Hearing-Gate Exposed! McCain Has Worse Afghanistan Hearing Record Than Obama

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.
Obama wasn’t even in the senate then.
Way to expose how liberal you are Jake Tapper.

You don’t mention how Biden went after Obama for never mentioning Afghanistan at any hearing. MSNBC is reporting this.
The big difference is McCain has a record.
McCain went to Nato security conferences every year to talk about the relationship with afghanistan.
McCain attended numerous hearings about afghanistan after 9/11 when Obama was in the senate.
The key is Obama has no experience and didn’t use the oppurtunity to hold a hearing or ask a question about afgnistan in the hearings.
Obama has been to western europe once on a stopover. He never went to nato security conference annually like McCain.

As usual, scratch a republican find a hypocrite. Why are republicans always guilty of the same sins they renounce? Hypocrites.

Another example of McCain being a 1/4 deep and a mile wide—no depth whatsoever, only attack, attack. Its already become boring. Pelosi say Bush has no new ideas; McCain-Bush same o, same o. Yawn!!!

No birth control for you if John mcain is president. Hey anyone google John Mcains military record. Its been sealed and even some republicans have been saying there is evidence he did collaborate with the enemy. Whats to hide?? Release his records.

McCain also has the worst voting record in the Senate. The last time McCain cast a Senate vote was on April 8. I guess he is too old and tired to travel back and forth to DC.

Let’s be real on attendance at these hearings. What do you think these wealthy senators (paid by your tax dollar) have as a staff representing the senators at various meetings. Attendance is not the issue, it’s what they believe and support. OOPs, I meant to say what they profess (don’t have to believe, just say what will get votes) and present what the issue of the day is (will change several times).

Oh I didnt know that Bush will be meeting personally with Ahmadinijad?Normally, I wouldnt stand up for a man that i dont think was qualified to be president. But in this case, Bush isnt meeting them. Obama in three debates pretty directly answered he would personally meet with conditions. I think Bush is really stealing from hillary since she would do what Bush appears to be doing..i dont know who i am going to vote for since I need some experince with all the crap that is coming..I may not agree with some McCain ideals but i know that he loves this country and has shown it! Country before party!

linchristi – Are you saying Sen McCain loves his country because he was a POW? That is preparation for office, how? While he did serve his country, that is not a pre curser to being a good POTUS! You need to know when to be diplomatic. Have not learned from the shoot first get correct intelligence later that in not the way to go? It’s obvious that your HRC supporter. Bush is not stealing from her, he’s stealing from Sen Obama. If you remember they tried skewering him about meeting with out conditions.

Who needs a stinkin’ committee? McCain gets his own “facts.” He goes to Baghdad, is surrounded by hundreds of our soldiers and protected by BlackHawk helicopters overhead, and then comes away from that experience saying, “everything is GREAT. everything is NORMAL.”

Sam, if what you say is true about all Johnny McBush’s travels to Pakistan/Afghanistan, why has McCain IGNORED Afghanistan the past 2 years while the situation has been getting worse? If he was there, it’s even WORSE that he had to have Obama point out to him the other day that we need more brigades to FINALLY catch the guy who attacked us on 9/11. Remember him you Bush boot-licker?

More confusion in the already confused McConfused camp.
McCain should really quit

Every single one of the McCain excuse-makers on this page: get real. I don’t have a problem with McCain skipping these hearings per se; they’re dog-and-pony shows. But for him to make one of his campaign’s MAJOR talking points this week the utterly LAME charge when he’s even MORE guilty of missing them? There’s one word: HYPOCRITE. Before you throw stones Johnny, check if you’re in a glass house. And if you are, check if Cindy has paid the taxes since she apparently likes to skip that if the California homes are any indication.

A quote about what Obama spoke about at the Afghanistan hearing (the one he attended and McCain didn’t): “… although he used the opportunity to ask [the General] about Pakistan.” The “although” seems to imply that this is a bad thing? Does anybody remember 9/11? We are in Afghanistan because the al Qaeda members who attacked us lived there. Because Bush ignored the war there and focused on Iraq, they slipped into Pakistan. Sounds to me like this is perfectly logical. And by the way, the committee oversees troops in Afghanistan, it doesn’t “oversea” them. Who the hell wrote this garbage?

1) mccain’s chicken has come home to roast
2) those who live in glass houses should NOT throw stones.
3) the hunter has become the hunted.
feel FREE to add your own.

The wingnuts are in full spin mode tonight. McCain flip-flops on sending more troops to Afghanistan. Obama has been saying this for months. Obama has been saying that we need to go into Northern Pakistan if needed. A few weeks later, Bush bombs northern Pakistan.
These wingnuts can’t even get their facts right. Just read the first few posts. They’re mad at Jake Tapper and the didn’t even post this.
I love the smell of desparation in the morning!

trythetruth….HRC spoke about Afghanistan during the debates in OH. She brought up the issue. Now Obama is following her lead.OK by me.I’ve left my bag of bitterness at the station and I’m now on the Obama train. Let’s quit bashing Hillary and persuade the rest of her supporters to roll McCain out of the way.

