Talk:Chuck Hagel/Archive 1

Need more about Hagel
Where does he stand on issues? What committees is he on? If he runs for president, I think we need more information about him in the article, hopefully without making it a campaign ad. Brian Pearson 01:38, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

Standing amongst conservatives
I put a citation next to the sentence "he is increasingly unpopular with conservatives". Any evidence that he ever was popular amongst the right? With more and more Republicans joining the anti-war coffers, is there anything to suggest his unpopularity is decreasing?

Upcoming book?
Is it true that Hagel will come out with a book called "America, The Next Chapter"? I am the kind of person who is so anxious about what will happen in the future that I would be eager to read his book. I have a tremendous amount of respect for him. -Amit

Vice Presidential run with Bloomberg
I removed the statement saying that he might run with Bloomberg, since he has never said that he would, and in his press conference he said that he didn't intend to seek any office in 2008. Inks.LWC (talk) 09:12, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

Political Positions
I think someone needs to add a section of Chuck's political positions on a variety of issues from Marriage issues to other social issues such as abortion and etc. This will add further enlightenment to the article.

Spokenwordsegment (talk) 21:43, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

Does anyone know the purpose of the second sentence in this quote? "He considers Bush's foreign policy a 'ping pong game with American lives'. He is purple." I may be missing the meaning, but it struck me as a rather odd, non-sequitur statement. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.189.20.216 (talk) 15:10, 12 July 2008 (UTC)

Voting Record
"Despite his criticisms of the Bush administration, his voting record is 78.1% with his party."

This is highly misleading. John McCain, a supposed moderate, has a figure of 88.5%. A figure of 78.1% shows serious disagreement with his party. Kazmarov (talk) 22:24, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

I completely agree. These kind of statements are totally misleading. Most of those are procedural votes. Whats more important is knowing what are the nature of the 21.9% of votes in which he differs from his party. 76.25.207.129 (talk) 02:02, 6 November 2008 (UTC)

Removing text
I've removed a paragraph about Senator Hagel's appearance at a meeting on Iran. Simple appearance at a single meeting is not a significant occurence as fact collecting plays an important part in the senator's job description. Further, I question the relevance of the extracted material in a section related to the senator's business interests.

--Philopedia (talk) 12:59, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

BLP violation
Wikipedia has very strong WP:BLP rules about dealing with living people. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced—whether the material is negative, positive, neutral, or just questionable—should be removed immediately and without waiting for discussion. These allegations of illegal or criminal behavior made by one Bev Harris in a self-published book clearly fall under the rule that "poorly sourced" allegations have to be deleted immediately. Rjensen (talk) 00:51, 16 September 2011 (UTC)