I agree.. In fact I should apologize, I enjoy debate quite a bit. And while this sub topic did start out on track and this topic is a very big part of Kerry's voting record, it shouldnt have gone as far as it did.

We should have taken tumarr's offer to take this to email days ago.

For the eight years Kerry was on the Senate Intelligence Committee he was absent 76% of the time. This committee had everything to do with the intelligence community’s level of performance, a level of performance directly related to September 11th, the War on Terror and the informational breakdown before military action in Iraq. This figure could be higher but closed meeting attendance is not open to the public. Kerry would have to disclose this information himself. To think he would share this information with the voting public is to truly be living in a “fantasyland.” Embracing this fact, it is insulting, disingenuous and deceitful – it is a lie – for anyone to contend that John Kerry supported or even cared about the intelligence community prior to it being advantageous to his political career.

The reality of the matter is that no member of Congress can make every meeting scheduled. But John Kerry has been practically non-existent in the US Senate throughout his career. To date, only eight pieces of legislation bear his name, many being ceremonial in nature. His reasons for this are more about rhetoric than explanation. He missed so many “days of work” that an ethics complaint was filed with the Secretary of the Senate and his home state’s Lt. Governor called for his resignation. To say John Kerry has been AWOL from the Senate would be an accurate statement. To say he collected pay for a job not done would be a correct statement. To say he has defrauded the people of Massachusetts would be an understatement.

While the minions of the Kerry campaign celebrate their alleged victory in the first debate, dancing in the streets like terrorist sympathizers after an attack on anything American, they would be well advised to hold their collective breath and hope the voting public overlooks his record in the Senate. If Kerry’s record is exposed they won’t be able to get him elected dogcatcher.