McCAIN'S 13 CARS!





by MissLaura

Sep 21, 2008

If you're John McCain, you know you're losing your Man of the People image when Newsweek begins a story:

"When you have seven homes, that's a lot of garages to fill. After the fuss over the number of residences owned by the two presidential nominees, NEWSWEEK looked into the candidates' cars. And based on public vehicle-registration records, here's the score. John and Cindy McCain: 13. Barack and Michelle Obama: one."

Not to mention when it closes by noting that the car your wife actually drives isn't even registered in her name, but in that of her massive beer distributorship.

But, uh, Obama is elitist because, uh, look over there! Arugula!!!

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/2.../325/502/605632

McCAIN'S 8 HOMES!

The current combined value of the eight properties, which are generally owned by trusts and companies controlled by Cindy, an heiress to a fortune from her father's beer distribution company, is estimated to be about $13 million.

In 2007 Roll Call ranked McCain the ninth richest member of Congress, out of 535 members. According to the 2007 Senate financial disclosure form the McCains have assets of at least $36.5 million; some estimate Cindy's worth as $100 million.

http://www.mccainfactcheck.com/facts/11/ei...es_339583.shtml

But Obama eats arugula, and that trumps all the rich-husband stuff McCain has.

Good stuff phrantic! Good stuff

8 houses? I thought there were only 7...

Before the righties try to paint Obama as an "elitist" ...maybe they should explain McCain's extravagant lifestyle.

Let us not forget something, dear friends: In 2004, the Republicans branded John Kerry an elitist...on the grounds that he, 'married his money.'

Soooo, by their own definition....

Something is a bit fishy here.
One? A ford hybrid is the only car they have?

Maybe he traded the van in after President Clinton keyed the car? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andy-borowit...as_b_80525.html

or after Michelle was in an accident with a motorcycle? http://www.mahalo.com/Michelle_Obama_Car_Accident

What do you expect the McCain's children to drive that are of age at home?


3 are electric vehicles.
a vintage Wilys jeep (collector item).

is one of them the daughters Toyota Prius that she picked out?

"Only the Cadillac is registered in the candidate's name."

Seems like Newsweek is being unbiased here. Counting the children's cars, a vintage collector car and electric "golf-carts" as the 13 vehicles. Another dishonest article.

Another nonsensical thread. I own three vehicles. A 2002 Jeep Wrangler, a 1992 Nissan pickup and a 1994 Kawasaki Vulcan. I must be an elitist also, no?

Way to go on both candidates everyone. These of course are the issues that will decide the fate of our democracy.

Oct 3, 2008

Tour McCain's 13-bedroom Arizona mansion

Going on auction next month. The McCain's will manage with their 8 other homes, I'm sure.

The McCain family's 13-bedroom, 14.5 bathroom Phoenix compound, on 2.7 acres, is going up for auction this month. CNN calls the mansion "a taste of the good life fit for a king... or a president, perhaps." The McCains raised their children in the house, whose features includes an air-conditioned playhouse, More.. a swimming pool, Budweiser on tap, ten fireplaces, a six-car garage (with "extra garage") and 22 flat-screen televisions.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=0c7_1222955955


Again, which candidate is elitist?

Forget the houses, the cars, and the airplane.
McCain has ALWAYS been an elitist.
A "child of priviledge".

He used his father and grandfather's positions as Admirals to get preferential treatment from both the U.S. Navy and the North Vietnamese.
He used his paternal Navy contacts (and a certain U.S. Senator) to get into The War College even though he didn't meet the normal qualifications.
He used his positions in the Navy to expand his extra-marital sexual conquests and meet a rich trophy mistress who later became is rich trophy 2nd wife.
He carpet-bagged his way into Arizona politics and rode his wife's family fortune into the U.S. Senate.
When he got caught with his Senate hands in the S&L Cookie Jar he used his status as a former POW to generate enough sympathy to avoid serious penalty.
And now he is trying to ride his FALSE claims as a "War Hero" into the White House.

John McCain is as elitist as they come.


Mac

22 flat screens? Who in the hell needs THAT many TVs? Wine tasting room? Yeah, mine's the refrigerator. Must be nice.

Zat
Don't focus on THINGS.
Having THINGS doesn't make someone elitist. (just "rich")
Elitist is all about ATTITUDE.
McCain has the attitude.
O'Bama does not.


Mac

I’m an elitist, and so are you (I hope).

10 October 2008

I am an avowed “elitist,” and I bet you are also, regardless how you might protest otherwise.

When I board an airplane, I do not want the pilot to have been picked by lottery from amongst the passenger manifest. I’m not about to have the checkout clerk at the grocery store look at my X-rays, then make the diagnosis. If my son has striven hard to achieve the stamina, the dexterity, and the skills to be the school’s top wide receiver, I don’t want him passed over so that the 300 pound pie-eating champ who can’t walk five yards without having to stop and rest can take the field. And parents, perhaps you’re one of them, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, have been screaming about the outrageous cost of college for their kids.

