I was reading some commentary today that asked an interesting question: Is McCain so out of touch with reality that he can’t even keep track of how many houses he has, or is he just having a senior moment? While the latter may be more likely, it’s also the far more frightening possibility… do we really need someone running the country who can’t even keep track of something as significant as how many houses he has? I wouldn’t begrudge anyone their success, especially if it was self-made (which McCain’s wasn’t, but that isn’t the issue here), but McCain has been trying to paint Obama as an out of touch elitist for the last 3 months and the man is married to a woman who is worth hundreds of millions of dollars… Those in a glass house…
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Obama focusing on the Economy is what he should be doing.
Another great ad by Obama. I also like the ties to Bush as well. McCain is not going to be able to live this one down.
OK …. let’s rethink the headline …..
It can seem, to the less genteel reader … to be a sexual metaphor.
I don’t think he was having a senior moment. I think he knew the correct answer would kill him.
Can someone explain to me why McCain is remotely qualified to be President. You have to make $5 million to be considered rich. You can’t say how many homes you own. Give me a break, this guy has lost it. McCain questions Obama’s judgement and then does this. He needs to take a serious look in the mirror.
Can someone explain to me why Obama is even remotely qualified to be President? Less than four years ago he was a state legislator. He’s so inexperienced it’s mind blowing. BO’s tried to portray himself as someone who can work across party lines, yet has no track record of doing so. He has no track record period. Him being president would be like me performing open-heart surgery because I took a human anatomy class in high school.
McCain doesn’t want to admit the houses are not in his name.
They are in Cindy’s name, because Cindy knows that McCain is not trustworthy. He pursued her and proposed to her while he was married to a woman who had waited FIVE YEARS for him.
If Cindy doesn’t trust her husband, why should anyone else?
Real nice analysis, Bob T. I especially like how you know what Cindy McCain is thinking. Wow.
McCain marrying a wealthy lady is so despicable. He is no better than….. John Kerry? I remember you all railed on him for marrying in to money as well. Wait….
JT,
Thanks for NOT answering the question by asking a question. Good republican tactic.
First off Obama is qualified to be president because he understands the value of diplomacy. He understands that problems can be solved without the use of brute force.
He understands that we need to have a strong and respectful standing in the world. He knows we cannot be arrogant and “go it alone.”
He understands the value of educating our children. He knows that early child education has a great return on investment. His education policy isn’t based on vouchers. Who in their right mind believe poor people can afford expensive private schools based on measly vouchers. Great sound bite, but look at the numbers.
He understands the value of protecting our environment. He knows that the environment can not be punished for much longer. He knows that he can not recreate data to support his positions.
He knows that for our economy to survive the long haul, we really do need to get off our oil addiction.
He knows that we can not continue to go deeper into debt as we have under Republican control.
He can look back at the Bush tax cuts and then look at today’s economy and know that there is zero proof that the tax cuts lead to job growth and a robust economy.
He can look at Iraq and see what a major blunder it was to invade and how this is costing the US not only valuable lives but trillions of dollars.
He can see that if you really believe in family values, you do not send young fathers/mothers into war based on lies.
So in short, what qualifications does Obama have? Common sense,honesty, good judgement, and the ability to use sound facts and logic to determine a path forward. Which is a change from choosing a path forward and then paying for “data” that supports that path.
1) JD from Harvard
never divorced
2) editor of the Harvard Law Review
3) Community organizer
4) 7 years in the IL senate
5) US senator.
6) wasn’t in the bottom 5% of his class.
7) Didn’t crash 5 planes
9) Not a philanderer
10) Never had a license to wed a second wife.
11) Knows how many homes he owns
12) Knows the price of gasoline
13) Knows Shia from Suni.
14) Need more?
Dear DantheMan
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/23/us/politics/23mccain.html?_r=1&hp=&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1219456816-miNvCYg2if70gg+R7VQO/Q
“..with the McCains’ money in Cindy McCain’s name, as dictated by a prenuptial agreement, the senator’s finances are more difficult to assess and scrutinize than those of many other political candidates. ”
Cindy knew what kind of man she was marrying. She may have been star struck with his celebrity and fly-boy/bad-boy personality, but she had the sense to hang onto her money.
McCain is not despicable because he married well. He IS despicable because he dumped his faithful disabled first wife to marry a rich younger women, and because he uses his “Its OKAY BECAUSE I WAS A POW” rationalization for that and everything else.
Lojasmo,
This could be a fun game!!!
Obama…..
15. Did not completely plagarize his come to Jesus cross in the sand story
16. Was not part of Keating Five
17. Did not have judgemnet so poor he was officially censured by the Senate!
17. Does not confuse former Soviet states as still existing
18. Lots more
this is a great thread. I would like to add…
19. He couldn’t possibly do worse than GW Bush and his first 6 years of Republican Majority rule. No one could touch that incredible failure/corrupted mess. Oh wait, maybe Jon McCain could! He certainly seems to think it would be a great idea to carry on that torch.
McCain, of course lives in the abandoned Ted Kozinski shack.
That’s why he was embarrassed, or unwilling to offer up a sense of how many homes he/they own(s).
OR IS HE A “KEPT MAN?”
