Sounds like a good American to me.

Can't his wife just pick up the tab?

To be honest, I stole his identity and charged a PS3.

/and a hooker

Boobies!

TownDrunk: Boobies!

FAIL.

That's a lot of pancakes.

What's the problem? The McCains are millionaires.

aevert: Sounds like a good American to me.

I came here to say that.

I now take my leave

Malbar: Considering how much money he has, it's really no more significant than your average American carrying a $500 balance.


the hell you say?

To be fair, this probably is almost meaningless (and I'm no McCain fan). Just stating a number doesn't really tell you whether they're carrying a balance forward. For example, your credit report will usually report your monthly statement balance even if you aren't carrying debt forward. So it's possible that that is just their monthly spending.

The farking votes aren't going to buy themselves people.

IHOP's best customer

He's just following Bush's "spend your way out of a Recession" economics.

MrPerfectSU: Can't his wife just pick up the tab?

HA!

A beer pun.

MrPerfectSU: Can't his wife just pick up the tab?

I hope she won't, if he really called her a see ya next tuesday.

So is that what he's carrying around as debt, or is that his spending habits per month (and he's paying it all off each month)?

But is he Muslim?

Over 71 with a black card!

Malbar: Considering how much money he has, it's really no more significant than your average American carrying a $500 balance.

He has negative 100,000 dollars at least. If you're in debt you don't have money, you have debt. Don't feel too bad though, John McCain doesn't understand this simple premise either, that's why this is an issue.

/ok, maybe not
//he still sucks pancakes

Cuthbert Allgood: Malbar: Considering how much money he has, it's really no more significant than your average American carrying a $500 balance.


the hell you say?

He's saying McCain is rich, so $100k is not a massive amount of credit card debt to him.

Hasn't he said before that the economy wasn't one of his strong suits.

Tr0mBoNe: But is he Muslim?

Brilliant...


...example of stupidity.

That being said, that seems like an awful lot of debt for a guy who is married into so much wealth.

Falcc: He has negative 100,000 dollars at least. If you're in debt you don't have money, you have debt. Don't feel too bad though, John McCain doesn't understand this simple premise either, that's why this is an issue.

Umm, you do understand that adding a negative number to a much larger positive number gives you a slightly smaller positive number, right?

Jeffrey.Rodriguez: Hasn't he said before that the economy wasn't one of his strong suits.

In his defense (sort of), it is a bit difficult to learn about the economy and finances when you only spend other people's money.

lol anyone else remember Mike Gravel saying he stuck it to the credit card companies by having something like $80,000 in debt to them? i guess the difference is Gravel declared bankruptcy whereas McCain's got a rich wife

Since he can't fly on his donors' private jets any more, I'm guessing he's just doing it to earn the frequent flyer miles.

He's just doing what he can to stimulate the economy sexually.

He's worth an estimated $44Million.

$100K really isn't that much to him, or to anyone worth $44Million.

My question is why bother having a balance.

Thats like us keeping a $10 balance.

CrunchyCheetoFingers: My question is why bother having a balance.

Thats like us keeping a $10 balance.

Like I said upthread, we have no idea whether they are carrying a balance forward, or if that's just their monthly spending. They could be spending $100K/month and then paying it off every month.

In 2004, Gravel had run up $85,000 in credit card debt due to a health crisis requiring multiple surgeries, and the money he'd spent pursuing his National Initiative. Urged to declare personal bankruptcy, Gravel at first hesitated. "And then I thought about it: 'My God, isn't this interesting? I'm going to get these 6 credit card companies who have been predators on normal people. I'm going to get them to contribute to the National Initiative.' And I filed bankruptcy just in a heartbeat & that was it.
Gravel (new window)


Haha

All things considered, that's not bad for a multi-millionaire. At one point in my life I was almost half that deep & I haven't made close to $1mil over the course of my working life.

Suicidal Writer

I'll bet he even voted for the new "Bankruptcy Reform Law", aka the "AquaGlide on the Anus" that went through in 2003(?).

But I could be wrong.

Suicidal Writer: Haha

You sure showed him.

Mnemia: To be fair, this probably is almost meaningless (and I'm no McCain fan). Just stating a number doesn't really tell you whether they're carrying a balance forward. For example, your credit report will usually report your monthly statement balance even if you aren't carrying debt forward. So it's possible that that is just their monthly spending.

How the fark do you charge $100K in a damn month? Gold-plated hookers?

There are hundreds of reasons not to vote for this guy. This is not one of them. Why does this crap get greenlighted?

Slow Friday, huh?

Stupidmitter you're not rich. pffft.

Chameleon: Mnemia: To be fair, this probably is almost meaningless (and I'm no McCain fan). Just stating a number doesn't really tell you whether they're carrying a balance forward. For example, your credit report will usually report your monthly statement balance even if you aren't carrying debt forward. So it's possible that that is just their monthly spending.

How the fark do you charge $100K in a damn month? Gold-plated hookers?

Let's see -- she's worth about $100MM. At that level, and a lot below it, the line between business and personal blurs considerably. Some of that is business, some of that is recurring expense -- maybe they belong to an exclusive golf club that charges $25k/month, or several clubs.

And try buying a case of 1982 Château Lafite Rothschild -- it's running about $36,000. So, yeah, if I was worth $100 MM, I'd be spending about 100K/month, no biggie.

Marcus Aurelius: Suicidal Writer

I'll bet he even voted for the new "Bankruptcy Reform Law", aka the "AquaGlide on the Anus" that went through in 2003(?).

But I could be wrong.

Could be, and are. Gravel hasn't been in the Senate since 1981.

You suppose that means he'll go after credit card companies?

Or is that about as likely as Obama going after anti-smoking legislation?

Republican = Borrow & Spend

But seriously, that's a LOT of early bird and blue plate specials.

Chameleon: How the fark do you charge $100K in a damn month? Gold-plated hookers?

Well, they might have private jets and stuff. Put gas for your jet on the card regularly, and it wouldn't be too hard to get to that level of spending, especially combined with staying in fancy hotels, etc.

Craptastic: To be honest, I stole his identity and charged a PS3.

/and a hooker

Your PS3 cost $99,980?

filing (PDF) @ opensecrets.org

Liabilities are on page 27, FWIW.

didn't shelly O say they were barely making ends meet before he cashed in on his book deal?

rppp01a:
You sure showed him.

More like he showed them. If I ever had a terminal illness, I'd max out my credit cards, take out a bunch of loans, and die smiling and in debt.

over $100,000 in credit card debt

I feel better.

Suicidal Writer: rppp01a:
You sure showed him.

More like he showed them. If I ever had a terminal illness, I'd max out my credit cards, take out a bunch of loans, and die smiling and in debt.

Assuming you don't have family to inherit your idiocy.

Considering Clinton has several million in debt, $100,000 is nothing to rich people.