@okie,
Quote:So whats all the fuss over then? From what I have heard, it is his wife that manages the money, McCain himself is not that motivated by money, and that probably explains why he didn't know how many houses they own, his wife has properties rented out, houses the McCains don't use. What is so unusual about that? And from what I understand, some are rented out to relatives.
The big deal is that 95% of Americans own one home, and I guarantee that the other 4.999999% know how many homes they own. McCain is out of touch with his own lifestyle, he doesn't even know how rich he is compared to everyone else. Look at his answer for what it means to be 'rich'- 5 million in yearly income. Does that sound like someone who is plugged in to the common man's plight?
It reinforces the fact that McCain knows
nothing about the actual problems people face, economically. You bunch used this same attack against Kerry 4 years ago, so you ought to recognize it. On another level, it reminds voters that McCain is old as hell, and forgetful. Who doesn't know how many houses they own? Someone who doesn't care about money. Who doesn't care about money? Someone who is
not like most Americans. It's a very powerful argument, and it nicely dovetails into many other clueless comments McCain has made - you'll see a lot more of this.
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In contrast, Obama has a brother living in a hut, making a pittance, somewhere else in the world, and has he even received a dollar from Obama? Obama loves to quote the scripture, as you have done to the least of your brothers......, using it to justify the government taxing the rich to give to the poor, when what about his own brother?
Um, what is Obama supposed to do, exactly? Does his brother WANT money from him? Is he unhappy living in the village he lives in, like the rest of his family and everyone else they know? Is Obama supposed to elevate him to a higher class, just b/c he is Obama's brother? This is a bullshit argument and you know it. You don't have any information about the situation at all, other then the throw-away line you just used.
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Trying to make an issue of McCain's houses or McCain having money is nonsense, what are we supposed to do, elect a homeless person? Most politicians have money, that comes with the territory, because they are usually successful people and know how to manage money, and if they didn't, nobody would vote for them, do you want to vote for a loser with no money?
McCain isn't a successful person who knows how to manage money. That's the other prong of this argument. He never did
one f*cking thing to earn or manage that money. His wife's family did, and he married in to it. That's not success, that's cheating on your wife and seducing an heiress. How can you even imply that it is?
You ought to face that this is going to be harmful to McCain. Even a partisan such as yourself can only come up with half-assed defenses. And you KNOW that if he picks Romney, we are going to have a field day running against two super-rich white guys, neither of whom has ever worried about money or having to pay next month's rent, or had to make tough choices between saving for their kids' future or improving their lives now. Truly this issue is revealing as to how out of touch McCain is with the very people he wants to elect him president.
And, I posted this in the other thread, but I will again here -
Who are McCain and Romney? They are the super-rich.
Who are they going to be looking out for? The super-rich. Just look at the graph above. That's who they want to give the biggest PERCENTAGES of tax cuts to, forget about actual dollar terms - they want to give the biggest tax cuts to the people who need them the
least. I think it would be interesting to find out how much McCain is proposing to cut his OWN TAXES by; you will note that Obama is proposing to RAISE his familiy's taxes...
I can't believe for a second you think that this won't be an effective line of attack. It hits on multiple fronts and boxes McCain in when it comes to the VP choice. That's why you saw the panic yesterday from his campaign, dropping all sorts of bullshit 'Rezko! Ayers! mwaahhhh he's a bad, unknown man!' lines to the press - they tried to do everything they could to change the narrative and were stunningly unsucessful. And it's going to continue throughout the convention.
You say that it's a mistake for the Dems to go negative against McCain at the convention? Bull. It's exactly what they should do. I mean, do you really think people want to hear another speech about hope from Obama? Instead, the Dems will spend the entire media frenzy week attacking McCain, putting him on the defensive, and rallying their troops.
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