08/21/2008
Obama Fires Back on McCain 'Houses' Gaffe
That was fast. With reference to our post of this morning, the Obama campaign has hit back with a new ad. Obama also remarked about it at a campaign stop in Chester, Virginia.
Watch the clips, AFTER THE JUMP...
Posted 12:02 PM EST by Andy Towle in Barack Obama, John McCain, News | Permalink
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But the "wealthy and out of touch meme" is not going to get going. Compliments of the MSM.
Posted by: Nick | Aug 21, 2008 4:39:06 PM
Noun-Verb-POW...that's all the McCain campaign has.
Posted by: MAJeff | Aug 21, 2008 4:50:01 PM
Who is Obama to start talking about houses? Obama bought his million dollar mansion at a $300,000 steep discount from convicted racketeer Tony Rezko. Obama isn't kidding when he says he was schooled by the South Side of Chicago, God bless his Christianist homophobic heart.
Posted by: HOGB a/k/a ThatsRich a/k/a anotherdemocraticidiot | Aug 21, 2008 4:50:25 PM
"Does a guy who made more than $4 million last year, just got back from vacation on a private beach in Hawaii and bought his own million-dollar mansion with the help of a convicted felon really want to get into a debate about houses? Does a guy who worries about the price of arugula and thinks regular people "cling" to guns and religion in the face of economic hardship really want to have a debate about who's in touch with regular Americans?
"The reality is that Barack Obama's plans to raise taxes and opposition to producing more energy here at home as gas prices skyrocket show he's completely out of touch with the concerns of average Americans."
POW!!
Posted by: JimmiNY | Aug 21, 2008 4:58:36 PM
Jimminy, does it require too much energy to do your own research about Obama's tax and energy plans, or is it just easier to regurgitate the GOP talking points? Obama intends to only raise taxes on those making over $250K, and his tax plan actually cuts middle-class taxes by more than McCain's tax plan:
http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/obama/1031268,CST-NWS-tax30.article
Posted by: Jim | Aug 21, 2008 5:19:30 PM
HOGB
Word for word mccain campaign response.
rezko played out by Hillary already and proven that obama did nothing illegal. rezko court case rezko testified that Obama not connected in any way to rezko's failings.
Obama's housing = 1 home Illinois the state he represents where wife and children live year round and 1 modest condo in DC for when Obama is in DC doing the work of his constituents as Senator.
4 mill from book sales, not the regular income of the Obama's and they only just paid off there college debts. Their yearly income over the last 10 yrs has been quite low
mcshame has stepped in it as evidenced by canceling all public appearances for today. LOL his own campaign knows he screwed up with his elitist 7-10 houses and not knowing how many ranches, condos, and mansions he owns
mcshame= toast
The general public doesn't understand things like mcoldster not getting the difference between shia and suni, but the general public understands that owning 1 house in america = lucky let alone 7-10= marie antoinete "let them eat cake" = "I don't know how many, you will have to contact my staff"
Posted by: Jimmyboyo | Aug 21, 2008 5:21:28 PM
Let me get this straight:
1. Obama buys a multi-million dollar home at a $300,000 steep discount to its market value from convicted racketeer Tony Rezko;
2. Obama makes a deal with the Teamsters Union to end the federal oversight implemented to monitor mob influence; and
3. Until the exposure of his affair, Obama was offering the attorney general position to John Edwards with ties to Bill Lerach, Mel Weiss and Dickie Scruggs all of whom were convicted this year.
Is that change we can believe in?
Posted by: ANOTHERDEMOCRATICIDIOT | Aug 21, 2008 5:24:49 PM
McCain really doesn't want to play with these kinds of shiny objects aka scandals.
Most of the public is unaware of his central role in the Keating 5 scandal, and think it's just some kind of rumor. Shall we talk about his ties to convicted felon and lobbyist Jack Abramoff and the fact that Ralph Reed - who was heavily embroiled in that scandal himself is now a fundraiser for McCain?
Does McCain really want to play with this bauble?
Posted by: Nick | Aug 21, 2008 5:53:35 PM
But the golddigger was a P.O.W.! That's all that matters!
Posted by: MAJeff | Aug 21, 2008 5:57:20 PM
The problem with people saying, "...but Obama's house is $1M+ and he's rich, too" is that Obama earned that money. He didn't marry it after dumping his first wife.
Posted by: H | Aug 21, 2008 6:01:35 PM
Conveniently on the same day you make your biggest gaffe
denver mccain campaign headquarters recieved a letter with white powder 45 minutes ago
Bush terror alerts pre election (after then there were none) all over again
If america falls for it then we deserve to get hit by an asteroid and turned into dust
Posted by: Jimmyboyo | Aug 21, 2008 6:18:15 PM
If I were Obama, I'd probably want to play on McCain's age in the dirtiest ways possible.
