Housing crisis: how many houses do I own again?

[clambake]

what unions?

[ChumpDumper]

Has his staff figured out the number of houses yet?

[Mr. Peabody]

Oh wait. McCain is not as out of touch as Obama says. Because while he owns ten properties, he only lives in four of them according to his campaign.

The McCain campaign was in full damage-control mode as the housing story took off today. Rogers tried to play down the story, saying that reports of the many McCain houses were overstated.

“The reality is they have some investment properties and stuff. It’s not as if he lives in ten houses. That’s just not the case,” Rogers said. “The reality is they have four that actually could be considered houses they could use.”

[Mr. Peabody]

Has his staff figured out the number of houses yet?

By "staff", do you mean campaign staff or the maids, gardeners, chauffeurs, and cooks he and Cindy keep at their multiple mansions and paid over $250k to last year?

The McCains increased their budget for household employees from $184,000 in 2006 to $273,000 in 2007, according to John McCain’s tax returns.

[xrayzebra]

Haven't seen the name of REZKO yet? What's the matter cat got your
tongue. Really don't think Obama wants to push this house thing too far.
I predict that you wont hear much about it after Rezko property comes up.
You know the little side piece that The Messiah got for under market prices.
From a convicted felon.

[Mr. Peabody]

Haven't seen the name of REZKO yet? What's the matter cat got your
tongue. Really don't think Obama wants to push this house thing too far.
I predict that you wont hear much about it after Rezko property comes up.
You know the little side piece that The Messiah got for under market prices.
From a convicted felon.

Nice try xray. One, the Rezko property thing has already "come up" during the primaries. And two, your propaganda has already been debunked.

In January of 2005, the Obamas made three successive bids on the home, which had been listed at $1.95 million. After bids of $1.3 and then $1.5 million, the Obamas, through an agent, finally offered $1.65 million, a bid which the seller ultimately accepted. Obama has said that the house was on the market for a number of months and was overpriced. The seller, a doctor at the University of Chicago named Fredric Wondisford who has refused to speak to the media, has stated in an email released by the Obama campaign to Bloomberg that Obama's bid was the highest bid on the home.

[Mr. Peabody]

Haven't seen the name of REZKO yet? What's the matter cat got your
tongue. Really don't think Obama wants to push this house thing too far.
I predict that you wont hear much about it after Rezko property comes up.
You know the little side piece that The Messiah got for under market prices.
From a convicted felon.

Next thing you know, you will be telling me that McCain doesn't know how many homes he owns because he was a POW....

[xrayzebra]

Nice try xray. One, the Rezko property thing has already "come up" during the primaries. And two, your propaganda has already been debunked.

Oh, it hasn't begun to be talked about Yet! More crap than you can stir will be brought out. Property will just be one thing about that relationship.
I stick by my prediction. Houses will be put away quietly.

Besides, the way things are going for Obama I would not be too surprised
to see Hillary stick it to him at the convention. All is not well in the
dimm-o-crap party.

[Mr. Peabody]

Oh, it hasn't begun to be talked about Yet! More crap than you can stir will be brought out. Property will just be one thing about that relationship.
I stick by my prediction. Houses will be put away quietly.

Besides, the way things are going for Obama I would not be too surprised
to see Hillary stick it to him at the convention. All is not well in the
dimm-o-crap party.

I agree this hasn't begun to be talked about yet. McCain's gaffe just occurred this morning. Wait until the evening talk shows get into this.

As far as HRC is concerned, she may be a problem but, we'll see how the VP pick and the convention shake out.

[Mr. Peabody]

The McCain campaign is road-testing a new argument in responding to Obama's criticism of his number-of-houses gaffe, an approach the McCain camp has never tried before: The houses gaffe doesn't matter because ... he was a POW!

"This is a guy who lived in one house for five and a half years -- in prison," spokesman Brian Rogers told the Washington Post.

For those of you who haven't kept track, the McCain campaign just recently cited McCain's POW years in explaining away the Miss Buffalo Chip gaffe, and in dealing with the allegation that he broke the rules and listened in on Barack Obama during the Rick Warren forum.

McCain should just quit trying to explain away gaffes and just rely on his "go to" gaffe response from here on out...

Ladies and gentlemen , I'm just a POW. I was captured and later rescued. Your world frightens and confuses me! Sometimes the honking horns of your traffic make me want to get out of my BMW.. and run off into the hills, or wherever.. Sometimes when I get a message on my fax machine, I wonder: "Did little demons get inside and type it?" I don't know! My primitive mind can't grasp these concepts.

New McCain Speech writer?

[RandomGuy]

.... soooo let me get this straight.

Your memory about how many houses you have was impaired by the time you spent as a POW, but yet you want me to put you in one of the most mentally taxing jobs on the planet with access to nuclear weapons and authority over our nation's military.

The risk of a "senior moment" seems to be one that we should consider here.

[JoeChalupa]

McCain knows how to marry up he just has trouble remembering.

[Wild Cobra]

Why does it matter how many houses he owns? Should he know for sure off the top of his head? If he owns several and has a property management company rent some out, he may not have thought about such things for years. Then was this referring to his houses, or his and Cindy's houses? Many of their assets are separate you know.

Now consider this two. If they have ten houses together, but he has four, then nothing wrong there either. His mother lives in one of the houses, and so does his sister (or was it his daughter?) That leaves two houses for him. Probably one in Arizona and another in DC. Maybe a vacation home somewhere too. What's wrong with that? Anyway, it's just like a lib to focus on such things against a republican, but not against Al Gore or John Kerry. Typical liberal double standards.

