McCain Is So Wealthy He Doesn't Remember Or Know How Many Houses He Owns
Thursday, 21. August 2008, 15:02:10
Mike Allen reports of Politico reports that John McCain is unsure how many houses he owns.
John McCin said in an interview Wednesday that he was uncertain how many houses he and his wife, Cindy, own.
"I think — I'll have my staff get to you," McCain told Politico in Las Cruces, N.M. "It's condominiums where — I'll have them get to you."
The correct answer is at least four, located in Arizona, California and Virginia, according to his staff. Newsweek estimated this summer that the couple owns at least seven properties.
In recent weeks, Democrats have stepped up their effort to caricature McCain as living an outlandishly rich lifestyle — a bit of payback to the GOP for portraying Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) as an elitist, and for turning the spotlight in 2004 on the five homes owned by Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) and his wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry.
Pro-Obama labor groups have sent out mailers highlighting McCain’s wealth, and prominent Democrats have included references to it in comments to reporters.
Twice in the past two weeks, those Democrats have focused on McCain’s houses.
Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) told Politico’s Ben Smith that it was McCain “who wears $500 shoes, has six houses and comes from one of the richest families in his state."
And David Axelrod, Obama’s chief strategist, referred in an interview with Adam Nagourney of The New York Times to an imagined meeting of McCain strategists “on the portico of the McCain estate in Sedona — or maybe in one of his six other houses.”
McCain’s comments came four days after he initially told Pastor Rick Warren during a faith forum on Sunday his threshold for considering someone rich is $5 million — a careless comment he quickly corrected.
In the interview, McCain did not offer an alternate number, but had a new answer ready.
“I define rich in other ways besides income,” he said. “Some people are wealthy and rich in their lives and their children and their ability to educate them. Others are poor if they’re billionaires.”
McCain, by anyone's measure, is well-off, if you account for his wife's fortune. Cindy McCain inherited control of her father’s beer distributorship, the largest in Arizona, and has an estimated worth of more than $100 million.
Commentary by Richard
It would have been a lot better if McCain at the Faith Forum would have just come out and said "I'm wealthy, yes both myself and my wife are wealthy".
Is it wise for America to have a President that is "so wealthy", that he is disconnected from the common person's economic plight of being able to afford and pay for a home?
It's really a trajedy when only millionaires and the wealthy occupy political office.
There is a saying that a "fish rots from the head", when the wealthy occupy political office, the head begins to rot and the whole body politic stinks.
I admit that I am wealthy, I have two bicycles in good workding order, some gold and siver coins and a trading account at one of those "deep discount brokerages". I know many who do not have what I have.
And then too boot, I have wealth untold in heaven; and a mansion there, and a wardrobe of glorious white linen that all came gifted to me by the Wealth Lord Jesus Christ. He labored, I rested, and in the process I got wealthy.
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John McCin said in an interview Wednesday that he was uncertain how many houses he and his wife, Cindy, own.
"I think — I'll have my staff get to you," McCain told Politico in Las Cruces, N.M. "It's condominiums where — I'll have them get to you."
The correct answer is at least four, located in Arizona, California and Virginia, according to his staff. Newsweek estimated this summer that the couple owns at least seven properties.
In recent weeks, Democrats have stepped up their effort to caricature McCain as living an outlandishly rich lifestyle — a bit of payback to the GOP for portraying Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) as an elitist, and for turning the spotlight in 2004 on the five homes owned by Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) and his wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry.
Pro-Obama labor groups have sent out mailers highlighting McCain’s wealth, and prominent Democrats have included references to it in comments to reporters.
Twice in the past two weeks, those Democrats have focused on McCain’s houses.
Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) told Politico’s Ben Smith that it was McCain “who wears $500 shoes, has six houses and comes from one of the richest families in his state."
And David Axelrod, Obama’s chief strategist, referred in an interview with Adam Nagourney of The New York Times to an imagined meeting of McCain strategists “on the portico of the McCain estate in Sedona — or maybe in one of his six other houses.”
McCain’s comments came four days after he initially told Pastor Rick Warren during a faith forum on Sunday his threshold for considering someone rich is $5 million — a careless comment he quickly corrected.
In the interview, McCain did not offer an alternate number, but had a new answer ready.
“I define rich in other ways besides income,” he said. “Some people are wealthy and rich in their lives and their children and their ability to educate them. Others are poor if they’re billionaires.”
McCain, by anyone's measure, is well-off, if you account for his wife's fortune. Cindy McCain inherited control of her father’s beer distributorship, the largest in Arizona, and has an estimated worth of more than $100 million.
Commentary by Richard
It would have been a lot better if McCain at the Faith Forum would have just come out and said "I'm wealthy, yes both myself and my wife are wealthy".
Is it wise for America to have a President that is "so wealthy", that he is disconnected from the common person's economic plight of being able to afford and pay for a home?
It's really a trajedy when only millionaires and the wealthy occupy political office.
There is a saying that a "fish rots from the head", when the wealthy occupy political office, the head begins to rot and the whole body politic stinks.
I admit that I am wealthy, I have two bicycles in good workding order, some gold and siver coins and a trading account at one of those "deep discount brokerages". I know many who do not have what I have.
And then too boot, I have wealth untold in heaven; and a mansion there, and a wardrobe of glorious white linen that all came gifted to me by the Wealth Lord Jesus Christ. He labored, I rested, and in the process I got wealthy.
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