Married a millionaire beer heiress, can’t count how many houses they have, doesn’t know what kind of car he drives, thinks Americans need to cancel their vacations and take second jobs to get through the hard times while his wife bought a second Coronado condo because the "kids used it so much I couldn’t get in the place."
The fabulous life of John McCain. In touch with the American people, how?
{YouTube courtesy of DoubleTalkExpress, h/t Joe Sudbay at AmericaBlog}
Update: JedReport has a great new video out this weekend, too:
Update Two! — Florida Democrats jump on the "entitled McCain family" bandwagon with a MasterCard spoof:
Finally, on the subject of McCain, be sure to read Jane Hamsher’s ACTION post. We need to insist that the Associated Press to recuse McCain apparatchik from his current role as head of the AP DC bureau. His conflicts are legion. We cannot let Fournier continue to influence the debate about the presidential campaign from his perch atop the nation’s premier wire service. He is a McCain partisan.
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Hey, Teddy! I’ll read in a minute, but had to say how pleased I was with Obama & Biden’s speeches! It’s gonna be a fun campaign again; I think I feel the energy already!
Hi, Ann — isn’t it a great ticket?
Chuck Todd is now saying that McCain’s ad including Biden’s criticism of Obama from over a year ago will show voters that Obama isn’t afraid to surround himself with people who disagree with him.
I think we’ll hear a lot more “McCain = Bush” from Joe Biden.
McCain not knowing what kind of car he drives could be GREAT…Most american guys equate themselves and their car- not knowing what kind of car he drives is akin to not knowing what HE is….this will have guys from Maine to California scratching their heads wondering what kind of dufus McBush is.
Nine carloads of security to go to Starbucks and grab coffee.
Out of touch?
I just can’t say.
I don’t drink Starbucks coffee, is there usually unruly mobs of Liberal Democrats milling about these places?
Perhaps he should just have one installed on the back porch of every hose he owns, it would be cheaper.
/s.
It’s funny, from Biden’s speech you’d think McCain was running as an incumbent VP. It’s kind of like receiving an honorary degree, similar to his status as an incumbent Senator who never bothers to show up or vote.
can we now talk about his ALL NIGHTERS at the high roller CRAP TABLES?
John McSame …he is RECKLESS
I can’t imagine not knowing what kind of car one drives unless:
1) One has twenty cars and can’t specify just one.
2) One is already in the depths of dementia
3) One doesn’t ever drive oneself….
Which of those is most plausible for McBush?
HIS 18 year old daughter spends 50,000.00$ PER M O N T H …wrp your mind around that…yea and Cindy Lou thinkd ..shes a great mother
i suspect all
Yeah and a Cadillac STS for ‘08 starts at $44K.
Like every other person’s cars right?
They’re probably all applicable. If his driving skill bears any resemblance to his piloting skill, a driver should be provided in the event he cannot afford to hire one.
I think there may be a lot more juice in this line of attack–it keeps hitting gold.
1) It paints McBush as so fucking rich it’s criminal
2) It makes him appear totally out of touch
3) It shows him to be old– who the fuck buys Cadillacs- people with blue hair- that’s who.
The tags are expired on his Model T.
44k is chicken feed for a couple with 100 to 200 million bucks between them—they could EAT that much money in a couple of days.
One has one in each garage at each house, first he has to remember where the houses are then find the garage, then find the keys
How bout a magazine cover superimposing McBush in an Uncle Scrooge cartoon- rolling in the money in his vault? Wasn’t it Scrooge McDuck?
It’s probably natural for a guy who suffers from penis-envy to want the largest carbon footprint possible because you know what they say about guys with big feet…
Here’s what’s sad – I’m enjoying the houses kerfuffle, because it’s fun to see St. John step in it, but we’re back playing the old game. Maybe people will look at issues come the debates, but McCain’s houses don’t make him insensitive to the economic realities facing most Americans – his insensitivity to the economic realities facing most Americans does that. I get that you have to win to govern, and this is a part of winning, but it would be nice if we could talk about what the two candidates want to, you know, do if they’re elected.
Oh, and Mark Halperin is a braying jackass.
Some say his driving skills are, shall we say, legendary around Phoenix.
No- what do they say (typed as he slides his size fifteens under the desk).
Just like the question about how many houses he and the Mrs own, he turned to a staff member, who piped up helpfully, “It’s a Cadillac CTS.” First question, is it really? Second question, what color?
How much does McDuck pay the staff member to tell him about his cars and houses and family and other non-essential facts about his drab existence?
“I don’t know- DID I take a crap today?”
