How many houses do I own? Hmm, let me think about that awhile...ummm... let's see... oh, yeah, that's right, I got it! One. One small house. There, that wasn't so hard, and I didn't even have to ask my staff to look it up. One small house with one BIG mortgage. I guess you have to be really, really rich to forget how many homes you own. Or really confused. Either way, John McCain couldn't answer that question. Let's help him. The answer is ten. Ten homes for a guy worth a hundred million dollars and who calls his opponent in the presidential sweepstakes an elitist. Odd. Did Mr. McCain forget that his opponent is Barack Obama, the son of a Kenyan shepherd who beat it back to Kenya when Obama was two, leaving his mother to raise him in humble circumstances? So, which of them is a member of the privileged elite?
Did McCain think one of the born-wealthy Democratic nominees won the nomination, some other guy with ten houses? Perhaps he thought that a 5 home minimum rule was in effect to qualify for the race? Or maybe he got Obama confused with someone else, someone more like himself who got a free education at the United States Naval Academy because his father and grandfather were Admirals, where he graduated ranked 894 out of 899. Maybe John McCain simply forgot that Obama came from humble beginnings to get get through Columbia University and Harvard Law School by working and obtaining student loans like regular (not elitist) people. You know, one-home slobs or worse; renters!
But McCain seems to forget a lot lately, like things he fervently believed in before he didn't fervently believe in them anymore, or what he stood for but doesn't anymore. It seems he's had to consult with his staff quite often in recent weeks to find out not only how many homes he owns, but what his new policies are. And maybe he figures that the best way to campaign for president is to act like his new policies are what he really believed in when he was pushing his old policies, what he meant to say when he was saying the opposite. McCain is also a guy who doesn't know the price of gasoline, or milk, eggs, a loaf of bread or pretty much anything you and I have to shop for, what with most of us quaintly not having a large staff to do these things for us and remind of us what we stand for. When you're worth a hundred mil there's no reason to sweat about small potatoes, or worry about how much they cost. Elect the other guy. At least he knows how many homes he owns and the answer is the same as most of us, just the one.
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