Listen this Community organizer has not done a damn thing in his life. He is a empty suit trying to get by with speaches that promise the moon but really are a bunch of bull. We cannot afford nor do we need this phony

Ok…You Obama supporters…why don’t you OWN your crappy candidate, rather than spout off the same ol same ol about McCain.
So…let’s have a list of Obama’s foreign policy experience and what makes him more knowledgable on these matters. I will be checking back. It seems when his supporters are called out, they have nothing to say.
Oh…except…Obama is all about change…hope…a new kind of politics. Funny how you guys don’t spout off that nonsense anymore. It is just about attacking…making fun of McCain’s age. Fight the Smears!!

McCain is so old that he cant remember that Czechoslovakia doesn’t exist, he’s said its name as if it existed like 5 times. This brings very serious concerns about his ability to be commander in chief. He was wrong about how he thought Iraq would be easy cheese, he was wrong about the invasion, he flip flopped on Taxes, immigration, and everything else.
Most of all, he is a Bush republican, who agrees with him on everything. A republican surrogate on CNN recently couldn’t come up with one difference he has with Bush on the economy. Folks, America’s economy and survival is at stake in this election, and that’s why our media is starting to be a little more fair in their coverage.

McCain has been for and against so many things we don’t know what he’s about. The longer he campaigns the more often he changes. Will the real McCain please stand up.

McCain’s patriotism is not at issue. The issue is would he be a good POTUS and I think he would be embarrassingly equal to Bush. Another bully who thinks he knows everything…who refuses to listen, learn and study. And most importantly, his judgement and temperment is highly questionable.

McCain being a patriot, war hero and POW does not make him qualified to be President. McCain has some serious character flaws and judgement issues and his advanced age that cause many to have concern about his ability to be an effective President. Plus his connections to lobbyists and to Bush also are problematic. Bottom line: McCain is an awful candidate.

honest
mccain was never very good at anything—-i take the hero crap with a grain of salt—–some of the idiots i come in contact with are now trying to tell me he had steel rods drove thru hin and was hung up on the wall—it justs gets better and better—-however i have been around nearly as long as he has–and aware of the bullcrap—-he certainly is not very intelligent and that is a fact.

McCain ranks (1) in missing over 62.6% votes in the 110th Congress. Side note: McCain missed the GI Bill vote, which he opposed, and then had the nerve to try and take some credit for it along with Bush actually giving him credit. Why any veteran would vote for this guy baffles me.

FACT: McCain currently has the worst attendance record in the senate.

When Republicans can’t argue real issues they resort to Rev. Wright. I could go through a litany of characters McCain has been and is associated with. Rev. Wright is a passionate pastor who is from another age and another time. A time when Blacks were beaten, jailed, firehosed, bitten by dogs, lynched, refused service, forced to drink from different fountains. I could go on and on. Because he holds some cynical views based on his experiences does not make him a bad person. You’re judging him on one minute of a passionate sermon where he was quoting what U.S. diplomat Ambassador Edward Peck had said on Fox News.

Michael
way to expose how off you are…
Obama was the head of a subcommittee whose larger committtee was having hearings on the issue… that is what the chair keeps telling you…6 larger full meetings on the issue… demint didn’t attend the NATO meeting that he criticized obama on.
It’s not Jake that is exposed it is your ignorance of the committees.

Alex: Obama said he never heard those ugliest of remarks by Rev Wright. I believe him. I am sure the right wing wackos have been trying desperately to tie Obama to attending one of Wright’s worst sermons but apparently they have not been able to or it would have been all over the news. The Wright issue is dead.

Clarification: He said he was “NOT” there for that particular sermon

now slick willy wants to get on board for obama—–he wants to do obama in like he did hillary—–chase him with a stick

New Nevada Rasmussen poll has Obama up by 2:
McCain 45, Obama 47 Obama +2.0
Not statisticlly significant but politically significant in that McCain should be leading this traditinally red state. What is wrong with McCain?

It seems it is not only Mcain who is going senile, his all campaign is suffuring from memory loss. Alzeimer is in the house.

