ABC -it's now TEN houses... (lead story on Good Morning America)

[brooklynite]

3 houses in Sedona, AZ
2 beachfront condos in Coronado, CA
1 condo in Phoenix (used to be two...)
1 condo in Arlington, VA
1 house in La Jolla, CA
1 condo in Phoenix for their daughter
1 additional condo in Phoenix (just for goo measure)

(personal revelation: my wife and I own one house, but there's a bat house attached to it (no bats so far...)

[SteppingRazor]

1. Jesus, you have your own bat house? What an elitist!

:eyes:

[WeDidIt]

2. The gift that keeps on giving

It would be beautiful if they found a ski chalet in Aspen they completely forgot about.

[lisa58]

3. We only have one house too - and a dog house in the yard that the dog never uses.

[thoughtcrime1984]

5. "That's TWO houses, my friend. You are nearly as fortunate as I. How many million$ do you have?"

Picture McCreepy saying this.

[lisa58]

7. lol - excellent and creepy at the same time

[CrispyQ]

39. Two houses here.

Here's one:



This was actually a duck house. Years ago we had ducks & lived in the country & built this house to put the ducks in at night so predators wouldn't get them. No dog we've ever had has ever been interested in this little house, but this dog loves it! He's excavated the inside so there is quite a hole in the ground! :rofl:

[sweettater]

4. I really hate to say this

and it pains me to do so, but bush is beginning to look good compared to mcdangerous.

[lisa58]

6. That's only because you know it's almost over, but

...following Bush with McCain is extremely dangerous.

[gratefultobelib]

30. Oh please!! No way!!

[Catch22Dem]

8. Shame you haven't gotten any bats yet

How long have you had it? I'd love to put a few bat houses out on my in-laws' property.

[brooklynite]

24. About two years...

...the mosquitos are driving my wife crazy.

[irish.lambchop]

9. NINE? Wow!

I thought it was seven. I, also, own one house - no bat house, though - I thought that would be a little pretentious :) :hi:

[Maureen1322]

20. Nine houses on seven properties.

[demnan]

10. Could this be McCain's "Macaca" incident?

Hope this goes on and on.

[lisa58]

13. McMansion is the best nick-name for McCain so far (IMO) hope it sticks all the way to the election!

[City Lights]

17. McMansions. He's got 10!

:hi:

[lisa58]

22. Even better - I stand corrected!

[demwing]

29. McMansions!

Super-size him!

[Virginia Dare]

40. I like McCribs....n/t

[fasttense]

11. Welll, in the interest of telling the whole truth,

I have one house with a mortgage. So in actuality, the bank owns the house and I pay rent to the bank (for 30 years).

I'm sure most Americans can keep track of the number of houses they own. Now counting the number of loans they owe is another question.

[grannie4peace]

12. i'm surprised abc had the balls to print that

they are so pro mcshit!!!!

[bushisanidiot]

14. McAsshole got caught in a BIG-TIME LIE! His people were saying 4 houses yesterday!!

This guy is a major big-time elitist! No wonder nobody he went to school with liked him!

[riona]

15. Just in time for Xmas! The new edition McCain Monopoly Game!

More houses! More fun!

[Coexist]

16. when disclosing, please add the sq. footage of the bat house...

[C_U_L8R]

18. Geez you'd think McCain would come clean

in the first news cycle... now this thing is gonna live on and on.

First they said they have 4 house... then it was 7, then they've added one more last night...
now it's TEN houses !!!!!!!!

What is wrong with these people? Do they call this straight talk?

I really don't care how many mansions and yachts the guy has...
but to be so freekin' clueless about it is so.... Elmer Fudd.

[Algorem]

19. hey.old guy needs nap houses.

lets say old guy needs nap.old guy needs nearby house for nap.don't be mean to old guy.he was tortured dammit.

[sourmilk]

21. I bet that you have a BIRD house you don't talk about, either.

Do you have a DOG? Did you buy your DOG a house, too?

[C_U_L8R]

23. I'm in the dog house

does that count : - )))

[brooklynite]

25. I can honestly say, no bird house...

makes thinks too easy for the cats.

[davidpdx]

26. A bat house, but no bats?

Oh that's elitist for sure!

[davidpdx]

27. Maybe we should call him McLiar?

[Historic NY]

28. 10 houses, a jet, disability check, Social Security, free health care,

government pension, a rich wife to keep him.......i'd say its easy to forget when your on easy street.

[Canuckistanian]

31. Yeah, but Obama lives in a "frickin mansion"

So it's even.

[Orsino]

32. Correction: at least thirteen!

The Sedona compound has six, count 'em, six houses: http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/03/03/mccain.bbq/

[Vinca]

33. Well, see, now it makes sense. He wasn't counting condos.

How can you possible call a million dollar condo home? That's roughing it to McBush.

