People Who Live in Seven Glass Houses….

Indeed Barack Obama, if we are like you and have only one house which was made possible by a shady land deal with a contributor to your campaign…….indeed.

McCain and his cute wife are worth more than $100m and 7 houses that they cant even remember. Do they look like ordinary working people with 1 houses each. They have a private jet too.
They are elitist and out of touch with the common American.

A man who bought his own mansion under some pretty shady circumstances has no business commenting on anyone’s homes. I thought Obama was supposed to be the new kind of politician? He sounds pretty typical to me.

What’s wrong with owning 7 houses?
What’s wrong with getting some financial help from a convicted fellon recently indicted for political corruption and influence peddling to buy a house….
oh, wait a minute.

Sammy,
LOL

I think Obama has a perfect opportunity to take the charge from McCain that he’s out of touch, and throw it back in his face.
Life is good.

Teresa Heinz Kerry is worth multiples more than Cindy McCain. I didn’t see democrats complaining about his wealth four years ago. Lots of houses, too, including a mansion in Georgetown. John Kennedy was born into extreme wealth. FDR was wealthy as well — his dad was president of one railroad and VP of another.
Nice try — Obama — the man without a plan.

And the Obama campaign’s response should be: does McCain really want to start comparing ties to convicted felons? Keating Five, anyone?

Arugula? you’ve got to be kidding.
McCain doesn’t understand the economy. He’s out of touch. He’s reckless on foreign policy (can’t wait to fight the “Russian empire” and wants to stay in Iraq forever, bomb bomb bomb Iran, etc.)
Rather than give a serious answer to Warren’s question (as Obama did), he “jokes” about $5 million being middle class. He doesn’t care about ordinary americans, he’ll destroy the middle class- and he has the tax policy to prove it.

Also- for all those commenters desperately bringing up Teresa Kerry, FDR, etc. the point is: you can be rich and have good policies that will help the middle class. Kerry did, FDR did, Obama who recently earned $$ from writing books and paid off his student loans does. But McCain has terrible economic policy that will extend and worsen Bush’s policies. And on top of that his answers show he’s out of touch and really doesn’t care about ordinary Americans.

Wait – doesn’t Obama have a mortgage on his house? So, he doesn’t own anything – the bank does. Liar! At least McCain probably does actually OWN the houses.

You forgot to mention McCain forgot to pay tax on his Califonia home for 6 years.

Seven Homes he can’t remember, 5 million is rich, telling the world our economy is strong while not even knowing the price of gas, but don’t worry Americans! Per McCain, we are rich in “other” ways so if you have a good family life and are homeless thanks to the foreclosure crises you are rich by McCain’s standards.

So McCain’s either too rich to know how many houses he has, or he’s getting senile. Based on previous gaffes and absentmindedness, I’m guessing senile.
That Rezko thing is old news. The Rezko trials are over, and Obama wasn’t even mentioned in them.
There’s no scandal regarding Obama’s (one) home.
Nice try though.

Obama supporters, have you read the latimes link i posted.
ex-Obama Supporter
Mccain’08

I love to see the MSM try to shove Obama down eveyrone’s throat. I just hope the stratedgy backfires in November like it did with Gore/Kerry. The last 2 elections every news story was Gore or Kerry and how wonderful and great they were. I think people are sick of seeing Obama. I actually considered Obama over McCain until I got so sick of seeing him on everything.

And the answer to the McCain campaign is, yes? Let’s talk a little about what the difference between John McCain’s world and the average American’s world looks like right now. Obama isn’t average either, but he is not so far removed from my reality that he can’t see it from where he is. Besides his biography shows that he actually cares. McCain has never lived like most of us live. He not only hasn’t got a clue, he doesn’t care enough to get the basics so he can fake it.

All the money McCain made from his books given to Charity.
All these wealth are Cindy’s and she maintains separate account.
How much money lord Obama controbuted to charity. All his controbution were to Wright

I wonder if McCain was deliberately minimizing how many houses he had, or if he actually couldn’t keep track? I would be more concerned if he doesn’t have the mental acuity to know how many homes he owns. But maybe was both befuddled and minimizing to the question . . .

Gretchen,
No, YOU do not know what you’re talking about. They had “clearance” but it was later retracted. It is suspected that Ayers himself had something to do with that.

“This is an example of the Leftist dream for America. The Left’s arguments will always win if you can edit out “uncomfortable” opposing points of view”.
LONG LIVE FREE SPEECH!

Gretchen,
And please stop spreading lies. McCain was CLEARED of all charges. Research it!
“The Ethics Committee ruled that the involvement of McCain in the scheme was also minimal, and he too was cleared of all charges against him”
“Several accounts of the controversy contend that McCain was included in the investigation primarily so that there would be at least one Republican target”
“Democrat Robert S. Bennett, who was the special investigator during the scandal, suggested to the Senate Ethics Committee that it pursue charges against neither McCain nor Glenn, saying of McCain, “that there was no evidence against him.”
Let’s speak the truth here!

I would say this doesn’t hold any water but since mccain is saying he is the average Joe and Obama is an elite I would hammer this untill it bled then I would hammer it some more. At least Obama knows how many houses he has. LOL!! Is this just Mccains memory? Old age perhaps? Or is he just that out of touch?

JA, please keep things straight: there was no initial clearance. The UIC first said it would release the documents. That is what was “retracted.” The UIC retracted its willingness to release the documents because it never had clearance from all of the donors (who have privacy act-protected information in the materials). “It is suspected” that those who think these documents are being blocked by Ayers or others for some reason related to this campaign need to get outside a little more.

Brooklyn Democrat,
The Obamas earned their money???? What???
Michelle Obama was promoted and her salary doubled at the University of Chicago Hospitals soon after Barack Obama won the Senate seat. She had no credentials to boost her suddenly. IT WAS A POLITICAL APPOINTMENT BY U OF C.

I guess this means that all sucessful Americans like Bob Hope (known to have owned a LOT of land and homes), etc., should all be thrown under the bus now. You own several homes you are an a successful American and you will have no rights in the forthcoming socialist America. Being rich does not mean that you are un-American. I do not care if my fellow Americans have several homes or drive nicer cars than I do…there are much bigger issues at hand.

It really is sad that Barack Obama would attack anyone on the number of houses they own. I’m sure the McCains paid a fair price for their homes. BTW, I seem to remember that the Clintons gave a full 10% of their income to charity every single year, while the Obamas gave less than 1%. That was one statistic the Obama-media didn’t publicize very much.

Gretchen,
Let me know what you think of this:
“People keep trying to align himself [Ayers] with Barack Obama,” Daley said. “It’s really unfortunate. They’re friends. So what? ”
Obama LIED when he said he wasn’t friends with Ayers. Those docs will minimally show that. What they will also show are more of his policy views, which were extremely liberal before he got in the limelight.

No Draft,
What technicalities? McCain was not cleared on any “technicalities”, he was cleared because he did nothing wrong. He even openly held a 2 hour press conference allowing open questions after it was over. Obviously he had nothing to hide.

Gretchen,
I lived in Chicago for a decade, and if you don’t know the connection between the Daleys and the UIC library YOU ARE LOST. The docs in question are part of the RICHARD J DALEY LIBRARY.

Gretchen,
I once again ask you to do your research. Ayers KICKED OFF OBAMAS POLITICAL CAREER AT A FUNDRAISER AT HIS (AYERS’) HOUSE.
What other evidence do you need of their close friendship?????

JA: you are a funny one. Ok, so the Daleys endowed a library where records are kept. You think that gives them control over the records inside? Clearly, you do not know how libraries work (oh, and I’m a librarian, so I kind of do). Do the Daleys have control over everything named after them? Because there’s a lot of stuff named after them in Chicago.
Thanks, I love the conspiracy stuff. It gives me a good laugh during my lunch break (which is over now, so I have to go back to work). Keep on at it! I’m sure you’ll find that missing link if you just try hard enough!

Yes, Obama will raise taxes, but on the top money earners on this country. These are the people who get ALL the tax breaks every year while us peons are paying oiur taxes.BTW, anyone who walks around in $800 loafer is certainly an elitist.

Not knowing what to say when the red phone rings at 3 a.m., and not knowing the most recent count on the number of homes your wife has acquired through investing her family money is quite another.
At least when the phone rings at 3 a.m., McCain won’t say it’s “above his pay grade” to provide an answer………

Marianne…think about the alternative:
And this country will be in a greater disaster than what it is if he is elected
If Mccain gets in we will have 4 more years of Bush…if he lives that long…watch who he put in the VP position. He may be the president in a few years.

geevil…oh come on…get real…each campaign know EVERYTHING about the other. They probably know what time they go to the bathroom. That’s politics…

McCain is out of touch. If this is covered more we’ll start to hear about his $500 dollar shoes and his 7 houses and his (wife’s) private jet. People who are trying to make this about Obama are flailing woefully.
It comes down to this:
John McCain has never known what it’s like to have personal economic strife. He never will.

Obama — 57 States and counting??–and is he “really and American Citizen”??–will someone PLEASSSSSE LOOK INTO THAT!!MEDIA PEOPLE!!!!

So much for the One Lightworker being a new kind of politician. Sounds like pretty typical south Chicago counter-punching.
But however many houses McCain owns, its a sure bet none were purchased through a sweetheart land deal with convicted felon Tony Reszko.

JA-Charles Keating was convicted of racketeering and fraud in both state and federal court after his Lincoln Savings & Loan collapsed, costing the taxpayers $3.4 billion. His convictions were overturned on technicalities; for example, the federal conviction was overturned because jurors had heard about his state conviction, and his state charges because Judge Lance Ito (yes, that judge) screwed up jury instructions. Neither court cleared him, and he faces new trials in both courts.)
Though he was not convicted of anything, McCain intervened on behalf of Charles Keating after Keating gave McCain at least $112,00 in contributions. In the mid-1980s, McCain made at least 9 trips on Keating’s airplanes, and 3 of those were to Keating’s luxurious retreat in the Bahamas. McCain’s wife and father-in-law also were the largest investors (at $350,000) in a Keating shopping center; the Phoenix New Times called it a “sweetheart deal.”
McCain does a lot of “favors” for his associates. i.e. Gramm, Keating, Reed

McCain’s spokesperson is trying to portray Obama as an elitist because he vacationed in Hawaii on a private beach. Two problems with that, first is that his grandmother lives in Hawaii, and secondly there are no private beaches in Hawaii.

geevil…the point is that McCain is out of touch…which he is..You say no one should be bothering him at 3AM? OK who should they call Hillary?

“reach for his trusty saber so he can rattle the threat away.”
And Obama’s policy is to appease the threat away? Or raise the white flag?

How many magazine covers has Obama been on? Here is another one……..
TIME MAG PUTS OBAMA ON COVER — FOR 7TH TIME IN A YEAR!
Talk about media bias.
So if you own 7 homes, you can’t run for President?
How many homes do the Kennedy’s own — I mean how many “compounds” do they own?
How many homes does John “Heinz” Kerry own?

McCain and the right made this an issue when McCain and his buddies (Hannity Oreilly) decided to call Obama an “Elitist”.
It a classic Rove tactic. Attack the other on your weakness.
Guess what. Obama called it and is going to hammer this home.

Brian Rogers managed to spout 7 falsehoods in three sentences. McCain is really rich, why doesn’t he splurge and hire a fact checker?

Hannity is SO leaning for McCain he disgusts me. His show is so unprofessional, that I stopped watching him.

John McCain’s views on former Georgia president Eduard Shevardnadze, a reform-minded architect of the Soviet Union’s glasnost policy in the 80s, have done a startling 180.
Speaking about Georgia, McCain told a town hall in Las Cruces, New Mexico on Wednesday: “They had a corrupt government headed by a guy named Shevardnadze, who you may remember from the days of the Cold War. And they had a peaceful revolution and they took over, and they were putting democracy and freedom and human rights, and they were prospering.”
In November 1999, the same John McCain described Shevardnadze as “one the great men in the history of the world” during a GOP debate at Arizona State University.
Why the change?

I find it odd that John McCain, the “Maverick,” can’t recall how many homes he has and then turns around and calls Senator Obama and elitist. That’s a fine line to walk. Especially when you’re worth over $100,000,000. Actually, that’s his wife’s money. John McCain does seem out of touch with the common man. He can’t operate a computer without the help of his wife and that’s very troublesome. We’re electing the President of the United States and it’s 2008. Anyway, John McCain and his new “Bush/Rove” campaign team started the dirty campaigning early, so they’re getting what’s coming to them. There’s so much more dirt that can be tossed their way. They should have thought about that when they deserted the boss’s “clean campaign” promise.

