What Should McCain Have Said?

What McCain should have said is that nothing I own was bought with the help of a convicted felon. Can Obama say the same thing?

He should have answered it but he was one on one doing a phone interview and probably thought they could fill it in later. It’s NOT the most important thing going through a Presidential candidates mind…..but yes, he should have said Cindy owns alot of properties and I will get back to you on the exact number. Or maybe his name is on only 3 of the properties, and she is on 4….whatever….I JUST WANT THEM IN THE WHITE HOUSE.
NOBAMA, EVER!
McCAIN ’08/HILLARY ’12

Yes, Peach, Obama can. Read the facts, not the spin.
“…whose family has been very blessed…”?!?! Considering some of the run-ins Cindy’s father had with the government about his distributorship, I think I’d drop that.
Just leave it at the truth: Cindy bought a bunch of houses, some for her and John to use, some for their kids use. Which is why John wasn’t sure how to count them.

Mike -
McCain has told you what he plans on doing for Americans. Not taxing them to death for one. Drilling for another. Letting the free markets work. Maybe you aren’t listening or don’t like the message, but let’s not pretend he doesn’t have ideas on the economy.
And to poster I am so I can: I like your answer; it would have been perfect.

Tom – Obama most certainly cannot say he purchased his house without the help of a convicted felon. He’s admitted he showed poor judgment and it was a mistake, why can’t you admit it?

What McCain should have said is he didn’t buy any homes from people who were under investigation at the time by the U.S attorney’s office.
Obama got a sweet heart land deal when Rezko was under investigation by Fitzgerald.
Rezko saved Obama 300 grand.
This is not presidential leadership.

Obama at a billionaire’s home at a San Francisco fundraier disses small town america.
Obama says small town america clings to guns and god.
Obama disses small town america for being anti trade.
Obama disses small town america for being racist and and anti immigrant.

McCLAIN actually said the RIGHT THING -
Because it gave NObama the opportunity to raise the “HOME” card !!
McCAIN’s Roberts 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?”
This gives McCAIN the opportunity to expose REZKO and ALL of NObama’s “PAST and Present Adventures in Chicago Politics”: esp. with Rezko, CAC, Ayers, Wright, Farrakahn, Pfleger, Dohrn, Sharpton et al…
Stay tuned – should be very enlightening
In fact – there is already a hard-hittng McCAIN ad regarding NObama-Rezko !!
McCLAIN or Hillary in ‘08

It does point out that McCain has a life experience that bears little relationship to Middle America.
I think it is about time to bring up McCains involvement with Charles Keating and the Lincoln Savings and Loan Scandal:
After McCain’s election to the House in 1982, he and his family made at least nine trips at Keating’s expense, three of which were to Keating’s Bahamas retreat. Even though he was required to, McCain did not disclose the trips until the scandal broke in 1989. At that point, he paid Keating $13,433 for the flights.
And in April 1986, one year before McCain met with the regulators who were investigating Keating, McCain’s wife, Cindy, and her father invested $359,100 in a Keating strip mall.

Rezko was shown to be a crook in 2003.
Three years later in 2006 when Rezko was had been in the papers as a crook for three years Obama does a land deal with him.
Rezko was under investigation and in front of the grand jury in several cases and Obama does a land deal with him.
Unreal any other politician would have had their career ended.
And then Obama has the nerve to attack about real estate.
Barry O the hypocrtite Rezko fraud.

Mike – who do you think you’re kidding? One need only google Tony Rezko+Obama to see that Obama himself admitted his mistake. Why can’t you admit he made a mistake?

Dan….that needs to be addressed and put out there for public consumption. How many of us, if our spouses had multiple properties with family money, would know every property? If he had said the wrong number they would have been all over that.
How about Obama make a deal with McCain for his brother to rent one of the condos since he’s living in a grass hut on $l.25 a day….and Obama doesn’t believe in charity begins at home?
Kinda nice McCain isn’t keeping a tally of all Cindy’s real estate as he isn’t looking to profit from any of it himself.
HILLARY SUPPORTER FOR McCAIN!

