Rich Guy vs. Rich Guy
The moonbatosphere is up in arms that John McCain DOESN’T KNOW HOW MANY HOUSES HE OWNS!!!11!!!1!!!!
Richard Miniter has a post on the story and that, naturally, the Obama campaign was quick to pounce on the gaffe.
At a campaign appearance in Chester, Va., on Thursday morning, Obama said: “Somebody asked John McCain, ‘How many houses do you have?’ And he said, I’m not sure. I’ll have to check with my staff. True quote: I’m not sure, I’ll have to check with my staff. So they asked his staff and he said, at least four. At least four! …
“If you’re like me and you’ve got one house – or you were like the millions of people who are struggling right now to keep up with their mortgage so that they don’t lose their home — you might have a different perspective. By the way, the answer is: John McCain has seven homes. So there’s just a fundamental gap of understanding between John McCain’s world and what people are going through every single day here in America.”
But what do they say about people in glass (or Tony Rezko-financed) houses? Oh, yeah. Don’t throw stones:
McCain spokesman Brian Rogers said in response: “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? Does a guy who worries about the price of arugula and thinks regular people ‘cling’ to guns and religion in the face of economic hardship really want to have a debate about who’s in touch with regular Americans?”
This is the sort of pissing match Obama doesn’t want to get into. Really. Because he always gets the worst of it.
Miniter explains that the money is Cindy’s and she could own all sorts of properties without his knowledge. And if he says they own two or three but they actually owned five, it would then be “McCain lied!”
More importantly, though, is the hypocrisy of the Left for having a panty squunch about how many houses McCain owns.
McCain is not the richest U.S. Senator. And not the second richest either. Does John Kerry know how many houses his wife owns? What about Ted Kennedy? Or West Virginia’s senator John D. Rockefeller IV?
Democrats like rich people as long as they are ready to eat the other rich people. Nobody but the nutroots are going to believe that, somehow, Obama being less rich than McCain means he’s just a regular Joe.
Townhall blog links that seven of the richest 10 people in Congress are Democrats (including Number One), and the top six richest Senators are Democrats, including the Democrats’ 2004 presidential candidate John Kerry at Number One. This just isn’t a game Democrats want to be playin’.
Cross-posted at Gold-Plated Witch on Wheels.
Bitter Scribe:
Democrats like rich people as long as they are ready to eat the other rich people. Nobody but the nutroots are going to believe that, somehow, Obama being less rich than McCain means he’s just a regular Joe.
As usual, Sharon, you’re missing the point. No matter how rich they are, Republicans like to paint themselves as Regular Joes up against Democratic “elitists.” Obama is just using facts (remember those?) to ensure that it’s going to be harder this time around.
22 August 2008, 2:24 pmSharon:
BS, you have this exactly backwards. Democrats spend lots of time talking about how they are “standing up for the little guy,” when, in fact (remember those?), they have little in common with “little guys.”
Republicans don’t think being rich is something to be ashamed of, BS. That’s why they don’t get the vapors over anyone being wealthy. The problem with Obama is that he wants to pretend he’s a regular Joe but he’s so out of touch that he thinks airing your tires is an energy policy. He wants to “tax the hell out of everybody.” He spurns American achievement and clings to the same, bitter politics that have left the Democrats 2-5 in the last 38 years. But keep nominating these guys. It’s fun!
22 August 2008, 6:50 pmDana Pico:
Sometimes I wonder if it’s possible that both candidates will lose. Barack Obama has provided John McCain with every opening he could want, and Mr McCain has closed the gap; some polls are statistically tied, some have Mr Obama narrowly ahead, and one poll had Mr McCain ahead among likely voters.
And then he goes ahead with another thud! move.
22 August 2008, 7:10 pmBitter Scribe:
He spurns American achievement…
In the last seven years under Bush, what, exactly, has been “achieved”?
24 August 2008, 10:53 amSharon:
Well, for one thing, we haven’t had another attack on American soil. Many businesses have been opened and thrive. Many people have had success both personally and professionally. In Iraq, the people are no longer under the boot of Saddam Hussein. They are discovering their own freedom and democracy.
Your narrow-minded political view–that life is “Bush’s fault” is ill-fitted for the robust nature of American life, BS. But it explains your support of Barack America. Every bad thing is America’s fault. Every good thing happens in spite of America. Why stay?
24 August 2008, 11:05 am