McCain Revises His Definition Of ‘Rich’: Some People ‘Are Poor If They’re Billionaires’
McCain Revises His Definition Of ‘Rich’: Some People ‘Are Poor If They’re Billionaires’
In an interview with Politico yesterday, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) was stumped when asked “how many houses he and his wife, Cindy, own.” “I think — I’ll have my staff get to you,” replied McCain. Though his staff says “the correct answer is at least four,” the McCains actually own 7 houses.
McCain’s out-of-touch response recalls his answer last week when Pastor Rick Warren asked him to “define rich.” McCain responded with a joke, asking “How about $5 million?” Other than his quip, McCain refused to give a serious numerical answer, instead saying that “it doesn’t matter really what my definition of rich is.” “Some of the richest people I’ve ever known in my life are the most unhappy,” said McCain.
In his interview with Politico yesterday, McCain again refused to give a number, saying that he defines rich “in other ways beside income.” He added that some people “are poor if they’re billionaires“:
He still did not give a number.
“I define rich in other ways besides income,” he said. “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.”
Despite McCain’s professed desire to “define rich in other ways besides income,” distinctions between income levels are a centerpiece of his tax proposals that overwhelmingly benefit the wealthy. The Los Angeles Times reports today:
Where to draw the line among the nation’s wealthiest taxpayers is the central difference between rival tax blueprints that offer starkly differing formulas for reviving a faltering economy. [...]
McCain’s plan would cater to wealthy taxpayers and corporations by extending and expanding President Bush’s tax cuts, slashing corporate taxes and weakening the estate tax, but it would also aid taxpayers across the board by making the full Bush cuts permanent.
Though McCain would get a $300,000 tax break if his proposals were enacted, middle class Americans would save only $319.
UPDATE: Listen to the audio of McCain:
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“I define rich in other ways besides income,” he said. “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.”
- - Oh right, suddenly Mr. I-see-everything-in-black-and-white is going all existential on us? Puh-LEEEZE!
August 21st, 2008 at 10:22 am10 Houses!
That's beyond elitism; it's Imperial.
So, the Hanoi Songbird sings again.
No wonder he can't remember to pay his taxes...he just says, 'I'll have my staff get back to you'.
10 Houses!
August 21st, 2008 at 10:22 amThat doesn't even make sense. You can't tax people for being "happy".
August 21st, 2008 at 10:22 amHe obviously has not met all the unhappy poor people.
I don't care how unhappy I am, a billion dollars might cheer me up JUST a little!
August 21st, 2008 at 10:24 amIn an interview with Politico yesterday, McCain again refused to give a number, saying that he defines rich “in other ways beside income.” He added that some people “are poor if they’re billionaires“
That's all so very insightful but it doesn't stop the billioniares from continuing to screw hard working Americans.
http://progressiveworldreview.com
August 21st, 2008 at 10:24 amWith most Americans believing that the state of the economy is the biggest single issue in this election, if Team Obama doesn't jump on this and hit McStain HARD, I am not optomistic.
PEACE
August 21st, 2008 at 10:27 amThe republican'ts tend to view taxes in absolute terms (e.g., "how much is it going to cost me?") while the democrats tend to view taxes in terms of what can and should be done to collectively support/improve the country.
As a result, they talk past each other. Now, McNumbNuts refuses to be pinned down on "what is rich" because it's a fool's trap for him.
August 21st, 2008 at 10:28 amSomeone PLEASE tell me why anyone would vote for this bozo? They don't want to believe that this could really happen, even when the economy is in the sink...even when they have to decide wheather to buy groceries for their family, or put gas in their cars...why do they defend this guy? 10 houses when most people can't even afford to keep the one they're in! WHO'S elitist??? Someone please explain this to me...
August 21st, 2008 at 10:28 amWhat a convenient dodge. Why not just answer the question? Because it would shine a light on his elitism.
August 21st, 2008 at 10:30 amSo...
August 21st, 2008 at 10:30 amWe should only tax people who are "wealthy and rich in their lives and their children and their ability to educate them" no matter what their income, and not tax those unfortunate billionaires?