Wikipedia on Keating 5:
McCain was criticized by the Committee for exercising “poor judgment” when he met with the federal regulators on Keating’s behalf.[6] The report also said that McCain’s “actions were not improper nor attended with gross negligence and did not reach the level of requiring institutional action against him….Senator McCain has violated no law of the United States or specific Rule of the United States Senate.”[14] On his Keating Five experience, McCain has said: “The appearance of it was wrong. It’s a wrong appearance when a group of senators appear in a meeting with a group of regulators, because it conveys the impression of undue and improper influence. And it was the wrong thing to do.”[6]
Several accounts of the controversy contend that McCain was included in the investigation primarily so that there would be at least one Republican target.[21][22][23][9]

“[re Obama] (a guy who) got back from vacation on a private beach in Hawaii”
McCain is supposed to be in Scotsdale at a resort that is likely at least as exclusive as anything Obama was staying at [again, Cindy's boy is out of touch].
Also, McCain was the son of a well-placed Admiral, I doubt his stint at public expense has been much like your average Army soldier. At least Obama worked in the private sector–I doubt Johnny has.

Dan, Obama never did a land deal with Rezko. Repeating it doesnt make it so.

McCain deliberately divorced himself from Cindy’s investment properties and income just so this kind of class warfare crap wouldn’t be thrown at him.
Obama really stumbled into a briarpatch and is acting like a Princess; he’ll just have to manage to extricate himself the best he can.

OOH, who needs investigative journalism when we can use Wikipedia! LMAO

To Zen:
Obama dissed middle class america at a billionaire’s house in san francisco.
To Zen:
Yeah Obama who calls middle class america racists, anti trade, cling to guns and god.
Yeah that Barry Obama who does a land deal with Tony Rezko for a mansion. Real middle class.
Mr Arugala and Mr shades and Mr Hawaii real middle class.

Dan:
Cindy is rich who stole John from his crippled wife.
John can donate everything because she has enough beer money to share with a few families and not notice in terms of lifestyle.
You are criticizing Obama for what this country is about– working for a living and trying to better yourself. Some Republican.

That Obama snake has no idea about service.
He and the media love to paint the McCain’s a certain way.
They don’t tell you that he raised his two sons to serve in the military.
Imagine if Obama had a son who served overseas that is all we would ever hear about.
Already there have been more stories about Biden’s 38 year old lawyer son than McCain’s two sons in the military.
Obama is smearing a military family.

All McCains supporters can think up is to throw around unsupported allegations and guilt by association hoping that they can get the press to pick up something to ‘investigate’ about Obama. The sad fact is that the press is prone to fall for this type of bull again and again. Real Americans want a real debate – time to start dealing with real issues.
It is time to end the occupation of Iraq.

McCain raised his sons to join the service.
Obama went to hear Wright’s rantings for 20 years.
Out of touch?
Obama at a San Francisco fundraiser disses small town America.

“You are criticizing Obama for what this country is about– working for a living and trying to better yourself”
Mr Coffee
_____ and YOU’RE criticizing McCain for working and living at trying the BETTER this COUNTRY!
How many years of service in the navy?
How many years as a senator?
And, how many years as a prisoner of war who wouldn’t leave his prison until ALL the POWs were freed!

Mike…Condi was in Iraq today and they are talking about bringing home some of the troops next June and most out by 2011…..so what will Obama have to talk about when that’s off the board and he had nothing to do with it?
I just want to see the debates, since Saddleback was such a failure for Obama. Pundits and critic agree Obama is too “nuanced”. Hell most Americans didn’t even understand his answers. Can’t wait for the 3 debates…..
McCain ’08/Hillary ’12

Debra, you realize that that leaves McCain as the only one left arguing there shouldn’t be any timetables, right?

Peach…Obama is finally starting to copy McCain with the town halls. I just wonder if he passes the mike around to anybody to ask anything, or are there plants to ask questions only Obama wants to answer.
NEVER OBAMA!