That’s it! He’s Mr Studly, the Gigolo? LOL.
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As for differences - yes, for people who are afraid of tomorrow, McCain is the “safe” & stodgy choice,
excepting that he may start up the draft - and put some of the HS kids who post here, in fatigues.
And seems prepared to declare wars “he”/ WE cannot fight.
No country is insane enough for anything other than ground war.
Nukes, in case anyone forgets, will put a country into the stone age. So its bodies that will be sacrificed in an active cold war gone live.
The Russians, etc are not stupid. They know this. And they know saber rattling. So that card doesn’t play.
If both sides are sane & saber rattle, it is NOT effective negotiation. The con is of one’s own population!
If McCain’s family is always reliant on the women handling the finances, as McCain’s brother intimates,
then maybe we should be looking at Cindy McCain’s qualifications, grasp of economic concepts & household budget.
We need to know if SHE understands economics, because apparently he clearly has no clue.
Or could it be the bullshit dance we expect them all to do, as though its telling, is an old dance?
Still. The taxes on one house had not bee paid for 4 years. How is that possible?
Do they not have people seeing to their taxes? Do they have no permanent address for the notifications you or I would get?
That sounds like core mismanagement. At least if we are to believe the screech from righties here about Franken’s taxes being paid to the wrong states.
John, is there an H&R Block up the street? (A place for NON-elitists such as the McCains?)
19. Has never voted against his party. Is a loyal partisan.
20. Is the most liberal Senator in the entire Senate.
21. Never had to waste time in some silly POW camp
22. Doesn’t have a history of successful bills introduced in Washington that can be used against him
23. Is a close, personal friend of Mayor Daley and the Chicago political machine. (could come in handy)
Point 1: “Voting against one’s party?”
Sounds very Maverick-yyy.
And we know that “maverick” is a synonym for what McCain really is: a loose cannon.
Someone who does not always play well with others. An out of control renegade on occasion. As his own party center sees him!!!
You want someone who is - what? Republican???
Normally, a renegade would appeal to me.
But there has to be some sense behind such anti-social behavior. A good reason.
Being anti-social & oppositional is not an excuse in itself.
In 2000, McCain may have embodied a reason to be “maverickey” & defiant.
In 2008, he has become a caricature of his former self. He is his own parody.
Wants to be called a “maverick” while he hugs the anchor on the SS Minnow - and we should too?
He has to run against who he was in 2000, to be palatable to his own party! He has to betray himself.
Or he has to be a sleeper agent. None of those options seem very honorable.
The rest are just BS RW talking points.
You can’t do better than parrot what you got emailed in a form letter? Whomever you mention is always “the most liberal senator.”
Doesn’t that convenient pretense of yours ever bump up against reality???
Do you know the “edit” doesn’t work with a crap here?
Doesn’t work WORTH a crap either! Seems a little arbitrary.
Doesn’t work WORTH one either!!!
“Whomever you mention is always “the most liberal senator.”
Doesn’t that convenient pretense of yours ever bump up against reality???”
I’ve been saying all along that Obama is THE most liberal Senator in Washington, because he is. That is based on hard data, facts. Data and facts — something Democrats would be well-served to utilize more if they want to secure and maintain power in DC.
DTM-Obama is NOT the most liberal Senator. THat is a fact. That is based hard data and facts-not the deeply flawed and debunked National Journal “study”. http://www.voteview.com/sen110.htm
Yeah, DTM, you would do well to take anything published in the National Journal with a grain of salt. They are consistently light on the facts, and thats putting it nicely. That “most liberal senator” myth was openly debunked in the MSM in May.
I personally like the National Journal methodology. They weed through all the noise to arrive at those votes which actually were made using the official’s judgement and political beliefs. When you set aside all of the procedural votes and votes cast simply due to the caucus voting as a bloc, then you are left with the elected official’s true colors.
But, to humor you, if I use the other voteview methodology, Obama is #11. So, he is between the 1st and 11th most liberal Senator. Fair enough – let’s average him out to 5th or 6th. Hardly a guy who crosses party lines. McCain scores 30th most conservative on one and 8th most on the other. Let’s call him 19th most conservative.
As a moderate conservative, I want to know that if Obama gets elected, he will take a reasoned, enlightened approach to policy and not just ram left-wing policies through to make his donors happy (before I hear a chorus of “yeah-buts”, this conversation is about Obama and not Bush). I don’t have confidence he will do that. Going back on the Democratic side, Bill Clinton did, Carter did not, LBJ did. So there is certainly hope, but I’m not seeing it right now. I could live with another Clinton-esque administration, but we would suffer greatly if we get another Carter, with all due respect for his accomplishments post-presidency.
By the way, your voteview source confirms the NJ conclusion that Norm Coleman IS one of the most moderate members of the Senate. Exactly what Minnesota asked him to do for them!!!
and number 20 on the lsist of why Obama is qualified - he made a great selection for VP. Picked someone with outstanding credentials that is respected around the globe and won’t be a “yes man” to Obama.
DtM, what I’d like to knwow if McCain gets elected is do we get the 2000 version or the 2008 version that sucks up to the far right.
Little known fact: McCain has been paid $60K in senate wages since he last bothered to vote or sit in a committee meeting.