Man, those GOP commenters are funny
Just because John McCain doesn’t know how many houses he owns and an Obama ad portrays that as out-of-touch.
They don’t see a whit of difference between being born to considerable privilege then marrying into a ton more, and someone who advances himself from middle class to wealthy by hard work, study and the talent to write well.
Some of those commenters are so caught up in the self-righteousness of their political ideology that they, too, are way out-of-touch with most Americans. Or they claim that it’s mudslinging to quote McCain’s own words.
I admit it. I’m really amused at teh stupid when they let words escape their pie-holes. Till I remember these folks are permitted out in public where they could hurt somebody… and blame it on a Democrat.
Disclaimer: for the sake of them what counts, I own zero homes. I came close to buying once when married but got illegally laid off my job in the Reagan recession when my seniority points weren’t added correctly, which disqualified me for the loan. But I can tell you how many houses my parents and six siblings have owned in their entire lives: ten. But two owned eight of them and three siblings and myself have owned none.
McCain publicly admitted he’s not much with economics. He regularly has answered that he’d have to get his staff to define what his position is on certain issues. He graduated in the bottom five of his class. And now he can’t count to seven.
It all leads to a Watergate-like question: “what does he know and how long did he remember it?”
August 22nd, 2008 at 1:05 am
Something in the linked article points up something that it seems to me the left in general and the Dems in particular still have not learned.
Notice how in responding, the GOPper speaking for McCain didn’t bother defending him, didn’t even really address the issue of McCain being so filthy rich he can’t even keep track of how many houses he owns. Instead, he attacked Obama.
That’s what the right wing does. It always attacks. It never defends except as the basis for a renewed attack.
Chess master Emmanuel Lasker wrote some years ago that every move you make in a chess game should carry some threat, even if it’s a small one. “Never merely defend,” he said. That’s a lesson the right internalized a long time ago and the left still doesn’t seem to get. And that failure still could lead to a McCain presidency.