"Money doesn't matter to me. It's not important. [<*sotto voce*> that's because I have so much that I don't have to worry about it....] Despite this handicap, I can be 'poor' in other ways if I want...."
Cheers,
August 21st, 2008 at 10:30 amI bet even Saddam didn't have 10 houses.
August 21st, 2008 at 10:31 amThe unhappy of I can't get my Dom Pérignon served at the right temperature is a hell of a lot different than the I can't make my house payment and feed my family unhappy McMoron doesn't see this difference
August 21st, 2008 at 10:32 amIt seems to me that the wealthy in the US differ from the wealthy of other nations in that they insist on refusing to acknowledge their richness.
August 21st, 2008 at 10:34 am#8 desertflower1:
WHO’S elitist??? Someone please explain this to me…
The guy who worked and earned his way up from a working-class, single-mother household. The guy that dumped his wife to marry into a fortune is not "elitist". There's other words that more accurately describe that....
Cheers,
August 21st, 2008 at 10:34 amThis year, instead of filing and paying taxes, I'm just going to let the IRS know that I wasn't very happy this year. I'm sure they'll understand.
PEACE
August 21st, 2008 at 10:36 amdesertflower1 Says:
Someone PLEASE tell me why anyone would vote for this bozo? They don’t want to believe that this could really happen, even when the economy is in the sink…even when they have to decide wheather to buy groceries for their family, or put gas in their cars…why do they defend this guy? 10 houses when most people can’t even afford to keep the one they’re in! WHO’S elitist??? Someone please explain this to me…
I'm still trying to figure out why anyone voted for Bush a second time...
August 21st, 2008 at 10:36 amMcGrampa = Elitist.
Fact
August 21st, 2008 at 10:36 amHave to bring this back to Obama's campaign. LISTEN UP! THE AD WRITES ITSELF. The last two days saw a great debate on DKOS and TPM over whether Obama needed to attack McCain. I think the majority now see that it is indeed necessary to avoid (if not already too late) the fate of Gore and Kerry. I was still amazed at the number of people who thought that pointing out some very prominent and serious attitude and character flaws would indeed be extremely relevant to picking a president.
Just put an ad together with McCain saying that he cannot remember how many homes he owns, that even a billionaire is poor, that he need not refute W's policies and agreeing that we may need to reinstate the draft. Play repeatedly and this will be the end of McCain.
August 21st, 2008 at 10:37 amOMFG, you own so many houses that you do not know the number? Give me a break here, most of us just worry that we don't have enough money to pay the bills. How out of touch is he?
The Democrats need to jump on this one, and then add the "return the draft" thingy to it. That should get people's attention.
August 21st, 2008 at 10:38 amFritz Says:
I’m still trying to figure out why anyone voted for Bush a second time…
And I'm still trying to figure out why anyone voted for Bush the first time.
PEACE
August 21st, 2008 at 10:38 amDon't call McLame elite
Elite :
noun
the group or part of a group selected or regarded as the finest, best, most distinguished, most powerful, etc.
August 21st, 2008 at 10:39 ama size of type for typewriters, measuring twelve characters to the linear inch
“Some of the richest people I’ve ever known in my life are the most unhappy,” said McCain.
Great non sequitor, McBane! Keep 'em coming!
August 21st, 2008 at 10:39 amSo if you are a billionaire and not happy then, you get a tax break, or you pay more taxes? I'm cornfused.
August 21st, 2008 at 10:41 amHe surely wouldn't do anything to make himself or big business pay more taxes, that might make him unpopular.
Though his staff says “the correct answer is at least four,” the McCains actually own 10 houses.
This is a good example of a right wing answer to a question. It's technically the truth but not the whole truth. The righties wouldn't know the truth if it hit them in the face.
August 21st, 2008 at 10:45 amRice says US-Iraq coming together on timetables
Looks like Obama was right again.
August 21st, 2008 at 10:45 amIf enough of the happy, financially struggling citizens vote against Sen. McCain, he can join the Unhappy But Well-Housed portion of the population.