Obama's really stupid for making a big deal about this. McCain houses two of his family members in two of his houses, and Obama has a brother living in poverty.

[boutons_]

"Why does it matter how many houses he owns?"

because McBefuddled's slimebots have been attacking HUSSEIN elistist, codeword to bubbas for "uppity who doesn't know his place".

Pointing McConfused's wealth is simply a counterpunch to the hypocritical slime from McJerk's people.

Is is the issue important? no, so why did Mc bring it up?

Is it important to counterpunch the old fart? yes.

If McAnklebiter wants to dish it out, he otta be ready to take it.

[ChumpDumper]

Should he know for sure off the top of his head?

Should it take his staff a day to find out?

[Wild Cobra]

Should it take his staff a day to find out?

That would depend on the priority it was given. I'm sure they have better things to do, and it just doesn't matter how many houses he has.

[xrayzebra]

Why does it matter how many houses he owns? Should he know for sure off the top of his head? If he owns several and has a property management company rent some out, he may not have thought about such things for years. Then was this referring to his houses, or his and Cindy's houses? Many of their assets are separate you know.

Now consider this two. If they have ten houses together, but he has four, then nothing wrong there either. His mother lives in one of the houses, and so does his sister (or was it his daughter?) That leaves two houses for him. Probably one in Arizona and another in DC. Maybe a vacation home somewhere too. What's wrong with that? Anyway, it's just like a lib to focus on such things against a republican, but not against Al Gore or John Kerry. Typical liberal double standards.

Obama's really stupid for making a big deal about this. McCain houses two of his family members in two of his houses, and Obama has a brother living in poverty.

Agree with you WC. Why are the dimm-o-craps making such a fuss over how many houses McCain and Cindy own. If they are trying to make him out as a big time capitalist or rich man I still don't see the
significance. The Messiah is the one who is one who displays all the traits of a "better than you" at ude. I know several people who own several houses and they are not really what I would consider the cream of the rich folks. They just invested in property, not such an usual thing.

But The Messiah still has a lot of explaining to do on his Rezko relationship. And from what I have read he better have all his ducks in
a row cause folks are going to coming at him big time.

He may be trying to deflect his history in the Illinois legislature about his stance on abortion. He has been caught in one big lie about his voting record and reason he voted to kill babies already born alive from blotched abortions.

[clambake]

That would depend on the priority it was given. I'm sure they have better things to do, and it just doesn't matter how many houses he has.

priority one should be "What can we do so that mccain doesn't look so stupid?"

[Mr. Peabody]

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He may be trying to deflect his history in the Illinois legislature about his stance on abortion. He has been caught in one big lie about his voting record and reason he voted to kill babies already born alive from blotched abortions.

ray, don't you know, we all love to kill babies in the Democratic Party. It's in our platform. Look it up.

[Mr. Peabody]

priority one should be "What can we do so that mccain doesn't look so stupid?"

That could take up too many resources and too much time....

[Wild Cobra]

priority one should be "What can we do so that mccain doesn't look so stupid?"

But it doesn't make him look stupid. That would be like asking me how many dictionarys I have. I would have to count them. Why do stupid people think it does? I need your viewpoint to try to understand this please.

[clambake]

But it doesn't make him look stupid. That would be like asking me how many dictionarys I have. I would have to count them. Why do stupid people think it does? I need your viewpoint to try to understand this please.

OMG!!!!!!! what a moron!!!

[Mr. Peabody]

But it doesn't make him look stupid. That would be like asking me how many dictionarys I have. I would have to count them. Why do stupid people think it does? I need your viewpoint to try to understand this please.

I don't like the dictionary analogy, but I do understand your argument. I think I read that Cindy's personal wealth is estimated at $100 million and her company's assets are worth $1 billion. McCain's been running his campaign for almost 2 years now. Who knows how many properties have been bought or sold during that time. Also, I have no doubt that Cindy and likely even a third party manage the money and property. Really, given what he's is in the middle of right now, who would expect that McCain would know all of the details of the management of the fortune he and his wife possess? That is a lot to keep up with and I don't mean that in a sarcastic manner.

It's just a fun talking point. Particularly after a week of dropping poll numbers and a poor reviews from the Saddleback forum.

[clambake]

I don't like the dictionary analogy, but I do understand your argument. I think I read that Cindy's personal wealth is estimated at $100 million and her company's assets are worth $1 billion. McCain's been running his campaign for almost 2 years now. Who knows how many properties have been bought or sold during that time. Also, I have no doubt that Cindy and likely even a third party manage the money and property. Really, given what he's is in the middle of right now, who would expect that McCain would know all of the details of the management of the fortune he and his wife possess? That is a lot to keep up with and I don't mean that in a sarcastic manner.

It's just a fun talking point. Particularly after a week of dropping poll numbers and a poor reviews from the Saddleback forum.

but you forgot something..................who's been throwing around the "elitist" label?

[Wild Cobra]

I don't like the dictionary analogy, but I do understand your argument.

I started to saying pairs of sox, but that would be a poor comparison. I do own several dictionaries. Among them is a 1906, 1936, 1948, 1970, 1986, and 1996. I have more, but I don't recall the dates or how many more. I rely mostly on the 1936 and 1996.