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Tim Kaine discusses how John McCain is not like us
“I understand that Sen. McCain was asked yesterday this question, ‘how many houses do you own?,’ and he couldn’t answer that question. He couldn’t count high enough apparently to even know how many houses he owns,” said Kaine.
Did you know that Sen. McCain owns a parking lot worth more than the average American home?
In 2006, McCain Owned A Parking Lot Worth Over A Million Dollars. According to McCain’s Senate Personal Finance Disclosure, the McCain family owns a parking lot worth over $1 million. [2007 Executive Branch Personnel Public Financial Disclosure]
* The Average Family’s Home Is Worth $217,800. According to a report by the National Association of Realtors, the average sale price for American homes in the final quarter of 2007 was $217,800. [National Association of Realtors, "Single Family 4th Quarter 2007,"
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Matt Yglesias ponders the Millionaire McCain Ranch House dilemma.
Did you know? John McCain says that some billionaires are poor!
The Obama campaign on John McCain’s seven (we think!) houses:
Did Obama ever figure out how many states there are?
That’s the best you got? Weak as usual.
Factoid: I own two houses. More accurately, my name is on the mortgage of two houses.
Other factoid: The combined worth of the two houses is still not up to the worth of the national median house.
Conclusion: I live in a really crappy neighborhood.
I’m voting for the guy who knows how many homes he owns
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Two possibilities – McCain does know the number, but does not want to say it out loud and on camera.
Second – he really doesn’t know, which means he combines the memory of Grampa Simpson with the wealth of Montgomery Burns.
3rd option: Houses are owned by family trust, are mostly cindy’s or for relatives and they have their name on the mortgages.
Number of houses? Really? Thats how you think we should choose a president? The guy married well, to a successful businesswoman who took the family business and has done better by it?
November is looking better and better every day…..
“The guy married well, to a successful businesswoman who took the family business and has done better by it?”
What business did she run? She inherited it, and made damn sure she didn’t have to share with any of her siblings.
“The guy married well, to a successful businesswoman who took the family business and has done better by it?
And profited quite well when it got sold off to one of them thar foreign corporations. How uniquely American.
Number of houses? Really? Thats how you think we should choose a president?
Not the issue, and you know it.
Well clue Oliver in on it then Duros, cause that is apparently all he can post about….
And KXB she runs a successful beer distributorship…you do know that when you inherit a company, it doesn’t actually run itself, right? Many people have run family owned businesses right into the ground.
duh,
She inherited an already successful beer distributorship – key point. Her major accomplishment was hiring the right managers to not screw it up. Unless she did have some hands on dealings – which she won’t talk about.
“you do know that when you inherit a company, it doesn’t actually run itself, right?”
Well, most Americans do not inherit companies – we’re usually stuck with the family photo albums or some god-awful junk.
you do know that when you inherit a company, it doesn’t actually run itself, right?
No, I don’t know anything about inheriting businesses, since I started all four of my own. How many have YOU inherited, or are you just blowing smoke because you have no first-hand knowledge?
Many people have run family owned businesses right into the ground.
…and got to be president anyway, if their name was Bush! Your point?
naa, I run one, but only one Repack. I haven’t had any fail so I don’t have your breadth of experience here.
But really, as a business owner don’t you recognize that however you get the reigns of the business, you have to actually run it? I mean you threw that strawman about how many businesses you have (not actually the question, but nice way to turn the conversation around to yourself!)
Well clue Oliver in on it then Duros, cause that is apparently all he can post about…
1) It’s funny.
2) It shows how elite the McCains truly are.
3)It shows how out of touch with the majority of America the McCains truly are.
4)It’s still funny for the above reasons.
“Its funny”
duros, you should get out more often, seriously
Just jealous because right wing and funny don’t go together.
as a business owner don’t you recognize that however you get the reigns of the business, you have to actually run it?
That would be “reins,” I presume.
No I don’t know, since Cindy’s company is probably run by a CEO elected by a Corporate Board. But since you apparently DO know, please tell us how the distributorship is structured, and how many hours a day or week Ms. McCain spends on it.