Should make for a mostly ecstactic citizenry.
August 21st, 2008 at 10:46 amScaryBrownHusseinChick (ThinkOutsideTheBush) Says:
I don’t care how unhappy I am, a billion dollars might cheer me up JUST a little!
August 21st, 2008 at 10:24 am
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That would be fun... I could finally take advantage of Taco Bell's "Billion Tacos for A Billion Dollars" deal!
August 21st, 2008 at 10:47 amThey last time I laid a hand upon a student I was adviced by the administration that I might consider retaining a lawyer in addition to the one that would be provided for me as it was a female student who I had to put my arms around to restrain in a cafeteria fight. It was her third or fourth fight that year. Still all she had to do was claim she was touched inappropriately. Nothing came of it as their were countless witnesses and she admitted to friends that she was just saying it to try and get me into trouble and hopefully her out of the 5 day suspension. Wasn't somebody earlier claiming that some of the rest of us don't understand the "real world"?
August 21st, 2008 at 10:48 amOh no, here comes that anti-social class war theme again. Please, look away.
By McCain's own definition, some of the "richest" people in the country frequent soup kitchens. I wonder how many of them he counts as his friends? (Zero)
Brother, can you spare a dime?
August 21st, 2008 at 10:48 amDr. Hussein Matt Says:
Looks like Obama was right again.
But will his be campaign success in translating this into the simplistic soundbites that most Americans can understand?
Based on what I've seen since the first day of the Olympics, I'm not holding my breath.
PEACE
August 21st, 2008 at 10:48 amoops wrong thread sorry...
August 21st, 2008 at 10:48 am... and if money doesn't buy happiness, as the lovely Sen. McCain is saying, then why is he so worried about those with the most doing without a little of what doesn't make them happy anyhow.
August 21st, 2008 at 10:52 amThe audacity of McCain and his handlers is killing me. A man who will "have his staff get back to you" with an answer to how many homes he owns. A man who bemoans the sad plight of those unhappy billionaires. A man who says there are "other ways" to define being rich, besides your wealth. This, THIS man and his associates would try to label Barack Obama as an ELITIST, out of touch with regular Americans?!?! ARE YOU FREAKIN' KIDDING ME???
This interview should be the backbone of a new ad campaign from Obama, spliced with the McCain camp's claims that Obama is "an out of touch elitist"....
August 21st, 2008 at 10:53 am#20 larkohio:
OMFG, you own so many houses that you do not know the number?
Even his servan... -- ummm, "hired hel..." -- ummm, sorry, "staff" -- have no clue. "At least four...." <*SHEESH!!!*> It's not like it's some state secret (like who leaked Plame's cover), so come out and admit it....
Cheers,
August 21st, 2008 at 10:55 amWell, it is true that some of the richest Americans are trying to get by without health care and in peril of losing their homes.
You might call them the Joad Dynasty.
We should help these rich, strong, wonderful people--because that's where our national treasure lies.
August 21st, 2008 at 10:56 amI have come up with a great line of attack against the McCain campaign that should be carried out by surrogates!
McCain's tax/economic policy/ideas is based on wealth and happiness outside of monetary construct. Which is why his entire economic plan is big joke! And the top 2% are laughing all the way to the bank!
This should made a theme throughout the rest of the campaign...like the celebrity attack from the McCain camp.
August 21st, 2008 at 10:56 amFrom today's Think Fast thread:
On the trail today: Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) is relaxing at his home near Sedona.
Is he sure it's his home?
August 21st, 2008 at 10:57 amhussein toasterhead Says:
That would be fun… I could finally take advantage of Taco Bell’s “Billion Tacos for A Billion Dollars” deal!
Make that 999,999,996 tacos. Better save a few bucks for the pepto bismol...
August 21st, 2008 at 10:58 amMaybe I'm dense, but it seems to me that when you have to pay a mortgage, the imperative to work your rear end off to have the money to do so pushes what you 'own' to the forefront of your mind. On a regular (that is to say monthly) basis.
