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Category: John McCain

Posted by Libby Spencer on Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 11:35 AM

McCain can't keep track of his houses

Following up on my earlier post about how no one seems to know just how many homes the McCains own, it seems that even John McCain himself doesn't know.

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) 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."


Now to be fair, since McCain is living off his second wife's money, she might not want him to know how many properties she bought. But it does raise a question about McCain's so-called experience. You have to wonder, if he hasn't ever had to keep track of his own wealth, why on earth should we trust him with our national finances?

And by the way, the answer is seven.

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Thu. 08/21/08 07:46 PM

Houses

Actually, John McCain owns eight houses. From one end, I don't see the relevance past memory loss and the weakness of the attack from that, but I'd put more emphasis that McCain actually stopped to consider the ramifications of his answer, and shows he's a bit out of touch with the other 99.9% of people who can make do with one house.

And for the record, it's not something like Carleton Sheets or anything, where McCain has a property worth $14,000 and is fixing to flip it.

I call foul on McCain for making it political, because his attack on Obama for Rezko requires it. Politics 101. Cheers, Mako out.

Thu. 08/21/08 12:30 PM

McCain can't keep track of his houses

We get it McCain has a lot of money and he has houses and he is mooching off of his 2nd wife.

I have one house the same wife and make 45K a year so I'm not rich and even I have problems keeping track of my finances. So does that mean I am unfit to lead?

How about this instead of using your efforts to make McCain look so bad how about trying to make Obama look good? Point out why you think Obama should be President instead of pointing out all of the human faults that McCain has.

I'm what you would call "undecided" but your form of Cheerleading is actually making me want to vote for McCain but instead of listening to a bias person I think I will look at what both candidates say they are going to do and make an informed decision based off of that.

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