McCain to his credit said he would only leave in order of capture so to say he was staying til all POWs were released is wrong. You guys thing Obama is Jesus like. Heck, even McCain said when he passed on the chance to leave he didn’t think the war would last 3 years more.

kravitz: Apparently you are unaware that John McCain was already a US Senator when he met Cindy. So I don’t think he’d have been a Wal Mart greeter without her. But carry on … it’s most amusing.

What a difference a week makes. Started off the week with a horrible review for Obama at Saddleback forum and now he has a little something that will probably backfire in the long run. Can’t wait until Obama has his running mate and then changes his mind and flip flops and wishes it was Hillary….25% of her 18 mill still not going to vote for him…and 11% undecided. Never Obama!

Dan,
Take a look at the politico story on the 8 properties. All of them have been used at some time by some member of the McCain family. These are NOT business investments. They are PERSONAL investments.
This confusion really makes it clear that McCain needs to get in touch with economic realities. I do not believe that a person who believes 5 million defines ‘rich’ and doesn’t know the value of his family’s holdings can know what people like me are going through.

One other thing.
I’m sick and tired of McCain using his POW status to defend himself against his own gaffes. It does a disservice to all our veterans out there, including some of my friends, who do not make excuses for their mistakes.
Being a POW for 5 years doesn’t excuse not knowing how many houses you have. There is 0 connection there. Stop abusing your veteran status McCain.

RJ:
Why don’t you tell us one single time that McCain has used his POW status to defend against his gaffes. Just one will do.
Can’t do it? I didn’t think so.

Peach, why criticize Obama for not agreeing to the format that McCain proposed when you aren’t willing to criticize McCain for not agreeing to the format that Obama proposed?

Peach,
Gladly. From Ben Smith at Politico:
“McCain aides referred back to McCain’s time as a prisoner of war in Vietnam in defending him from the mockery over his houses.
‘This is a guy who lived in one house for five and a half years — in prison,” says spokesman Rogers.’”
That is abuse of POW status, and it is despicable.

Actually, Peach, McCain was working for his new father in law prior to his first run for congress. Hensley, Keating and others backed his first campaign.

Peach. You post no facts but here’s one:
McCain talks about the surge was right. Well, Petraeus is not so sure. He says Al Qaedda was doomed was they tried to exercise control instead of kill Americans:
Petraeus believes: “when Sunnis, organizing around traditional tribal leaders, decided to turn the ultra conservative group tried to ban smoking. “That was the turning point when they cut the fingers off the first person who was smoking,” Petraeus jokes. “Can you imagine an Anbar sheik being told he can’t smoke?”
You see, it had little to do with the number of American troops and more to do with “the enemy of my enemy is my friend.”

RJ:
Your post made it sound like McCain personally defended himself against some charge using his POW status. I had not realized his spokesman had done so.
Your post also said that you were sick of Mccain using his POW status to defend himself against gaffes so I’m assuming there are multiple times this has happened. If so, please share.
I didn’t like it when John Kerry couldn’t speak without mentioning he’d been to Vietnam and I wouldn’t like to see McCain play that game. However, most pundits I’ve heard speaking have said that until recently, McCain rarely talked about his years in captivity.

RJ, there is a better one. After the so-called ‘faith’ forum, McCains spokespersons said “the implication that McCain, a POW, cheated is ridiculous”
But, you know he doesnt like to talk about it (but loves it when others do)

Peach,
Gladly.
1) POW status to defend against houses gaffe.
2) When accused of having received the questions in advance of the Saddleback forum: “The insinuation from the Obama campaign that John McCain, a former prisoner of war, cheated is outrageous,” Ms. Wallace said.”
3) When questioned about offering Cindy up for a topless beauty pageant: “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.”
That’s 3. I’m sure there are more.

Mr. Coffee, I am an American before a party loyalist. Please don’t assume to know where I stand.

I completely agree with you, Jake Tapper.

