any links to the story that Clinton was MIA for afghanistan meetings?

[ORDagnabbit]

friend at work said something about it but I dont know anything about it.

[LSparkle]

1. And what about not being there for the FISA vote,

even though it was held the day of the Potomac Primaries
(as I recall), so she should have been in the region ...

[babylonsister]

2. Here's one; she appears to have been MIA:

http://www.motherjones.com/mojoblog/archives/2008/03/7442_clinton_says_ob.html

[rinsd]

3. Even Mother Jones doesn't characterize it that way.

"Many hearings occur on Capitol Hill without all members--or even a majority of members--of the committee in attendance. In fact, that's more common than not. At plenty of hearings, the committee chair is the only senator or representative present. So it's no surprise or scandal that Clinton was not there for these two Afghanistan hearings. (She did participate in two hearings on Afghanistan held by the committee in the first half of 2007.) But in a campaign season, a spinner could easily say that she's guilty of the same charge she tosses at Obama: putting presidential campaigning ahead of Afghanistan. Her neglect, certainly, is not the same as his: he held no hearings for a year; she attended no hearings this year. But as Clinton throws the kitchen sink at Obama, she ought to make sure nuts and bolts don't bounce back at her."

Obama has yet to hold a single meeting in his tenure(not just 2008) as chairman.

[tabatha]

4. but she says clinton's charges are hypocritical

But in a campaign season, a spinner could easily say that she's guilty of the same charge she tosses at Obama

I am sick of her hypocrisy - she is like a right-winger.

[rinsd]

6. Reading is fundamental

"But in a campaign season, a spinner could easily say that she's guilty of the same charge she tosses at Obama"

[babylonsister]

5. The OP asked about 2 meetings on Afghanistan Clinton missed,

Mother Jones confirmed she missed these two meetings.

[rinsd]

7. OP asked of Hillary MIA on Afganistan not missing two meetings.

Same with your post which mischaracterizes the Mother Jones article.

"Her neglect, certainly, is not the same as his: he held no hearings for a year; she attended no hearings this year."

[babylonsister]

8. Glass houses... nt

[ORDagnabbit]

9. I asked if there was any links to Clinton missing meetings on Afghanistan

[ORDagnabbit]

10. heres my subject headline

any links to the story that Clinton was MIA for afghanistan meetings?

[rinsd]

11. That would imply all meetings woudl it not?

She missed two meetings this year.

Obama has yet to hold a hearing...in 2 years.

[ORDagnabbit]

12. how do you get 2 years? when I read the article it says early last year

"..he became chair of the subcommittee early last year"

[karynnj]

14. Maybe because Biden would have stopped him -because Afghanistan is well

covered in the full committee and the Near East and South Asia committee. That's where the hearings on Afghanistan have been for years - because Afghanistan is NOT in Europe.

[karynnj]

13. No matter who ran the Europe subcommittee, they wouldn't run hearings on Afghanistan

The most important ones with the most important topics were in the full committee, as LUGAR's aide said they should be. Afghanistan hearings that are were on other issues -- like heroin - were in the near east and south Asia committee.