Sen. Hillary Clinton attacked Barack Obama for referring to Afghanistan but while chairing a Senate Foreign relations subcommittee that oversees Europe and NATO never holding a hearing.  Now the Republicans are using the same tactic in a letter to Obama on the issue.

From ABC News’ Jake Tapper.

In a letter sent to Sen. Barrack Obama D-Ill. today, Sen. Jim DeMint R- SC — the ranking Republican on a Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee that Obama chairs — tweaked Obama for not having held any hearings on the subject of NATO’s role in Afghanistan.

“With oversight of NATO relations and its role in Afghanistan, I believe it is time for us to focus closely on these issues,” DeMint wrote, suggesting a meeting of the subcommittee upon Obama’s return from a much anticipated trip abroad. 

The letter was clearly a shot at the fact that Obama — chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on European Affairs — has only held three hearings. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Joe Biden, D-Del., told Meet the Press that “the reason Obama didn’t hold a hearing on NATO, I chair the committee. Every one of those committee hearings are held at full committee.”

Nice try by Biden to provide cover for a man who has been seen rarely in the Senate chambers and who has very little experience to boot.  Is it a coincidence that Biden has been mentioned as a vice presidential candidate?

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