The moment the spotlight is turned around on McCain the right-wingers come out defending a no-show attendence record. If Obama parted his hair different it’s on the 24/7 news cycle!!
Here’s something of actual relevance that gets reported and the right-wingers are up in arms!!

danp wrote: “…John McCains military record. Its been sealed and even some republicans have been saying there is evidence he did collaborate with the enemy. Whats to hide?? Release his records.
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I’m voting for Obama but this is a despicable post. The only GOP people who said McCain collaborated were the same Bush backers who paid people to slander Kerry’s record as well. Bush’s who operation smells and so does that post. McCain talked under torture and gave them the names of the other pilots in his squad: the names of the Green Bay Packers O-line. And if he did give anything up under torture, it obviously had not effect on things.

John McCain is a phony, and a hypocrite, and a fool, because it was John McCain who supported the Iraq war in the first place! A war which John McCain could have opposed, which he should have been able to see like many other did, was a BIG MISTAKE, but instead John McCain stupidly supported the invading of Iraq!!
AND the fact is that even BEFORE the Iraq war even started, Obama was saying that we should NOT invade, and that invading Iraq would be a huge mistake, that it would distract us from the war in Afghnaistan against AlQueada, and the Taliban, the people who are responsible for 9/11.
The fact is JOHN MCCAIN has NEVER ever been focused on Afghanistan, and JOHN McCAIN has NEVER recognized that more soldiers were needed in Afghnaistan. And even when everyone was being told by Top Military Commanders that the number of soldiers dying in Afghanistan was because of a SHORTAGE of the number of soldiers on the ground in Afghnaistan, and that more soldiers were needed, EVEN THEN, John McCain DID NOT want to respond to the need by realizing that soldiers needed to be sent from Afghnaistan to Iraq.
John McCain has been obsessed with Iraq, it is like he CAN NOT think of more than one thing at a time, and that is just pathetic! We cannot have a president who cannot deal with more than one issue at a time, and John McCain has shown OVER, AND OVER that he has NO plans for getting out of Iraq, (even when MONTHS, AND MONTHS AGO, Top Military said that because of the amount of soldiers we now have in Iraq, we have a SHORTAGE of soldiers to send to Afghanistan, and that, this is resulting in Afghanistan starting to descend into chaos, EVEN THEN, John McCain still had no plans for Afghanistan.
Until, yesterday BOTH George Bush and John McCain have been ignoring the Afghanistan war, and ignoring our soldiers there, and that has resulted in it descending into choas, and disaster.
SO John McCain’s argument that he the foreign policy experience is TOTAL BULLSH*T, because of every decision he has made including supporting invading Iraq, and NOT recognizing that instead of invading Iraq our focus should have been on Afghanistan, and the Taliban, and AlQueada, who are the people who are responsible for 9/11. Add to that, John McCain has a TOTAL LACK of any plan at all to get out of Iraq, (even after we have already been in Iraq for 5 years), and because of this we DO NOT have enough soldiers to fight the Taliban, and AlQueada in Afghnanistan.

The article is accurate. Period. As far as “experience” is concerned, Sydney is exactly like Bush. Low moral standing and lower intellect, 4th from the bottom of a 850 man class. Obama first in his, with a degree in Constitutional Law.
Sydney made over 30 anti America propaganda films. Thats not leadership we can believe in.

Both candidates seem to get all twisted up when it comes tacking these serious yet tricky subjects. At this time both seem quite incompetent to be President of the US. America is in a precarious position with now incompetent, bungling, confused and hop skipping candidates.

When McCain tries ti dis Obama by bringing up his record on meetings of a committee they both sit on then it’s fine to check McCain’s record also. They made it an issue and now they get their just desserts.
People who are dumb enough to start something like this that easily falls back in their own lap are people you want running the country? Not me!!!

Who cares? McCain told the NYT that he doesn’t even know how to log onto the Internet! C’mon now, the President should know the basics. Life is a constant education process and if McCain is so uninquisitive that he has never sought to learn how to use a computer, that tells me enough about his personality. That is just unacceptable. He’s not right for the job.

To the genous of saying McCain knows the leader of Pakistan and friends.
Parvez Mushareef became President of Pakinstan on a military coup d’eta, to the people who don’t know that that is, is that Mushareef became President on a military overthrow of the government. He was not elected. (maybe some McCain supporter would like that in the US).
The second this is that since 2001, we have given Pakistan $10 Billion a year to fight Taliban and Al-Quada, but he has done nothing and stood by. His own people hate him, and consider him a military dictator.
So to the McBush supportors, maybe you would want military dictator as president of the United States, b/c that is who McCain surrounds himself with.

No doubt senator McCain has more experience than Senator Obama. He is old.
But experience is not the same as judgement. Senator McCain has been worng about the most important strategic issue of our lifetimes.
President Bush has infinite more experience than both candidates.. Does that mean we should prefer him to be President?

AJS – You learn judgement from experience. Obama has no experience.

Great…neither candidate is informed on Afghanistan or worse yet, cares enough to show up for hearings on it!
Voters, you’ve given us another great choice of candidates.