Meaning COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY. Gerri Ferraro said the same thing tonight…looks like she won’t be voting Obama either. I have to think about who is the best candidate for our country…and BO isn’t. I was for Hillary and switched to McCain.

RJ…Mexico is not “abroad”, and if he was he was probably with his family like most Americans.

Debra,
I don’t remember the US annexing Mexico as our 51st state. In fact, I remember illegals flooding in from Mexico. It is RIDICULOUS for a candidate to be in that sort of country on our independence day. That is the opposite of celebration.

Debra,
All these family investments have been used by McCain family members, even if they are investments.
Does McCain not know where his family goes on a regular basis?
That indicates he’s got family problems larger than just being out of touch with Americans. I mean, I knew he had family problems after he cheated on his crippled first wife, but this is pretty ridiculous.

I hope the Russia/Georgia conflict remindss Americans daily that McCain is the guy for Commander in Chief. Obama would be the biggest advisor driven Presidency EVER….like that Sat. Night Live skit where he’s calling Hillary at 3AM in a panic and smoking again and she says “Man Up Obama”…and tells him after giving him political advice, where the heater in the WH is.
HILLARY SUPPORTER FOR McCAIN!

Hillary is supporting Obama with clenched teeth. The guy is not qualified…lacking in judgement and most of all anti American friends and thoughts….I can’t stand the thought of him as Prez. He’s only offering Hillary the role call and speech to lure her supporters, meanwhile they have 40 people to “whip” Hillary supporters into submission at the convention to prevent any protest. He just tossing Clintons a crumb to get he 18 mill votes. One quarter of that will not budge.

It was a ridiculous question….was Kerry ever asked this? Who care? Politicans have been wealthy since Washington and this is just so irrelevant. Interviewer playing “gotcha politics”.
McCAIN all the way!

I do absolutely believe the idea that he ‘forgot’ how many houses he owns is a mischaracterization by the Obama campaign. He was deflecting the question.
Whoever wins this race should hire Jake Tapper as a press secretary.

they say wisdom is the man who knows what he doesn’t know. mccain didn’t know, he said so, end of story.
how refreshing coming from a politician.
if he were greedy he would know right down to the last condo.

And RJ….Obama’s mom got pregnant by the Kenyan college student and they married 3 months later, only to have Obama Sr. leave little Barack at 2. She then remarried the Indonesian dad took Barry out of the country and educated him in Muslim (mother Ann was an Atheist). After 4 years she sends little Barry back to granny but stays in Indonesia with hubby #2. Obama’s story is not a very American story and I feel sorry he got parents who abandoned him….a core issue that makes him who he is….empty and detached. He is not your rags to riches story you refer to….more like little boy lost.

RJ hillary has to toe the party line if she wants to remain employed. the rest of us, and her supporters don’t.

Clinton’s an honest woman. I think she says what she believes – that Obama is better than McCain. If you don’t believe me, watch her upcoming convention speech.

Debra,
would you vote for Obama with Clinton as VP?

Debra,
That pretty sad for us. I guess we’ll agree to disagree. Good night.

Debra yep it’s just the way the game is played. party loyalty or your out come next election. of coarse hillary has to support obama that’s a given and we get it.
i don’t have to the toe the party line, i did not leave the party, the party left me.

i would vote for obama with hillary on the ticket absolutely.

I have to tell you, I think it’s Biden and I’m sorry, because I like him too, and he’s strong up against McCain…similar guys. He will outshine Obama too (just about anyone could except Bayh). But Obama’s ego may direct him away from the stronger Dems (Hillary the strongest).
I hate Chris Matthews…..just referred to Obama as “the King”. Ugh….I have a bad taste in my mouth.

debra this has been a coronation of sorts so, the status of king obama as (per matthews) is not very far off the mark.

McCain is nothing without his advisors and “surrogates.” Every time he opens his mouth he’s either sticking his foot in or spewing some sort of incoherent gibberish. He’s a puppet. It absolutely blows my mind that Americans would be duped into four more years of this garbage.

debra i hear desperation, hostility, and anger from the obama camp. and right before the convention. so much for all us hillary supporters coming on board like nice obedient little minions eh!

