Hey, everyone, here is to ABC's excellent reporting. This is just a short diary because all I want to do is to bring to light two things:
- ABC's excellent reporting, I will excerpt some relevant 'graphs below.
- McCain and his campaign's amazing chutzpah accusing Obama time and again of things that he himself is guilty of. We are only used to the media blissfully giving him a pass and continuing to use their talking points against Obama. ABC is first, let us see if anyone else starts holding McCain's feet to the fire, as they do with Obama all the time!
The title itself is spectacular:
Hearing-Gate Exposed! McCain Has Worse Afghanistan Hearing Record Than Obama
The first 'graph is a nicely understated beaut too:
The McCain campaign criticism of Sen. Barack Obama's hearing record on Capitol Hill led us to put the shoe on the other foot.
So is the second :-)
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.
Two more to whet your appetite and I am done.
Jones also came before the Senate Armed Services Committee that week. But McCain was a no-show.
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.