All you people talking about how much experience McCain has voted for Bush over Gore, right?
That’s what I thought. It’s not experience that matters, it’s that he’s got an R next to his name.

You folks can’t be that ignorant. The article is about hypocrisy. It simply shows that McCain is the ultimate Washington political insider that says whatever, whenever to distract from the truth. Wisen up folks. Don’t be drinking the purple kool aid again. You did it for the last eight years and now look where we are as a Nation. It’s embarassing. Our brave men and women of the military deserve one hell of a lot more than what they have gotten over the last eight years.

People who live in glass houses should not be throwing rocks!
The Rovian “attack first” never think strategy is outdated. The Republican playbook is empty as are many of their candidates.

Evil, you make a huge assumption that because many of us are supporting McCain that we also voted for Bush. Wrong, both times! We voted for Gore, then for Kerry. Now we support the Republican candidate in 2008, because we believe that he has the knowledge, the experience, and the wisdom to lead, qualities your candidate is lacking. We always do try to choose the most knowledgeable, experienced and wisest candidate.
McCain ’08

Oh, I must give Musharraf his due – he survived more assassination attempts than I’ve ever seen any leader avoid.

It doesn’t surprise me. McCain doesn’t even work on weekends. He can’t. I don’t think he has the energy.
As for people answering this article with Obama’s record…I’m done with even listening to anything negative about Barack Obama. He already has my vote. He’s clearly the best man for the job. I will not vote for another George Bush, which is exactly what I’d be doing if I voted McCain. Why in the world would we want to vote for another republican who voted the same way Bush did 95% of the time. I can’t even find identical twins who think that much alike. If McCain is in the White House, we will go down even faster. I’d rather vote for change. I don’t want to be on the same direction. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. I’m voting Obama!

It’s sad to see McCain resort to the same divisive campaign strategies that have lead to a lack of intelligent debate, but to see him shoot himself in the foot like this…tsk tsk tsk. What saddens me more is the ignorance that some people display in trying to defend him. What does it feel like to abandon reason for the sake of defending a flawed ideal? People really need to stop getting all their news from Fox.

Oh and by the way, did you know that McCain was a POW (yes that equals President)

I was a Taxi Driver so that qualifys me to drive in NASCAR and Formula 1, right?

Z. Byron Wolf, Good catch on McBush not even bothering to attend Senate Armed Services Committee meetings re: Afghanistan, and like anyone is surprised. But you made an understandable spelling error: the Senate Armed Services Committee does not oversea US troops in Afghanistan; it oversees them.

ahhh willfull ignorance never helps anyone. here is is a story in black and white and people still want to decalre McKeatingFive strong on the issue of the war…intresting

Thanks, Mr. Tapper.
Thanks for the detailed investigation of this spurious and duplicitous attack.
Overall, McCain has missed about 65% of the votes in the Senate, the highest of any Senator. He is the Do-Nothingest Member of the Do-Nothing Congress. Congratulations, John.
Obama is a distant third, with 45% missed. You’d think he’d have missed more than McCain since the Democratic primary lasted so much longer than the GOPers’. Then again, maybe Barack simply has a bit more energy than McCain. Fewer doctors’ appointments too. It shouldn’t matter though. President Bush has shown that it doesn’t really matter how many days the President actually works. He spends half his time on the ranch and look how well he’s done!
As for “experience”, Obama has been an astute observer of international affairs for years and has traveled widely both as a Senator and before. George Bush has more “experience” of the type McCain likes to cite than either candidate, so it’s safe to say the amount of time one has spent “hanging around the shop” should not be the chief consideration. If so why not bring Rummy back? No, even McCain knows it must also be paired with judgment. Judgment as in sensing you are being sold a bill of goods on Iraq and opposing it when many, including the Clintons, saw it as political suicide to do so. Judgment as in calling for a shift back to Afghanistan two years ago, when McCain and Bush were telling us it was “out of the news” because “we’re winning”. Well, we’re not winning, and now even Bush supports Barack’s suggestion. McCain fell for Bush’s lies on Iraq hook, line and sinker. Hell, McCain made up half of them himself. McCain’s been minding the store during the most precipitous plunge in America’s standing among the world of nation in over a hundred years. McCain needs to own his part in that failure, such as his support for the Taliban and Osama Bin Laden as allies against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan, an entirely Republican project involving every major figure in the GOP, from Reagan to Bush to Cheney and McCain to Fox News’ Oliver North. As a New Yorker who saw the planes hit the Towers with my own eyes, I thank you, Republicans, for helping these folks get a leg up in the terrorism business.
Not to worry though, everyone.
John McCain is learning how to use a computer.
Barack, you’ve been warned!

don’t feed the trolls guys. McCain is a LIAR. We all know it.
The point is — don’t throw stones when you live in 8 glass houses.