How important was McCain's house gaffe?
chamay0
2008/08/24 20:17:11
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I think also that the reason the Dems brought it up was due to jealousy.
RWD
Four, it reinforces the fact that McCain is just out of touch. He doesn't know the price of a gallon of gasoline, he doesn't know what kind of car he drives, and he doesn't know how many houses he has. Five, after the McCain blunders like the reveal that Cindy spends $750,000 a month on clothes and shoes, you would think the McCain campaign would get their house in order. So, sure, I agree with you! Let's talk issues!
If he had said that, though, the Democrats would claim he was lying, because Cindy McCain owns a number of other homes, in her name and their children's names, through trusts. Cindy McCain apparently also owns a home in which an elderly aunt lives. It would have take a lengthy explanation to an inane question, and McCain said the right thing!
I think his answer was a nice way of telling the guy to STFU
It makes whoever even brought it up look absolutely moronic for making anything of it at all.
Damn, must be nice. I'm not sure what country you live in but for a tiny portion of the American public, even owning one home is a great achievement. Have you heard of them? They are Working Class Americans. Get to know one someday.
Maybe I don't spend enough time around working class Americans.
After all, I don't even know the first names of the road workers whose greasy grimy motel linens I scrub into the wee hours of each morning to work off some of my rent, many of whom are Mexicans. I may have let cleaning up after people who are doing "jobs Americans won't do" go to my head and make me feel like some kind of royalty.
It's been a whole month since I was laid off from my factory job, so I don't see much of those folks anymore.
I only see my boyfriend two or three times a week lately, because he's often busy between working at a hog lot by day and caring for his herd of cattle at home in his "off-hours."
And I really only see my dad on weekends, between his shifts at Burger King.
You may be right. I may well be getting out of touch with working people.
Something to think about I guess.
The thing that does infuriate me is the condescension and insult of the very fact that Obama and his surrogates are trying to make a case of it.
Do they think I care? Do they think I'm some bitter, ignorant whiner who sits around grousing because other people have more worldly goods than I do? Do they really think I'm so stupid that I'm going to say, "You're right! That sucks! Why should they be allowed to have that many houses! I'm not going to vote for that guy!"
I scrub towels and linens because it frees up more of my income for other things. I use the time to listen to audio books and motivational tapes to broaden my mind and learn about how successful people become that way. Interestingly, bitching about rich people and wanting them punished for their success has never come up as a strategy to become successful oneself.
Also, the relatively mindless repetitive manual work of it often serves to bring out some of my best creative thinking and ideas for the future.
It's hard to believe that it's been a month since I was laid off. It seemed then and still does that it was the best thing that could possibly have happened to ...
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The thing that does infuriate me is the condescension and insult of the very fact that Obama and his surrogates are trying to make a case of it.
Do they think I care? Do they think I'm some bitter, ignorant whiner who sits around grousing because other people have more worldly goods than I do? Do they really think I'm so stupid that I'm going to say, "You're right! That sucks! Why should they be allowed to have that many houses! I'm not going to vote for that guy!"
I scrub towels and linens because it frees up more of my income for other things. I use the time to listen to audio books and motivational tapes to broaden my mind and learn about how successful people become that way. Interestingly, bitching about rich people and wanting them punished for their success has never come up as a strategy to become successful oneself.
Also, the relatively mindless repetitive manual work of it often serves to bring out some of my best creative thinking and ideas for the future.
It's hard to believe that it's been a month since I was laid off. It seemed then and still does that it was the best thing that could possibly have happened to me, because it freed me up to pursue bigger, better things.
My boyfriend is working a full-time job along with his farm chores with a view towards earning enough money to run his own operation. I suppose some day if he can't remember off the top of his head exactly how many head of cattle he owns, some bozo will call him an out-of-touch elitist.
I have gotten a number of nice things dirt cheap lately by bargain-hunting.
If I can't remember how many name-brand dresses or purses or pairs of shoes or how many discount candles I have bought lately, I don't want to hear from a peanut gallery of people who haven't been as "lucky" because they neither take the time or have the ambition to hunt bargains themselves.
At least McCain did not make a deal to buy a mansion at below appraisal from his convicted felon buddy Rezko and get the felon’s wife to purchase the lot next door for him.
Obama do not throw stones if you live in a glass house.
If you want a story ask why two brilliant lawyers managed such a shady deal on purchasing their mansion in Hyde Park.
There's nothing shady -- unlike the McCain's many problems with adultery, special favors to Charles Keating, accepting money to grant favors, etc. Talk about shady!!