ABC news: McCain attended ZERO Afghanistan Senate Hearings in 2 YEARS

[npincus]

Wake up, Sleepy-head and get to that hearing! (let's see if this makes it to tee-vee)




http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=post&forum=132

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.

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.

Jones also came before the Senate Armed Services Committee that week. But McCain was a no-show.

[DearAbby]

1. Did I read this right?

was there a hint of investigative reporting here? It's early and Granny just woke up, no coffee yet...tell me if I got this right.

[npincus]

2. hard to believe, isn't it?

and from the network that gave the world "Path to 9-11".

Well, I'm sure it will be buried in short notice by endless repitition of what Obama put on his toast this morning.

[BridgeTheGap]

3. Come on now - McCain is a foreign policy wunderkind. He knows he Shiite

from a hole in the ground, don't he? He knows Al Qaeda is all over Iran. And he knows that having been a p.o.w. taught him all he ever needed to know about foreign policy. Made him a hero too.

[ErinBerin84]

4. Did they really report this on air though?

I think they probably tucked this bit of "investive reporting" in their blog or something.

[npincus]

6. not to my knowledge

I picked it up first on Huffpo... let's see...

[Inuca]

5. This Afghanistan hearings thing

rings a bell from the recent past. It was ridiculous then and it is ridiculous now. I hope that Biden will again remind the media and the McCain camp that HE is in charge of the full committee, and that there were several hearings related to Afghanistan in full committee as opposed to a subcommittee.

[glarius]

7. Are you referring to McCain...of the "double talk express?"

LOL