p>McCain’s performance points out why he’ll have such a hard time running against (presumably) Obama. McCain doesn’t know anything. He rivals The Worst President Ever in this regard. Dude is shockingly ignorant on the 2 biggest issues of the general election: Iraq and the economy.
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p>It’s probably testimony to the utter bankruptcy of the Republican Party that St. John’s take on economics was cutting edge in 1980. But is it too much for he of acclaimed foreign policy expertise to comprehend the basics of Sunni-Shia dynamics?
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p>I think McCain will ultimately lose the general election because he’s always been 95% posture, and the media always propped him up. As the lefty blogosphere is increasingly able to hold the mainstream media’s feet to the fire, St. John’s free ride will slow, if not stop.
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p>Speaking of the blogosphere, everyone has read David Brock’s Free Ride. WaPo has an article on McCain’s temper. St. John was falling all over himself this morning taking trying not to seem angry; he looked pisse. Just as Brock demonstrated in his book, St. John inserted a gratuitous reference to his POW status when the issue of being covered by government health care came up.
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p>Imagine any kind of substantive debate between McCain and Obama. I don’t care what the polls say right now, the man is toast.
However, she quickly lowers herself into the same tired – and easily discredited – mumbo-jumbo that comes directly from the Republican Nat’l Committee, circa 1985. First, dear Kay, “tax-and-spend” is preferable to the borrow-and-spend philosophy of the current GOP administration, which has created the highest deficits and the largest increases to the national debt in our history.
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Really, this has gotten to be too much. This is a party – my GOP – that wouldn’t even raise taxes to pay for a war. It is locked in an ideological mind-set whose chief attribute is recklessness.
yellow-dogsays
for my many friends who once belonged to a relatively principled political organization.
McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, has never before released his tax returns. Outside groups estimate the McCains’ combined wealth to be between $28 million and $100 million.
…In 2007, McCain earned aSenate salary of $161,708 and book royalties of $176,508. His wife earned a salary of $432,991 as chairwoman of her company. Since he filed separately, John McCain’s return lists half of his income and half of his wife’s salary. McCain’s return does not include a large stream of dividends, capital gains, private investment profits and interest that went solely to his wife and her dependents.
The McCains own four homes across the nation and employ a staff of at least four that in 2007 cost about $273,000, half of which was listed on the senator’s tax return. McCain and his wife’s properties, all held mortgage-free, include their creek-side ranch outside Sedona, Ariz. In 2006, they purchased a $4.7-million condo in Phoenix; and in 2004, she bought a $2.6-million beachfront property near the Hotel del Coronado in San Diego County, according to property records.
Summary: On The Situation Room, an on-screen chart showed Sen. John McCain’s income to be significantly lower than that of Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton when combined with the income of their spouses. However, the chart did not include any income earned by McCain’s wife, Cindy. As Dana Bash reported moments earlier of Cindy McCain, “Some estimates actually put her worth at about $100 million.”
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p>No need for revision.
afertigsays
Look: Bill and Hillary – together. Barack and Michelle Obama – together. Dick and Lynn Cheney – together. George and Laura Bush – together. McCain is there in the chart, alone, without his wife. Add in the wife, and to coin a phrase, he’d be off the chart.
afertigsays
geo999says
…look it up.
laurelsays
i’m guessing that there is a lot of cash being passed from her to him. the most obvious are the mortgageless houses that “they” bought. looking at his income and the cost of the houses that were apparently paid for in cash, the bulk of the bucks had to have come from her. this non-taxable transfer of funds between them is completely legal (one of those special rights heterosexual sex partners get from the feds), but it illustrates how falling back on “prenup” is too simplistic. “prenup” doesn’t mean that her income isn’t in effect also his income. it just means that they file taxes separately. slick deception on their part.
pers-1756 says
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p>McCain is a man of the people. QED.
david says
A man of the people. Dude, I’d take 400K a year.
yellow-dog says
himself after this week’s debate performance.
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p>McCain’s performance points out why he’ll have such a hard time running against (presumably) Obama. McCain doesn’t know anything. He rivals The Worst President Ever in this regard. Dude is shockingly ignorant on the 2 biggest issues of the general election: Iraq and the economy.
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p>It’s probably testimony to the utter bankruptcy of the Republican Party that St. John’s take on economics was cutting edge in 1980. But is it too much for he of acclaimed foreign policy expertise to comprehend the basics of Sunni-Shia dynamics?
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p>I think McCain will ultimately lose the general election because he’s always been 95% posture, and the media always propped him up. As the lefty blogosphere is increasingly able to hold the mainstream media’s feet to the fire, St. John’s free ride will slow, if not stop.
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p>Speaking of the blogosphere, everyone has read David Brock’s Free Ride. WaPo has an article on McCain’s temper. St. John was falling all over himself this morning taking trying not to seem angry; he looked pisse. Just as Brock demonstrated in his book, St. John inserted a gratuitous reference to his POW status when the issue of being covered by government health care came up.
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p>Imagine any kind of substantive debate between McCain and Obama. I don’t care what the polls say right now, the man is toast.
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p>Mark
pers-1756 says
Similar thoughts were expressed by the former publisher of the National Review.
http://frontburner.dmagazine.c…
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yellow-dog says
for my many friends who once belonged to a relatively principled political organization.
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charley-on-the-mta says
McCain is married to an heiress of a beer distribution fortune.
http://www.latimes.com/busines…
Care to revise that statement, “pers?”
pers-1756 says
I got the image from here which explains the whole thing:
http://mediamatters.org/items/…
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afertig says
Look: Bill and Hillary – together. Barack and Michelle Obama – together. Dick and Lynn Cheney – together. George and Laura Bush – together. McCain is there in the chart, alone, without his wife. Add in the wife, and to coin a phrase, he’d be off the chart.
afertig says
geo999 says
…look it up.
laurel says
i’m guessing that there is a lot of cash being passed from her to him. the most obvious are the mortgageless houses that “they” bought. looking at his income and the cost of the houses that were apparently paid for in cash, the bulk of the bucks had to have come from her. this non-taxable transfer of funds between them is completely legal (one of those special rights heterosexual sex partners get from the feds), but it illustrates how falling back on “prenup” is too simplistic. “prenup” doesn’t mean that her income isn’t in effect also his income. it just means that they file taxes separately. slick deception on their part.