Photos: Barack Obama speaking today at a foreign policy town hall meeting at the University of Iowa

[flpoljunkie]

Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., speaks during a foreign policy town hall meeting, Wed., Oct. 3, 2007, at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa. (AP Photos/Charlie Neibergall)

[AndyA]

1. Thanks, Barack, for representing your constituents today in the Senate.

There were some votes today, in case you didn't know...

You seem to be missing a lot of them lately, what's up? Hillary's there to vote, shouldn't you be as well? :shrug:

[zulchzulu]

2. Hah! An Edwards fan dissing Obama for votes...

:rofl:

Edwards missed a third of his votes in 2003. That's 22 of 62.

http://www.alternet.org/election04/19507/

[Justyce]

3. That doesn't excuse Obama. nt

[flpoljunkie]

5. Here's the link to the last vote. Biden was absent then. Hope Feingold brings it up over and over.

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=110&session=1&vote=00345

Question: On the Amendment (Feingold Amdt. No. 2924 )

Vote Number: 345 Vote Date: September 20, 2007, 02:54 PM

Required For Majority: 3/5 Vote Result: Amendment Rejected

Amendment Number: S.Amdt. 2924 to S.Amdt. 2011 to H.R. 1585 (National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008)

Statement of Purpose: To safely redeploy United States troops from Iraq.

Vote Counts:

YEAs 28
NAYs 70
Not Voting 2
YEAs ---28

Akaka (D-HI)
Boxer (D-CA)
Brown (D-OH)
Byrd (D-WV)
Cardin (D-MD)
Clinton (D-NY)
Dodd (D-CT)
Durbin (D-IL)
Feingold (D-WI)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Harkin (D-IA)
Inouye (D-HI)
Kennedy (D-MA)
Kerry (D-MA)
Klobuchar (D-MN)
Kohl (D-WI)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Leahy (D-VT)
Menendez (D-NJ)
Murray (D-WA)
Obama (D-IL)
Reid (D-NV)
Rockefeller (D-WV)
Sanders (I-VT)
Schumer (D-NY)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Whitehouse (D-RI)
Wyden (D-OR)
NAYs ---70
Alexander (R-TN)
Allard (R-CO)
Barrasso (R-WY)
Baucus (D-MT)
Bayh (D-IN)
Bennett (R-UT)
Bingaman (D-NM)
Bond (R-MO)
Brownback (R-KS)
Bunning (R-KY)
Burr (R-NC)
Carper (D-DE)
Casey (D-PA)
Chambliss (R-GA)
Coburn (R-OK)
Cochran (R-MS)
Coleman (R-MN)
Collins (R-ME)
Conrad (D-ND)
Corker (R-TN)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Craig (R-ID)
Crapo (R-ID)
DeMint (R-SC)
Dole (R-NC)
Domenici (R-NM)
Dorgan (D-ND)
Ensign (R-NV)
Enzi (R-WY)
Graham (R-SC)
Grassley (R-IA)
Gregg (R-NH)
Hagel (R-NE)
Hatch (R-UT)
Hutchison (R-TX)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Isakson (R-GA)
Johnson (D-SD)
Kyl (R-AZ)
Landrieu (D-LA)
Levin (D-MI)
Lieberman (ID-CT)
Lincoln (D-AR)
Lott (R-MS)
Lugar (R-IN)
Martinez (R-FL)
McCain (R-AZ)
McCaskill (D-MO)
McConnell (R-KY)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Nelson (D-FL)
Nelson (D-NE)
Pryor (D-AR)
Reed (D-RI)
Roberts (R-KS)
Salazar (D-CO)
Sessions (R-AL)
Shelby (R-AL)
Smith (R-OR)
Snowe (R-ME)
Specter (R-PA)
Stevens (R-AK)
Sununu (R-NH)
Tester (D-MT)
Thune (R-SD)
Vitter (R-LA)
Voinovich (R-OH)
Warner (R-VA)
Webb (D-VA)

Not Voting - 2

Biden (D-DE)
Cantwell (D-WA)

[emilyg]

4. Why did he miss?