If McCain is going to stand a chance in this election, Steve Schmidt is going to have to heavily program him every morning and keep him away from reporters. Each time he adlibs, McCain is pure “straight-talk express” and pure loose-canon. We all have senior moments as we age, but it is not helpful when McCain has his on camera.

So what McCain does not know how many houses he has. He is a OLD man. He is not suppose to remember everything. He was born with silver spoon and married to get Gold spoon.

Some of McCain’s houses are being used by relatives. McCain takes care of his own, unlike Obama, who’s half-brother in Kenya is destitute. The Obama campaign is being short-sighted by bringing up this issue, as it opens the door for looking at how Obama treats his relatives.

Forget all of the garbage going back and forth. What I seek is an honest, transparent, fair, equitable and responsible government that represents all of the people. The Republican Party has currently clearly demonstrated that not one of those things is of interest to them; they simply arrogantly and aggressively pursue a private agenda to benefit Special Interests and a select few, those who return support, contributions and later kickback compensation, and they then give the average American only apathy, the costs and subterfuge. If you are one of the few, you probably are happy with Bush-Cheney-Rove-etal and feel good about continuing with more of the same. However, if you are not of that small group, which most of us aren’t, you may think you are, which many do, and then you are part of the problem. The Republicans have deceptively appealed to us using negative attacks, false accusations, exaggerations, distortions of the terms ‘liberal’ and ‘conservative’ and with efforts to excite our emotions over biases, prejudices and even religious beliefs; all efforts intended to confuse the reality of things. The only way to really understand is to look at your own status: are you better off today with more security and more spending power; are you satisfied with the Iraq War or do you believe it was falsely justified, falsely reported, has cost us too much and greatly benefited only a select few; do you feel the War on Terror has been neglected in favor of positions that benefit the few; do you feel too much has been neglected, like America’s infrastructure, education, medical costs, Global Warming and so on; do you feel that we are handicapping future generations, our children and grand children, with deficits and the current concentration on immediate gratification for the wealthy and powerful; do you feel the Bush administration has been consistently lying to us and so on. The Democrats are not perfect either but just noting how the Republicans focus on the meaningless garbage and avoid the issues, tells a story; they have literally developed dirty-politics into their art form. How can they seriously fault a lack of experience when their pride and joy was a movie actor and while McCain has a lot of time in as a Senator, there simply is still nothing impressive? Then there are the attacks on Obama because of those who are mere acquaintances and yet McCain was the one actually investigated during the Keating scandal and likely was excused only because he cooperated. No, it is really time for change, desperately needed change. Change from Bush-Cheney (-McCain) and change from Washington as usual (which is something Hillary didn’t offer). More of the same is really nothing but more negatives and even just a chance for change is what we really need!

If that’s all the Obama campaign camp can come up with against McCain then they need to roll up and go home - McCain is a GREAT AMERICAN - can Obama even measure up to 1/4 of McCain’s patriotism and dedication to America?

Who cares how many houses McCain has, this is America where you can own 1 or 5000 and it is your business. I’d be more concerned with the fact that the DNC is only letting so many Hillary delegates vote and the rest can not cast theirs. Now that is so fair. The DNC does not want to chance Obama loosing so they are taking away the elected delegates and the super delegates right to vote. So most of the people who voted for Hillary their vote wont count just like FL and MI had theirs wiped out. Go DNC.

Ask Barack Obama how many brothers he has living in shacks. Then taunt him over his answer. That would be equally good reporting.

I dont think anyone cares how many houses the McCains own. They at least bought them legitamately, unlike the great “Deal” Remsko “arranged” for Obama.
McCain’s houses are old news…….

McCain is out of touch with ordinary people. He owns more homes than he can count, he thinks the economy is doing fine and he will do anything to protect giveaways to the wealthy. He’’s no maverick and definitely no friend of ordinary people. Barack Obama is right to push back after all those silly and misleading ads McCain ran that lie about raising taxes on the middle class and being like Paris Hilton and Brittany Spears. McCain once said that “Chelsea Clinton is so ugly because her father is Janet Reno.” He is not only not a friend of ordinary people; he is not even a nice person. But political campaigns are all about image and posturing. So the image is what people are being asked to embrace. A little dose of reality might save us from another politician in the pocket of the wealth

At least it’s not above his pay grade like Obama!

What a bunch of crybabbies the Dems are. They cannot find anything relevent to speak about so they attack Senator McCain on his wife’s fortune? I am a woman who makes less than 75k and I have acquired 5 homes in my 41 years. I am latino woman who is an orphan who grew up in foster care and for 8 years was a single mother. I look to people who are prosperous as my role models. I admire Senator McCain for his humble repsonse about the home issue and on all his trials and his fortunes.