“No- that was last week”.
hate to tell you they are BILLIONAIRES…her busssiness TAKES IN 300 MILLION dollars PER TEAR…its value alone is at least 3 BILLION dollars at paltry 10X earnings…she spends 750,000.oo dollars PER FRICKIN MONTHY ON HER amex…A month….she would tare though 100 mill,in in SHORT ORDER
I haven’t heard do his houses have chapels – you know with altars and kneelers to pay homage to General Petraeus.
Did everyone notify their local papers that use the Associated Press that Ron Fournier’s work is forever tainted? We cannot allow him to continue to shape commentary on the presidential election; he’s a McCain apparatchik. Please take time to tell your papers today (click on the last link in the post above).
Thanks.
There’s certainly much material to use against McCain. When will the long, loud, sustained attacks begin? Time is waining and the shadow billionares on the Republic side will have no problem attacking Obama from every angle. The Democrats cannot just try to play defense.
He once lived for five years in a very small house with no car at all.
now i see why J MO SHORT EIDE ,hangs around for the TABLE SCRAOS ….McRichy rich throws at him…betcha Jomos counsel doesnt come cheaply
Hi Teddy just checking in real quick to read your post… Very nice and spot on Mc Cain hasn’t a clue what it really means to have to work to out food on the table, he gets his food through Cindy’s money not a worry in the world…
)Oh while I been visiting I just had to Digg this post for you Teddy!!
So now that the Digg is open you to can Digg IT!!
or GULFSTREAM…po po po po Johnny
oy..Jomo short ride…table SCRAPS ….sheesh
The housing thing still seems to have legs. My local paper fired their editorial cartoonist a couple of months ago and now just picks things up off the wire. Here is today’s entry. Tying McThuselah to Paris Hilton on this one is just brilliant.
Size fifteens, eh? Well, isn’t that special? Sadly, I know the rumors regarding big feet are only rumors.
Whoa do you mean he was a POW?
I’ve heard that—somewhere in asia.
If McCrazy can’t remember what kind of car he drives how can I possibly trust his judgement to remember where the gates of hell is?
Unfortunately, a quick look at the AP board will convince you
that Ron Fournier is a feature, not a bug.
priceless
Speaking of McSame toadies being tainted, these ads are gonna so piss off Mark ‘you-don’t-wanna-start-a-fight-with-McSame’ Halperin.
wahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh call the WAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHMBULANCE
An ad splicing together the “What kind of car do I drive” and “My staff will tell you how many houses I own” and Lieberweasel correcting the great man on his comments regarding Al Queda and Iran would make an interesting campaign ad.
(((((Teddy)))))
The digg it is open and just waiting for all you fine firedogs to share Teddy’s post far and wide. ;~)
Maybe a little bit of this too
http://www.truthdig.com/cartoo…..ng_crisis/
I think the car business gives the house business legs, to mix metaphors mightily. Seems to me that folks like me who can count our houses real easily (ZERO) or even folks who have some difficulty (ONE) aren’t gonna buy that McCain doesn’t know what kind of car he drives.
It’s downright un-American is what it is. Or at least not very manly.
PHONE RINGS
Narrator: It’s three am- the phone rings in the white house, can John McCain remember where he put the phone?
OT: BookTV on C-SPAN2 is showing Obama at Barnes&Noble in NY where he’s signing books, and CHARMING and engaging those who stop by. He has a few words for everyone. It’s a taped event.
Now to read.
Thanks, nahant and npb for the diggs!
What kind of car was it – a cadilac CRS – how apropriate (Can’t Remember Shit)
It’s ironic that McCain’s best chance at winning was in taking the “high road” .. now that he’s chosen to go back on his pledge he’s basically dragging himself further down into the ditch. Obama was playing perfectly nice til McCain flipped, don;t y’all think?
Yeah, I’m not that much of a car person but I can still pretty much give the basics about every car I’ve ever owned in the last thirty-five years.
When McCain drives, his aviator goggles restrict his vision- so it’s no surprise that he can’t see the hood ornament….at first he thought it was a Grumman.
LOL! ;~)
Houses, condos, cars, shoes, trollops, a table, even a chair, pfftt. Do any of you realize that John Sidney never had the luxury of an expensive coffee whilst a POW?
No guy in america will be able to understand how another guy could not know what car he drives…it’s incredible.
Maybe McSame doesn’t drive his own cars because there’s some worry that he might crash them, like his did many, expensive, taxpayer-paid fighter planes. Don’t give McSame the keys to America!
