The Daily Background

Obama’s campaign is criticizing McCain for missing five weeks of Senate votes. Here’s part of a letter McCain sent out to his supporters today:

“…. even though I have been campaigning all over the country, I am mindful of my duties and responsibilities as a United States Senator. Just last week, I voted to continue the funding necessary to support our proud and dedicated service men and women on the frontlines. I was profoundly disappointed that my Senate colleagues, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, instead chose political expediency over leadership as two of the eleven Democrat Senators to vote against the funding appropriation.”

Here’s Obama’s spokesperson’s reply:

“As a senator who takes his duties seriously, and has also showed up to vote more than once this month, Barack Obama considers few responsibilities more important than his votes on the war in Iraq. Obama opposed the war from the beginning and, unlike Senator McCain, is committed to ending it as quickly and responsibly as possible.”

Hat tip- Ben Smith.

Previously on The Daily Background:

John McCain has finally broken his string of no Senate votes cast for 5 straight weeks! It’s probably a good thing too, since his Republican colleagues were starting to get pissed at him.
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McCain has missed over half of the votes cast this year in the Senate. Note that other Senators running for President haven’t missed nearly as many votes (Obama has missed 6.4% of the votes this year, Clinton has missed 1.8%, Brownback has missed 30%, Biden 28%, and Dodd 19% according to the Washington Post votes database.

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