While John McCain's Karl Rove inspired campaign has been doing its best to depict Barack Obama as the "celebrity" who is out of touch with the common man, what may someday come to be called "House Gate" seems to be careening increasingly out of control - especially after McCain could not even tell reporters how many properties he and his family own. He referred them to "his staff" who gave an incorrect answer as the number appears to be increasing towards a dozen. In comparison, Obama looks like he's an impoverished beggar. The Washington Post has an article in which "a coast-to-coast jaunt that covers at least five cities and three states" ensues looking at McCains many lavish digs. Whoever in McCain's staff who had the idiocy to come up with depicting Obama as rich and aloof when McCain has this kind of "baggae" ought to be horse whipped. Here are some highlights from the WP:*
Indoor and outdoor swimming pools! Spas and state-of-the-art fitness centers! Views of the Arizona mountains, the Pacific Ocean and downtown Phoenix! John McCain isn't just a presidential candidate. He's a veritable bling-master, worthy of an "MTV Cribs" episode, those televised tours of brazenly gilded homes led by celebrity owners like 50 Cent, Hulk Hogan and Bow Wow.
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Whatever the count, we couldn't get McCain to lead us on a "Cribs"-style tour of his real estate, the senator being ever-busy trying to add another rather impressive property to his portfolio (1600 Pennsylvania Ave.). So we'll take you on a McCain flyover ourselves, a coast-to-coast jaunt that covers at least five cities and three states.
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First stop: Hidden Valley, Ariz., where the senator and his wife, Cindy, own a 15-acre ranch valued at more than $1 million. . . . When it comes to day-to-day living, his main address is downtown Phoenix, in a 12-story glass condo building that bills itself as "the Valley of the Sun's finest example of urban residential living." The McCains dropped $4.6 million to turn two pads into what can be described only as a crib deluxe (7,000 square feet). Walk through the lobby and listen to the cascading waterfall.
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She also bought them a place in Arlington, where he spends much of the year. What's a senator to do when he's away from home? For $847,000, the McCains got themselves a three-bedroom apartment in a building that features balconies, patios and "climate controlled access to Metro," according to one real estate agent's description.
2 comments:
It's his wife's money, big deal. This is not being paid attention to because SHE brought the $$ into the marriage. If I was making what she is I would probably do the same thing... This is not going to alter the race.
I feel sorry for McCain. He probably never paid all that much attention to the homes his wife owned. I mean, it was a package deal. But I do think it will have an effect if only in the short term. Makes him look as if he doesn't even know his own finances so how will he take care of the country's?
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