“Senator Obama, what percentage salary increase did your wife get after you were elected to the Senate and promptly tried to get her employer a $1 million ear mark?” (A: 260%)”
That’s the type of change that we’ve all been waiting for.

one plus one
ever hear of renting?
renting doesnt mean you own a house moron….
so there you go… idiot

trash, I’d point out that the audience was laughing AT McCain when he made the $5 million comment, but since it doesn’t fit into the MSM narrative, that comment wont appear.

how can a man with 7 homes, private jets and over $100 million have any idea how much pain we are all in right now?
the fact that McCain says that the economy is doing great is because it is doing great for him. it’s the rest of us little people that are suffering terribly right now that he has no idea about.
hey McCain, we’re not a “nation of whiners” like you say we are, we are a nation that needs someone in charge who actually knows what they are doing for a change. we are not whiners because we have to choose between feeding our kids and gassing up to get to work.

Obviously either McCain is too out of touch with normal Americans or he’s too senile to know how many houses he owns.
Either way he’d be a disaster as President.

Obama seems to glide right by the Rezko housing factor.
The key point to Barack and Michelle Obama’s house is that he got it as a favor from a man currently on trial, Tony Rezko.
When you get your land and housing from the likes of Rezko, the number of houses owned by the McCains is not a valid point of consideration.

For all of the folks who keep remarking about Rezko, Obama made all of those documents, as well as the people he bought the house from, available to the Chicago Times. He answered all questions asked of him.
The reason that the number of McCain’s houses are an issue is because:
1. He didn’t know or didn’t want to answer – if he didn’t know, what does that say about him? He has too many properties to remember? Or that his memory is going? If he didn’t want to answer, what does that say? That he doesn’t want to appear rich or elitist – how many people have 7 homes? Not investment properties, but homes. I’d venture to say, not many.
2. If he has to ask his staff how many houses he has, how much in control is he, of his own campaign? He’s already on blackberry and press restriction because he can’t keep anything straight. Soon, he won’t even make appearances, he’ll just issue statements – which likely won’t even be from him, but from Rove’s Acolyte Steve Schmidt.

As was pointed out yesterday by the Christian Science Monitor, the McCain campaign was called out for lying about the purported urging of Cindy McCain by Mother Teresa herself to adopt two children at her orphanage back in 1991. Turns out, McCain never met or even spoke with Mother Teresa on that trip.
Once confronted by the Monitor about the deception, the campaign quickly erased such claims from the website, as it did with Cindy’s family recipes, which were proved to be lifted from the Food Network.
But after doing some research, this deception was no careless accident, but rather another shameless and deliberate attempt by the campaign to reinvent and embellish the McCain family history in time for his 2008 presidential bid.
lol, yea, mccain is all about straigh talk. How can anyone vote for this liar?
He will lie about anything to win the election, its not country first, its lie to win the election no matter what

This is just another “Senior-Moment” that mccain had. Give the guy a break, he’ll be 72 next week. Give him a break, just don’t give him your vote, because this country can’t afford another 4 years of the bush policies which is exactly what mc-more-war will bring. Obama 2008!!!

Obama played the RACE CARD

Frank…yea right…material things don’t matter…that is why he “wined and dined” Cindy while he was still married…he knew she would come into money…Don’t be so nieve….

Who cares I will vote for McCain even if he has 3000 homes. At least he worked for them and served our country in a war. What did Obama do to get his house. Oh i forgot. He did it illegally with REZKO

Also, on the Rezko issue:
He didn’t buy his house from Rezko. Rezko didn’t own the house.
If you want the facts, read the full transcript of the interview with the Chicago Sun-Times editorial board:
http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/obama/844597,transcript031508.article
Do your research.

obama and his ‘followers’ are sounding really desperate. remember desperate people do desperate things.

Obama opened up the door to this attack. I can see Republicans running ads now how Obama attained his house. Can’t leave it up to the MEDIA since they know but are so in love with Obama are not reporting it

You know the other interesting thing about this debate? John McCain was born into a family that got him into the Naval Academy where he graduated 4th from the bottom. Then he tossed aside the wife and kids who had stood behind him for 5 years while he was a POW. Why? To marry an heiress worth more than 100 million. John McCain recently stated that to be considered rich you had to be making 5 million dollars…that certainly wouldn’t be my definition.
Yes, Barack Obama made a lot of money last year, but HE earned it. He got into Harvard on his own merits. And if you think it was affirmative action, think again, he never marked down that he was African-American on his application.

john mccain also lied about cindy meeting mother theresa.

I take it McCain got all his houses legally. To bad Obama can’t say the same.

mccain told the truth he didn’t know. imagine if he had gotten it wrong and said 6 houses the media and obama would be calling him a liar.

General trouncer–by “served his country,” do you mean graduated 894/899 in his military class; crashed multiple planes although he should not have been allowed to fly due to poor performance (your tax dollars at work!); got captured by the Vietnamese, and behaved honorably in prison but did not do anything concrete to advance the US cause? I prefer soldiers like my grandfather, who served in the Pacific in WWII, and actually got stuff done instead of languishing in some prison as a liability for the U.S., then using intimations of payback to lower our American stature in the world years later. This church-going, military-family Christian is no longer voting for McCain.

It’s funny reading all the McCain supporters comments for this post because they know they are oh so screwed now.
McCain really stepped in it and they know it. Enjoy it guys! It’s only going to get worse from here! Your candidate’s new name is now “I’m not sure”.
You’ve just heard the 2008 version of “I voted for it before I voted against it”.

With few notes and no prepared speech, the former president (Clinton) outlined a comprehensive strategy to spur economic growth and create millions of new jobs while moving America away from fossil fuels and toward saving the planet.
It was a tour de force: so deep in the details that the propeller-heads were swooning, yet simple and compelling enough that I could follow it. … Paul Bagala
—-
Aside from lacking substance, how many uhr’s and ehn’s can you count if you give 0-bama 30 minutes without prepared speech and few notes?
I give it a rate of 10 per minutes, which makes 300.

“General trouncer–by “served his country,” do you mean graduated 894/899 in his military class; crashed multiple planes although he should not have been allowed to fly due to poor performance (your tax dollars at work!); got captured by the Vietnamese, and behaved honorably in prison but did not do anything concrete to advance the US cause? I prefer soldiers like my grandfather, who served in the Pacific in WWII, and actually got stuff done instead of languishing in some prison as a liability for the U.S., then using intimations of payback to lower our American stature in the world years later. This church-going, military-family Christian is no longer voting for McCain.”
Weak.

Sarah…do you know something we don’t? What was illegal about Obama’s mortgage?

Sarah–McCain may have got his houses
“legally,” but he also got them “immorally.” I don’t want my kids growing up aiming to game the system by deserting faithful spouses who supported them during wartime and marrying rich, since, hey, that’s what McCain did. I want a better role model for my children.
As someone whose priority is “family values,” I am thoroughly disgusted by my fellow conservatives who put aside moral concerns just to get their taxes lowered. I pay my way because that’s the Christian way.

Thank you Mack…finally someone with some sense…McCain has been using his military service a lot lately when actually he was a disgrace to his family in Military school. He almost didn’t graduate but for his dad’s intervention. It is sad that this is all he is basing his right to the leader of the free world

@Mark:
Please explain to me what you mean by “elitist attitude.” What defines one as elitist? And please don’t simply say Obama is elitist.
The Republicans are trying to define him as elitist, but what does it mean to say that one is “elitist”?

Bill45….OMG this is a 40ish verses a 70ish…of course there is a differnence is dates..DAaaaa

Both candidates have nothing to worry about financially. So what? I’m more concerned about which one is prepared to run the country – and the only choice is McCain.

McCain didn’t get his houses “legally”…he got them “immorally”…he dumped his first wife (who he felt was too ugly after a car accident) and cheated with a wealthy beer heiress…
Obama earned his way up the economic ladder…McCain took the sleazeball approach

marylou…so you think are country will thrive with McCain? Think again…back to Bush politics…McCain thinks there is nothing wrong with the economy and we are all just a bunch of whinners.

Another Obama smokescreen. I don’t CARE how many homes or rentals McCain owns.
This does NOT affect my life. What DOES affect my life (and yours) is TAXES!
My wife and I (both in our 70′s) have ONE home, which we may lose when Obama becomes President. This is NOT an exaggeration.

McCain has been an idiot his whole life…graduated 894 out 899 at the naval academy (where he only went because he is a spoiled legacy child)…then he had to cheat on his injured wife with a beer heiress to get his 7 homes…what a sleazeball…he never earned anything on his own.

Why didn’t the original maverick just answer the question? It still may have caused some waves, but nothing like this. The original maverick was too chicken to answer because he knew how it would sound, but he just drew more attention to it and made it worse.

I’m so dang tired of all this false innuendo about Obama’s purchase of his one home. No he did not purchase it beacause of Rezko. Rezko had little or nothing to do with the purchase. It still does not eliminate the fact that McCain has, according to Obama, 7 houses courtesy of his second wife’s wealth.

Rhys…what makes you think you will loose your home when Obama gets in? McCain is saying there is nothing wrong with the economy, and we are whinners.

Let McCain be McCain!
John McCain should give a television audience a complete tour of his magnificent mega-million dollar homes and beach-front exteriors!
Then he should introduce us to servants, grounds keepers, cooks, etc. needed to keep up SEVEN HOMES, some the size of the high school you went to.
Then he should talk about his OPPOSITION to the new GI Bill (college tuition for Iraq and Afghanistan vets) and Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act.
He should also talk about his plan to allow health insurance companies to be REGULATED BY THE STATE OF THEIR OWN CHOOSING.
Finally, he should talk about how he has made special legislative favors the ultr-rich (his peers) in exchange for campaign contributions.

JO…check the polls again honey…2 out of 6 are for McCain and only by 1%…this is the news media just getting everyone going…

Assuming Obama wins in November, what’s he going to do when he can no longer blame Bush for everything that’s gone wrong in the last 50 years? And what’s he going to do for entertainment when it becomes pointless to keep bashing Old Man McCain?
Mr. Obama… how about telling us how YOU will treat us instead of how BADLY McCain would treat us?
We want to know what you WILL do, not what McCain WOULDN’T do! And how about the same answers to questions about taxes for at least a couple of consecutive days?!

Posted by pt: “This is just another “Senior-Moment” that McCain had.” Democrats, please continue making personal attacks on John McCain’s age. It helps so much with the senior citizen vote. As an ex-Democrat and new Republican, I thank you.

To Tony, et al.–Respectfully, I must say, I would prefer that our future president have ties to a two-bit, small-potatoes player like Rezko than to major figures Saudi oil family players and the Georgians who want to rope our country into another fool’s errand when our military is already overworked.
For Rhys–I admire your regard for your financial welfare (I’m watching the economy too!), but McCain’s plan merely shunts off the bill-paying until another generation, so that our kids and grandkids will be the ones not only to lose a house, but not to afford it in the first place. Let’s not continue on the path to nightfall in America.

No wonder McCain tries to take care of his bloated Big Oil pals instead of working Americans –he’s an out-of-touch elitist just like them… Cripes, I don’t think even Donald Trump has more houses than he can count.

@General trouncer: classy.
@Jayhawk: I am specifically responding to the issue of Obama’s house, which is what people were discussing. Citing things like, “Obama bought his house from Rezko” – which is factually untrue.
As to their further relationship, I haven’t researched it, and would appreciate links to the articles that you cite.

fact cat…no I didn’t get a raise in 7 years, but then again I don’t have a double masters degree either.

Maybe it’s because his wife owns most of them.

cathyp… Like many senior citizens, my wife and I live mostly on investments, which aren’t doing very well, in case you haven’t noticed the financial markets.
Bush’s tax cuts have enable us to maintain at least half the lifestyle we enjoyed ten years ago, as our income drops steadily.
Obama wants to double our taxes, depending on what day he is questioned about it.

Don’t you want someone who has more houses he can count, who made so much money than he even knew? Or do you really want someone who could not even barely pay off his debt to run the country to solve your debt problems?
0-bama only knows to sell lies in his books to get money from you poor less-educated admirers. Name another means that he had contributed anything to society, either in knowledge or in production, which could remotely help your debt.
If you did not buy his books, you would have been $100 less in debt.

It’s pretty amusing to watch all the McCain supporters trying to lash back here. Your guy’s the one who admitted to a reporter that he isn’t sure how many houses he owns. Unlike those celebrity commercials, the Obama campaign didn’t have to make up anything ridiculous about McCain. He did it to himself.

I don’t care how many houses or how much money McCain has. He is the one I trust.

The point to this whole discussion, however, is this:
McCain tries to paint himself as someone who understands the American people. How many of the “American people” have 7 houses?
McCain says the economy is fine . . . except that, with his wealth, he is insulated from the majority of the impacts that the spiraling economy is having on the majority of Americans.
McCain was smeared unmercifully by Bush in 2000, with claims that he had an illegitimate child . . . and yet, 8 years later, he and Bush are dancing on the steps of the White House together.
Who is the one you can trust?
I trust Senator Obama over Senator McCain.

