The many homes of John McCain
The story gripping the political world today is that John McCain, when asked by reporters how many house’s he owned, had no idea and said he’d have to check with his staff. Hmm, here you have a U.S. Senator running for President who has admitted that he know’s nothing about economics and who’s proposed policies are pro-rich people and he’s saying he has so many houses he can’t even remember them all. I wonder if that will go unnoticed by the Obama campaign.
I guess they did notice. Thats pretty impressive turnaround time on an ad, kudos Obama people. Lefty blogs have spent the day tracking down all of McCain’s houses for him and let me just McCain (or perhaps more accurately his wife) has done quite well for himself. Matt Yglesias did some poking around and he says that while the ad above says McCain has seven houses, you could argue the number is five, six OR seven (you can see why the Senator wanted to check with his staff). Several people are touting this as the best list of McCain’s houses and which puts the number at ten (complete with a Google map).
I think Steve Benen gets this right:
But this is the kind of humiliating story that can really hurt. Everyone in America heard about Al Gore claiming to have invented the Internet (despite the fact that never happened). Everyone in American heard John Kerry said he “voted for it before I voted against it.”
And fairly soon, if there’s any justice at all, everyone in America will know that John McCain is so out of touch, he’s lost count the number of homes he owns.
I’ve got to believe that the late-night talk shows are going to have a lot of fun coming up with jokes for this. This could be the start of a nice little run for Senator Obama, he beats up on McCain for being totally out of touch with Americans, then he announces his VP pick, then hopefully the convention goes well. I know I’ve been getting a little down about things due to some recent polling but I feel a little better now. Get back to me in a week and we’ll see how things stand.
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