Apparently America, John McCain has a housing problem and oh boy is Barak Obama happy to tell you about it. If you are not aware, John McCain was asked by the Politico.com how many homes he and Cindy own and he fumbled over the question telling the interviewer he would have his campaign staff get an answer for this question. The reaction was immediate by the Obama folks, how on earth can McCain not know the answer to that simple question?
Obama's stump response was, "I guess if you think being rich is you have to make $5 million a year and you have to think about how many houses you have, then you might think the economy is fundamentally strong."
McCain's response came from his campaign, “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?”
Here we go again. We should all be offended. After all Obama considers himself an agent of CHANGE and he is now running the tried and true political playbook.
Newsflash folks, McCain's wife is loaded. They have a number of investments. True most of us are unable to comprehend owning four homes for our personal use and four to six other investment homes, but guess what? That's what you do when you have money, you make investments. Is this so hard to understand? Real estate had been a great investment until recently, and it will be a great investment in the future. This is a non issue and once again is only a diversion tactic.
As to the McCain response, there is very little substance to it since it is mostly an attack, but he had to respond to the pounce by Barak and his people, so I'll give him a pass here. However, I would be careful with the Rezko stuff. There are plenty of Republican connections to Tony Rezko too, in fact he even raised money to support Bush's re-election campaign in 2004. I know Obama had real estate dealings with him, but its a slippery slope to get on when you can simply bring up Rev. Wright or Bill Ayers who are bigger targets and much more evil individuals.
Don't get me wrong, Rezko is scum, but if you want to color the character of your opponent by mentioning the company he keeps, I would think a racist like Wright or a terrorist like Ayers would make a stronger argument.
God Bless America,
EG
erik@exchangeyourgovernment.com
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