getting jammed down our throats as the next POTUS is astounding. You realize that man stabbed you in the back over FISA, right? Neither one of these guys is going to be any good as a president. At least with Obama our international PR will be decent, since apparently it's illegal to dislike him.
Obama will preside over the worst economic situation this country has ever faced. It's not his fault, but he'll be there when the ***** hits the fan, and he is grossly underequipped to deal with it. If economics had a short bus, he'd be in the back. He's going to play it like he's the new FDR and make it drag on forever just like that butcher did in the 30s. He'll probably start a war with Pakistan, maybe China too while he's at it, if China starts dumping too many of its Dollars.
And this crowd of wanking walruses will applaud him every step of the way. - mrsammercer, on 07/18/2008, -1/+4Please, stop adding "-gate" to the end of every single scandal just because Nixon had stoolies break into the Watergate Hotel.
- zippy757, on 07/18/2008, -0/+2...in case you don;'t know it, anything that ends in 'hearings...' are totally and completely a waste of anyone's time, and are more for political agendas than actual information sharing. It doesn't bother me at all if Obama or McCain were no shows because the true information on military and security issues are conveyed in private sessions, not 'hearings...'
- proliance, on 07/18/2008, -4/+5So neither of these guys are qualified?
Tell me something I don't know. - Apocrypha, on 07/18/2008, -2/+5There is no way in hell McCain can win this election. He is most definitely not qualified and this is just one more reason. It shows a disturbing pattern of do nothing. Which is exectly what he will do in the Whitehouse. Nothing different from still President Bush at all. A puppet.
- withears, on 07/18/2008, -3/+3John McAnus = The Third Bush Term.
- jackieblu, on 07/18/2008, -2/+5Obama has been talking about Afghanistan being the hot spot for terrorists, for months, and months, while we piddle around in Iraq, even paying some Iraqi's to be on our side. McSame never mentioned Afghanistan until he realized that Obama was/ is right yet again, and now McCain is back peddling, and playing catch up, at the same time! It's like patting your head and rubbing your stomach - at the same time.
- lamiaconfitor, on 07/18/2008, -0/+1And why would je? All them confounded hearings. Thay aint fun like in the movies!
- guerrilla_suit, on 07/18/2008, -1/+2That's it. I'm taking over. The responsibility of our country can't be placed in these two individuals hands.
- deathsythe, on 07/18/2008, -4/+3
Obama chairs the European Affairs Subcommittee of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which has oversight of military operations in Afghanistan.
And he went to one of the six hearings.
Sorry- I forgot the rule that made it blasphemy to post any actual facts about Obama on Digg...- DesignNerd, on 07/18/2008, -1/+1yawn. you are boring.
- Andrwmorph, on 07/18/2008, -0/+1Wah wah wah! We know Digg is biased so quit your bitching and find a different website where everybody agrees with you.
- ZenMojo, on 07/18/2008, -0/+1Technically, it's Joe Biden and John Kerry's jobs to hold hearings on the country of Afghanistan. Obama's job is to hold hearings on NATO, but they're higher ranked than him which means they get the most important meetings and briefings.
This makes his connection to NATO superfluous.
- ae59, on 07/18/2008, -0/+2This is why there needs to be an alternative candidate. Check out this recent summary of McCain's confusing Iraq Strategy as according to Bob Barr- the Libertarian Presidential Candidate for 2008.
http://www.bobbarr2008.com/media-center/play/111/? ... - DesignNerd, on 07/18/2008, -0/+1It's cuz he's got soo much of that therr 'sperience! He don't need to go to no stuffy meetings.
- Cnat, on 07/18/2008, -0/+2He's probably got his hands full with Iran invasion meetings or maybe somewhere else like Venezuela or Canada.
- catcher6250, on 07/18/2008, -0/+1He's on the right track to success!
- covertress, on 07/18/2008, -0/+3BURIED as inaccurate:
Statement for the Record
Current and Projected National Security Threats to the United States
Lieutenant General Michael D. Maples, U.S. Army Director, Defense Intelligence Agency
*** before the Committee on Armed Services United States Senate ***
*** on Wednesday, February 27, 2008 ***
"Good afternoon Mr. Chairman, Ranking Member McCain and distinguished members of this committee."
http://www.dia.mil/publicaffairs/Testimonies/state ...- JoeVet, on 07/18/2008, -0/+1That is a statement for the record and not a transcript of the actual committee meeting. It does not prove one way or the other if McCain was actually present.
- tchowe, on 07/18/2008, -2/+1MrBabyMan please help digg up my story, you're my only hope of front page freedom
- happyhead7, on 07/18/2008, -2/+0He doesn't have to know economics or attend meetings.
He doesn't have to know anything.
He will have expert cabinet members to do that for him. - quesi, on 07/18/2008, -1/+1Vote McBamAIPAC 2008 - More wars guaranteed, and you can end the United States militarily or through socialism.
Ready for the big cheer?
Yyyaaaaaaaaaay, foreign influence!!!!!!1 - xiambax, on 07/18/2008, -0/+1when your that old you can't afford to spend your time at hearings for wars you won't see the end of.
- JoeVet, on 07/18/2008, -0/+1Give him a break......he just forgot he was in the United States Senate. Old happens to us all.
- seastead, on 07/18/2008, -0/+0OMG - sorry, it's off-topic, but you have to see the bunch of idiots at this post who really think obama wants to get rid of all our nukes and give the USA over to the Taliban. Looks like the crowd came from Breitbart (or Rightbart)
http://digg.com/politics/Barack_will_rid_the_world ... - MacBigot, on 07/18/2008, -0/+1Obama went to a hearing on Afghanistan v. McCain went TO Afghanistan…and Iraq
McCain FTW - ronjohn, on 07/19/2008, -0/+1MAKE SURE EVERYONE FORWARDS THIS!!!!
- PolishLogic, on 07/24/2008, -0/+1At least he recognizes what a gigantic waste of time, money, and troop lives Afghanistan is.
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