[Bahbah]

You said on “Meet the Press,” on May 4, 2008, “I think we have to be focused on Afghanistan.” So why is it that, according to The Hill newspaper, you have “missed two of three Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearings on Afghanistan since joining the panel” ?

Actually, there is a good answer to that. The answer is that Senate committee hearings are not, in fact, designed to help inform anyone of the facts important to the issue. They are prescripted performances to advance various agendas. No one learns, or is meant to learn, anything about the facts.

That may be the truth but Obama can't say it, any more than any other congresscitter can say it.

But it's also not why he didn't care enough to attend.

[Cyber Liberty]

McQueeg’s missed far too many votes in the Senate to be casting stones at others’ attendance.