I want to condem Kristen-the Democratice Mouth Piece who is a commentator for Fox- last nite on Hanity and Colmes she criticized Senator McCaine for speaking on his POW period. She said he is using his POW status for Sympathy. I bet she’s never been without a meal because she couldn’t afford it or warm bed to sleep in. She should be ashamed of herself as a Human Being to put someone down for their plight. She is arrogant. That just shows how completely one sided the Dems are and how they are grabbing at straws to put good people down. I can tell you after hearing their Negative Comments, I will NOT be voting for Obama

who gives a sht how many houses he owns? who better to understand the value of realestate? if he was broke at his age who would trust him with a multi-trillion $ budget? if he was wasting his money on gold jewelry & pimped out cars the Obots would think he was one of them. Nancy Pelosi invests in windmills, Biden takes money from HSBC, Obama’s mommy takes food stamps (how the hell does a graduate student married to an Indonesian OIL CO EXECUTIVE qualify for student grants, loans & food stamps?), Obama takes/gives sweetheart deals from/to a Chicago realestate developer who’s been indicted for bilking millions from IL taxpayers. If ppl want to buy Obama’s pseudo-fictional autobiographical comedy book he’s not complaining. nobody’s calling that stuff elitist.
GO PUMA
GO MCCAIN
VIVA HILLARY!!!!

It’s 3am…….do you know where your houses are?
What a joke McCain has turned into. I used to respect him but not anymore. He has given in to the worst of the right wing political attack machine. I was going to vote for him but not now. He has let himself down and the worst of it is how he uses his time as a POW as an excuse for not being accountable for what he says or does. Every time a hard question is asked of McCain all we are told …this man was a POW…how dare you question anything about him. Well my father was a POW and he has hardly ever talked about it, let alone used it as a crutch through his life.
John McCain….you have lost my vote sir!

Get out of the closet and do what i’ve been doing……get the word out and get
John “Wayne” McCaine elected. Donate time/money/your voice.

This has to be the most juvinile attack that Obama has launched, I only have one thing to say: Obama, I dont own a home today, I am 24, I hope that by the time I am in my 60’s that I will have been successful enough to have a home and also some investment properties, maybe you will too, you have started out pretty good with a mansion, a 5 million dollar a year salary paid by taxpayers, purchased your home way under value. Wish all of us could be so privelaged…

Young Dem for McCain

Norma: please join us at PUMA. not all Dems are animals, just the Obots. some of us own homes, have jobs, & have served in the military.
I don’t believe McCain had a senior moment at all. he may have been hesitant to bring up all of Obama’s shady dealings with Rezko at one time. there’s plenty more than what was in his rebuttal ad & it’s available at http://therealbarackobama.wordpress.com/ (formerly rezkowatch.com).
please enjoy.

This has to be the most juvinile attack that Obama has launched, I only have one thing to say: Obama, I dont own a home today, I am 24, I hope that by the time I am in my 60’s that I will have been successful enough to have a home and also some investment properties, maybe you will too, you have started out pretty good with a mansion, a 5 million dollar a year salary paid by taxpayers, purchased your home way under value. Wish all of us could be so privelaged…

Young Dem who wants success for McCain

I think this will blow over — Its easy to explain that Cindy McCain’s trusts have investment properties and that he has nothing to do with those -

Everyone knows that Cindy McCain is wealthy - her father LIVED the American dream - a close look at the “houses” issue shows that the trust provides homes for at least 2 elderly family members — also, look at the charities that the trusts support - the positives here will outweigh the negatives….

I rather have a President that knows how many States was have verses how many homes we own….Who cares of McCain wanted the satff to get back with you. I myself do not know how many homes and land I own….. and I am young…. so forget the petty stuff,

Don’t be fooled again this election. If you aren’t rich, McCain doesn’t care about you. He has seven houses. Get smart middle class. You are being tricked to vote for someone who is not like you.

L. Smith. You have toatally missed the point so let me spell it our for you:

The point isn’t how people take care of their relatives it’s how out of touch mcCain is with the average American. In all fairness to Obama - his father had 4 wives and a bunch of children who obama hadn’t met until 20 years ago. Those Children are NOT Obama’s responsiblity and you know it.

McCain has no clue about how if feels to have hard times - Obama does. McCain was handed his life and never ever had a real job. He has been sitting in congress for 26 years after he married money to get the job. What has McCain led???? Nothing. Who is McCain. Who are his siblings? where was he born. What are the names of his children. Despite what they tell you - WE DO NOT KNOW JOHN MCCAIN. HE IS NOT A HERO ASK HIS FIRST WIFE!!!! Also, let’s talk about him and the Keating Five!

