Jim Webb's GI Bill passed the Senate with a bipartisan majority, 75-22. Clinton and Obama were both there, but McCain was in California on the fundraising trail.
Obama used the opportunity to once again tie his rival to the president.
Obama: "I respect Sen. John McCain's service to our country," Obama said on the Senate floor this morning. "He is one of those heroes of which I speak. But I can't understand why he would line up behind the president in opposition to this GI Bill. I can't believe why he believes it is too generous to our veterans. I could not disagree with him and the president more on this issue."
McCain: "I will not accept from Senator Obama, who did not feel it was his responsibility to serve our country in uniform, any lectures on my regard for those who did."
"Perhaps, if Senator Obama would take the time and trouble to understand this issue he would learn to debate an honest disagreement respectfully. But, as he always does, he prefers impugning the motives of his opponent, and exploiting a thoughtful difference of opinion to advance his own ambitions. If that is how he would behave as President, the country would regret his election."
McCain really gave it to Obama. He made Obama look stupid, spoiled, unappreciative and an opportunistic.
He suceeded, for once, in handing Hussein his a** on a platter.
Bravo McCain! We need more of this.