McCain and his record against the Vet population

[epchick]

Originally Posted by nittanyalum

Ignoring the AFL/CIO and The Nation are fine, but why is everyone skipping over what scbelle posted? I think it's interesting info. if a veteran's advocacy group gives only 4 Senators a grade of "D" and McCain is one of them. http://www.veteranreportcard.org/list.html

I wanna know how McCain got a "D." They picked 9 key votes, McCain agreed with them 3 times, and the other 6 were "not scored."



I don't know how they are doing it, but it seems there are many "passed" and "Agreed to" statuses. Why didn't they score the first 6?


ETA: I will admit I haven't looked around the website much but it is a website for Iraq & Afghanistan Veterans. It seems a lot of those bills & things are for those veterans and not for veterans of other wars (like my dad who fought in Vietnam)

[DaemonSeid]

Originally Posted by epchick

I wanna know how McCain got a "D." They picked 9 key votes, McCain agreed with them 3 times, and the other 6 were "not scored."



I don't know how they are doing it, but it seems there are many "passed" and "Agreed to" statuses. Why didn't they score the first 6?


ETA: I will admit I haven't looked around the website much but it is a website for Iraq & Afghanistan Veterans. It seems a lot of those bills & things are for those veterans and not for veterans of other wars (like my dad who fought in Vietnam)

The question is...when those votes came up, was McCain in those sessions?


If not where was he and why wasn't he there?

[epchick]

Originally Posted by DaemonSeid

The question is...when those votes came up, was McCain in those sessions?


If not where was he and why wasn't he there?

The PDF claimed he was "Absent" in those votes. Obama was absent in votes as well, so you can ask yourself the same question (where was he and why wasn't he there).

Plus Obama got 2 extra points for the 9/11 bill, while McCain didn't. IMHO, i would have agreed with McCain.