I don’t care how many houses he and Cindy own (she probably has real estate from her family)….I only care that they end up living in the White House. I don’t think Obama wants us put his dirty Rezko deal under the microscope as to how he got his house.
Did we all ask John Kerry how many home he and billionaire wifey owned when he ran? It’s a non-issue, but Obama raising our taxes and not supporting drilling WILL effect our pocket books. Anyways, seems like Obama has all the elitist supporters who donate millions to his campaign….he flaunts his figures regularly….so shut up already, Mr. Rootless Cosmopolitian.

William…
If my wife and I are making 250,000 per year, I’d sure like to know where it is! We have NEVER made even HALF that much when we were both working! You know NOTHING about my life, so don’t LIE about me.

How hilarious are the responses from McCain apologists pointing to Theresa Heinz Kerry? As if that’s relevant.
The point isn’t that McCain married into massive wealth (that’s a separate point). What’s damning here is that McCain’s entire campaign has been based on the idea that Obama is a “celebrity” and an “elitist”. He’s spent millions and saturated the airwaves with a multitude of ads pushing just that message.
And with one response he has underscored what was obvious to many of us all along: that his entire campaign is based on hypocrisy.
John McCain, so elitist and so out of touch he doesn’t even know how many houses he’s got!
John McCain, hypocrit!
This is a gift that will keep on giving for the entire campaign.

The economy may not be what is was 8 years ago — but the last 2 have been the worst.
Democrats promised “change” 2 years ago if we elected them Congress.
So Nutty Nancy Pelosi and Hapless Harry Reid (who states he can’t stand John McCain) have really made progress.
Harry Reid’s comment is enough reason to vote for McCain.

What will Obama do when he does’t have the Iraq war to list as his main running point? Condi is there and working on a deal….troops to start coming home next June, mostly out by 2011. The war is way down on the list of voters minds….it’s the economy. And when did raising taxes the way Dems do to move toward Socialism ever help this country?
HILLARY SUPPORTER FOR McCAIN!

Rhys: then stop lying about Obama wanting to raise YOUR taxes.
When you’re making less than 250,000.00, you wil get tax CUTS from Obama. When making just the half of that, you will even receive a LARGER TAX CUT than McCain is giving you.
You claimed Obama would raise YOUR taxes. That could only mean ONE thing. You claimed making more than 250,000.00 a year.

I love the references to McClown, McSame, McBush, ad nauseum. I prefer McPresident.

There are good reasons John doesn’t know how many houses he has. He married the money. His dad may have been Navy royalty and rich, but Cindy has the mega-bucks. She controls the purse strings. John McCain is a kept man.

I, and millions of Hillary supporters, are more p.o’d the DNC is going to change the primary process and eliminate some super delegates and get rid of the caucus process. TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE….HILLARY SUPPORTER FOR McCAIN!

Obama is getting the inmate vote too…working the prisons to make sure he gets every vote. Heard it on the news a week or so ago.

Give old John a break, how many of us have been lucky enough to ditch our present spouse and marry a rich good looking chick like Cindy.

McCain wants to continue to sell our economy off piece by piece. He wants to continue to borrow money from China to fund not only one by additional misguided wars. He wants to cut taxes on the rich and fleece the poor. Mcain is the worst of all possible choices if you aren’t already in the top 10% of the economy. If you are middle or lower class, have children old enough to be drafted, or care a whit about our ability to own our own country instead of selling out to foreign business (Bud (McCain’s x-co. sold to Belgium) then McCain is clearly not your choice.
Anyone but McCain ’08!

What’s wrong to be rich?? being rich and being elitist is two differnt thing.
If I was McCain, I would say, YES I HAVE MANY HOUSES AND I WANT EVERY AMERICAN FAMILY TO HAVE MANY MANY MORE HOUSES.

Obama just opened the door for McCain to attack his 1.6 million mansion and his Rezko tie. Obama is stupid to bring this thing up. Rezko is to be sentenced in early September. The shady real estate transaction involving Obama’s house is still not fully investigated.
What’s matter with how many houses McCain has? There are so many Americans have investment properties. McCain does not manage his properties, he has investment – other people or professionals can help him manage. I think he can just punch back saying: Right I don’t know my investment properties because I have devoted my effort and time to my senate work.

Rhys: here is a conclusion from the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center, which does careful, nonpartisan analysis of tax policy:
“The Obama plan would reduce taxes for low- and moderate-income families, but raise them significantly for high-bracket taxpayers. By 2012, middle-income taxpayers would see their after-tax income rise by about 5 percent, or nearly $2,200 annually. Those in the top 1 percent would face a $19,000, or 1.5 percent, reduction in after-tax income.
McCain would lift after-tax incomes an average of about 3 percent, or $1,400 annually, for middle-income taxpayers by 2012. But, in sharp contrast to Obama, he would cut taxes for those in the top 1% by more than $125,000, raising their after-tax income an average 9.5 percent.”
You can find the report on taxpolicycenter

FYI: There are no private beaches in Hawaii

This is elitism – McCain says that Obama would rather lose the occupation than lose the election. He is implying that Obama is only in favor of bringing our troops home because it is popular. Ergo, McCain is saying that the American people are unpatriotic.

By the way if Pres. Bush’s tax cuts expire, an average family of 4 making 52,200 dollars a year will see a tax increase of 3200 dollars, so how does Obama’s plan help lower taxes,
Do you realize that with all the taxes the Libs like Obama, and Pelosi put on us we already pay 50% of our salary, take a gander, if you live in NJ -
50000
you pay 7500 taxes
ss 4500
State 4000
Property – 6000
Gas tax – 40cents a gallon of the gas approx 400$ (fill up 1 time a week – 15 gallon tank)
Tolls – Work in NY 2080
Without tolls you pay 18,400 a year
if Pres. Bush’s tax cuts expire you will pay 21,600
The above is an estimate, but it shows about 50% of your salary.
This is what Obama wants, and this does not include sales tax or tolls in the final number.
Why raise taxes at all, cut spending!!
Eco 101 – you raise taxes and the economy will tank!!

amy: “The shady real estate transaction involving Obama’s house is still not fully investigated.”
it has been fully investigated by every rightwinger in the country. We’ve studied the houses on Google Earth, it has been photographed from every angle imaginable; we’ve seen every contract and every person involved. We’ve heard from the people who sold it, we’ve even got *their* work history, *their* telephone nrs; *their* campaign donations, *their* holiday destinations and whatnot.
And the only thing the rightwingers got is innuendo. There’s no there there.

That old white-head dude does not know how many houses he owns–and he thinks he is one of ordinary Americans? What a crap! This John MacCain man has no clue what the average American is going through. He was born with silver spoon in his mouth, whilst Obama’s mother was feeding him with food stamps. Seven fricking houses! and I can’t even pay for the one I have. Wake up America, this Rich old man will be worse than Bush

Jack what’s the deal with so called Obama and Annenberg scandle??? Is there truth to that?

willem asks me: “Is that somebody you would vote for?” (referring to McCain)
NO! I do NOT like McCain!
But I like Obama even LESS!
I realize America WILL become a Socialist country; my wife and I would just like everyone to wait another decade until we’re dead.
Once we’re cremated, we won’t “miss” any of the freedoms which are slipping away every year.

I think the seams are begining to show on John McCain. I think that so far, even after a week the attacks from Obama are begining to have some effect. I think McCain is gifting the Democratic Party unity at the moment. I mean, bad enough that you have 7 homes, terrible that you don’t know on the stuimp how many you have, and worse that your campaign then tried to cover it over with a wimpy answer like ‘at least 4′. I think that ordinary Americans can sympathise with ‘worrying about the price of aragula’ ahead of owning 7 houses. So yet again the McCain’s campaign has given an awful, over selling response. Fair enough bring up the Rezko thing, quite another throwing anything at Obama to cover over your embarrasment.

Willem van Oranje :
I am not fully convinced that the Rezko-Obama is over. Obama never fully disclosed the documents involving the transaction. every time he went on an interview, he squeezed out new stuff. Remember he said he and Rezko in fact toured the estate but before that he insisted Rezko’s involvement was minimal? He was not pressed to answer tough questions. There are still many questions unanswered.
McCain may well link Rezko’s defunct public housing projects with Obama’s own personal gains. Remember, 11 of Rezko’s bad projects are in Obama’s IL district. Obama said he was unaware of the plight of those people living in those buildings, yet, he had time to ask Rezko to consult on his own house.
The Rezko issue cuts on several fronts:
1. Obama’s judgment (Rezko was under investigation when Obama approached him for this deal)
2. Obama’s competency (how could he not know the situation of those poor people he was supposedly represent?)
3. Obama’s work ethics (he claims all his senate records are lost)
4. Obama’s character.
The list can go on. I bet when an ads coming out with images of Rezko, Obama’s house, Rezko’s dilapidated buildings, those poor people, it will be a lot more shocking than McCain’s 7 houses.

John McCain, hopelessly out of touch:
“I define rich in other ways besides income. Some people are wealthy and rich in their lives and their children and their ability to educate them. Others are poor if they’re billionaires.”

Obama earned his money and his lot in life. McCain was born and married into his.

Frieda, yeah everybody getting rich sounds great. Everybody owning seven homes and 3 condominiums sounds great. How on earth do you square those statements with the policies he’s putting forth?

6, 7, 8. Counting the one Rev Wright, Father Pflegor are hiding out in! Who cares? How many people from John McCain’s past are in hiding?

How many of John McCain’s homes can fit into Barack Obama’s mansion?

I am not fully convinced that the Rezko-Obama is over. Obama never fully disclosed the documents involving the transaction. every time he went on an interview, he squeezed out new stuff. Remember he said he and Rezko in fact toured the estate but before that he insisted Rezko’s involvement was minimal? He was not pressed to answer tough questions. There are still many questions unanswered.
McCain may well link Rezko’s defunct public housing projects with Obama’s own personal gains. Remember, 11 of Rezko’s bad projects are in Obama’s IL district. Obama said he was unaware of the plight of those people living in those buildings, yet, he had time to ask Rezko to consult on his own house.
The Rezko issue cuts on several fronts:
1. Obama’s judgment (Rezko was under investigation when Obama approached him for this deal)
2. Obama’s competency (how could he not know the situation of those poor people he was supposedly represent?)
3. Obama’s work ethics (he claims all his senate records are lost)
4. Obama’s character.
The list can go on. I bet when an ads coming out with images of Rezko, Obama’s house, Rezko’s dilapidated buildings, those poor people, it will be a lot more shocking than McCain’s 7 houses.

Who cares how many houses McCain has? What matters is how his economic policies will affect the economy vs. Obama’s. Obama will increase spending and taxes, increase the size of government and invite international aggression with his utterly flaccid foreign policy. McCain will reign in excess Federal spending, keep taxes in check and discourage aggression abroad. Envy is a very poor source for economic policy.

Boring at best. Let’s get back to real issues.

Great post by Christopher Brooks….the Rootless Cosmopolitian IS OUT OF THE QUESTION FOR THIS COUNTRY.
HILLARY SUPPORTER FOR McCAIN!

You know, I wonder if anyone living in an apartment is completely in touch with the “American People?”
I still appreciate the sentiment of “I want every American to be rich.”
Class warfare is foolish and defeatist. We are the economy. Are we slackers (BHO) or are we hard chargers ready to give fiscal victory a go (JSM)?

isn’t it funny how a man who makes millions per year trys to act like he is one of the less fortunate? Barrack says he can’t afford to send his kids to piano lessons and has only one house. He makes millions per year. Do we need a president that makes millions and cant balance his household income enough for something so simple. Maybe the economy is also above his pay grade too.

May be one of John McCain’s houses has a private beach. For his lack of knowledge of the islands of Hawaii, there is NO PRIVATE BEACH in Hawaii. All beaches are public.

We are a country of whiners who have it so much better than our parents and grandparents had it……we’re living longer, quality of living has improved all around and all we hear from Dems/Nobama is how horrible things are and the glass is always half empty.
Anybody blogging here on their laptops just cannot complain when there are countries where people live on $1.25 a day.
Russia/Georgia conflict another great reminder as to why I want McCain at the helm.
McCAIN ’08/HILLARY ’12

This ad proves that Mc Cain is too good that Obama did find any issue against Mc Cain, so, he started silly cat fight with Mc Cain.

for those who keep dwelling on this 5 million dollar comment, you sound as silly as Obama…it was a joke! He said it was a joke the moment he said it….do you understand that? why is that so hard to understand? Are you going dwell on every little think in desperation?
as for earning one’s lot in life…..oh yes McCain risked his life for this country, for the sake of our freedom, so people like you can say things like he didn’t work for anything he got, when he fact, he has worked for the freedom and service of america his entire life. What has Obama accomplished to get where he is? NOTHING. People in Chicago know that he was a poor senator. He has written books, he has given speeches.
He doesn’t deserve all the attention he is getting, and certainly doesn’t deserve the white house.
I ask again, with all the good potential candidates out there, why oh why, what did America do to deserve a candidate as horrible and ridiculous as Barack H. Obama? Other nations are just laughing at us.
what an embarassment to our American history.

Good thing his (second) wife is filthy rich…

I support Obama because he does not want me to be burdened with a baby.
Keep your hands of my body Republicans!