"How many years do we have?" a grim voice intones over the steadily slowing beep of a medical monitor, "Our economy is grinding to a halt, energy prices are erratic and one man seeks to stay the course."
A picture of John McCain appears as the medical monitor flatlines. "How many years do you think this can go on?"
"But we can change, America" the voice says, lightening its tone to the suddenly revived medical monitor, "together we can bring this nation back to its well-deserved greatness" and a picture of a beaming Barack Obama appears. End commercial.
Posted by: Michael | Aug 21, 2008 6:22:13 PM
The real problem Obama has is not whether he did anything legal of illegal it's the politics of perception of a skeptical populace.
We have a populace who have been treated several political scandals on BOTH sides of the aisle. After a while I believe that most people stop listening to which party the person belongs to and more or less lumps all the crooked people together.
Now Obama may be technically clean but he certainly has some more than dubious associations. There are some real tough players out there that are asking questions that are being brushed away by the Obama campaign as non issues. However the right wing attack dogs of radio will not let that happen. Plus add to this that he has come out of an area where corrupt politics is a way of life.
Currently there is a building scandal of releasing documents relating to Obama's time with the Annanberg prize. The press has been clamoring for these documents and the school will not release them. The reasoning behind this is a very reasonable excuse that the donor never gave permission for them to be released. However, once again it is the perception of stonewalling over an association of Obama and William Ayers.
The excuse about Ayers making mistakes in the past and letting it go are flimsy and stupid. Especially in light of Mr. Ayers quotes as recently as he last five years regarding his behavior of his "bombing period" of life.
Pl=ease stop using the excuse that no one wants to criticize the P.O.W. It's the same as saying no one wants to criticize the black man...both cases are demeaning and stupid.
Posted by: Las Vegas | Aug 21, 2008 6:23:09 PM
OK, here's the latest list of smear lies from the wingnutdaily:
Obama will be a radical on the abortion issue as signaled by his blocking of emergency medical aid for babies who survive abortion;
Obama will attempt to ban the use of firearms for defense by law-abiding citizens;
Obama will raise tax rates up to 60 percent;
Obama will "transform the U.S. Treasury into the United Nations' ATM";
Obama will encourage high fuel prices and will remove more farmland from production;
Obama will raise the percentage of Americans who pay no taxes at all, from 30 percent to 40 percent – at the expense of those who do.
Obama will transfer child-rearing responsibility and authority from parents to the federal government with his "0 to 5" program.
And of course he's a radical socialist muslim who wasn't born in the US.
I think it's time somebody start just making shit up about McCain and repeating it over and over again.
McCain ate Vietnamese babies for breakfast while he was a POW.
McCain arranged the accident so he could dump his first wife.
McCain has a love child with a Nazi descendant hiding in Paraguay.
McCain wants to go to war with Iran and Russia -- oh wait, that one's true!
McCain will introduce a draft.
Come on guys, let's get as creative and loony as the opposition!
Posted by: Kevinvt | Aug 21, 2008 6:32:54 PM
Who's saying no one wants to criticize the POW (well, other than the DC press corp fellating him because he was one)? McCain's campaign is throwing the "but he was a POW" at every criticism...
He doesn't know how many houses? He was a POW!
He knew the questions in advance of his appearance at Saddlebrook? He was a POW!
He even said that his favorite song was Dancing Queen because he didn't know any music after he was shot down, even though it came out several years after he was released.
It's McCain playing that damn card.
Posted by: MAJeff | Aug 21, 2008 6:34:02 PM
OZONEDUDE & LAS VEGAS
While in a perfect world I too would like BOTH canidates to stick to issues, as McShame said he would do, but it was clear that once he climbed in bed with Rove and the sleaze patrol who fucked him in 2000 that all bets are off.
I was sad to see how Obama was being trashed and worried that we had another Kerry repeat on our hands, then old McShame gave Obama a gift, and I for one have no problem with Obama mocking this asshole. Go OBama.
Posted by: patrick nyc | Aug 22, 2008 7:12:07 AM
Yeah McCain gave obama a gift, it's called another reason not to talk about any issues that matter. Obama will wait to the last possible minute to annouce his VP because he can't imagine sharing the stage with another. obama should talk (and he does to hear his voice), he made $4 million last year, vacations for a week on a private island owns a million dollar home that he purchased from convicted felon Rezko. Oh yeah then there's his corporate lawyer wife. So when McCain was Obama's age was he making $4 Million, no he was POW and fighting for his country.
Posted by: nobama...no thanks | Aug 22, 2008 7:57:03 AM
Again we see: noun-verb-POW.
Posted by: MAJeff | Aug 22, 2008 8:08:10 AM
GO Jason!!!
My kinda guy.
Posted by: JV | Aug 22, 2008 2:29:29 PM