First of all, this is the stupid “Hawaii is exotic” meme that was tossed out there by Cokie Roberts. Hawaii is a US state. It’s no more “exotic” or “exclusive” than Florida. And it’s where Obama’s family lives. He took his children to visit his grandmother. Oooh! Scary!
Second, he earned that million-dollar mansion through the sales of his books. McCain got his by marrying his wife. Obama has ONE home. McCain has seven or eight…and he’s not sure exactly how many. Funny how no one I know ever forgot how many houses they owned.
Third, Rezko is a dead letter. There is no evidence of any corrupt connection between them. You and your friends on the right can continue to fantasize about the possibility, but there’s no there, there. Likewise with Ayers. Can you definitively say that you’ve never served on a board or a committee or an organization with someone who might have a shady past? Should we visit those sins on you?
In short, you’re wrong. Again. Still. Color me surprised.
Back (or Barack) on topic, this article suggests it might be Chet Edwards. Not on my personal dream list (Wesley Clark, Mark Warner, Ted Strickland), but also not one of the three favorites, all of whom I don’t like.
We did. But I bet that, a week ago, most American voters would have guessed that McCain wasn’t hurting, but probably wouldn’t have characterized him as ‘rich.’ They certainly had no idea of the scale of his wealth.
I was wondering when the Heinz-Kerry stuff would break. It won’t stick, and let’s be fair, there were just as many Dems making excuses for Kerry’s lifestyle way back then, whne their ox was being gored.
However, it is deeply satisfying to consider the thought of the hypocrites dining on their cold excrement in the light of day.
No, actual truth. As in, every word of it is factual.
Unless you would care to allege that Obama did not vacation, has never been to Hawaii, does not own a house, said house is worth less than a million dollars, that Tony Rezko did not help him buy it, or was not a fund raiser, or was acquitted, etc.
Or you could make something up and try to argue that, but don’t be offended if I interpret that as your conceding the point.
So Barack Obama, after a short visit to the place he grew up, and returning to his only home, which he paid for from his lifetime of hard work (from a transaction that was free from any illegal or inappropriate behavior), managed to quote his opponent’s words back verbatim, reminding people that by McCain’s own standards, only one of them could be considered “rich”.
Good to know that at least one of them is engaging in campaigning that isn’t wallowing in the worst kind of dishonest innuendo.
But where’s the relevance? You never answered my question with why it matters that he was in Hawaii visiting his grandmother? How that makes him at fault for something or “elite?”
And the right wing can bring up the Rezco all you want; he’s gonna matter as little now as he did eight months ago: zero.
And how does it matter that his house is a million dollars? It wasn’t handed to him by his wife; he and his wife earned it through hard work. Give me that kind of wealth over living off your wife’s inheritance any day.
The conclusion doesn’t follow the premises. Your conclusion is that Obama is out of touch with average Americans because he visited his family in Hawaii or earned enough money over the course of his life to buy an expensive house, which is barely a fraction of the value of his rival’s.
And how exactly has Rezko been connected to Obama’s house? Rezko was a political fundraiser. Unless you want to claim every nasty fundraiser who has ever supported Republicans, attaching Obama to Rezko is dumb.
FTR, Rezco bought a strip of property adjoining their house property, which lowered the cost of the house, making it affordable to the Obamas.
Obama has admitted it was a stupid thing to get himself involved in, but it wasn’t criminal, and it wasn’t even unethical. Had it been anyone else, no one would’ve batted an eyelash. As it was Rezco, it raised a brief stir.
Let’s be perfectly honest–Shodan’s comment, while “100% factual” is also full of shit. He knows it, the Republicans know it, but if they repeat it often enough, they hope that people will draw exactly the type of dishonest inferences they’re hoping so as to perpetuate the whole “elitism/out-of-touch” meme.
Maybe they honestly believe Obama’s an “elitist”, but they have only the most pathetic of anecdotes to employ as evidence, especially compared to their own richer/more famous/more powerful candidate. So they use stuff like “Hawaii” and “arugula” as code words and cross their fingers that people won’t be bothered to investigate the inconvenient facts and policy positions that expose their dishonesty for exactly what it is.