John McCain, who has missed more than half of his Senate votes, refrained from voting on March 13, 2007. Why was this date important?

It was the date senators were taking a stand on a resolution that called for the redeployment of troops by March 31, 2008. The resolution also called for President Bush to have to answer to our Congress and provide a progress report on the War.

It was voted down by a slim margin: 48-50.

Two senators did not vote that day. One of them was Tim Johnson, a democrat from South Dakota. The other one was John McCain.

Tim Johnson is the South Dakota senator who had a brain hemorrhage in December 2006. He has since returned to his post, but he has a valid reason for missing the vote. That means John McCain was the only able bodied senator to remain silent.

John McCain is running for office right now on the premise that he is a supporter of the war. His absence from the vote shows two things: one, he chose to stop a resolution to end the conflict and two, he didn’t feel strongly enough about the war to show up to defend it in the Senate chamber.

Missing a vote on what is perhaps the most important issue in the United States is unacceptable from someone who plans on running the country.

John McCain needs to explain where he was during this vote and others he has missed with regards to Iraq. It seems McCain is not only inheriting Bush’s foreign policy, he’s the heir to Bush’s self-serving lassitude.

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For more information, click HERE for a May 2007 article (the article was written when the candidate field was wider, thus making it more objective. Back then, McCain was just McCain, not the last republican hope of retaining the White House.)