Cindy McCain claims to be an only child.  However, her father had another daughter before he married Cindy's mother.  At inheritance time all the money went to Cindy.  The step sister and family got peanuts.

The rich don't get rich by giving away their money or by playing fair.

This is scatter gun campaigning where everyday  you scour the transcripts of your opponent and come up with the latest line of attack.

Then the other camp responds to it and accuses you of something similar.  You can't bet McCain will fire back at Obama citing book deals, the money his wife made, etc.  

Obama needs to get above this.  Find a narrative and stick to it.  What is the theme of this campaign?

I don't like that we're going after this, because he said, right after he made the comment, that he was sure that we'd intentionally misinterpret it, and that he has different standards of wealth (i.e. home, car, health, etc).

Now, I'm all for grinding him under the stone for his tax policies, but the $5 million comment was a jest, and he obviously said it knowing how his comments (like "100 years") get misconstrued.

Hit him on something else.

McCain keeps attacking Obama on Foreign policy, so the sound bites are all about foreign policy.  Obama needs to attack McCain on domestic policy and the economy so the focus shifts from military hero McCain onto the out of touch elitist McCain that will give us 4 more years of BushOnomics.

Have to pass this on..
AP gets it right on Lieberman

"His top contenders are said to include Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. Less traditional choices mentioned include former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge, an abortion-rights supporter, and Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman, the Democratic vice presidential prick in 2000 who now is an independent."

Smile on..
only four days till we get going in Denver..
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I think McCain is just a doofus. Wealthy folk don't often think of richness as being defined in terms of income, and certainly not 'earned income'. (Don't ask me how I know this, you wouldn't believe me anyway.) The 5 million figure he used almost certainly was referencing 'Net Worth' and may or may not have been intended to include the worth derived from the 'market value' of a primary residence.

This number is, believe it or not, a pretty good estimate of what High Net Worth individuals would consider sort of a reasonable number, even a concession. Most of them believe 'wealthy' is starts at some multiple of their own net worth - for example someone with 5 million in net worth might think of themselves as 'comfortable' but not wealthy - that starts at 10 or 15 million. It follows up the ladder that way.

Seriously. I wouldn't lie to you.

I'm all for Obama hitting McCain on this issue. McCain has been very effective at coming across as an everyman. I had no clue until recently that he was THIS wealthy. It sickens me to think Obama is saddled with the elitist moniker while Johnny McJet Plane walks around on $500 shoes.

From my perspective, $500 is

• one month of preschool for my 4 year old.
  
• one month of groceries for my family of 4
  
• two months of gas for my commute
  
• Christmas savings set aside to get gifts for the kids.

And for McCain, $500 is shoe money. FU McCain.

This would be a great infomercial that could air during the Olympics.  It would SINK McCain!

That comment stunned me, both the $5m and the private plane remark.  Everyone's jumping on the $5m, but I'm from Arizona... you don't need a private plane. ;p.  The vast majority of the population is in Flagstaff and points south; the northern third, western half, and eastern quarter of the state are sparsely populated - it's about a 4 hour drive from Flag to Tucson, taking in Phoenix and Sedona on the way down.