McCain in Chicago, skips 'meaningless' Iraq vote

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http://www.suntimes.com/news/elections/261493,CST-NWS-McCain17.article

Stumping in Chicago on the eve of today's U.S. Senate vote on the war in Iraq, Republican presidential hopeful John McCain asserted he's skipping the "meaningless" vote for the campaign trail.

McCain (Ariz.) told reporters at a Friday night awards ceremony in the Loop that returning to Washington, D.C., to vote on a non-binding resolution critical of President Bush's troop surge is "a meaningless exercise fraught with partisanship."

The rare Saturday session for the procedural vote was called by Democrats, who need 60 votes to advance the resolution criticizing Bush's plan.

[Double T]

1. mccain certainly is NOT presidential material.............

sounds like president pissypants; I'll do what I want when I want to do it.

[rocktivity]

2. Way to run for prez! Go, Johnny, go, go!

Now we get call you too weak to even take a stand on DISCUSSING the war! Keep up the good work! RAH RAH RAH!

[sarge43]

3. Jesus, the man is a walking wind sock.

If he really believed we should 'surge' in Iraq, he should have been on the Senate floor, making a barn burner speech and voting against it.

[mnhtnbb]

4. Chickenshit.

[AlCzervik]

5. so now he won't be on the record, how brave.

[Graybeard]

6. Big mistake Johnny...

..cut and run from the debate? I don't think even the wingnuts will see this as a positive.

[niceypoo]

7. McCoward is afraid to go on record

Because he isnt sure which way the winds will be blowing come 08