This story is a plant by the Obama campaign…not even newsworthy…does this tell you something? They are panicking.

I think it shows he doesn’t care much about money or possessions. A greedy guy knows every penny.

OK. I am not trying to be alarmist, but doesn’t McCain talk like an NEO-CON in Chief right there with Cheney all the way? Doesn’t this disqualify him from running for President? He’s cooking up plots to destroy the UN in order to MAKE MORE WARS? Plus, he slipped and said he was reinstating the DRAFT today? McCain wants WORLD WAR III – can’t you see that?

Martin…Cindy probably owns some of them and instead of giving the wrong answer and everyone jumping on that this was the answer. I bet there are a couple where McCain’s name isn’t on the deed and WHO CARES?

Obama is stupid. This is proof of how little McCain cares about money. Backfire.

by the way idiots, McCain never claimed to be poor that is your golden child

I’m sure all you folks so obsessed with the Rezko thing are equally upset with McCain’s role as one of the Keating 5. Or his changing his position on offshore drilling right after getting a bunch of oil money. Or his foreign policy adviser being a lobbyist for Georgia. Or Phil Gramm’s deep involvement with the sub-prime debacle. Or any of the other lobbyists on his staff with conflicts of interest. Or his involvement in a sweetheart land deal in California for one of his campaign contributors.
Oh, wait, McCain was a POW. He’s not accountable for anything.

Take heart, Obama Lemmings. Your man just got a .3% bounce in the
polls! LMAO.

Ohio: Maybe he cares more about America than himself, unlike his opponent who makes up his own Playskool Presidential Seal.

Based on some of the vitriolic comments about Obama in here, I would say that he really struck a nerve! Ha! Love it! Doesn’t it suck when McCain makes a boo-boo and gets caught!? Waaaaaa! lol!

So I guess now that Kennedy and FDR were just born rich anuses and poor Ronald Reagan was awesome?
It must be fun to be a progressive and have to redefine your values every minute.

“This type of economic class envy only resonates with resentful liberals, and Obama already has that vote sewn up, so I don’t see how this helps him.”
That’s right. Conservatives don’t believe in class warfare. Oh, except:
1) Economic class warfare against the poor
and
2) Social class warfare against liberals
Those kinds of class warfare are acceptable to the Republican party. Indeed, that’s what it’s built on.

McCain bought his condos with his own money in a legitimate transaction. Who cares how many he owns. Since when is being successful a crime? Most of us would love to be rich. The democrats are just the party of laziness and envy. They want a guarantee of the same results that others have to work hard to attain.
Obamanation bought his mansion with his pay as a “community organizer” in a corrupt deal with a corrupt developer. Think about that.

Maximus:
1. Liberals are not a class
2. Bush lowered taxes on the poor
Any more brilliance you care to spew?

WcCain’s response?
A noun, a verb, and POW.
Which is apparently all he’s got to run on these days….

This is what passes for a ‘gaffe’ to Obama and his media suck ups? I’m shocked, shocked I say, to find out that McCain, whose wife is a multi-zillionare, owns a bunch of houses. Newsflash: Republicans are already assumed by the general public to be wealthy. This sort of tactic doesn’t work against them, it only works agaisnt Democrats who always present themselves as blue collar. Does Obama really want to get into a class warfare argument with McCain about how many houses he owns? Let’s bring Tony Rezko into the discussion, that’s a good idea…

John McCain: “I don’t know how many houses I have”…Oooops.
>
> John, the Vietnam war is over.
John McCain, “War more years of Bush”
And as for McCain’s surge: I didn’t support it then and would not support it now because to succeed it involved paying off the terrorists who have been blowing up our soldiers for five years.
Oh, and by the way, tell me any candidate who’s ever won an
election after not polling above 45% for four months head-to-head against his opponent in a two-way race?
Only two times in the last 12 elections has the person who led 100 days out not won the election.
Coming Democratic argument: Iraqis pay 5 cents a gallon for
gas. Why can’t we get them to produce more oil and sell to us?

They have 40 people to whip Hillary protesters into submission at the convention…great adverb to use. They want to block anti-Obama protests. I hope there’s revolt….alot of us will not forget the bias during the primary and Pelosi and Dean, the whole coronation of BO…super dels having to be forced to push him over the finish line. When Obama loses in Nov., analysis will prove it was Hill supporters who jumped to McCain….hell hath no fury than a woman (and alot of men I know) scorned!
McCAIN ’08/HILLARY ’12

I read through blogs on occassion and it sickens me the realize millions of Americans will vote for John McCain and essentially more of the same. Too scared to take the chance that maybe, just maybe we have the one who “could” change this world. Isn’t that worth a vote. No sadly, too much ignorance racism and sexism. Those who voted for Bush 2 don’t think about the nearly 5,000 dead. The next 5,000+ will be directly on the heads of the McCain08′/Hilary 12′ crowd of short sighted thinkers. The republicans are always happy with the status quo. No matter their income level. I’ll be broke, out of a job, evicted, unable to drive my car to the VA office for horrible health care treatment before I vote for HIM!

Obama’s negative attacks are going to backfire soon. Watch his poll numbers go to new low. He will get no bump after the convention unless he chooses Hillary. He will loose a landslide unless he relies on Hillary.

“Which is worse? McCain not knowing how many houses, or Obama not knowing how many States there are (58? 59? 60?) Speaking of glass houses. And he wants to be the President of the 60 States?”
It was a gaffe. He flubbed “50 states” with “47 states” that he’d been to. Came out to 47. People have gaffes, y’know. I seem to recall Bush saying that he would stop at nothing to cause harm to the American people, and everyone understood it as a gaffe and laughed it off.

Sorry people, but I just can’t reconcile the fact that McCain has been given everything (married into money and got into the Naval Acadamy on a legacy), yet calls Obama an elitist.
In the proud conservative traditions of self-reliance, at least Obama is a self-made man, and that counts for something.

“1. Liberals are not a class
2. Bush lowered taxes on the poor”
Tell it to Rush Limbaugh. When you build your entire philosophy upon resentment against a supposed “liberal elite,” you are engaging in social class warfare, period.
And the other great resentment fanned by the GOP and its propagandists is against the supposedly “parasitic” poor.
Class warfare on 2 fronts. It’s worked pretty well for them, I must admit. But increasingly, people are seeing thru it.

Senile? Funny, it was Obama who was symphony of ums and ahs at Saddleback.

Have we EVER seen a Presidential candidate have to defend/explain his Patriotism more….a website to “Stop the Smears”, and now 40 Dems to “whip” Hillary supporters into submission at the convention. I have never seen anything like this.
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It is great to see the Republicans squirm and whine like this!! If the Dems stay on this economic message with discipline for the next two + months Obama will steamroll McSame in November.

Steve T: This is just silly. Who will this persuade to vote for Obama? People who hate houses?

Debra – If you and your thousand or so women still hold a grudge against Obama for Hillary losing the primary, and decide to go vote for McCain instead, then you were never democrats in the first place.
If you were true dems, then your values and principles would matter more to you than the party nominee. And you know damn well that McCain doesn’t support democratic party values. In fact, he will set those values back at least 10 years if elected. Never mind the next 5000 dead troops and loss of foreign good will. (And maybe even another Cold War.)
If you don’t like Obama, and want to become a republican, then go ahead, that’s your choice.

Obama has a new populist theme, but we’re not buying! Iraq was his theme against Hillary (who was running on the economy). I want him and his celebrity campaign to go away. It has done more to hurt him, with the rock star arenas, cover of PEOPLE, and Extra interviews, world tours….

Obama is not wanting a “yes man” as his VP…that’s right, he doesn’t know how to lead and make up his own mind, so he’s going to need a VP that can do the job for him.

Spot on Carrie:
“The McCains – bought houses that they could afford
The Obamas – bought a house they couldn’t afford with the help of a convicted felon
Let me know which you think is worse. A person who has money and invests it in real estate, or a person who tries to get around the system to live beyond their means.
Obama once again opens a can of worms. Their campaign is in disaster.
“

Funny, Al Gore rolls around in oil while telling us to conserve and Liberals lap his testicles. No hypocrisy for McCain here. He isn’t telling me to move into a hut like someone’s brother.

McCain is a P.O.W. He can get away with everything. Examples:
# of houses gaffe: “This is a guy who lived in one house for five and a half years — in prison,” spokesman Brian Rogers told the Washington Post.
Miss Buffalo Chip gaffe: McCain spokesman Brian Rogers fired back by saying that Americans “know that John McCain’s faith and character were tested and forged in ways few can fathom.”
Cone of Silence gaffe: “The insinuation from the Obama campaign that John McCain, a former prisoner of war, cheated is outrageous,” Ms. Wallace said.

Can’t wait until Rezko is sentenced Sept. 2.

e·lite: 1. A group or class of persons or a member of such a group or class, enjoying superior intellectual, social, or economic status.
–American Heritage Dictionary
When you call someone an “elitist”, like McCain has been doing to Obama, you are playing the class-warfare card. End of discussion.
But I guess it’s upsetting to conservatives that we’re on to their game.
You see, the problem is that McCain really IS a member of the American elite.
Now, Obama is certainly not hurting — his best-selling books have brought his family financial security.
But unlike Obama, who came from humble beginnings, and had to earn everything he has, McCain has been part of the elite since birth.
McCain is the son and grandson of admirals, who finished at the bottom of his Naval Academy class but got promoted anyway.
He’s married to a multimillionaire (whom he dumped his first wife for).
He owns at least 7, but by some counts 10 or 12, houses. The dude walks around in $500 Italian loafers!
McCain’s tax plan heavily favors the rich — giving them a 9% break, while giving the middle class only 1.5%.
That’s what a genuine, certified, bona-fide, gold-plated elitist looks like.

How did FDR feel our pain? How did JFK? Oh they were Democrats, so they had the feel our pain gene that negated their huge piles of cash? What utter crap.

Some of us are old enough to remember McCain and the Savings & Loan scandal – the Rezco deal with Obama is nothing – under every microscope in America and they find nothing. Brian Rogers’ response proves the lies these people tell because they have no issues [arugula and all that BS] and BTW, quit lying about Obama’s tax policy – it lowers taxes for almost all Americans.

Wow, imagine, Barrack forgot he had a racist anti American pastor, then claims he was never in church the how many times remarks were made to that extent and that his mentor never mentored him in hate?
McCain like many in Washington or even state level offices probably has either investment people or his spouse handle those types of affairs. Ask Donald Trump how many houses he owns.
Stay on issues and not trash attacks as this should not have even been a questions for reporters to ask in the first place. It’s a none of your business issue and if Obama can forget his pastors remarks and the hate he was brought up in. Forget to let someone other than himself play the race card before crying wolf about it, etc… If he can forget saying this while doing that and forget that he is supposed to be defending not looking down on us poor folks, then John McCain is allowed this slip on a non government issue.
Andy Z. A.

I’m always amused at the Hillary supporters who say they’re for McCain. Here’s a guy who jokes about Chelesa’s looks, cheats on his first wife because she was disfigured in a car accident, marries a new wife for money, enters her jokingly into a topless beauty contest in S.D., makes an old joke about rape and apes, and then tries to make hay with Hillary supporters? Wow! Don’t you think that if McCain had faced off on Hillary, you’d have had the exact same bitterness as you now have with Obama? Get over it, and put America first for a change. McSame’s a disaster just waiting to happen!

I guess with a wife worth over $100 million dollars, along with his day job, McCain can afford to hire idiots who sit at the computer all day long and comment on blogs. When Obama is president, I’m sure they will be able to find a real job.

Nice response there, Brian Rogers. Didn’t your boss say Americans are middle class unless you make $5 million dollars a year? Why are you attacking a hard-working middle class American like Obama (your definition, not mine) for being middle class?

Steve T: I noticed. The idea is sound strategically. But this spot is laughable.

This is gold. Don’t stop the music Obama!

I hear desperation in the voices of the Dem’s now that new polls are out showing our next new President John McCain slightly ahead. Obama certainly has shown it’s “ABOVE MY PAY GRADE” to be President ummmm.
If he’s not reading it off a monitor the man simply can’t make a point.
Lots of middle class Amercan’s own more then one house so it’s funny to see the Dem’s jumping on something that’s such a non issue. At least the man know’s how to invest.
The number’s aren’t lying people are realy starting to understand that Obama
will never have the PAY GRADE of President of the United States.
Thank you Rick Warren for exposing a fraud.

Can we please dispense with the idea that John McCain is some grand enterprising businessman that built a personal fortune?
He left his first wife and married a rich heiress, who inherited a big bundle from daddy warbucks… I’m not advocating ‘seizing’ it from them – but let’s not pretend John McCain is fabulously wealthy by the sweat of his brow.
He’s fabulously wealthy because he married a fabulously wealthy heiress.
He owns a lot of houses, wears $500 shoes, and never has to work, worry about Social Security, mortgages, paying for his kid’s education, health care, or any of the other things us ‘little people’ have to deal with because he married a very rich second wife.
John McCain married into money…. a LOT of money.
He’s John Kerry – but without the other side’s party convention handing out purple band-aids.

