Kerry's Attendance Record

[Professor S]

According to the bipartisan researchers at Factcheck.org, John Kerry missed AT LEAST 76% of Intelligence Committee meetings and possibly 78%.

A Bush-Cheney '04 ad released Aug. 13 accuses Kerry of being absent for 76% of the Senate Intelligence Committee's public hearings during the time he served there. The Kerry campaign calls the ad "misleading," so we checked, and Bush is right.

Official records show Kerry not present for at least 76% of public hearings held during his eight years on the panel, and possibly 78% (the record of one hearing is ambiguous).

Kerry points out that most meetings of the Intelligence Committee are closed and attendance records of those meetings aren't public, hinting that his attendance might have been better at the non-public proceedings. But Kerry could ask that his attendance records be made public, and hasn't.

Aides also claimed repeatedly that Kerry had been vice chairman of the intelligence committee, but that was Bob Kerrey of Nebraska, not John Kerry.

Do we honestly want this man, who played hookie on the vast majority of intelligence meetings during his 8 years in the committee to be in charge of our safety and intelligence? Not me.

[Typhoid]

Seriously, i know this will get edited or deleted or whatever, but stop posting Kerry bashing stuff, whens the last time something came up about Bush? Just drop it alright. All it does is start big arguments that go nowhere, and then leads to another thread about something political, then it cools down for a while, until someone brings another thing up. I say, if your gonna bash one of them, do it to the other as well.

You get mad at people for starting political arguments and stuff, but most of the time you have something to do with it. And before you try throw my words in my face, im not saying i dont have anything to do with it either.

But still, in my opinion, its kinda lmae that you keep bringing stuff up about Kerry, like your grabbing at strings or something. I dont know.

[The Germanator]

According to the bipartisan researchers at Factcheck.org, John Kerry missed AT LEAST 76% of Intelligence Committee meetings and possibly 78%.

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Do we honestly want this man, who played hookie on the vast majority of intelligence meetings during his 8 years in the committee to be in charge of our safety and intelligence? Not me.

Do we honestly want a man whose administration misleads the enitre nation about the reasons for going to war? Not me. Missing meetings is one thing, but having an entire administration fail over and over in terms of intelligence doesn't suit the country any better.

[Professor S]

Seriously, i know this will get edited or deleted or whatever, but stop posting Kerry bashing stuff, whens the last time something came up about Bush? Just drop it alright. All it does is start big arguments that go nowhere, and then leads to another thread about something political, then it cools down for a while, until someone brings another thing up. I say, if your gonna bash one of them, do it to the other as well.

Please name one thread I've started previous to this one with the express intent of bashing Kerry. Name ONE. You can't.

You get mad at people for starting political arguments and stuff, but most of the time you have something to do with it. And before you try throw my words in my face, im not saying i dont have anything to do with it either.

Where have I ever gotten mad at someone for starting a political debate about a subject that hasn't been repeated on the boards to death. Once again, name ONE TIME. You can't.

But still, in my opinion, its kinda lmae that you keep bringing stuff up about Kerry, like your grabbing at strings or something. I dont know.

Once again, name one time I started a thread specifically to bash Kerry before this. Name ONE. You have a tendency to create a posting history for me that has little to do with reality. Its a character flaw and you should look into it.

As for grabbing at strings, I'm bringing up an election issue in the election forum. Just because you don't like the subject it brings up doesn't mean that it shouldn't be posted.

And Germy, to fail is one thing, but to not even bother trying is another. Also, don't you think that intelligence committee member, you know, SKIPPING MEETINGS might have anything to do with the failure? Call me crazy, but they might be connected...

[Jonbo298]

And having the president take an entire month off from office is another matter :p

But if he missed the meetings, there should be a reasonable explanation why since it seems odd he missed so many.

[Typhoid]

Call me crazy, but they might be connected...



You're crazy.

[Professor S]

You're crazy.

LOL. I'll admit, that was funny. And Jonbo, just because a President is not in the White House does not mean that they are on Vacation. If you are referring to the claim that Michael Moore made in his film, he included the time he was meeting with Vladamir Putin, Tony Blair and other foreign officials at his ranch and at Camp David. Essentially if he wasn't in the White House, he considered Bush on vacation. Honestly no president is ever really on vacation, Republican or Democrat.

[Ace195]

Yep camp david is just another office just one more for foreign leaders. I don't think clinton as many times as he was out of the whitehouse ever took a vacation ;)

[GiMpY-wAnNaBe]

...sorry if i'm reviving this thread a bit too late, but wasn't Bush's National Guard attendance jsut as bad if not worse?