The fact that he didn’t say it or something similar and other comments he has made along the way (the “Cheklaslovakia” comment, for example) suggest that McCain may already have some age-related dementia.

Can’t believe how many stupid people here are searching for excuses of McSame. Even if those seven houses belong to Cindy he should know. He’s married to her!
I just figured out McCain is not as same as Bush he’s even more stupid!

I think the fact of the matter is that there wasn’t a good answe to give. Whatever he said, if it was nothing or something, he would have been collared for it. The guy and his wife own 7 houses. (at least!) Thats beyond the comprehension of most Americans. At least by prevaricating, he didn’t give the Obama campaign the sound of his voice saying ‘I own 7 houses’, which might have been worse in some ways.

Mcain-7 HOUSES
MCAIN- 500 DOLLAR SHOES
MCCAIN- PRIVATE JET TO GET AROUND AZ
MCCAINS-700 THOUSAND CREDIT CARD
Mcain is out of touch with the average american!!!! oh forgot one didnt cindy and john owe like 4000 dollars back taxes on some of their many homes could you get away with owing 4000 dollars back taxes???????????????

The answer to the question was known before it was ask and it was ask simply to show McCain as a rich republican snob to stir up class envy. I am afraid that no matter how he answered it, it would have been blown up by the Obama camp. McCains comeback with Resco should make all us wonder about a man who apparently fleeced the Government for millions, providing affordable homes for the poor, with many of the projects failing or done to low standards. We should all ask what role Obama had in getting these funds for Resco but I suppose we’ll find out when Donkeys learn to fly

Ah the POW defense, or shpuld we say the “Kept Man” defense. Turmn out he is just a “Wall Flower”.

Jake that’s a good suggestion. McCain walked right into that and now Obama has an opening to paint McCain as an elitist and out of touch.

Yea right we all can Identify with our wives having 7 houses and us nothing.
The Typical American Family!

Carrie, it must be nice to be a millionaire and not have to care about economic and foreign policy, and its impact on your family. I wish I could be as vacuous as you, but I have to worry about supporting kids and paying for my house, so I have to make my decision based on the fact that I can’t afford another year like the last eight.

It’s a good answer. But, McCain’s answer was in character with him. He was honest, he doesn’t know. His wife is the business woman and it’s her money. I like that.

Jake the problem is…
as much as he is a war hero…
there is a huge financial aspect to being President…
so even if he said what you just stated…
I wrote this before…
It wasn’t that he was lying or senile…
it is the fact that he does not know.
Whether it is because of complicating financials that he is not informed on or other…
he does not know.
How many Americans …especially right now… can make judgments on the countries financial state without the pressure of their mortgage payments, weighing remortgaging, student loans, how their taxes are filled out, their health care being cut off and not having money for their kids, or what to do about your aging parent and the financial costs…
John McCain has none of those factors…not because he earned and had to ever go through those financial challenges…he never has. He hasn’t started a business or had to pay his way through school…he married or divorced depending on how you look at it…into money after a yourth where his wealthy father took care of getting him everything he needed.
That is not spin…that is his life.
That is the point…so get mad…call Obama names… bring up other issues…but John McCain has no struggles with finances or experience EVER with struggles of financial matters to look through to understand what we need to do with this economy.
and yes, that is hugely important.

The first thing I saw when I turned on the television news this morning was a ditzy blonde anchorwoman gushing over when Senator Obama would announce his vice president. As a Democrat, I truly never understood what the Republicans meant when they talked about liberal bias. I just flat-out didn’t see it. I can’t predict who will be President next January, but I can predict one thing with abosolute certainty: the mainstream press will continue to lose viewership to Fox News and conservative talk radio. Like millions of Democrats, I used to laugh at Fox, Hannity, etc. Now I listen to them more and more. Yeah, they’re biased in the conservative direction, and their views on the environment and a few other issues. are just plain whacked out, but they’re still more objective on most issues than ABC, NBC, CBS, Newsweek, and the rest of the left-wing press. That’s just sad. The idea of objective journalism is a myth. I guess I was just too naieve to understand that. This election has certainly opened by eyes.

