Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said in an interview Wednesday that he was uncertain how many houses he and his wife, Cindy, own.
"I think — I'll have my staff get to you," McCain told Politico in Las Cruces, N.M. "It's condominiums where — I'll have them get to you."
The correct answer is at least four, located in Arizona, California and Virginia, according to his staff. Newsweek estimated this summer that the couple owns at least seven properties.
The Obama campaign struck back with this ad - fantastic:
His trophy wife Cindy has an estimated worth of more than $100 million to buy all of those pads. I don't have a problem at all with wealth, be it old or new money -- after all, the Kennedys and FDR were from well-to-do families, but were and are committed to social justice and progressive policies. It's just that McCain has, of late, tried to both portray himself as a regular guy, while he has more residences than he can count (or remember), all while chastising and blaming all the people who are losing their homes in the sub-prime mortgage meltdown; see that below the fold.
Considering how much interest I have in the subject of how pseudo-science is used to belittle women, it's a real shame that I hadn't read, until this week, the bible of critiquing choad-based science, Mismeasure of Woman: Why Women Are Not the Better Sex, the Inferior Sex, or the Opposite Sex by Carol Tavris. I'm so glad to have corrected my error, because even though this book is 16 years old, it's more relevant than ever in an era when misogynists are seeking to canonize Larry Summers for talking out of his ass about something he doesn't understand. The book is a refreshing blast of common sense, with Tavris arguing that women are not inferior to men, superior to men, opposite from men, or the same as men. In fact, the book is based around the idea that if you ask the wrong questions, you get the wrong answers, and society is going to continue to fail to understand women as long as we conceive women as not-men instead of as-women. Or, more importantly, as themselves, which is people who are diverse. (As are men.)
Joe Lieberman will speak at the Republican convention on Monday night, along with Bush, Cheney, Laura Bush and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Besides Vice Presidential Nominee Mittens, who's speaking the other three nights? Rudy? Fred Thompson? Someone who's held elective office in this half of the decade?
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