The Fabulous John McCain

It ain't easy being McCain:

McCain Needs Nine Car Motorcade To Go To Starbucks

I admit, I like Starbucks. My girlfriend refers to it as my crackhouse. So its a little more than just 'like.' Having the free internet is great and being that I live in NYC, I can walk to the one on my corner (literally). I also brew my own at home when I have the time, and I get it from a local store in the Village that has been around for more than a hundred years. So I try to balance out the corporate coffee. John McCain also likes coffee, but this is just ridiculous.

From The LA Times:

McCain, who huddled with advisors at his desert compound in Sedona, Ariz., said nothing in public. A nine-car motorcade took him to a nearby Starbucks early in the morning, where he ordered a large cappuccino. McCain otherwise avoided reporters.

Forced into damage-control mode, his campaign aides counterattacked to reinforce their claim that Obama is an elitist.

Um Senator McCain? Calling your opponent elitist after taking a nine car motorcade to a nearby Starbucks is absolutely ridiculous. Add that to yesterday's story of your twelve houses, and it is just over the top. Obama came from a single-parent family and worked hard to get where he is. And while it was your wife and your choice, you married into your money. The two stories are not even close.

Now maybe you can try and get in touch with your inner-middle classness and buy a coffeemaker.

Obama Hits McCain Hard For Forgetting How Many Houses He Has

Now this is the style I like to see. McCain makes a gaffe and Obama immediately hits him on the airwaves with it. When McCain screws up big, then keep the message going strong for several days. I hope to see this ad up on the national stage for quite a while.

You Know You're An Elitist When....Your Name's McCain

Republicans have tried to pain Barack Obama as an elitist this year, part of their never-ending plan to smear the Democratic nominee despite the fact that nothing is really working. Somehow in their minds, being raised by a single mom and your grandmother is akin to a childhood on the Upper East Side with a doorman. Yet when they hurl these charges, they might want to rein in their own candidate first. Apparently, John McCain can't remember how many homes he and his wife own.

We should all have such problems:

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.

Condominiums? That sounds kinda inexpensive, until you get to see them of course. That is just one residence though, to truly begin to understand their wealth, check this article out.

So you know, ya might be an elitist....if you consider $3 million a year middle class. Ya might be an elitist if.....you forgot how many houses you own. And ya might be an elitist if....all you care about is the rich and want to make them richer by screwing the poor.

Chris Matthews: Chief Of The Baboons

Chris Matthews is a serious douchebag. Every time he gets in front of that camera I cringe for what is about to come out of his mouth.

Tonight was no different:



First he talks about not making elitist comments (which he does all the time) and then makes an absurd comparison of Hillary Clinton and Al Sharpton! I don't know who should be more offended, Al or Hillary. What I do know is that Chris is a blowhard and comments like this confirm it.

Hillary's Elite Remarks, G-d Bless Her

And she has the gall to call Barack Obama elitist?

"Shame On Hillary Clinton"

Barack Obama called out Hillary Clinton yesterday in Steelton, PA for disparaging his comments about how people are bitter in Pennsylvania and around the country. His response to her criticism was told brilliantly, and the crowd response is spot on.

Of All People, Bob Shrum Nails The "Elitist Obama" Crap

oIn all this craziness surrounding the "contest" between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, the last person (or at least in the back of the line) to correctly surmise a ridiculous political situation would be serial-campaign loser Bob Shrum. However with him on the sidelines thus far, his commentary concerning the "elitist" remarks were spot on. He calls out the Republican BS and not surprisingly, the way Hillary has gone right along with the crap coming from the GOP.

From The Huffington Post:

Obama's not running for Sociologist-in-Chief. But there is a powerful element of truth in his comments. Starting in the elder Bob Casey's 1986 campaign for Governor, and again and again since, both James Carville and I have heard or read -- from focus groups or polling reports -- the frustration, anger, and yes, sometimes bitterness of people in depressed towns in the Keystone State who've had politicians promise them help that too seldom comes. Even in the Clinton years, when Pennsylvania gained jobs, the hollowed out economies of once-thriving blue collar communities were largely bypassed.

The political question here, of course, is whether the Clinton and McCain campaigns can exploit Obama's remarks to tag him as an "elitist" -- a label, their focus groups probably tell them, that can really hurt. Ironically, Obama's the one raised by a single mother. He's the one who only recently finished paying off his student loans. He doesn't know what it's like to have $100 million. The opponents who are attacking him are the ones who inhabit that financial neighborhood.

Hillary Clinton has seized happily on Obama's words as a way to distract attention from the latest flight of one of her husband's misguided missiles. Just as the video that irrefutably confounded her tale about sniper fire at the Tuzla Airport was being returned to the network vaults, President Clinton's ill-timed and inaccurate account of the episode rewound and replayed the tapes. Then Obama's talk gave her the chance to push the pause button. But now she has to be careful not to push the "elitism" attack too hard. The Clintons haven't lived in the real world for at least twenty-five years; they've been in a bubble surrounded by aides moving from one mansion to another. This doesn't mean they don't care or can't empathize. But it does make it awkward to damn the guy who was a community organizer helping laid-off steelworkers as someone who is out of touch.

It really is amazing that those who live the "elitist" life can so ambly paint others as elitist to score political points. Maybe not so for Republican candidates, but it is always a sad sight when a Democratic challenger does it to her own. She'll do whatever it takes to get the bad press away from her camp (justified as it is) even when the attack is unwarranted. She could distract people with issues and something to boost her own character. Instead she continues to try and drag Obama through the mud when he was simply pointing out a simple fact of life for so many Americans in this country who are sick and tired of politics as usual.