That is, all of this is, elitism! You and I want the best qualified people flying our aircraft, diagnosing our health issues, competing on our sports teams, and we want our kids to reach their highest potential.

What none of us want is for any of our kids to end up as a Joe Six-pack couch potato, pushing down bags and bags of potato chips between cans of beer, in front of the TV. And you and I know that if that is what we’d want our kids to end up as, we would be guilty of child abuse. We want the best for our kids, not the worst. Let the next-door parent go for mediocre.

... the intellectual midgets of George W. Bush and John McCain, and now Sarah Palin. (If we’d like those who come to this country to be able to speak the language, what does it say about the electorate, when it doesn’t care a whit when its leaders, and prospective leaders cannot articulate a single sentence in a grammatically correct and comprehensible way?)

I am an avowed elitist. I do not want to have a beer or go to a barbecue with my president, or even feel I’d fit in at such a gathering.

I want my president to be much better educated, more thoughtful, more intelligent than am I, and, in a powder-keg world with a short fuse, I want my president to have a long one. If something is going to explode, I most certainly do not want to feel there was even a remote possibility that it was my president who, in a fit of pique, lit that fuse.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org

Andy Borowitz is a satirist (ie: The Borowitz Report). Do you actually READ what you post links to first?

I can't believe you thought Clinton would actually do that. THAT sounds like something Bush would do though. Like flipping off teenagers from his campaign bus.

The Real Elitism

October 11th, 2008

Yesterday, the McCain campaign defended the rabid hatred that’s been on display at his rallies by accusing Obama of not “understanding regular people and the issues they care about,” and of “dismissing hardworking middle class Americans as clinging to guns and religion, while at the same time attacking average Americans at McCain rallies who are angry at Washington, Wall Street and the status quo.”

In other words, Obama is an “elitist” for objecting to presidential candidates who incite mob violence.

We all know that the elitist narrative is a key part of the Republican strategy for winning “heartland voters.” And needless to say, in addition to being outrageously untrue, it’s a reversal of the truth: It’s McCain and the present-day Republican Party who are steeped in elitism.

Which is one reason why I’m steaming like a teakettle after reading this op-ed in today’s New York Times, by Casey B. Mulligan, a University of Chicago economics professor who says John McCain is right: The fundamentals of the economy are strong:

http://commentsfromleftfield.com/2008/10/the-real-elitism

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Sarah Palin spent on clothes in one month what the average American household spends on clothes in 80 years.

The Republican National Committee appears to have spent more than $150,000 to clothe and accessorize vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and her family since her surprise pick by John McCain in late August.

According to financial disclosure records, the accessorizing began in early September and included bills from Saks Fifth Avenue in St. Louis and New York for a combined $49,425.74.

The records also document a couple of big-time shopping trips to Neiman Marcus in Minneapolis, including one $75,062.63 spree in early September.

The RNC also spent $4,716.49 on hair and makeup through September after reporting no such costs in August.

Gee, Marshalls and Target are too good for Mrs. Joe Six Pack?

http://www.americablog.com/2008/10/rnc-spe...nd-make-up.html


What's the word I'm looking for?

ELITIST!

.........and one of the obvious bargains was a scarf with the word "vote" and many donkeys imprinted on it, which Palin proudly wore yesterday. What a ditz!

So let's just see.....

- McCain's father and grandfather were four-star admirals in the US Navy. I'll bet the salaries of guys like that weren't too shabby. In 1968, his father was named commander of all US forces in the Vietnam theatre.

- McCain attended a private preparatory boarding school in Alexandria, Episcopal High School. (In fact, he also sent one of his kids to an elite private school and claimed tax breaks for charity. )

- McCain was cheating with a rich woman 17 years his junior, who was daughter to a man who ran an Anheuser-Busch distributorship and not only had a drug addiction problem but was scamming through a charity. He dumped his wife, who had been crippled in an accident, and married the rich bimbo. What did his crippled wife Carol get out of the deal? Two Houses and financial support for her ongoing medical treatments from her accident. Now that should tell you right now that McCain was well-to-do if he could give his cheated-on wife TWO HOUSES and money to support her.

- Let's mention again how much money McCain has at his disposal JUST FROM HIS WIFE, although none of HER money is apparently in McCain's name. As heiress to her father's stake in Hensley & Co. of Phoenix, Cindy McCain is an executive whose worth may exceed $100 million. Her beer earnings have afforded the GOP presidential nominee a wealthy lifestyle with a private jet and vacation homes at his disposal, and her connections helped him launch his political career -- even if the millions remain in her name alone. Yet the arm's-length distance between McCain and his wife's assets also has helped shield him from conflict-of-interest problems.

http://salon.glenrose.net/default.asp?view=plink&id=6990

A self-proclaimed elitist such as yourself should not look down on someone who has only
1 vehicle. That's pretty damn snobbish.

If you want to pretend these cars belong to someone other than whom they are claimed to belong to --
then please do your own research & show us the registrations!