Obama hits McCain on homes gaffe
It all started with this video from Robert Greenwald, which I posted a couple of days ago, pointing out the large amount of houses McCain owns and why he can be so free and easy when he says the economy is going well. Much as he plays the "I'm just like the rest of you" card and deems Obama "elitist", McCain actually enjoys a lifestyle of fabulous wealth, with his wife's wealth estimated to be worth anything up to $100 million. Attacking Obama as an "elitist" whilst enjoying such trappings was always a dangerous game to play.
Well, McCain has tripped up. When McCain was being interviewed by reporters from the Politico website, he was asked how many homes he had. He replied:"I think - I'll have my staff get to you," he said. "It's condominiums where - I'll have them get to you."
This allowed Obama to release the video at the top of this page, showing the White House and stating if "Mr McCain has lost track of how many houses he owns... here's one house America can't afford to let John McCain into."
McCain has responded by claiming that Obama was helped when buying his home by Tony Rezko.
The Obama ad does raise a serious point, apart from the fact that McCain is being hypocritical when he tries to portray Obama as an "elitist". Does he seriously not know how many homes he owns? I mean, is he being deceptive when he says that or does he genuinely not know?
The latter is, for very obvious reasons, a worry. He's being making all kinds of ridiculous blunders during this campaign, becoming at times downright confused, but when he can't say how many houses he owns - Obama says it's seven - then we have to wonder what else he might forget or get confused over.
In this video Obama points out that McCain thinks a person only becomes rich if they earn about $5 million a year.
Obama slays him here. A person who thinks people only becomes rich if they earn $5 million a year, whilst being unable to even state how many homes he owns, has no idea of how the rest of the US is living and certainly is in no position to claim that life is grand for people "in the spotlight" but that "for the rest of us times are tough"?
This is just one of the lies which McCain has been trading on and he's just been called on this one. John McCain is not economically one of "the rest of us", and it was only crass cynicism that ever allowed him to pretend that he was.
Of course, he thinks the economy is doing well. In McCain's world the economy is always doing well.
Related Articles. Hat tip to Crooks and Liars:
Lifestyles of The Rich & Out of Touch
Meet a woman who knows how many homes she now owns — zero!
UPDATE:
The McCain campaign have hit back:
"We're delighted to have a real estate debate with Barack Obama," said spokesman Brian Rogers, adding that the press should focus on Obama's house. "It's a frickin' mansion. He doesn't tell people that. You have a mansion you bought in a shady deal with a convicted felon."
"In terms of who's an elitist, I think people have made a judgment that John McCain is not an arugula-eating, pointy headed professor-type based on his life story."Leaving aside the utterly childish description of Obama as a "pointy headed professor type" - what do these guys have against intellect? - I have to confess that, perhaps it's an American usage, but had to Google "arugula" to find out what it is. It's rocket salad. It's as common as chips. They sell it in Tesco's for God's sake.
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