[Divernan]

34. Manhattan Pied a Terre? Beach house in Baja? Hunting lodge in Canada?

The properties identified to date are probably in McCain's name, but what about properties "owned" by one or more of Cindy's family corporate operations? What about properties outside of the US? Seriously wealthy folks keep luxury apartments/condos in NYC, Paris, London, etc., not to mention private yachts with uniformed crews. McCain is an old Navy type right - so where are his boats?

[Virginia Dare]

41. Bing Bing! Yep, this is the REAL story..

and why Politico asked the question, and he wouldn't answer it. It appears that one of the main reasons Miss Cindy won't release her tax returns is that she wants to hide her real estate holdings.

[Divernan]

51. According to NPR, Cindy inherited business/estate worth over $100 million.

And I think corporate owned housing is still a business writeoff as a tax expense.

[Virginia Dare]

52. And they've probably got a boatload of it...

probably some shady deals made along the way too. Once the addresses are out, it's easy to research.

[TTUBatfan2008]

49. McCain owns almost none of it himself...

It's all in the holding of the Cindy Hensley McCain Family Trust, which is designed to pass her real estate holdings on to her children and basically allows them to enjoy this real estate RIGHT NOW without dealing with normal property taxes.

[harun]

35. Wow, I would like to know how many of those he is paying mortgages on

and how many of those are paid for.

[Virginia Dare]

42. Not to mention WHO is holding the mortgages...n/t

[progressoid]

36. It;s shows like GMA that will get this message out to the average American

Most people don't log on daily to a political website like us but a LOT of people tune into fluff like GMA.

[seasat]

37. Hallelujah! We've established a media narrative!

This has been the one area where Repubs have bested us. They are great at establishing negative media narratives about their opponents. It looks like we've managed to finally do that to. Let's repeat this narrative while establishing others. Unfortunately, modern media is not driven by real stuff like issues. They are driven by superficial personal stuff. However, since we're with Obama on the issues, lets play out this silly game.

[Orsino]

43. Republicans are not "great" at establishing media narratives.

They simply serve the same masters as the media giants, and are therefore welcomed.

A minor point, maybe, but it irks me to hear, say, Karl Rove called a "genius" when he is merely corrupt.

[seasat]

44. While your point is also true, Repubs have disciplined messaging

I also don't think Rove is a genius, he's just willing to stoop lower than anyone else to win. Repubs will take a negative talking point and drive it until it becomes a narrative. Our party, in the past, has never been that disciplined in repeating negative talking points. We usually turn to back to important issues like policy. Unfortunately, the media doesn't think that will sell advertising.

I think there are two things that drive narratives in the media, corporate self interest and selling advertising. If a narrative is especially provocative, then people will tune in to follow it. It doesn't require much expense to cover it like real investigative journalism requires. All they do is bring in their trained talking heads to cover it. To overcome the corporate self interest issues, such as low corporate taxes and media consolidation, we need to provide a narrative that a lazy media can use to sell advertising and profit from.

In the past two Democratic campaigns we ran on issues, which ideally should be one of the main reasons that voters choose a candidate. Repubs ran using negative attack narratives and were very disciplined in promoting them. I'm glad that we were finally able to break through and finally establish a narrative against our opponent. One of the reasons, IMHO, is that the Obama campaign has pretty good message discipline.

[Orsino]

48. Their messaging is disciplined to death, and would never get airtime on its own.

The macho posturing sells itself, of course, but the rest of the Republican agenda is too laughably dull to propagate without corporate welfare.

[PATRICK]

38. Trying too hard

to maintain legal residency in AZ. The beachfront homes will be lost to global warming and rising seas. This gives McCain incentive to stay in touch with more neighbors around the country and definitely more fly time which as a former pilot he is plainly addicted to.

I bet some of his stumbles come from nightmares about possible divorce settlements.

[ellie]

45. Bwahahahahaha!

But, but, but, pointing out McSenile's wealth is really gonna hurt the Dem's chances! The story is going to die! There is no traction! Obama lives in a frickin' mansion in the south side of Chicago! Americans aspire to have that many houses!



:sarcasm:

Did I cover all of them?

[book_worm]

46. They actually need 3 houses in one city and two in another?

[bushisanidiot]

47. Damn! McCain has more homes than Saddam had WMD's!

What an arrogant ASSHOLE!

[Rosa Luxemburg]

50. did you see his swimming pool?

he's got more than one probably. The yards are perfectly manicured. Our yard is full of weeds (blush!) as I can't manage it on my own.

[FatDave]

53. Their daughter gets a condo?

Shit, me and the folks are gonna have to have a discussion about this. Where's my condo?