“Teresa Heinz Kerry is worth multiples more than Cindy McCain. I didn’t see democrats complaining about his wealth four years ago. Lots of houses, too, including a mansion in Georgetown. John Kennedy was born into extreme wealth. FDR was wealthy as well — his dad was president of one railroad and VP of another.
Nice try — Obama — the man without a plan”
I also don’t remember John and Teresa calling others elitist and out-of-touch.

Debra: “and WHO CARES?”
Everybody who faces foreclosure?
Everybody who thinks it is pathetic that John McCain wants to give himself and his family a payraise of $300,000 to $400,000

I honestly think the race is going to be a landslide for McCain. I was a Hillary supporter…I don’t care what anyone says, I’m voting for Sen. McCain. Period.

cmgmaggie….some of us JUST DON’T WANT OBAMA AS PREZ. We Hillary supporters prefer centrists…..McCain and Hillary and candidates who put their country before themselves….Obama has no cred on this. I am a Republican, who has voted for Dems if I thought they were the better candidate…..I contributed for the first time this year, to Hillary. For me it was a win/win if either Hill or McCain became CIC. NOBAMA IS UNACCEPTABLE!

Well, I wonder if McCain used sleazy help convicted felon to buy any of his homes like Obama? If McCain knew Rezko he too could have gotten some sweetheart deals and then done a land swap to add even more value to the home for cheap. Obama might want to remember the old saying, “This is just the pot calling the kettle black.”

I couldn’t care less how many homes he has or if he remembers any of them.
If Obama’s camp believes this type of thing is going to win him the election than we Democrats are never going to get back into the White House.
I miss Hillary.

D Marin — great that you’re rich, Dude. By the way — We ALL paid our own way through college, etc. But take a look at how you did under Clinton and how you are doing economically under Bush and tell me how you’re going to support McSame.

The ad sounds a little like Sesame Street: “McCain has seven! Seven houses! Ah, Ah, Ah!”
Which is perfect since Gov. Tim Kaine came back on CNN today to say, “McCain just can’t count high enough” to know how many houses he has.

As for the poster trying to say the position ads from the McCain campaign were the same deal and turn about is fair play.
One set of ads and attacks is based on issues and a holier than thou attitude from one of the biggest political puppets of all time. Still the messages pertain to personal character and the lies Mr.O has told, the falsehood in his plans where plans actually exist instead of window dressing. They are about his record on the record and his warbles and double standards. They are about issues.
Barrack opened up the Paris Hilton ads by playing media darling with set up candid photo ops in dropped vacation destinations, grand standing in friendly nations on his world tour instead of facing possible foes on their turf. From the word go it’s been high profile vacations and a feel of I can beat John with my eyes closed attitude.
Mr. O presumed to be smarter than the rest of us on airing up tires, he said we clung to guns and god out of what was that again and has looked down on the rest of us like he is something special. Wow tough life raised in Hawaii and paid through law school, makes a few million, then plays dirty politics and the race card so well he is where he is today.
My only question is has he signed any autographs yet. The ads brought him down to being a man and not a messiah, and even minority friends of mine are saying if Obama is our first minority President he may be our last for a very long time. There are minorities that should be given a shot, the ones that do the work and have the ideas and morals to lead our country. Obama wants you to hand everything to him because he is black, he thinks this is affirmative action we are playing here and has shown nothing of being a serious leader. His temper scares me, he will ignore a bomb in New York, or people being murdered in Iraq, but man have you got trouble if your words make him look like less than a god.
Geeze, give me a break NoBama is the best thing that could happen to us.

McCain is not up to date with how many houses his rich wife owns, and Barack Obama is not up to date with how many children his estranged father gave life.
Obama doesn’t know younger brother George Obama lives in a hut in Kenya for 1 dollar a month. He was totally clueless that Rezno in his district was a slumlord, which is why they bought a house together. The house Obama talks about, where he and wife Michelle lives blissfully unaware they got a hefty rabat from Rezno.

“If Obama’s camp believes this type of thing is going to win him the election than we Democrats are never going to get back into the White House.”

I am a Democrat but I don’t understand why it matters how many houses someone has. The McCains are wealthy. So what? Obama will be just as wealthy, more so probably, when he’s 72. It has nothing at all to do with their stand on issues. Maybe they should both move into trailers furnished with plastic lawn chairs so we will feel better.

This race is WAY over…Obama’s people are panicky about all of it, and it’s slipping through their fingers…go President McCain!

Unless you’re a multi millionaire, how could anyone even think of supporting McSame?
Do you want more wars? Do you want the draft reinstated? Do you want tax breaks for the rich and major corporations and none for you?
I guess if you think the everything is ok in America, you think Bush is a great president, you listen to Rush Limpbrain and/or Sean Hannity and you’re dumb enough to believe what they say, voting for McSame makes sense.
Personally, I don’t want another rich, out of touch, old goat who will protect all the rich and screw the rest in the White House.
Wake up America, before it’s to late.
Four more years of McSame and America’s toast.

I think a guy who always has his nose in the air and looks down on others, a guy who loves the rock star arena, a guy who thinks middle Americans are bitter and cling to guns and religion, a guy who just screams aloof, writes books about HIMSELF….he just seems likes he’s so wrapped up in him. In CNN bio last night he said his druggie years were selfish years….which years haven’t been selfish years. Does he really want to serve this country….what does he have to show for it except being a community organizer who got some asbestos removed from a bldg. What is it that doesn’t resonate with so many about Obama? Too bad his parents abandoned him…it all starts there.

Seven Houses!!!!
Is that all.

Best thing Obama can do… now that McCain is going to “go nuclear”… is to flip it back on McCain and highlight his insane temper, his recklessness, his shoot-from-the-hip, quick draw style.
What a crock the McCain campaign is. They feign indignation at the smallest slight. At least Obama’s statements are true! What is the problem here? And it is beyond ridiculous for the campaign to now say that this is an on Cindy, because “she owns the houses”.
McCain is an angry, angry child with a temper and a temperment not suitable for the White House.
He will start digging his grave with his hyper-responsive attacks.

Really – this is news? If it wasn’t about the number of houses, it would be about the size of Cindy’s bank accounts next week. We all know she’s a multi-millionaire. And she got the beer gig because it’s a family business.
Does it occur to anyone, that McCain hesitated because some/all of the properties may be in Cindy’s name? They maintain separate finances – maybe he was looking to give an answer more relevant to that perspective.
Bottom line – if Cindy’s wealth rubs you wrong, this isn’t news.

To Doug Norman,
You go man, what has so-called experience got us? 8 disasterous years of GB, lost over 4,000 of young men,
many maimed for life, for a war made from lies, have many of of youung people doubting any president who would call on them to serve(and justifiably so). Just what EXPERIENCE does John have after wrecking 5 airplanes, spent most of war in seclusion, dumped a wife who was crippled at the time. Those are experiences but not exactly ones I look for in the white house. This grandma
would take her chances on a little less of this experience.

How the heck does a first term US Senator who has never held a real job in his life make $4,000,000 a year???? If it’s his book deal and his campaign has bought tens of thousands of copies of the book is that not profiteering. When is Obama going to propose a windfall profit tax on himself.

Makes you wonder why McCain is asking fellow republicans for cash donations. I am getting tired of the silly e-mails.

Heaven forbid that anyone is successful in the USA! If Obama had his way, nobody but he and his Chicago cronies would have a dime that is not supplied by the government.
I wonder if he remembers that he made $4,000,000 last year on his book sales?

MHUITT
if employees support someone that is one thing–if exxon john gets millions from exxon that is something else–surely that is not too hard for you to understand.

We are a nation of WHINER Republicans. LOL It is upseting when your man’s OWN WORDS are used against him. Like 100 years in Iraq. If you are going to call someone an ELITIST, you’d better be careful. Cause then there is a thing called FACTS. Americans will wake up soon. Landslide for Obama in NOV. God bless OBAMA, a true, new kind of leader.

It doesn’t matter to me how much wealth anyone has as long as they aren’t hypocritical like the media’s darling, Al Gore, and (previously) “there are 2 America’s” John Edwards, whose idea of life is “What’s mine is mine, and what’s your’s is mine, too”. Haven’t heard any of that pompous baloney from John McCain.

“The desperation of McCain is palpable.” Really? He didn’t sound too desperate on Saturday in the Saddleback church. He sounded pretty damn confident to me.

To Debra: Just because someone is legally acquitted does not mean that they are innocent of wrongdoing. Nolo Press has legal definitions if you would like to consult them. McCain himself calls Keating “my asterisk.” This admission is from the candidate’s own mouth. The book _Trust Me_ by Michael Binstein and Charles Bowden has more background on this.
I don’t know about you, but McCain’s comment about wanting everybody to get rich just sounds like more of the materialistic drabble we don’t need. During WWII (in which my grandfather helped the Allied struggle in the Pacific), we were told to sacrifice to help our country. Even as a little girl I heard tales of “Victory gardens” to grow the family’s own food, and sacrifices of food and other materials (metals). Instead, McCain wants everyone to want more–to aspire to seven houses, multiple condos, private planes, consume, consume, consume. Where are the lessons for our children about being content with modest provisions and hard work, with a few treats every so often. Signed, disappointed churchgoing conservative.

Please. Obama needs to get real. There have been lots of wealthy presidents and candidates: Washington, Jefferson, both Roosevelts, Hoover, Kennedys, LBJ, Kerry and now McCain. Obama isn’t some poor street person himself….he and his wife are NOT POOR! I don’t care how many houses the McCain’s have. That is their business. It has nothing to do with a man’s reputation, his ability to lead, his character, his credibilty, honesty and humility. I find Obama lacking in most of those attributes; that is what he should be worrying about.

“We need a democrat back in the white house.”
Yeah, and it doesn’t matter how inept he is either.

Can’t wait for McCain’s ad they will start running next Thursday, ripping into Obama/Rezko real estate. Cindy McCain had apparently 8 homes/condos and if I were the Senator, I wouldn’t concern myself with them either, because he has been DOING HIS JOB FOR THE LAST 40 YEARS, and not just working 143 days in the Senate like the empty suit.
McCain ’08/Hillary ’12

Bottom line: John, with the help of Cindy, owns 7 houses, of which John was unsure about the number; Tony, with the help of Barack, owns 11 slum buildings, of which Barack wasn’t aware about the conditions. Quite touchy, I can feel it.

Considering that McCAIN and NObama are BOTH very well off …
Nice try, NObama – but, Sorry, it actually does NOT matter !!
McCAIN or Hillary in ’08

Gee, someone with adult kids and $$ owning investment properties… that has never happened among middle class people in the US – ever, not even remotely possible. I figure I can let it slide since McCain has spent a heck of alot more time actually working for his state as a Senator than Obama has. As a citizen of IL, I can say I am not impresses with Obama spending more time on his political aspirations than doing the job he was elected to.
Obama must like jumping from the frying pan into the fire. He has 1 property (actually 1 plus a piece) that he had to deal with convicted felon Tony Rezko on – TWICE.

LETS SEE MCCAIN HAS SEVEN HOMES—-FOR YOU WITH MORTGAGE PROBLEMS–DO YOU THINK MCCAIN IS IN FORCLOSURE—HE IS SO FAR OUT OF TOUCH WITH WORKING PEOPLE HE IS DISGUSTING.

Obama’s point, with which it is easy to understand, is that McCain has no understanding of the lives of most Americans. We work, we struggle to pay taxes, we struggle to pay for college, he worry about losing our health insurance or bankruptcy. We see inflation go up while wages are stagnant. We see our retirement accounts shrinking. It is very relevant whether our president appreciates the lives of ordinary Americans.
McCain is only familiar with the lives of the very wealthy. He can’t pump gas. He can’t operate a computer. He’s probably never clipped coupons or had to pick between paying for dental work or a car payment.
Do we really need someone for president who doesn’t know how many homes he owns, thinks the economy is just swell, and is befriended and advised by someone who calls Americans whiners?McCodger is not who we need for president now.

MCCAINS CLAIM TO WEALTH AND FAME–FIND A RICH BIMBO ON DRUGS—-

“He know what it is to be beaten”
There is the POW-card again. “LEAVE MCCAIN ALOOOOOONE: HE WAS A PRISONEER OF WAAAAAAR, WHAAAAA”
Wait, how did the Bush Administration call it again? Wasn’t it just a bit of hazing? AKA ‘enhanced interrogation’?

This site always gives me at least one good laugh per day. Republicans are more flexible than gold medal gymnasts! In 2004, they made fun of John Kerry and called him a “kept man” because he was married to a wealthy heiress. Now they’re clawing their faces and hollering about how unfair it is that that John McCain’s similar circumstances are under discussion.
Today’s biggest howl, though, came when the McCain campaign managed to play the POW card in commenting on Obama’s comments about the number of houses McCain can’t remember he has. Ya can’t make this stuff up.