McDuck’s response to any upcoming sex scandal:
“For five long years, John McCain was a prisoner of war and the only blow jobs he got were those he gave himself”
oh …………….707
What I can’t figure out is why he went to Starbucks. Doesn’t he have a cook and a fancy coffee machine? Even I have a modest one.
you killin me today
silly rabbit…………cause hes a maverick
I’m havin a good time.
I resemble that remark!
McCain is supposed to be a “Maverick.”
Weren’t those a really crappy Ford model?
It’s the name, dontchaknow?
Maverick:
“An unbranded range animal, especially a calf that has become separated from its mother, traditionally considered the property of the first person who brands it.”
Lieberwurst reachin fer the iron now.
Unfortuantely, McBush has already been branded by about a thousand lobby groups
Or why didn’t Cindy send someone to Starbucks who didn’t require nine Suburbans’ full of Secret Service? I don’t begrudge McCain his Secret Service protection, but the entitlement and privilege inherent in deciding “I must go to Starbucks!” knowing full well the entourage required…. Jeebus.
Now that is funny.
McPOW has such shorts arms that he didn’t have a choice but to BJ himself.
Once a reckless carouser, always a reckless carouser, I always say!
Simple when you think about it.
McBush couldn’t remember “Grande Carmel Macchiotto” and had to go down and POINT to it.
An early Book Salon upstairs
My sister used to drive a Maverick.
BTW, this isn’t fair! I looked for this post to be put back up almost all night last night after it got taken down. Then when they finally did put it back, they snuck it in when I wasn’t looking. I was still back on Jane’s post!
You forgot 4) All of the above!
Worthwhile (as always) Frank Rich column today.
Isn’t that good: be scared, be very, very scared. Yep;
Sorry.
That was meant to be a Reply about the warnings for Dems. to be very concerned about making McC anger. As if it would take very much. Reply was to something above about Mark Halperin.
McCain got shot down in one of those- flyin over rural Florida
John S. McCain born 29 August 1936
Queen Elizabeth II born 21 April 1926
Both have a lot of houses
John doesn’t remember how many
Want to bet the Queen does?
and she is ten years older (and less wrinkled)
When even Cokie Roberts calls Halperin’s bluff as she did on This Week, it’s hard to imagine what/who his constituency is.
But, Ann, I made it even better by adding the Florida Democrats’ ad while the post was sitting backstage overnight! Glad you found us, but I think folks may have gone upstairs to the Book Salon.
Please use this as an open discussion thread for any non-Book-Salon topics!
Yeah, I talked about that on an earlier thread. Pitiful, ain’t it? These fools actually think that the house thing is an aggressive attack! They ain’t seen nothing yet! Furthermore, where do they get off acting as if this was unacceptable and unprovoked! They’ve been smacking Obama around with increasing abandon for weeks! Whenever he hits back they cry foul. “He’s playing the race card!” “He’s attacking my service record!” Ridiculous!
IMO if McShame’s daddy hadn’t been an Admiral it is likely, if not obvious, none of us would have ever heard of much less bear painful witness to all the pathos, lies, arrogance and vitriol spewing forth in his lust for the power of the Oval office.
Maybe McBush’s car was custom built by a guy from Italy with a name a kilometer long- so McBush just can’t remember it– it happens!
Instead we would be listening to someone strumming the guitar in the shadow of a cross.
“Meester McCain? I’m Sergio and I’m hear to measure you for your new car–do you like tweeds?”
Generalisimo Cadilaco
Even if there had been no John McCain, there would be no shortage of Republican misanthropes ready to seize the reins of power and ride roughshod over all that is good.
I’m still trying to come up with ideas on how to properly observe McThuselah’s birthday on Friday.
A huge birthdaycake with Janes huge Lieberman rat popping out of it
I do!
I thought only dogs could give themselves a blowjob?
Sheesh! I thought we were finished with all this, but the last few trailing rainbands of Fay just interacted with today’s seabreeze. Check out the radar over north central Florida. It’s been dumping for over an hour and the lightning is non-stop (I’m unplugged!). We even just had a bit of hail.
Because they can
Play:
“Try to remember the name of the thing we’re pinning the tail on”
40 days and 40 nights – get the arc ready
Saw a card once, Had a flag with a birthday cake on it, the flag was at half staff.
Inside you were informed the flag was at half staff in respect for those giving their lives in lighting the candles.
and have an elephant pinata
Yeah, I realize that. I just needed an excuse for coming in so late. Good job, BTW, Teddy!
John McCain spent five long years in a cell- where he HAD no birthdays.