John McCain .. hasn’t started a business or had to pay his way through school…he married or divorced depending on how you look at it…into money after a yourth where his wealthy father took care of getting him everything he needed.-
And what has Obama worked for? His mother was able to play at “intellectual”, his typical white grandmom president of a bank paid for his cushy private school, and did he work his way through Harvard? Nice job waiting for him at Rezko connection firm after graduation (not to mention Rezko had offered him a job while still in college). Obama has done ZERO work to get to where he is expect open his mouth.

pls go away
Obama earned scholarships from a lot of hard work…
while he was living with his grandmother and grandfather in an apartment.
His 4 million came from his own work.
His student loans were paid by him.
His academics and achievements and getting into school all taken care of by…him.
How does a President who has no idea what the challenges FEEL like for everyday Americans trying to balance mortgages or business loans…or student loans or healthcare…or what to do about aging parents when you didn’t marry(again or divorce as the case may be) into multi-millions.
John mcCain needs to have someone hold up a handful of blank tax forms, mortgage applications, student loan applications, requirements for housing for an elderly parent, in home nursing…
and even ex-vets application for government assistance for an education after one tour of duty…
or the help wanted ads for people wiothout a college education that htose soldiers have to peruse every day after “only serving one tour of duty”
and see if he can do any and all of them. See if he has even ever seen one of them…because I highly doubt he ever has.
and if that is the case…how in the heck could he ever understand what are the challenges facing…us.

Sorry dl, take the propaganda somewhere else.
You want to picture Obama as one of the working class, you must be redefining working class.

pls go away
Lets put it this way
While Mccain is forgetting or not knowing how many homes he owns…
the guy who Obama is probably picking for VP is hauling his own stumps to the dump himself.
while McCain is getting into schools because his father pulled strings
Obama is working his a$$ off and getting scholarships while he is living in a modest apartment with his grandparents
while Mccain is leaving his first wife in straights to marry a millionairess blonde hottie…
KFed is leaving his first wife in straights to marry a millionairess blonde hottie
sorry KFed that’s right you weren’t married.
yeah sounds like propaganda but it is true.

and as far as who helped who buy homes…
how about convicted felons that loaned you jets…and Bahamian home resorts to stay at…
and whom you got contracts for from your father in law
you really don’t want to go down the Rezko line…
you all obviously do not know the details of mccain friendship with Keating
you know the guy who severely hurt our country and whose crimes were on the backs of working Americans…
yeah all the while Mccain is flying on his jets and vacationing at his homes…and introducing him to other Senators…
yeah bring on Rezko…
there is this Billy Club that lies on the ground with Rezko that you all obviously do not know the details of ..
it’s called the Charles Keating and John Mccain’s “best friendship”

riley
Those bombings took place before Obama ever met Ayers. At the time of those bombings, Obama was EIGHT YEARS OLD! How many times do these facts have to be pointed out to you idiots? Ayers was never tried or convicted and is now a professor at a University in Chicago!
Do you remember back when you were in school and maybe there was a fight between one group of guys and another. There was always someone who was there but not involved who tried to impose himself into the fracas when retelling the story? This is what I’m assuming happened with Ayers. He may have wanted to be involved but wasn’t. Otherwise why wasn’t he tried and convicted? It’s actually stupid that we’re even talking about this because it has nothing to do with the fact that McCain could not remember how many houses he and his wife have. Then, one of his campaign managers comes out with the statement that McCain was housed for 5 years as a prisoner of war! Absolutely a disgrace. They throw out the POW card every time they’re candidate makes a stupid remark!