This is what makes the fool John McCain (Boosh's Wingman) elitist, it has nothing to do with the number of properties he (actually, his wife) owns. Shoot, there are slum lords that own 10 houses; I own two, but not because I want to; a job compelled my move and after two years, I've still got one because the market went sour.
No, Johnny Mack has never really known the (micro) economic struggles that average Americans go through just to make that payment. The same is true of the blue bloods that run the Republican party; they know nothing of how the middle class lives, much less the under class.
That's why these crumb-bums are elitist, and that's how BO and surrogates should be painting this picture.
August 21st, 2008 at 10:59 amstewarjt Says:
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“Some of the richest people I’ve ever known in my life are the most unhappy,” said McCain.
Yeah, Cindy tries to hide it, but she usually does look pretty miserable.
August 21st, 2008 at 11:13 am“I define rich in other ways besides income,” he said. “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.”
I.e. Some people are wealthy in the number of jobs they have to try to find then hold down, and rich with their inability to pay for their children's education or healthcare.
August 21st, 2008 at 11:14 amSome poor billionaires have an endless struggle with just where it is that they're going to vacation this month.
As I've always said, money can't buy happiness. It can, however, make misery Really fu(king comfortable. I might not be truly happy with a billion dollars, but I'd be Really comfortable. Once again McInsane proves he's liveing in an alternate reality!
August 21st, 2008 at 11:14 amImpeach Pelosi, Cheney and Bush and Save the Constitution!
I've known CEOs of Enron who bought 10 houses and couldn't make ends meet.
So is McCain now saying that the govt should be handing out checks for our happiness ? Or is he justifying welfare for CEOs.
By taking the obvious definition of "rich" being used - obviously one of having enough money - and trying to redefine it in such as way as to dodge the question
Is there any question that he's trying to quibble over the meaning of "is". That he's trying not to even give the question the dignity of an answer. That he thinks that we are morons ?
And if 1 Billion is the poverty line, I want my check right now !
August 21st, 2008 at 11:15 amIn his interview with Politico yesterday, McCain again refused to give a number, saying that he defines rich “in other ways beside income.” He added that some people “are poor if they’re billionaires“
Let's not tax those 'poor' billionaires ..............???
Yeah , that will stimulate the economy and reduce the national debt.............
August 21st, 2008 at 11:16 amBeing rich may not buy happiness but it sure makes being miserable more comfortable.
August 21st, 2008 at 11:18 amJhonMcwars is a moron at best,he is so out of touch with the middle and lower classes of this country it`s pathetic for him to even think about us, talk about being an elitist.Obam got schalrships for college and Mcwars got into the Naval academy based on what? His father was an admiral who pulled some strings for the party boy.Mcwars needs to take step back and look at the picture, but he won`t because he only knows forward with his down or side ways with his I`ll have my staff get back to you.Loser old man come November.Check your voter registration folks these guys are caging again.
August 21st, 2008 at 11:18 amgood_golly4 Says:
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“Elitism” is not measured by wealth. It is a state of mind.
August 21st, 2008 at 11:15 am
Yeah
And which "state" do you and the GOP have their mindset locked on to ?
Confusion ?
August 21st, 2008 at 11:19 amAnd the MSM doesn't call BS on the evasion, duck, dodge and joke that McIIIrd provides when asked the critical questions...
August 21st, 2008 at 11:22 amFigures, owned lock stock and barrel by Corpwhorate Amurka.
"Houses are where one typically loses track one's things, but not things one typically loses track of."
August 21st, 2008 at 11:22 amMatt,
August 21st, 2008 at 11:22 amI think it would be good to update the post with the tidbit that many responses here have highlighted, which is that McCain's revised answer completely ignores the context of the original question which was clearly about financial issues, and not about whether someone is rich or poor in some spiritual sense.
I'd bet my fried ass that:
John Kerry knows how many homes he and his heiress wife own,
Ted, Bobby and other assorted Kennedys know how many homes they own.
Etc.
