"Nate Perkins" wrote in message
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Dave Hinz wrote in message
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That's nice. Why not explain why Kerry didn't attend 3/4ths of the
Senate Intelligence Committee meetings he was supposed to be at.

It's true that Kerry missed a lot of meetings, and he should have done
better. It's also true that he left the Senate intel committee well
before 9/11 (though you wouldn't know that from the Bush ads).

It's also true that Bush has spent 42% of his presidency on vacation
at either his Texas ranch, Camp David, or Kennebunkport.

Just one big difference...while the President is at his ranch, he still can
and does work. Do you actually believe the guy gets an actual vacation?
OTOH, while Kerry is off doing who-knows-what, he cannot cast votes or
attend meetings that he is supposed to attend. In fact, the libs were
pretty perturbed that both Kerry and Edwards missed an important Social
Security vote that failed by (you guessed it) 2 votes. And the point is not
exactly when Kerry was playing hooky from the intelligence committee
meetings, the point is that it was so low on his list of priorities that he
could only be bothered to attend 1 out of 4. For God's sake, he was on the
committee until just 8 months before 9/11. It's not as though there was
nothing going on in the intelligence world.

todd