Majority Leader Reid smacks Iraq apologist McCain for missing Iraq votes - AMERICAblog: A great nation deserves the truth

Majority Leader Reid smacks Iraq apologist McCain for missing Iraq votes - AMERICAblog: A great nation deserves the truth:

"Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) is the only presidential candidate in Congress to
have missed a major vote on the Iraq war this year, and his absences are not
sitting well with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.).

Liz
Oxhorn, a spokeswoman for Reid, told The Hill, “Sen. McCain has spent
considerable time defending the president on Iraq and catering to the Republican
base on immigration, but has only managed to show up for four of the last 14
Iraq votes and parachute into [yesterday’s] immigration press conference at the
last minute. Who is the real John McCain?”"

I really take issue with Senators that can't run for the White House and maintain their responsibilities as Senators. McCain can go around the country and stump for the war, but where the action counts the most, he is absent. I like McCain, but he is still a Senator representing the state of Arizona, and the state of Arizona deserves to be represented. They didn't ask for him to run for the White House.