That's the frikkin point, garshgawly.
August 21st, 2008 at 11:24 amgoon_golly4 Says:
“Elitism” is not measured by wealth. It is a state of mind.
Did you ever get around to defining why you keep calling Obama an elitist? In your own words?
Are you just intimidated by people who are smart?
August 21st, 2008 at 11:26 amgood_golly4 Says:
“Elitism” is not measured by wealth. It is a state of mind.
August 21st, 2008 at 11:15 am
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Right - it's just a state of mind. It's like those homeless people who only panhandle outside of Whole Foods and only mutter to themselves in Shakespearian English.
August 21st, 2008 at 11:26 amgood_golly4 Says:
How many homes does Kerry own?
How many homes does Kennedy own?
How many homes does Edwards own?
How many homes do the Clinton’s own?
How many homes does Jay Rockefeller own?
Who really cares?
ahhhh, once again, Grasshopper, you have much to learn.
Exhibit A shows the lovely Sen. McCain and his campaign using Rovian tactics to take their negative and apply it to the enemy:
The lovely Sen. McCain has so much money and so many residences that he can't keep track of them, yet the campaign applies the term "elitist" to Sen. Obama.
Let's stick to what's happening in this election. Please.
August 21st, 2008 at 11:26 amWelfare checks for everyone making over $100 million a year!
August 21st, 2008 at 11:27 amgood-golly4
August 21st, 2008 at 11:27 amSo those elite special forces just have attitude issues? Is that what you're saying?
RUCerious Says:
I’d bet my fried ass that:
John Kerry knows how many homes he and his heiress wife own,
Ted, Bobby and other assorted Kennedys know how many homes they own.
Etc.
That’s the frikkin point, garshgawly.
There's also the point that none of those people have been running around accusing other people of being "elitist."
McCain jokes about $5 million defining "rich."
McCain travels on his wife's private jet.
McCain has so many homes he can't count them.
So, naturally, Obama is an elitist. This is another example of "a regular guy" preying on the American fear of intelligence. "Do you really want a smart guy running the country? He doesn't think like we do!"
August 21st, 2008 at 11:29 amIt's a question about tax policy, not about personal joy or happiness. John sandbagged by mixing the two. A pox on all his houses.
August 21st, 2008 at 11:30 amLet's make all of Sen. McCain's friends (you know, the "my friends" group he's always mentioning) really, really, really unhappy by voting for Sen. Obama.
Then Sen. McCain can boast that he was right all along: Some of the wealthiest people can still be miserable.
August 21st, 2008 at 11:36 amA "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous" commercial would be just the thing. 10+ houses, $500 loafers would get the point across with humor.
August 21st, 2008 at 11:36 amI'm surprised he didn't invoke pre-executive privilege in not revealing how many houses the collaborator owns.
August 21st, 2008 at 11:37 amMcCain is an arrogant, out of touch, dare I say 'uppity' moron who can't even keep up with how many houses he owns.
Elitist, arrogant, presumptuous, and his supporters are cowardly little sissies that are afraid of gays, brown ppl, women, intellectuals, and anything else the right wingers tell them to fear.
What a bunch of pansies republicans are
August 21st, 2008 at 11:39 amPOLYGAMY !!!
Obama should start talking about POLYGAMY and how John McCain has ignored the abuses in Colorado City, Arizona for over 20 years! In my film, BANKING ON HEAVEN, Senator Linda Binder (Mohave County, AZ) describes how she asked McCain for help, but McCain wouldn't even return her calls.
What qualifies John McCain to be president when he won't even take on the cowardly thugs in Colorado City, Arizona who abuse women and children? John McCain is a cold-hearted, self-serving hypocrite who hasn't lifted a finger to stop the raping of young girls in his home State.
DO NOT vote for John McCain!
http://www.bankingonheaven.com
August 21st, 2008 at 11:41 amIs this from John and Cindy's home movie collection?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkRIbUT6u7Q&feature=related
The song of all those non-rich people making less than 5 million a year:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBHZFYpQ6nc&feature=related
August 21st, 2008 at 11:41 amA pair of campaign-worthy Italian leather shoes: $500.
