As I've written before here and here, Illinois Senator Barack Obama has become an habitual offender at missing key votes in the United States Senate.
B. Obama missed the vote on a resolution that declared the Iranian Revolutionary Guard a terrorist organization, but then criticized his rival for the Democratic presidential nomination for voting for it.
B. Obama missed the vote on condemning MoveOn.org for running an ad in the New York Times attacking the top general in Iraq, Gen. David Petraeus; and I happen to know where he was for that vote...he was in Atlanta campaigning.
B.Obama missed the vote on the expansion of the federally funded State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) which, here in Georgia, is very important because our popular PeachCare for Kids program is dependent on Congress re-authorizing S-CHIP in order to remain in existence.
There's a pattern here and the pattern is that Barack Hussein Obama has developed a particular disturbing knack of missing out on votes when every vote counts.
This weekend, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D - Nevada) has requested that the Democratic presidential candidates be in Washington for an important vote on the Energy Bill [Source: 12/6/2007 Washington Post The Trail article "A Candidate's Dilemma: Oprah vs. the Senate"]. Big oil company ExxonMobil is opposed to the bill.
This is another important vote. Will Obama continue his cronic pattern of missing votes? Or will he do the job the people of Illinois elected him to do and represent them in the United States Senate?
We shall see.