McCAIN’s Robers stated it best regarding NObama…
“Does a guy who made more than $4 million last year, just got back from vacation on a private beach in Hawaii and bought his own million-dollar mansion with the help of a convicted felon really want to get into a debate about houses?”
Guess so – Now it looks like we will have to hear ALL about Rezko, Chicago, CAC, et al…
Stay tuned !!
McCLAIN or Hillary in ’08

I wish I was a prisoner of war, so then I could be indestructible as well.

Want figures, let’s start here:
Barack Obama is giving to charity more than $70,000 in contributions linked to an indicted Chicago businessman whose past connections to the Democratic presidential candidate have created a distraction and raised questions about his judgment. ABC News

Quote:
Posted by: Wizard | Aug 21, 2008 5:38:14 PM
We need the right smart people making good decisions. Are we better off than we were eight years ago? We need a democrat back in the white house. Go Obama.
___________
Hmmm are you talking about the first 4 years where Billy rode the effects of Reaganomics that were based on lower taxes, more dollars in the economy, and business growth that lowered the jobless rates? Or is it the last four years where Bills record tax hike stole money from businesses slowing their growth and reducing the creation of new jobs to the point that joblessness started growing and big companies started crumbling leading to the first recession under the Bush Administration, a card house set to crumble the moment any event like 9-11 or a 70 dollar barrel of oil happened?
Well I guess it was better for those who got a bigger welfare check and had an easier time getting it, with less enforcement of welfare fraud. I guess it was better for those who feared the folks at Ruby Ridge, and in Waco, and thought the Capitol Hillbillies was the best show on television with more betrayal and cheating than their favorite soap opera.
Give me a break, economic policies take years to manifest harm or good. A slide in profits or job growth takes months to years to effect the markets and expansion does not show benefits until the new buildings have employees staffing them and sales to report.
Keep more allows spend more and save more. Handing it to the Feds to spend on red tape and hand to a line of give me what I haven’t earned minded people doesn’t work. If taxes are raised let it be for the purpose of creating small business loans and grants, job education, and limit the time a person can get a check for doing nothing. Cut the red tape and close the loopholes that have so many record lawsuits going on. Cap the amounts of jury awards, and let free enterprise grow and end unemployment for good.
There are too many people that fear the worst in having a country with businesses that grow so fast they have to fight for workers. If we can get to that point where the jobless rate is narrowed down to those who can’t work or refuse to work companies will have no choice but offer more, and pay for benefits like insurance etc.. They will have one choice, make it happen or have no people to run the shop, but we can’t do that because we fear the rich getting richer and and more people getting rich.
We are afraid that Democrats would lose the welfare votes if everyone had a job and no one needed these programs. Say no to tax and spend policies, say no to Obamanomics as they don’t make sense or cents.

For those who haven’t recognized how out of touch Obama can be, please google “Grim proving ground for Obama’s housing policy.” Thanks for your attention.
Here’s an excerpt:
“Eleven of Rezmar’s buildings were located in the district represented by Obama, containing 258 apartments. The building without heat in January 1997, the month Obama entered the state Senate, was in his district. So was Jones’s building with rats in the walls and Frizzell’s building that lacked insulation. And a redistricting after the 2000 Census added another 350 Rezmar apartments to the area represented by Obama.
But Obama has contended that he knew nothing about any problems in Rezmar’s buildings.
After Rezko’s assistance in Obama’s home purchase became a campaign issue, at a time when the developer was awaiting trial in an unrelated bribery case, Obama told the Chicago Sun-Times that the deterioration of Rezmar’s buildings never came to his attention. He said he would have distanced himself from Rezko if he had known.”

Who’s desperate?? Neither candidate is desperate, yet, but camp Obama is running scared. The Saddle Brook episode and recent polls all expose huge weaknesses in Obama. Any objective observer knows something is wrong – Obama has spent more money in last sixty days than McCain has spent in the entire campaign to date, the economy (according to the liberal press) is in the tank and the war is still unpopular – and all this should be to Obama’s advantabe – and yet McCain is gaining in the polls.
So what does team Obama do? They whine and cry about how they are being smeared by McCain and the Republicans – ala the Obama Nation (Abomination – I just got the smear in the book’s name – how slow am I?) – while they proceed to smear McCain by claiming he must’ve cheated to have made Obama look so small at the Saddle Brook forum. Now team Obama wants us to know that Cindy McCain is a wealthy ‘beer’ heiress. Guess what, we already know and don’t care. I think I might be more concerned it John McCain had a quick answer to the question of how many houses he and/or Cindy own. That he doesn’t know only says to me that he focuses of more important matters – such as serving the people.

HEY!
John McCain worked hard for all that money!
You think it’s easy to leave your first wife after she suffers a terrible accident so you can marry a rich sugar mama who got rich from daddy’s beer distributorship?
THAT’S HARD WORK!

OMG, Obama played the wrong hand on this one.
Barack “57 states” Obama is going down when the Rezko ad hits. OMG, what fools the Obama supporters/campaigners are. What were they thinking?
This will bring Obama down.
Rev. Wright turned off a large percentage of the voters, and now when Rezko, the federally indicted Chicago mobster friend and business partner of Obama comes to light, more will peel away.
Why on earth would Obama go down that slimy path is beyond me. His past is so riddled with crime and people of hate, he has nowhere to hide.
Attack McCain for his wives investments in property, but explain away why you took money from a mobster to pay for YOUR home.
OMG, the shoe is dropping. The circus gets better and better.

Rodney, don’t play fool. the operative word is “link” not charity.
do you really, really think that your man would give away almost 100k when he deals with a corrupt sugar daddy that helped him buy his mansion, get Mich-ele a job paying 200k+/-, donates to his campaigns left and right and in return, for starters, your man helps him secure millions from the city for his RRZMAR corp. projects which are later condemned uninhabitable. Screw the residences of those dwellings, there are just semi-illiterate poor American schumcks

Wow…I knew McBush was senile when he claimed that the economy was fine, 5 million is rich, and that he has a brain, but now this…I mean, seriously, what American doesn’t know how many houses they have?
McShame, you are an absolute joke of a candidate. You should be ashamed of yourself for cheating on a woman with a girl 17 years younger than you. You should be ashamed of your penny loafers that cost $520. You should be ashamed of the lies you brought to the Saddleback Forum.
NOBODY WANTS YOU McBUSH…WE ARE TIRED OF YOUR WAYS!!!
I am a Clinton supporter turned Obama supporter!!!!!!!!!
DEMOCRATS 2008!!!!

pls
lets get bach to exxon john the nafta man —-i love the prosperity statement—oh i forgot that he was in columbia working on another nafta type deal—–and by the way i purchased a piece of land with no problems and later learned that the man was a crook and left the country—so what is your point–sounds kind of petty and lame.

Quote:
HEY!
John McCain worked hard for all that money!
You think it’s easy to leave your first wife after she suffers a terrible accident so you can marry a rich sugar mama who got rich from daddy’s beer distributorship?
THAT’S HARD WORK!
End Quote:
But didn’t you think it was great for John Kerry and little miss ketchup queen? I have met John and Cindy and while smut mongers may wish to turn their relationship into trash like this comment, they are a very loving family that sticks together.
Maybe you would rather poke this fun at John Edwards.
Maybe it would have been better if John had stayed out of pity for his ex wife and had a horrible relationship instead of finding love, maybe he should have said no I wont let myself fall in love with you because you are wealthy and I want to be a Democrat and hate you for it.
Get a grip, maybe you are just jealous because you didn’t marry a rich girl. Maybe you are still looking for a super human with no bad times ever that can somehow relate to your bad times and hand you enough to be their equal. That’s what Barrack says he can and will do but do you think it’s real or a fantasy, Bill ran on the same ticket, did he help you out of the whole or just increase the check that has kept you there?
When is a persons wealth a factor in their worth? When it is Barrack Obama and his wealth has bought him a ticket to the Democratic Convention, helped him escape the real world, and rub hands with rich lawyers to the extent they hand over wallets full of money. In his case his wealth and the money he can raise is the only reason he is in the running and that sums up his worth too. Barrack is about paying back his rich friends, padding union interest and handing insurance companies the money you earned to pay for Government run health care.
Again, the money is not the issue as poor folks can to afford to take time off from work and run for office, show me one politician without money since those days 200 years ago. I’m waiting, nope Barracks rich, Nope Bill and Hilly got theirs through deals like Whitewater, are you still thinking about it?
The rich are the ones who build and expand businesses, their job of getting richer means they have to keep expanding and building, and folks that creates jobs. Stop being jealous and looking to be an equal, go out and create your own success story as I am creating mine as we speak.
Andy Zeus Anderson

How much is rich? McCain’s answer is correct. “Rich” is when you can live off of your assetts without having to work for a living. Affluent is when you have a high income and can live a nice lifestyle but are not yet rich enough to live off your wealth.
Ask any investment advisor and they will tell you you are rich at about 5 million net worth. 1 – 3 million sounds like a lot, and it is a lot of money, but you can’t retire off 3 million and live a comfortable middle class life in most American cities unless you get really lucky with your investments. Besides, it is an irrelevant question. We want a leader who will help make us all rich, how rich they are, (or how many homes they have), is irrelevant as long as they have been successful in the past.
Lastly, Obama and his supporters are still confused about the definition of ELITE and ELITIST. Clinton, Obama and McCain are all ELITE. They are all wealthy and powerful. But that is not the same thing as being elitist.

Lets get back to Rezko, Wright, Ayers, Anenberg papers,and his “LIE” about his Abortion Vote, not to mention playing the race card whenever it suits him.

pls
you just cannot deal with the truth about exxon john the nafta man

i still want to know —since we have an embargo against cuba–HOW DOES THE MCCAINS GET AWAY WITH DISTRIBUTING BOOSE THERE—ARE THEY THE PRIVILAGED.

Michael-
If you do not think most middle class Americans can retire with 3 million, then you are completely drinking the kool-aid.
3 million dollars?!!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
Who makes that — seriously?
McCain not remembering how many homes he has and his 520 shoes are pretty elitist in the sense that it is an indirect braggart sort of statement. The same thing with saying 5 million a year is rich — that is a braggart statement and it is definitely ELITIST. So maybe it is you that has ELITE and ELITIST mixed up.
When I think of ELITE, I think of Michigan and Ohio State football, or North Carolina Basketball…when I think ELITIST, I think John McBush.

Obama went to the dirtiest CHICAGO political ‘fixer’ who was under federal investigation at the time for buying influence, (it was in all the Illinois papers) and asked him for help buying his house. Several hundred thousand dollars in personal gain for Obama later he has the audacity to attack a man who has never done anything to line his own pockets (besides getting lucky enough to marry wealthy).

doc
he just dont know which one he is in.

John McCain is a criminal and should revoke his interest in the presidency.

I agree with you, Scott. McCain is a wealthy elitist and needs to be defeated for the sanctity of this nation.

I have been a republican for almost 45 years, but I will not vote for John McCain. He is evil, bloodthirsty, and is out of touch not only with his faith and reality, but with the American people.
This republican woman is for Obama.

pls
i deal with the truth—–
AND WHERE IN THE HELL DO YOU THINK OUR JOBS HAVE GONE–THANK THE NAFTA PEOPLE–SUCH AS NAFTA JOHN

Rodney,Rodney,
You must surely be mistaken about the McCains and booze. That couldn’t possibly be true for he and Cindy are Southern Baptists and part of the SBC beliefis that it is sinful to partake
or sale alcoholic products!!!!

Is that the best that Barry O has got?
If this is all that Mr. arugula, I bot my house with help from a convicted felon, has got – this contest is OVER.
BarryO should just fold up the tent and concede – he’s done.

That was a stupid question to begin with. Obama’s attack mode has awaken the sleeping beast now. He should have let it go. He has turned the bus over and all the people under will be brought out from under it to do him in. Why didn’t he stick to issues? I have already seen previews of 2 counter attack ads in response to his stupid taunts, and they are hard hitting. If he wants to be leader of the Free World he better start acting like one. If he is going to attack McCain, at least make it about something people care about.

Obama begin EVERY speech until the election asking,
“Raise your hand if you know how many houses you own?”
FIST BUMPS all around
is it Nov 4th …YET?

IMAGINE
Grampy snug for next 4 years in one of his minimum of four houses…none of them WHITE

PMG
I DONT CARE HOW OLD YOU ARE BUT THE TEC BUBBLE BUSTED A LONG TIME AGO—–AND IF YOU WANT TO SEE THE RESULTS OF NAFTA I SUGGEST YOU TRAVEL THE COUNTRY AND START WITH THE COAL REGION IN PA WHERE THOUSANDS OF JOBS WERE LOST BECAUSE OF NAFTA–I THINK YOU NEED TO JOIN THE REAL WORLD.

Obama again the fool is the one who bought his multi million dollar mansion using tax payers money thru Rezko. McCain is a war hero that earned his rights own property.