Of course if he had said Cindy owned all those homes the media would paint him as a “Kept man” just like they did to John Kerry, right?
Oh yeah, that’s right, this is the “Maverick” the press is “his base” and all his gaffes just get swept under the rug….

good point made by Steve Benen (Balloon Juice):
The Republicans think they are the ones who own this line of attack. They realize that all the things they said in 2004 about Sen. Kerry can come right back and bite them, as they apply just as fairly (or unfairly) to St. John (did you know he was a POW?). An example:
Joseph Farah, World Net Daily, “President Gigolo?”: But if there is one characteristic of Kerry’s life that should disqualify him absolutely as a candidate for president, it is the fact that he has sought out millionaire wives to take care of him. Not to put too fine a point on it, he’s a serial gigolo. Let me ask you this: How many single women do you know worth a hundred million dollars or more? . . . After raising children with her, Kerry sought and received an annulment of that long-term marriage. Then he married Teresa Heinz Kerry, the widow of a Senate colleague five years his senior. She is worth approximately $500 million. Is marrying well good preparation for serving as the president of the United States? . . . . He’s always had a net underneath him throughout his political career—in his case, a net woven of homespun 24K gold.
And my favorite, Rush Limbaugh:
Rush Limbaugh Online, “John Kerry’s Resume”: [Kerry] has lived the life of a millionaire living off the inherited wealth of his two wives. As an Ivy League educated millionaire who did not have to work for his fortune, Mr. Kerry never had to worry about the money he earned, the taxes he paid, or the programs he and Ted Kennedy forced the rest of us to pay for. . . . Mr. Kerry Heinz is not effected (sic) when these neighborhoods are destroyed and working class families lose the largest asset in their retirement plans—their home’s value.
Goose, gander.
…USA Today breaks it down for you:
By dinnertime, the McCain team had released an ad about Obama and his former fundraiser Antoin Rezko, who was convicted of corruption charges in June. On the same day in 2005, Obama bought his house and Rezko’s wife bought an adjoining lot owned by the same sellers. She later sold a strip of it to Obama.
McCain, who has portrayed Obama as an elitist, is the son and grandson of admirals. The Associated Press estimates his wife, a beer heiress, is worth $100 million. Obama was raised by a single mother who relied at times on food stamps, and went to top schools on scholarships and loans. His income has increased from book sales since he spoke at the 2004 Democratic convention.

Arizona is a Community Property State, which means that whichever property was acquired during the marriage belongs to both regardless of who purchased it.

I’d love to hear the whole telephone inerview and see why exactly this question was asked and how it tied in to the reporter’s story. It was a set up and I’m glad McCain didn’t just give an answer, that could have been checked and then it would be, McCain said it was 5 houses but it’s really seven. Hopefully, the McCain campaign will put out a breakdown of Cindy’s properties (which McCain isn’t hungry to call his) and whatever they own together.
Personally, I don’t give a s–t it they own 27 homes….as long as they move into White House.
HILLARY SUPPORTER FOR McCAIN!

McGoo the elitist. Doesn’t matter how you try and spin it, this is what he is.

riley, to a radical like Obama, William Ayers IS “respectable and mainstream”.

“Can people realize that McCain has a very low IQ and therefore if he is not briefed and coatched he will just make gaffs. ”
“Gaffes” are another area BO doesn’t want to talk about. He’s made more in one year than McCain has made in 15. From breathalyzers, inhilators, Auschwitz, 57 states, 10,000 dead, Arabic speaking Afghanis, Kentucky on a map, to you name it. Believe me, BO don’t know didly without the teleprompter.

Peach, McCain was one of the “Keating Five” who were investigated for criminal wrongdoing connected to the savings and loan debacle. Whereas he was legally cleared, McCain was cited for “poor judgment” by the Senate. He also accepted $112,000 in campaign contributions from Keating and his fellow criminals.

What should McCain have said? It doesn’t matter. The fact that he lives *that* high on the hog–whether from his wife’s wealth or no–indicates that something is seriously wrong in America. McCain has been a Senator in Washington, DC, for *how* long? And he has seen *how* many homeless people on the streets of Washington, DC? And he has *how* many houses, still? I rest my case.