{"id":195949,"date":"2008-06-03T17:23:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-03T22:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/03\/this-is-where-his-habit-of-missing-contentious-votes-will-bite-him-in-the-ass\/"},"modified":"2008-06-03T17:23:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-03T22:23:00","slug":"this-is-where-his-habit-of-missing-contentious-votes-will-bite-him-in-the-ass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/03\/this-is-where-his-habit-of-missing-contentious-votes-will-bite-him-in-the-ass\/","title":{"rendered":"This is Where His Habit of Missing Contentious Votes Will Bite Him In the Ass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Obama missed the vote on the Kyl-Lieberman amendment, which declared the Iranian Revolutionary Guard a terrorist group, and <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2008\/06\/mccain_hits_obama_on_iran_and.php#more\">McCain is hammering him on it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If he had voted against it, I don&#8217;t think that it would be a big deal, but he missed the vote, and he has done so on a number of other contentious votes, the MoveOn resolution comes to mind.<\/p>\n<p>If McCain hammers him on the substance, that he opposed the resolution, it shouldn&#8217;t be a difficulty, as Obama spokesperson Hari Sevugan response shows, &#8220;Instead of recognizing reality, John McCain continues to run on a platform of doubling down on George Bush&#8217;s failed policies.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>However, if McCain starts harping on the contentious votes where he did not show up, and makes his attendance an issue, it <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">is<\/span> a problem, because it strikes at the core message of any presidential candidate, that he will stand up for you.<\/p>\n<p>So far, so good, but I expect this worm to turn shortly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obama missed the vote on the Kyl-Lieberman amendment, which declared the Iranian Revolutionary Guard a terrorist group, and McCain is hammering him on it. If he had voted against it, I don&#8217;t think that it would be a big deal, but he missed the vote, and he has done so on a number of other &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,1020,977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-legislation","category-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195949"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}