Not high on my list of reasons to vote for a candidate. Sen. Obama has homeownership envy.

Buying 7 houses is not conservative it’s excessive. McCain also thinks abortions should be legal in many cases. Conservative he’s not.

KRISTIN - unless you are really, really stupid, you know that was a slip of the tongue which is totally different than an old fool who has no idea how many houses he has. I bet you know how many houses you have. If that’s you best shot at Obama then you are in sad shape for this election season. You and I both know that McCain is cluess and has to be propped up by the evil Karl Rove’s puppet Schmidt. at least the GOP knows they can’t win on issues so they resort to nastiness. What a shame they haven’t learned how to GOVERN THE NATION!

B.O. thinks there are “57″ states in the USA, How many is that off by ?

______.

Who do you really think does not know what is what??

Show the o’BIDEN (misadventure) & friends the door…

McCain is a GREAT Panamanian!!! He couldn’t even get the war right. This fool was in combat for 20 hours in Viet Nam — yes he was shot down on day 23 in Viet Nam. He spent the war in a POW camp dues to his incompentent flying! He has milked that POW story ad nauseum!!! I have a son who served in 4 wars (boots on the ground - including Iraq) he managed to not get captured and he is a true Patriot and doesn’t wear his military service as a badge of honor. He is more fit to be President than that user mcCain. mcCain wants to be President. He doesn’t want to lead this nation. Understand the difference. The clown is a POSER and he sickens most of the MILITARY!

Jenna. the first thing you need to do before you think about buying a house is learn to get your facts straight. If you knew anything about the American government you would know that Barack Obama makes about $170,000 as a Senator. that is all We the American People pay for. The $4,000,000 is from the book he wrote - NOT A SALARY. Yep you are a mcCain supporter. Did you graduate at the bottom of your class too. You and mcCain lol

MC CAIN = A NOUN, A VERB, AND POW!!!!!! LOL LOL

SAL HAL - PERHAPS POVERTY IS ON YOUR LIST OF ELECTION ISSUES LOL LOL

Obama mispoke about the number of states he visited because he was tired. He went to 47 States, remember. McCain forgot how many houses he had. If you’re Obama you take a nap, if your McCain what the hell can you do. Oh yeah, ask someone else. I thing we should end the debate and let Obama and McCain battle it out with a game of Memory. No help from others grandpa.

THOSE OF YOU CRYING HOW YOU ARE VOTING FOR MC CAIN - WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE HURTING? CERTAINLY NOT OBAMA - HIS LIFE IS SET EVEN IF HE LOSES - SO PLEASE DON’T THINK YOU ARE HURTING OBAMA YOU ARE HURTING YOURSELVES! yOU DON’T VOTE THE ISSUES YOU JUST VOTE AGAINST THE BLACK GUY! LOL LOL

oKAY - GOTTA GO. IT’S PAINFUL HANGING OUT WITH THE HS GRADS!

They are not McCain’s houses; they are real estate investments. Do you really want a president who cannot understand the actual simplicity of this issue? Obama is just reinforcing the notion that he is not nearly up to the task of dealing with the complexities of the presidency.

are you aware he also has been asked …on record… what kind of car he drives and he had to ask his staff to find out it was a Cadillac STS?

are you also aware he was asked in June by an Orange County reporter when the last time he pumped his own gas was and what the price was and he had no idea on either question? But said…he didn’t see how that mattered.

I’m thinking either a major disconnect or Alzheimers…

Open your eyes people

Julescator
You are a liar. There is no way you could have a son who is that dedicated and true to his country as speak the Trash you do. I have a daughter who served two tours- one in Afghanistan=16 mo and one Iraq=12 mo and no matter how much I hate this war, I would never say that about another service person no matter how much I liked or disliked them. You are a lonely lonely sad person who has nothing better to do than put people down.
If your son did risk his life so many times, it was probably get away from the horrible home you provided him and the venom you spewwwwww.

It’s apparent he didn’t want to answer the question. Just maybe this is an area his wife deals with. It’s funny how Obama’s camp is trying to make a big deal out of nothing…At least McCain didn’t have a convicted felon get him any of him homes.

