Posted by
Mike Silverman on Friday, August 22, 2008 12:27:20 PM
Recently Barack Obama suggested that John McCain was out of touch for being uncertain of how many properties he owned. So, it's come down to this. Obama has not been able to find an issue to attack McCain on that will gain him back momentum that he's been losing in the polls, so he decides to play the role of a whiny snot-nosed brat and in a shrill and silly overly-dramatic and poorly acted tone complain that McCain is out of touch because between John McCain and his wife Cindy they own 7 houses. McCain responded by pointing out Obama's lack of judgement by allowing Rezco to do him a favor by buying the adjacent property ( that was required as part of the sale of the house Obama purchased) then sell him a small part of the property back, enabling Obama to buy his house at much less than it would have cost him.. Not illegal..., but the problem with it was it highlighting his long time association with the now-convicted ( of fraud and bribery) Tonzy Rezco. The Democrats are expert at dividing the country via class envy tactics. Obama started this little battle by making a big deal out of something that is not. I thought Obama was portraying himself as a different kind of candidate, a different kind of politician..., a uniter..., someone bringing people together, above the fray of attack politics.... of course that was a load of garbage as we see from his silly, childish attack on John McCain because McCain couldn't recall how many properties he owns. Being financially successful doesn't mean that you can't understand how economic fluctuations can effect people of middle or lower income. Hmmm... let's see... who was it on the Democrat side who claimed himself to be the champion of the poor. John Edwards. Check his bank account, his 10,000 sqaure foot mansion., etc. The notion that a person who has a lot of money can't represent politically someone who doesn't is ludicrous. By that way of thinking, a man can't be the political representative of any woman, because he's not a woman and therefore can't relate. Or a black person can't represent a white person, because he's not white and can't understand the "white" perpsective. or vice versa. It's an intellectually vacant argument. It shows that Obama is desperate. He is reaching for one of the oldest attack plays in liberal democrat handbook. Class envy. If you are not "rich" ( debatable what that means) then the Democrats want you to mistrust, discredit, and feel abused by those who are "rich". Unless it's a "rich" Democrat, of course.
- Mike Silverman.