Using your second wife's private plane: $0.
Maintaining multiple residences: ("We'll
have my
staff check
on that for
you.")
8 years without having to hear the phrase
August 21st, 2008 at 11:44 am"my friends" followed by an oogie grin? Priceless.
good_golly4 Says:
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How many homes does Kerry own?
How many homes does Kennedy own?
How many homes does Edwards own?
How many homes do the Clinton’s own?
How many homes does Jay Rockefeller own?
Who really cares?
August 21st, 2008 at 11:15 am
Umm , I'm sure the above mentioned individuals care enough to know how many homes they own ..............
August 21st, 2008 at 11:46 amThis is a serious question because both candidates have proposed relief for the middle class. The definition of who is "rich" tells you where the middle class ends for those policies.
If Obama is offering a tax cut for the middle class he has made it clear that that tax cut will extend to families making up to somewhere in the 250,000/year ballpark. If McCain is offering a tax cut for the middle class we can only assume that it will apply to families making up to five million a year.
McCain is not just rich, he's silly rich. Never mind about the cost of his shoes or hair cuts, he's my wife can buy me a plane on a lark rich.
August 21st, 2008 at 11:51 amGrampy McSame says - My friends back in the day we were all happy and rich, yes sir, why my dad would tell me that our neighborhood was the only one that mattered, the rich guys, yes sir, and he was right, poor people are happy being poor, that's why they are poor, which makes me happy, and I have 10 houses because poor people couldn't buy them, so I made up the difference by buying them, well, actually my wife bought them, and that made me feel poor, so you see that is why rich people can be poor and poor people are that way because it makes them happy....I think I just sat on a pile of poor people.
We know you don't get it Grampy, but is the MSM going to point that out? I didn't think so.
August 21st, 2008 at 11:57 amAmazing! Not even Bush said that. Leave that sentiment to the songwriters, Mr. McCain--we must consider fiscal policy in choosing a president.
This is the ball the Obama campaign should run with.
Thank you, konchster.
August 21st, 2008 at 11:59 amOur crackpot village idiot can't see that it is Johnny McCrappedmypant's complete and utter out of touch mentality towards working class Americans that make him an elitist. He sees the base of our economy as strong despite the obvious staring the rest of the country in the face. His former (and now current) financial adviser says that the economy is just fine and that we are a Nation of whiners. McCrappedmypants never worked a real job in his life thanks to Cindy's Bud money. And don't give me any of that tortured war vet crap, according to George Bush's definitions, McCant's treatment was clearly NOT torture. The fool is a shell of what he once was (which even then didn't amount to much more than his stint at the Hanoi Hilton).
August 21st, 2008 at 12:15 pmHis typical Republican out of touchness with the needs and struggles of the middle class is the epitomy of elitism. The Right's devisive and intentional misuse of this word is closing fast on their misuse of the word "patriotism". Projection is a poor quality in anyone, much more so for a supposed "maverick" running for the office of POTUS. May I also add that the elitist John McCain is also a lying sack of dung that the neocons carry around in their pocket. Another thing that this Country does not need.
Eight years ago, then Governor George W. Bush revealingly joked about his backers at the 2000 Al Smith Dinner. "This is an impressive crowd - the haves and the have-mores," Bush said, adding, "Some people call you the elites; I call you my base." With his own quip Saturday night that "$5 million" is his definition of rich" and his uncertainty today over how many homes he owns, John McCain made no mistake that he is Bush's natural heir.
For the details, see:
August 21st, 2008 at 12:22 pm"The Haves,the Have Mores and John McCain."
ThomasMc Says:
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Welfare checks for everyone making over $100 million a year!
They already have those. They're called the "Bush tax cuts".
August 21st, 2008 at 12:25 pmIf he doesn't know how many houses he has (he's lying) then he probably has too many.
August 21st, 2008 at 12:44 pmIf billionaires gain the world and lose their souls, why should they get another tax cut? To cheer them up.