Jake, I hate telling you this but I couldn’t care less how many homes Cindy McCain owns. For that matter, I’m only a little concerned with the fact that the Obamas bought a manion below market price from a convicted felon.
What I’m worried about is the price of a gallon of gas & the price of natural gas.
Sen. Obama is clueless on that, which is why I’m voting for Sen. McCain.

PMG
YOU ARE AS OUT OF TOUCH WITH REALITY AS YOUR SO CALLED HERO.

aw nafta and the chinese trade agreements along with opec and big oil are bankrupting our country—-AND SOMEONE BETTER STOP IT—AND I CAN ARRURE ANYONE THAT NAFTA JOHN IS NOT THAT MAN.

McCaint has to be the most IMMODEST veteran in the history of American veterans. Yes or no?
It IS NOT heroic to seek to PANDER and exploit veteran status for cheap political or other lesser ends.
Such a pandering behavior of a ‘veteran’ diminishes any military stature one ever achieved.
Notice that while running for the Presidency, Al Gore and John Kerry did not ceaselessly exploit their military service, and beat Americans over the head with the fact of their combat service in Vietnam!
McCaint is therefore prostituting his service for one of two reasons:
1. McCaint is feeling guilty that his record is less than stellar. After all, McCaint has sealed his military record. Why?
It is obvious that McCaint is trying to have it both way: Miss not opportunity to broadcast one part of his military record to anyone who will listen to and laud him; but keep the other part of his military record a closely guarded secret from the American people.
2. Senility is setting in with McCaint.
And so McCaint is doing what many old people often do to get extra attention: Whine about how much they deserve to be ‘waited on’ because of their prior years of service.

Power Wolf…I am not an Obama troll. I was quoting Martha, who mentioned JFK was not a veteran. Thank you for bringing it my attention that he was a veteran.

HEY
GRIFF I STAND CORRECTED —BUT DO YOU REALLY THEINK WE HAVE MORE JOBS TO SEND OUT OF OUR COUNTRY–I WOULD THINK NOT

It seems like a lot of liberal on this site oppose NAFTA, but to remind you Bill Clinton signed NAFTA into law.
Also what problems do you have with free trade? Free trade is not the reason jobs are being shipped overseas, it is the taxes imposed by the government that makes it difficult to business in the United States.

GRIFF
dont you think that super low wages have something to do with it –along with no regard for the enviroment—big business makes millions more and we lose jobs and get crap out of it.
only an idiot would support nafta—-what we need is equal trade—-the trade deficit will destroy us.

Barry O’bama, I bought my house with the assistance of a felon and oh by the way, my wife magically received a 200K raise when he was elected to the Senate. O’b is a joke. By the way, anyone notice Barry is suddenly talking “folksy”? Must have spent his time on the private beach in Hawaii watching videos on how to pretend your not an elitist, America hating snob.

griff
i live in an area where garment and shoe industry was king—–thousands of jobs lost due to nafta—–any new jobs created here will simply go out of our country—-we must pass laws demanding fair and equal trade–willy signed the nafta agreement and walmart is one if not the biggest benafactor–and hillary was associated with walmart—and mccain is in favor of nafta—he will learn a lesson here.

Obama criticized McCain for the Paris Hilton add by saying, is that the best you got? Is this the best Obama has, McCain not being sure of how many homes he owns?
Obama should spend more time figuring out what he wants to tell the American people his view on abortion is.
By the way I am a pro-life conservative. I just am not as extreme as Obama and am against late term abortion and partial birth abortion. Having an opinion on abortion is not above my pay grade.

griff—i agree with obama on abortion as people must be responsible for themselver and the beyond his pay grade you should surely understabnd–i thing he is saying you will answer to a higher source–we cannot have someone ruling our lives and must be responsible for ourselves—–i am not for abortion but feel that is not for me to decide about others.

Here’s the news for you idiots. A man who acts like he’s better than everyone one earth but who makes a deal with a crook to get a mansion is NOT going to turn Americans against an ordinary guy lucky or smart enough to get rich and get property. Democrats simply do not understand that elitism is not the same thing as economic success. But now Obamaa has asked for this fight and now he will get it. Rezko, Rezko, Rezko, and Bill Ayers and the Chicago Annenberg Challenge and the University of Illinois library cover up, and Rezko, Rezko, Rezko. I will be enjoying it. And oh, as to someone who thinks this glee is actuallyt REPUBLICAN desperation. Are you kidding? Have you been watching the polls and your man? Apparently not.

Rodney…
The Government pockets bewtween 13% and 14% of Oil revenues while the Companies pocket 8%…..
What this means is that you can be sure that the Government will always make 75% more in profits than the Oil Companies…. how fair is that…. there is no other business in America with a profit model and Tax split even close to this…
That doesn’t even touch the biggest reason that we should be drilling and that is we can keep the $700B that Americans send over seas (to our enemies for the most part) for energy right here at home and create jobs, get more tax revenues, etc. etc.

There are many rich Americans in America. Is that a problem with Comrade Obama now?

griff the only way we can decrease our dependancy is with alternate fuels and get back to competitive pricing—-AND OF COURSE PUT AN END TO IMPORTS–ANYONE CAN MAKE BIO DIESEL-but watch how much power the oil companies have as the government will require some kind of additive that the everyday man cannot produce–it is all to do with the collection of taxes—-you can produce bio diesel for about 1.00 per gallon

Why is Obama so concerned by who is wealthy and the definition of wealthy? Because he wants to redistribute the wealth of the country. That is the same thing Cuba did and any socialist country. Don’t be fooled by this guy. Fools are envious of the wealth of others. And, smart people are inspired by the wealth of others.

No we can compete with 2.00 workers you are correct, but America does have the most skilled work force in the world that is our one advantage.
As I said before I am not well versed in NAFTA. Just looking at domestic business however, taxes in certain states one being California, make it very impractical to do business there.
The world is constantly changing, us as Americans need to adapt to this changing economy.
It is also not bad for companies to turn a profit. One poster mentioned the taxes on the oil companies saying oil companies take home 8 cents on a dollar compared to other companies such as Microsoft who take home 24 cents the dollar. That does not seam fair to me and why we would discuss taxing big oil more makes no sense. If we tax oil companies more the result will be an increase at the pump. These companies will not sit back and realize a major cut in profit, you will pay the tax.

McC is not perfect; BHO is not perfect. The GOP does not have all the answers; the Dems do not have all the answers. All informed voters can do is pick the candidate who best reflects their view of where America should go into the future. Under this analysis, most Dems want a faster road to Socialism and the GOP will defend a mixed economy. I’m afraid that most Americans are so addicted to the government welfare state that the Dems will ultimately prevail.

Rodney…I agree competition will bring us to the lowest prices possible. Alternate fuels will help this country thrive in the future, but when these alternate fuels will be practical for everyday Americans to use is unknown. It has been a 30 year process that both Republicans and Democrats have neglected for too long.
Drilling is an answer that will help ease the pain.

It is definitely seams like a difficult situation, but as I mentioned you are more aware of NAFTA and its consequences. I will have to do some more research and further develop an opinion.
Anyways I have to go, but it was nice having a civil political conversation, especially how I started it off with a jerk comment. Regardless of our political differences, Good luck See ya
Drill Here Drill Now Save Money

we are in a 70% dependancy trap and must use all the resources possible rto get out of it—i own a business and have made strides with wind gereration and am at present installing solar pannels—we are looking at a possible 60 % price increase for electric and that would be devastating—i wont let them destroy my family—

Rodney…. You need to move to Europe man… Capitalism, and freedom for people to rise to their own level of success doesn’t mesh well with the socialists… I’m thinking that Swedon, Germany or France is where you need to be…. You can vote for the far left radical over there…

Nothing senile or otherwise inappropriate about McCain’s answer to an off-the-wall question. Rather than take a stab at it (not knowing the legal details of real estate ownership by his wife, personally or through trusts or corporations) what should he have done other than to say it would have to be researched and we’ll get back to you when we have an accurate number. As for houses he himself owns, it turns out the answer is zero.
Now someone may make political hay of this but to assign it any serious weight is intellectually bankrupt. It’s on a par with “we might be in Iraq for a hundred years.” Who knows, we might (and no matter who is President). Lord knows…look how long we’ve been in Germany and Korea.

How can McCain relate to me and my struggle to afford to eventually buy a house when the man has so many homes he can’t keep straight how many he even has?
Dude can’t fix the economy when he doesn’t think it’s broken.

Obama’s entire premise is based on class warfare! What do the democrats have against success? Might start asking Mr. Obama if he protected infanticide while he was in the Illinois Senate to get him out of McCain’s backyard!! Might also ask him how much he received from Tony Rezko for his seven figure dollar home before Tony fell on hard times!!

Dumb and already backfiring on Obama.

This is Barack’s “new kind of politics”?

Obama shouldn’t put ads out there that refer to McCain’s answer about how many houses he has. All that ad does is bring back our thoughts about how Obama got his one house and a portion of the lot next door.
The Obamas bought the house in June 2005 for $1.65 million–some $300,000 less than the asking price–and secured a $1.32 million mortgage from Northern Trust.
Rezko’s wife, Rita, bought the adjoining lot the same day, paying the full $625,000 asking price with the help of a $500,000 mortgage from Mutual Bank of Harvey. By the way, Rita Rezko’s annual salary was $37,000 when she obtained the $500,000 mortgage.
As I said, Obama shouldn’t be putting out any ads about McCain’s home ownership or ANYONE’S home ownership.

I voted last two times straight Democratic ticket. They lost me this time by selecting the worst possible candidate for president of this country. The guy has no experience, very arrogant, corrupt and whants “Change” and all he Changes is his positions everyday. He stole the nomination by manipulating caucuses where only 4% of people vote.

How many houses does John McCain own?
ZERO.
His wife, however, owns 7 to 8 properties that are a mix of investments, condos for adult children that are under her name and an elderly aunt. All of them were paid for by legitimate money earned over her lifetime and the lifetime of her father.
John made about 400K last year.
How about Obama? Well he owns one home, purchased with the help of a convicted felon and a special “senator” loan. The Obama’s reported 7 million in income last year.
Now let’s compare:
Obamas- Senator & hospital exec earn 7 million vs. McCain earns 400K (minus Cindy’s income from multiple corporations and investments from 2 lifetimes). Gee? Where are the Obama’s getting all that cash from on such thin resumes, poor family roots and less than have the work history? Community organizers and college professors seem to do better than most oil execs, huh?
The McCain’s name is on several homes that were legitimately purchased, Obama’s have 1 home that is tied to a felon and questionable loans.
And wait… who was asking mid west farmers about the cost of arugula at Whole Foods?
Yeah…Obama should really talk about this one. Also, since he’s ripping John on Cindy’s real estate investments, does that mean wives are fair play again? I can’t wait to start talking about Michelle again.

Right. They own 3. Her foundation owns the others. And so what.? Bumma better watch it. He dosen’t bash Reid, the Gores, Corzines, Kerrys, Rockefellas etc. on their wealth.
Is he trying to say he isn’t interested in wealth for himself?
I can’t bear to watch him anymore. Will not watch the convention or anything else that phoney fraud is on.
Just how many wifes did his dad have when he was supposedly “married” to his mom? What a dysfunctional background.
We need stength and some one with core values for pres. and he isn’t it.
McCain 08

Most of the McCains’ real estate is owned by Cindy McCain. Obama indicated that the candidates’ wives should not be brought into the political mudslinging and McCain agreed. Obama is contravening his proposed campaign behavior regarding civility vis-a-vis the candidates’ families (as he has contravened so many of his policy positions in the last few weeks).
In addition, is Obama invoking class-warfare? Is he trying to promote jealousy among Americans? Is he saying there is something wrong with being rich or owning several properties?
Electing someone who promotes class-warfare is the sure way to make the economy much worse. The more I hear Obama speak without teleprompter, the more I’m convinced that, as President, he would be wrong for America.

My favorite blog posts here are the Republicans who pretend they are Democrats and spout how they’ll never vote for Obama, how horrible he is, how they voted Democratic their whole life until now. PLEASE – we’re not that stupid. You’re clear McCain supporters trying your little reverse strategy. Let me try this…I have voted Republican my whole life. I am a huge “W” fan but this time I will not vote for McCain. He’s a liar, old and out of touch. Obama 2008!
Wow, that was hard.

Is Obama against people making a profit?
The simple answer is yes. Does anyone here think windfall profit tax on oil companies will help bring down the price of oil? Does not believe in the free market, where oil is priced?
The simple fact is that as American we are not entitled to cheap oil. Oil is a finite resource that will go the highest bidder. We have little control of the amount of oil produced daily, we leave that to our enemies.
Why are liberals so opposed to the free market, drilling and people turning a profit?

