Yep

[babylonsister]

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/207607.php

Yep
08.08.08 -- 9:30AM
By Josh Marshall


Schumer: "I would answer back hard. What do you mean {Obama's} not one of us? It's John McCain who wears $500 shoes, has six houses, and comes from one of the richest families in his state. It's Barack Obama who climbed up the hard way, and that's why he wants middle-class tax cuts and better schools for our kids."

Again, across the board, the media grades McCain on a curve. Since the 'media' is often used as a generic and non-specific phrase, let's break it down. McCain has spent two decades cultivating the press -- specifically, the cadre of several dozen reporters based in Washington who report for the leading national newspapers and television networks. They know him. They've liked him. In part this is because he's made a concerted effort to appeal to them, by making himself accessible. He's also a pre-babyboom military man, a profile that has a special appeal to many boomers who never served. But familiarity and affection, as it does in all our lives, leads us to ignore faults. Not only is McCain an extremely wealthy man who didn't have to work for any of his wealth, he's also a man of very expensive tastes. Little facts capture the story. According to financial disclosure statements released in June, the McCain's are currently carrying between $135,000 and $335,000 in credit card debt. Given their wealth, which is in the many tens of millions of dollars, that means either that they spend a tremendous amount of money on themselves -- and this is just the 'carry' on an average basis -- or they have real problems managing their money. In any case, yes, McCain's an extremely wealthy man, with fancy clothes and houses across the country. But he got his money from marrying into it.

[liberal N proud]

1. Tired of the republicons framing the opponent to cover their own

deficiencies.

[babylonsister]

2. Me, too. I hope Obama has a team in place to respond to the

smears that are sure to come out while he's on vacation.

[Coexist]

3. what Josh said.

[Triana]

4. more repig pretentious hypocrisy and projection. n/t

[Debi]

5. Are you kidding me?

Was nobody here awake in 2004? :banghead:

I won't attack McCain on his wealth because I am WELL AWARE that there are WEALTHY Democrats who have run for President

I won't attack McCain on his choice of wife (or how he got her to be his wife) because there are MANY Democrats who have married younger woment/cheated on their spouses/gotten divorced who have run for President


C'mon folks...this is ALL we have to attack John McCain on?

[DeeDeeNY]

9. Your point makes sense, and we certainly have enough without these personal slurs

But - if this is in response to Obama's being labeled an "elitist, then McLame's wealth should be noted.
If this is in response to Republicans telling their base that they're the party of family values, then McLame cheating on his first wife is also fair game.
In 2004 Kerry was labeled a traitor by the swiftboaters while the Dems didn't want to sink so low as to stress how * was an AWOL, draft-dodging coward during that same war. But it should have been fair game in response to the swiftboaters, and that hurt Kerry.

[Debi]

11. Thanks, and I hear (read) your point as well

:hi:

[blondeatlast]

6. He will be WORSE than Bush--almost unimaginable, but he will. No grace, no dignity,

(because he feels entitled to it without an effort) and unlike Bush, he doesn't allow others to control him at all--hence the gaffes and astonishingly lousy camppaign he's run.

Josh, you need to talk to Amy Silverman of Phoenix New Times, co-editor and the journalist (in the REAL sense of the term) who knows McCain better than anyone.

He tried to use his charms on her to no avail. It was she who broke the Cindy story about stolen painkillers and. No one, but no one, knows him better than she does.

[BeyondGeography]

7. This is about a white guy named John McCain competing against a black guy named Barack Obama

Obama could have a net worth of $50 and live in a shack in Youngstown and he'd still be seen as the out-of-touch guy. We already went through this with the Clintons, who, despite their $100-million-plus celebrity cash-in since leaving the White House were seen as "caring more about people like me." Schumer should just STFU.

[babylonsister]

8. I think Schumer is alluding to the fact that the rethugs are trying to

paint Obama as an elitist when that's so not true in comparison to McGrouchy.
I'm curious why you seem so steamed at Schumer, but that'd be easy to do just on general principle.

[blogslut]

10. John McCain wears $500.00 shoes

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