Owning 1 or 7 real estate properties surely does not qualify nor dis-qualify a person to be the President of U.S.A.. But, I’d rather ask: Which is more noble: To buy 7 mansions that shored-up public tax money or to buy one property with deflated valuation which in return had depleted the services due to the people?

well, if I could own seven houses, I would. There is nothing wrong with owning investments. Nothing wrong with not being sure, off the cuff, how your money is invested, either, if you trust your investment manager. I hear Obama spouting about change, but I have no idea what he wants to change, or how he is going to change it. I am far from wealthy, but I manage to make ends meet, don’t think the economy is doing anything more than a slight, temporary downward blip, and I do expect it to start improving soon. My own personal economy is getting ready to skyrocket upwards, and if I leave a few Obamaites in the dust, I don’t mind at all.

julescator - Sure Obama makes 170 but you may want to add on how much he steals. His wife got a big raise after Obama made Senator. He put in for a million for the hospital that she works for. He also helped his friend Resko out with some government money and Resko gave him money. So maybe you want to check your facts.
McCain homes are not a problem.If he forgot how many states we have .That would be a problem. McCain isn’t interested in how many homes his wife buys with her money.He takes care of his business as a senator and keeping up with his job. As of the last year or so his time has been mainly spent with running for POTUS. I think if some one ask Cindy how many homes there are she would know. She also spends her time with her business and keeping up with the children besides for her charity work. They also have people that take care of some of their things. At lest we know they have enough they don’t need to steal government money.

Clinton supporters unite!!!
Clinton Convention delegates - it’s time for a coup d’état!!!

McCain is only for the RICH, not your ordinary american. McCain and His wife were born with a silver spoon in their mouth. Wake up MCCAIN lovers, this country will continue to fail if any Republican is elected. Mccains agenda is to make the top 5 percent of american richer. OBAMA, was raised in a low income family, by a single mother and grandparents that helped to raise him. I prefer to vote for someone that knows what hard work and perseverance is all about. Michelle Obama is an extrandinorary women. They both received a great education, to live a better life. Isn’t this the american dream. Now all of a sudden they are both elitiest, and are out of touch with the american people. PLEASE!!! THEY ARE THE AMERICAN DREAM. I CAN’T WAIT UNTIL OBAMA IS THE NEXT PRESIDENT OF THE USA.

This is the best they can do?

The McCain’s are hardly the only ones who own multiple properties or are landlords in real estate in the United States. To make a big deal about it is how ridiculous the liberal media, the Democrats, and Obama are in attempting to dis-credit McCain. The dis-credit falls on them.
It seems to me that John McCain is the one who is in touch and is for real.

Hey Norma! I’m voting for John “Wayne” “Lucas” McCain, too. You must live out west like I do. I sure liked Chuck Connors in the “Rifleman.” Anyways, they should make a movie on John McCain. Better yet, as President we can watch McCain on TV make more history everyday as we witness his America Presidential Story unfold. This is a greater story than what Obama’s would be which would be that of serving out Jimmy Carters second term. Show one thing that would be different. Same rhetoric, same bull. That’s the “change” Obama promises only worse because Obama and everybody else should have learned from it but they still want to go back there. “Some “change!”
Barack, come back after you get some more experience in about 12 or 16 years after McCain and Hillary Clinton finish their Presidential terms. You know you wouldn’t be where you are if the Democrats knew you like they know you now before “Super Tuesday.” “Bad break, “Hillary,” you got ripped off, “Big time.”

If McCain wins the election he will be the oldest president ever elected.

McCain can’t remember how many house’s he has.

These are undisputed facts that have obvious implications.

Do you think McCain has the capacity to change what is wrong about Washington? You can’t teach an old dog new tricks.

In the end McCain will cotinue the same failed policies of George Bush….

what qualifies a ‘home’….a place you visit or live in or a place you have for guests or keep as a ‘land bank’? so the definition can confuse. how many properties do you own? that’s easy to answer.

as far as owning 7-8 houses/condos, yeah it reflects wealth. but you want someone as president who is successful, not someone who’s bankrupt or lives on handouts. sure that happens to people, but in america people can bounce back.

now obama made the rezko deal and saved about 400,000 dollars, then turned around and funnelled 14 mil dollars for rezko’s developemnets-that’s criminal, unethical, greedy, and defrauding the american people. so for 400,000 dollars rezko made 14 mil dollars, that’s taxpayer money, our money. where’s the msm coverage when you need it.

obuma send $10 dolllars to your brother service begins at home

But Mike..how many people forget how many homes they own? How many HOMES they own?? McCain has obviously lost touch with the thing a president absolutely needs-the ability to remember important facts. Some people here say how great McCain is for acquiring all this wealth, but how is he so great at managing if the man cannot recall how many houses he owns? We certainly don’t want a president who can’t keep track of his “investments” as some of you say they are.

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