So he’s actually only 67.
filled with house keys
a PINK elephant
(teh bold isn’t working)
Sigh. It was bad enough when I shared the day with Michael Jackson…
a PINK elephant
Hey Teddy, Biden is asking what you want him to do. I’m sure you have some ideas…
I got that too – but he wanted me to get to work
Set Lieberweasel’s pants on fire?
That’s too bad. Mine often falls on elections, so I get my share of disappointment, too. This year it’s a couple of days before we vote and we actually get a local performance from one of the traveling troupes for The Capitol Steps. I’m really looking forward to that.
Pants on fire
Forgot
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cppAYLn0v8
Works for me! BTW, the comments over at the Think Progress links are hilarious. They are baiting someone who is working on getting their “McCain Swag points”. Tickled me just right.
Speaking of Think Progress, did you know that John McCain has a comprehensive economic plan?
McSwag
I love it- God forgive me but I love it.
Everybody empty your pockets, empty your bank accounts, mail it to my lobbyists
jeebus, watching tweety’s show from denver: how can gene robinson stand to be interrupted, talked over, and dismissed continually by that racist pat buchanan? i would walk off the set. even when matthews asks gene a question, and he starts to answer it, pat just cuts him off like gene is not even there.
enough.
hey, j!
shall I retread my previous sunday, but address it to joe?
Republicans must take and pass rudeness 103 before they can speak the speak on tv
RevBev,
I tell folks, that if I had the option to only vote for GWB or McCain, I would choose GWB. They pause and look at me for a long time. They know I despise GWB with every fiber of my being. Then I tell them that McCain scares me that much. It really makes them think about McCain, especially when I explain his vindictiveness.
I do enjoy dropping by FDL. Thanks for making it a nice place to visit.
Vindictiveness is only one problem
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdJUCU1UH2w
I would be careful about attacking McCain on his homes. Barrack, after all, bought his mansion for $300,000 under market value from a convicted felon who was a heavy campaign supporter of Obamas rise to the Senate. When you live in a glass house, you need to be careful when throwing stones.
Don’t know if this has already been mentioned, over at John Cole’s Balloon Juice, the second awarding of the Golden McPenis award to Mark Halperin.
What happens if you live in seven glass houses? Or don’t remember how many glass houses you own?
[edited by moderator] Obama did NOT buy his house from a felon.
[Mod Note; Please do not insult other commenters. Thanks.]
I know, but for a lot of folks it is a show stopper. It really gets them out of thinking of him as a good guy that takes on the establishment. Few folks I know willingly put up with someone that is vindictive.
Isn’t it amazing how goopers can creat their facts
Does that mean you never knew that Keating was a felon? Does that mean you didn’t know that Cindy McShame and her daddy did a lot of business investment with him? You didn’t know that they did this with the Senator’s full knowledge and then enlisted him to speak to the Feds for him? And you think Obama needs to be careful? Tell me more about houses made of glass…
You mean Castles made Of Sand?
Obama bought his house from a couple who had nothing to do with politics. He later bought a 10 foot strip of land from a campaign supporter who eventually got into trouble.
Mod: Norske and Raven continually and brutally insult me, and yet you do not ever censure them for it.
I should clalrify my #130: I have not been moderated.
Darn it! My #121 was NOT to rockclimber02. Many snafus on FDL last two days.
Beats me why Gene Robinson (or anyone else) tolerates the racist, homophobic, sexist and overall obnoxious Patrick Buchanan.
Rachel has much to teach such gutless fellows. ;~D
I stand corrected. Obama didn’t buy the house directly from Rezko. The Obamas did buy their Hyde park mansion for $300,000 below asking price. This is a fact. Rezko bought the lot next to them and gave them a great deal on additional land. Rezko is a felon. This is also a fact. Color it however you like. I cold care less aabout McCain, and am not voting for him. The post was about Obamas camp throwing stones at McCaines house blunder. If Obama wants me to vote for him then he needs to show me he is above the mudslinging politics he says he want to eradicate.
He bought the house from a couple for $300,000 below market value. The campaign supporter is a convicted felon who purchased the lot next to them and made them a deal on the lot next to them. Even Barak acknowledged this was a mistake.
To focus on an insignificant issue as this, an issue that doesn’t affect ANY core issues for the democratic party, is ridiculous and stupid. The McCains are rich. We all know it. He obviously doesn’t spend much time at all these houses. Who cares. I have a friend that buys and sells houses all the time. I asked him and he had to think about how many he had or was in the process of selling. This is not a fight Obama should be making. We need to focus on real issues here people. These lame distractions only help McCaine. ESPECIALLY, when Barack has his own real estate problems.