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John McCain, explaining why he won’t be there to vote next week when the Senate considers a landmark bill imposing mandatory limits on greenhouse gases, even though he claims that action on climate change is a central theme in his campaign (in fact, he touts it as the biggest difference between him and George Bush):

“I have not been there for a number of votes. The same thing happened in the campaign of 2000,” he said. “The people of Arizona understand I’m running for president.”

The funny thing is that the people of Illinois see Barack Obama running for president and still showing up for important Senate votes. And the people of New York see Hillary Clinton doing the same thing.

And McCain’s determined absenteeism can’t even be attributed to the fact that he’s 71. As he proudly informs us, he did the exact same thing eight years ago. So what is it then, laziness?