Ok it is me off that these quote un quote Republicans and conservatives talk about Obama the Socialist and Dems want class warfare. That is such a false charge. It is as if “they take pride in being ignorant”. Let’s get rid of the fantasy and put down the facts. One in the last 40 years the only time the Federal budget has been anything close to balanced was with a Democratic President.
Bush single handedly managed to rack up more debt then all the Presidents going all the way back to Washington, combined. McCain has run out of money in his campaign more then once despite the fact that he had previous experience running for Pres.
So much for that experience argument.
McCain policy would enact the greatest corporate welfare ever to be in existence. Obama has not once in 19 months run even close to negative in terms of cash on hand. McCain has a bunch of back biting mostly unqualified people running his campaign where as Obama has the best people in the industry in his campaign but unlike McCain Obama calls the shots in his neck of the woods.
It’s awfully strange that McCain fired his Manager and all of a sudden his campaign hit its stride where as Obama alone is responsible for the campaign’s dark and sunny times. Obama has a high performance corporate like campaign where as McCain has a frat house style where the in crowd has control regardless of their job performance. You tell me which candidate is the real example of the free market forces.

It is OK to be rich. However, it is not OK to support policies which can only make the rich richer and the poor poorer, like what McCain did most of the time. The only two possible explanations to his misbehaviors are either he is a bad person, or he is just out of touch. Let’s give him the benefit of doubt. Let’s just call him out of touch!

“So “The Obama” strikes back. I guess while he was playing Rock Star & Demi-God isn’t all its cracked up to be when you drop in the Polls. So big deal…..we already knew McCain married into big money. Somehow I don’t think it really means much to a man who spent years being tortured for his country and had the guts to turn down early release so those who were captured first could be released first. And I don’t think McCain has ever said American worders are bitter, gun toting, bible thumping, bigots, nor has McCain ever referred to himself as the 2nd coming…like “The Obama’s” “We are the ONE we’ve been waiting for. So have fun Obama…McCain has 7 houses….whew!”
If he is running for general in chief you might have a point. But what in the hell does being tortured have to being President? How many Presidents have been tortured previously?
And the fact that you got shot down seems to speak more to the fact that you probably screwed up some where to begin with. Ok we have to honor the fact that McCain endured for his country, let’s give him that. What in the hell does that have to do with running for office? There where 890 something students in that Navel Academy McCain went to how did he manage to get 894 out of 899 you have got to be kidding.
There have been people who have showed up only on test day in college and still did far better then McCain in the Navel Academy. This guy is older then dirt and need Liberman to whisper in his ear during and Iraq visit. That is the real Judas and we know who’s VP Liberman will be. He should shadow McSenior on the campaign trail and make sure he does not have a senior moment.

Obama’s energy plan…check the air in your tires to see if they are inflated properly.(!!!)
” Obama makes W look like Albert Einstein!
“By the way, does Obama know how many states there are in the U.S. (he stated there were 57 at a recent town hall meeting)?
Thank god a Republican didn’t say things this stupid-we’d hear it a million times from the mainstream liberal media.
Posted by: da | Aug 21, 2008 11:30:10 PM”
Obama’s energy plan is about the size of a small dictionary. Again it is like you guys take pride in being ignorant. Inflating tires will save more gas then all the damn US drilling you can muster.
McSenior having trouble remembering what bills he voted for so what you talking about??? You really do not want to match a guy who graduated at the top of his law school with one that graduated at the bottom of his Navel Academy. You cannot be talking about that 72 year old guy who said he does not use the internet could you?

Apparently Obama has never heard of:
a) Owning investment properties;
b) prenups and not knowing exactly what one’s spouse owns;
c) that McCain deliberately separated himself from his wife’s finances just so this kind of class warfare crap couldn’t be played against him.

DT: Perhaps you could direct us to just how and when John McCain questioned Obama’s patriotism.
Can’t do it? I didn’t think so, but it makes a cute talking point for the DNC.

Funny how suddenly all these McCain supporters are crying “FOUL!” now. When they were calling Obama an elitist, it was perfectly fine. Now that McCain looks out of touch, it’s suddenly a horrible thing to do. Quite laughable.
And where do you people get off saying Obama is attacking Cindy McCain? I’ve never heard Obama mention her name, or any of his campaign staff. Quit making up crap. But I sure remember McCain’s henchmen attacking Michelle Obama.
If Mccain doesn’t own any of those homes (like all these air-head excuses are being made for him), then why didn’t he just say he doesn’t own them? Get real – this old fart owns them, along with a piece of the Diamondbacks baseball team, and a million dollar parking lot!
As for Rezko, last I checked, he was on trial (not Obama), and nothing illegal was tied to Obama, so it’s a non-story. You clowns really don’t want to bring up all the ties McCain has to the Keating Five, and Jack Abramoff, do you?
Finally, William Ayers was never convicted of a crime…and I think Obama was 8 years old when these “Alleged” crimes took place. All those charges were dropped, so I’m trying to see where Obama’s crime is in all of this, LOL
You guys are looking desperate trying to cover for McGrumpy, LOL

“I don’t care if McCain has 27 houses, the fact is Obama sucked at Saddleback last Saturday and CNN is rerunning it all weekend! Can’t wait for the debates and Obama’s lengthy “nuanced” answers that put us all to sleep.
McCain ’08/Hillary ’12″
Another dumb and sad Hillary sore loser.
As for Saddlebrook, what “Honor” do you see in a man who was supposed to be in a “Cone of Silence,” only his conniving self wasn’t? He was in his motorcade, prepping for the questions! And then he comes out on stage and tells a bold-face lie on national tv (ala Hillary/sniper fire) that he was in the room!
I guess you like those liars, hmmm?
Yeah…John McLame, he’s so honorable.

McCain is not like other Americans. The only private sector job he has had since he was 18 was working for his father-in-law.
and Obama has done what? Community activist. A few years as Senator?

“Tell that to T-Boone”
and T Bone’s plan to replace cheap effecient oil is what…
a 100K Hydrogen Car
electric – without nukes?
I’m also amazed how anti-captitalist democrats are jumping all over T-Bone. Who has already made a small fortune will make a small fortune on his Wind Farms.
Obama’s energy plans is hope and dreams not based on reality.

I care about my house and the economy that’s gone south ”
and how is socialism and anti capitalism going to help you?

“The O Man -
Apparently you are a little behind on this story. Rick Warren said he gave each candidate a general list of questions and specifically told Obama three questions he would ask. He specifically told McCain 2 questions he would ask and never did get around to telling him the third which was about the president and church’s adoption program.
And yes, continue down the path that a man who was tortured every day for 5 years rather than leave his men behind even when given a chance to leave has so little honor that he cheated by listening in on the questions that would be asked at a religious forum. Like anyone with a brain couldn’t figure out the questions would be about abortion, gay marriage, taxes, evil, the war, etc. There were absolutely no surprises in those questions.
And Obama has campaigned for 1.5 years and couldn’t do better. And tell us — even if McCain did have the questions — let’s pretend, how does that excuse the fact that Obama stunk that night?”
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, Peachy. I happen to think Obama did very well, considering he was in a pro McCain crowd, and he was having an actual conversation with the pastor, not stumping a speech to every question to the audience.
And let’s not pretend McShame didn’t have the questions. He blurted out one time, asking the pastor, “Is this the question about the Supreme Court Justices?” The pastor told him he was getting ahead…hmmm, I wonder how he knew?
And can McLame answer one question without him throwing his war-at-all-cost answers? Jesus, this guy looks like a War-Monger who will have us fighting to the end of time. Does he know anything else but conflict?
And can we please talk about McCain without constantly being reminded over and over and over and over and over that he was a POW, and he suffered for 5 years? WE GET IT. But that’s not the answer to health-care, or high gas prices.
By the way, I remember Rick Warren telling the audience that Obama and McCain would be asked the same questions, and that Mr. GI-JOE was in this “Cone of Silence” so he couldn’t her the questions.
What I want to know is, “Why Wasn’t He?”

“There’s a shortage of auto mechanics, plumbers, electricians, good contractors,roofers, sales positions, etc. etc. etc. If people want work there are plenty of jobs available. If they want to show up on time, work hard, stay off booze and drugs, there’s plenty of opportunities in this country.”
That is a stereotype of the few people who cannot get there lives together. I agree these people should stop asking the government for money. But the other %90 just can’t find a job. Ford and general motors cut 30,000 jobs each, and you’re saying the economy is great… Wow, 60,000 jobs, i’d say that is significant. First of all what is you’re business? You should be more open minded to the fact that these 60,000 men have families to feed and college is extremely expensive(another problem obama will help) So 2 years of college to learn how to become another trade would literally put the family on the streets. OBAMA!

For those who believe the unempolyment rate is sooo sooo high maybe you should look at the data and figure out why and who is unempoyed.
unempolyment rate for people with less than a HS Diploma has increased from 6.9% to 8.5%
HS Diploma 4.5% to 5.2%
Some College or Associates 3.7% to 4.5%
College Degree 2.4% to 2.4%
Even clueless socialist, I mean democrats should be able to figure this out.
I know, I know what the socialist will say has Bush isn’t spending enough on education. BS he’s increased education spending like you would expect a democrat to do.
Let’s keep plowing money into our low performing public school education system instead of giving people school choice.

“But the other %90 just can’t find a job. Ford and general motors cut 30,000 jobs each, and you’re saying the economy is great… Wow, 60,000 jobs, i’d say that is significant.”
60,000 people seems like a lot but in reality it’s .02% of the population.
The problem I have with this the issues in the auto industry didn’t happen over night. The auto industry has been losing jobs for 25-30 yrs. The unions are killing them, their pension requirements are killing them, the poor quality for their products is killing them, the writing was on the wall for many years.
I was in the automotive industry.. I realized 15-18 or so years ago my job would not be around another 30-40 years or so. I went to school at night and on the weekends took 9 years and moved on. To many people in the country react instead of being proactive. If I had sat on my ass for 10 years waiting to get laid off I would have hand out to Uncle Sam as well.
Not sure how Obama is going to get people off their asses to go to school or how he’s going to pay for it. I haven’t figured out what’s wrong with student loans. I had them – took 10 yrs to pay them off.
I think your under estimating the number of unemployed people who really want to work, Your 10% number should be more like 50%.

If you are not a liberal at twenty, you have no heart. If you are not a conservative at forty, you have no brain.
- Sir Winston Churchill

The fact that he has 7 houses is irrelevant. What is relevant is that someone in his economic strata, supported by a spouse worth $100 million, has a limited ability to either identify with or understand the economic plight of the common man. Also, with respect to the POW status and the 5 years in captivity, McCain should forever be honored and respected for his patriotic experience. However, there are also thousands of vietnam Vets and victims of roadside bombings in Iraq who experienced tortuous circumstances yet those examples of national and patriotic seervice above self, as McCain says, do not make them fit to be President of the United States. The electorate is gullible and guilt ridden when they feel compelled to support McCain because of his service and his POW experience. He deserves praise and honor – not elevation to the Presidency because of it.

Is this what you mean about qualified to lead?

I’m always amazed at how democrats trivialize McCain’s Vietnam experience while for 8 years they’ve blasted Bush for dodging the War. Four years ago that’s all Kerry ran on and was a War Hero to the democrats. Now the democrats want to minimize McCain’s decades of experience and experience in Vietnam for someone that was a community activist a few years ago. The double standard is quite mind – boggling.

Actually, I don’t believe McCain owns any homes.

Steve wrote: (about McCain):
“He deserves praise and honor – not elevation to the Presidency because of it.”
___________
On what basis…. what background…. what achievements… would you elevate Obama to the presidency?
On the basis of a campaign well run?
Then elect Axelrod.
On the basis of empty promises of chancey change?
Then elect Hans Christian Andersen.
On the basis of leading a senatorial sub-committee on Afghanistan for which he called nary a single meeting…..?
On the basis of snubbing our wounded in both Iraq and Germany?
Consider the lack of possibilities!

I hope Mittler Romney has his counted his many houses accurately, since TIME magazine say he’s Grampy’s VP.
Doubling down with Cindy McBigBuck’s money and Mittler’s money…will really make this team look like the Lifestyles of the RICH and ARROGANT.

Love the Obama ad!
I think Brian Rogers is “out of touch wwith the concerns of average Americans.” Is he aware, for instance, that when Barack Obama was on vacation, he was visiting his grandparents who have property in Hawaii?
Or that Barack is probably still paying his mortgage on that million-dollar property he owns?
Does Rogers know that many farmers and ranchers in states like Montana (where I’ve lived before) do “cling” to guns and religion? (Granted, “cling” is not the correct word to use.)
And does he know that since it takes thousands of years for earth layers to compress against one another to create oil underground, once it’s gone (and we will use it up eventually) that’s it. Plus, there are no guarantees against oil spills. Alternative energy sources are our best bet.
Finally, if Obama needs to raise taxes to pay for programs and other things like improving our roads and bridges, how else does Rogers think we’ll be able to afford these things?
Barack Obama’s parents were not wealthy. He made something of himself and some people want to tear him apart for it. Meanwhile, he wants to help those of us without a lot of money by creating affordable health care programs, investing in renewable energy projects to lower energy costs (which will undoubtably create new jobs), and lower taxes for the low- and middle-class.