There’s been a bit of back and forth between McCain and Obama on Obama’s failure to hold any hearings on NATO or Afghanistan in the foreign relations committee. Obama pointed out that he’s merely the subcommittee chairman; Joe Biden is the chairman. But Biden slammed Obama during the primaries for his failure to attend committee hearings on Afghanistan:
Biden’s letter brought attention to the fact that Obama did not attend two of those three hearings — and for the third, on March 8, 2007, Obama only asked one question, one unrelated to Afghanistan. How do I know the latter fact? From an August 2007 press release from Biden himself, when he was running for president. “BIDEN CAMPAIGN CONGRATULATES SEN. OBAMA FOR JOHNNY-COME-LATELY POSITION,” it read. Noting that at the March 2007 hearing, “Sen. Obama asked one question that was unrelated to Taliban or Afghanistan.”