BTW, one of the companies I started was called “MountainBikes (click my link).” In 1979 my best friend and I rented a garage and started making a new kind of “off-road” bicycle. Turned out to be a good idea, and we also created an Olympic sport. In 1983 I wrote the international rules, now used in the Olympics, for mountain bike competiton.
I’m kind of proud of the fact that I was part of an effort that made a lot of money for a lot of people in addition to myself and was the most important development in cycling of the 20th century, but I’m sure your contributions to modern culture far overshadow my own.
And you can toss a piano!
I thought Al Gore invented the mountain bike?
So you must be a gazillionaire eh repack?
So how was the olympics this year? I mean, the “creator” of an olympic sport must be an invited judge to the event right?
What tax bracket are you in? Are you happy that 50-60% of what you earn goes to the government? You are in that bracket, right? I mean, the inventor of the Mountain Bike?
Or are you a BAD business man who invented something but wasn’t smart enough to capitalize on it?
Well anyway, thanks for the mountain bikes, they’re cool……I haven’t invented any olympic sports OR contributed anything of note to modern culture…but I run a really successful small business and pay too much tax already….
you must be a gazillionaire eh repack?
I’m comfortable and I own a house in one of the priciest real estate markets in the US, but even more important, I have a family that I love and that loves me, and I am ridiculously healthy. Money isn’t everything, and I know people who have more of it than I do and aren’t nearly as happy or healthy.
the “creator” of an olympic sport must be an invited judge to the event right?
All that took place 25 years ago, and I don’t follow racing much any more, now that all my friends have retired from it. But I don’t have to pay for the very nice bikes I ride, and I get REALLY good service at the local bike shop.
What tax bracket are you in? Are you happy that 50-60% of what you earn goes to the government?
If that is the price of living in the greatest country, how could anyone except an a$$hole complain about making that kind of money? I gave the country a few years of my life when I served in the US Army during a time when 20,000 of my comrades in arms got killed, which I also considered to be the price of living here. What’s the biggest personal sacrifice YOU have made for the country?
are you a BAD business man who invented something but wasn’t smart enough to capitalize on it?
The most fun I ever had in my life was building bikes one at a time in a rented garage with my best friend. Talking on the phone and shipping “units” made in China is not nearly as much fun, and I sold my interest to my former partner for a lot more than it was worth. It was Kelly/Fisher MountainBikes before I sold my interest, now it’s the Gary Fisher Bicycle Company. Not that it’s any of your business.
Why don’t you check out the documentary about me and my friends at klunkerz.com?
Repack, you are my hero. A true American, having got rich partly by virtue of living in this country, doesn’t complain about paying his fair share of taxes. Real American patriots know that it’s our infrastucture and legal system that allow them to realize their potential to achieve success.
And I like your combative style against the tired talking points of the right.
How could anyone complain? All you liberals do is complain. I paid the price for living in this country too, 11 years in the military.
I am glad you’re happy, but why do you have to denigrate people who make a lot of money, and are happy too? Money isn’t the only measure of success, but it is a measure, and when a whole group of people decide to demonize the most productive members of a society, I say we have a problem.
By the way, who do you think can afford to buy the carbon fiber, titanium bikes that your friends sell? You think Oliver, a guy plugging in computer cords is riding around on one of those?
Unfortunately, my business makes me enough money that you decided that you can enrich yourself via my labor, and I don’t think that is right. Eventually the most productive of us will start acting european, we will only work enough to keep out of the most confiscatory tax brackets, or we will be truly rich enough to move to Monaco and avoid it all together. But then again the european unemployment rate is twice the US’s, and there economy is already in recession.
I paid the price for living in this country too, 11 years in the military.
I have no way of verifying this one way or the other.
or we will be truly rich enough to move to Monaco and avoid it all together
I’m pretty sure they already do this with Carribian “offices” and Swiss bank accounts.
my business makes me enough money that you decided that you can enrich yourself via my labor, and I don’t think that is right.
I’m sorry you don’t feel its “right” to have to contribute to the betterment of society, and feel that the government should work for free.
and there economy is already in recession.
You say that as if ours wasn’t.
But then again the european unemployment rate is twice the US’s,
And Japan’s unemployment rate is half the US’s, and they’re doing better than ever. *snicker*