August 21st, 2008 at 12:51 pmSome reporter should ask McCain how many acres of land he owns.
August 21st, 2008 at 12:52 pmgood_golly4 Says:
“Elitism” is not measured by wealth. It is a state of mind.
Thanks for clarifying McCain's "State of Mind" you little jerk.
August 21st, 2008 at 12:53 pmAh, King John McCain and his Royal House Counter.
August 21st, 2008 at 1:01 pmCNN reoported the McCain official response on John's home ownership:
at least FOUR houses
August 21st, 2008 at 1:15 pm.
People,
According to Senator McMansion's ideals, he's homeless.
.
August 21st, 2008 at 1:27 pmBillionares can be poor examples of humanity, but that is different than being poor.
August 21st, 2008 at 1:44 pmMcCain Spokesman's Retort: Obama Lives in "a Frickin' Mansion"
Washington Post - 48 minutes ago
By Michael D. Shear SEDONA, Ariz. -- A spokesman for Sen. John McCain vowed to retaliate against today's story about how many houses the GOP candidate owns with a renewed focus on Sen. Barack Obama's ties to a Chicago developer and charges that Obama ...
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/08/21/mccain_spokesmans_retort_obama.html
August 21st, 2008 at 2:29 pmWow, you know Gigi is right, I must have had hundreds of homeless snottily tell me my shoes are cheap and tacky. Not to mention the looks down the nose and frowns directed at me and the Ford I drive.
I hate to think what the middle class think of me. Horrors, they must think me absolutely pedestrian!
August 21st, 2008 at 2:36 pm"I define rich in other ways besides income," he said. "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."
Wow dude, that is some seriously deep stuff. I mean he just totally blew my mind with that. Are we actually dumb enough to elect this guy President?
August 21st, 2008 at 3:06 pmI liked Obama's response: quick, concise, and to the point. More of this, please!
August 21st, 2008 at 3:49 pmMy parents used to say "money doesn't buy happiness". I would reply "neither does poverty".
When McAncient says "I think — I'll have my staff get to you," are we supposed to believe that he is afraid to answer or that he really does not know how many homes he owns? Pretty bad either way! Straigh Talk Express?
I hear Zogby has this joker ahead 44%-39%.
August 21st, 2008 at 4:16 pmObama casts McCain as rich and out of touch
By BETH FOUHY (Associated Press Writer)
From Associated Press
August 21, 2008 2:30 PM EDT
RICHMOND, Va. - Democrat Barack Obama Thursday depicted John McCain as rich, out of touch and less a foreign-policy expert than he claims - part of the increasingly negative tone of the presidential hopeful's message as he tries to fight the perception that his campaign has stalled.
.....Both an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll and a CBS News/New York Times survey found Obama leading McCain by just three percentage points, 45 to 42 percent.
...."If you're like me, and you've got one house, or you are like the millions of people who are struggling right now to keep up with their mortgage so they don't lose their home, you might have different perspective," Obama said.
August 21st, 2008 at 4:32 pm#15, Zuch...I'm not quite sure that I understood your point. Are you agreeing with me?
August 21st, 2008 at 6:39 pm#17, Fritz...Me, too!! However, I'd take that one further and agree with the person that didn't understand the FIRST time around!
August 21st, 2008 at 6:41 pmOne more thing...I would encourage all of you to go to The realmccain.com....LOTS TO CHEW ON THERE!
August 21st, 2008 at 6:46 pm#89 desertflower1:
Sorry, forgot to put in the snark tags. I'll remember next time. While "elitist" certainly applies to someone that thinks you have to rake in [not "earn"; passive income counts, I think] $5 million a year to be rich, I was suggesting that "a$$hole", "dingbat", "screw-loose" and a host of other appellations may be more appropriate.
Hope that clear up any confusion.
Cheers,
August 21st, 2008 at 11:08 pmWell, McCain is not rich...Cindy is.
August 22nd, 2008 at 2:48 amZuch...Got it! Thanks.
August 22nd, 2008 at 9:01 am