Holy crap, and I thought it was just a pun.

My guess is that it's 10,000 servants each making $26,000/yr.

/But it's okay, since he was a POW

I'm sorry, but I still can't get past the fact that a career politician that used his father's connections to get through the naval academy and then to get started in politics and then left his wife and married a rich younger woman with political connections is calling the black kid that was born to a single mother and grew up in inner-city Chicago an elitist.

I'm always worrying about how Jeeves waxed my car. It's terrifying to think he might only be putting on one coat!

Stupid strategical decision McCain. Moron.

bulldg4life: I'm sorry, but I still can't get past the fact that a career politician that used his father's connections to get through the naval academy and then to get started in politics and then left his wife and married a rich younger woman with political connections is calling the black kid that was born to a single mother and grew up in inner-city Chicago an elitist.


Welcome to modern United States politics. The line to the vomitorium forms over there.

This inane course of action had best back-fire.

/gets in line

That is about three minimum wage workers per house... I wonder if they are all legal residents.

At first I was like, WTF? But then I ... was like WTF? I really think McCain and his campaign are off their meds or something.

bulldg4life: I'm sorry, but I still can't get past the fact that a career politician that used his father's connections to get through the naval academy and then to get started in politics and then left his wife and married a rich younger woman with political connections is calling the black kid that was born to a single mother and grew up in inner-city Chicago an elitist.

That was brilliant. Thank you for summarizing it so succinctly.

Is he retarded? Yeah, Obama, the guy who finally paid off his college loans just a few years ago, doesn't know what it's like to worry about a budget. Right.

letdogsvote
Welcome to modern United States politics. The line to the vomitorium forms over there.

Damn it. I thought I'd at least get to gorge myself before I needed one of those...

I'd also worry about my family budget, if I lacked the basic math skills necessary to count the number of houses I own.

bulldg4life: I'm sorry, but I still can't get past the fact that a career politician that used his father's connections to get through the naval academy and then to get started in politics and then left his wife and married a rich younger woman with political connections is calling the black kid that was born to a single mother and grew up in inner-city Chicago an elitist.

I came here to write my own words, but I will leave with: This.

bulldg4life: I'm sorry, but I still can't get past the fact that a career politician that used his father's connections to get through the naval academy and then to get started in politics and then left his wife and married a rich younger woman with political connections is calling the black kid that was born to a single mother and grew up in inner-city Chicago an elitist.

This should be read from the podium at the DNC.

Wow... that's just... wow.

bulldg4life: I'm sorry, but I still can't get past the fact that a career politician that used his father's connections to get through the naval academy and then to get started in politics and then left his wife and married a rich younger woman with political connections is calling the black kid that was born to a single mother and grew up in inner-city Chicago an elitist.

I believe the official Republican counterpoint to that is "elitism isn't about money, connections or anything tangible, its about a vaguely described attitude that we want to perceive"

bulldg4life: I'm sorry, but I still can't get past the fact that a career politician that used his father's connections to get through the naval academy and then to get started in politics and then left his wife and married a rich younger woman with political connections is calling the black kid that was born to a single mother and grew up in inner-city Chicago an elitist.

If ever there was a "Thread Over" contest, this statement would win it.

I'm just bookmarking this until I have a chance to use bulldg4life's quote.

I think McCain was confusing the management of the weekly allowance that Cindy gives him with the management of an actual family budget.

baorao: its about a vaguely described attitude that we want to perceive"

Which could also apply to anti-american, liberal, socialist, etc.

bulldg4life: m sorry, but I still can't get past the fact that a career politician that used his father's connections to get through the naval academy and then to get started in politics and then left his wife and married a rich younger woman with political connections is calling the black kid that was born to a single mother and grew up on food stamps and took a low paying job out of college helping the poor in inner-city Chicago an elitist.

FIFY.

/It was slightly inaccurate.

Where's the quote from Patrick Ewing, who said "yeah we make a lot of money, but we spend a lot of money".

When we got our stimulus check, I said to my husband: We got our bread, now where's the farking circus?

And here it is.

/disgusted

McCain is just a terrible campaigner. He's never really had to campaign for a quarter century. I think he's out of practice.

Wow. Massive Fail on McCain's part. The man doesn't even know how many houses he owns (10) and thinks someone making $3 million a year is not rich, yet he has the nerve to consider himself "one of us"?

BRILLIANT!

The McCains increased their budget for household employees from $184,000 in 2006 to $273,000 in 2007, according to John McCain's tax returns.

This should be in the next Obama ad.

cameroncrazy1984: McCain is just a terrible campaigner.

FINISH HIM!

The idea that former prisoner of war John McCain never budgeted his assets is insane. You think that during his 5 and 1/2 years in a Vietnamese hellhole he didn't learn to budget his grains of rice and scraps of DOG?!?

/official McCain campaign response

Lionel Mandrake: The McCains increased their budget for household employees from $184,000 in 2006 to $273,000 in 2007, according to John McCain's tax returns.

This should be in the next Obama ad.


now you know why he opposed raising the minimum wage.

Lionel Mandrake: The McCains increased their budget for household employees from $184,000 in 2006 to $273,000 in 2007, according to John McCain's tax returns.

This should be in the next Obama ad.

This, this, eleventy times this.

"Hi, is your house worth $273,000? No? Then John McCain spends more on his servants than you did on your house. Have a good day, vote Obama!"

bulldg4life: I'm sorry, but I still can't get past the fact that a career politician that used his father's connections to get through the naval academy and then to get started in politics and then left his wife and married a rich younger woman with political connections is calling the black kid that was born to a single mother and grew up in inner-city Chicago an elitist.

STANDING OVATION

Well spoke

Oh, there's more!

But don't you see? Elitism isn't how much money you have, it's how you FEEL (about voting Democrat). And billionaires can be poor too! And if you budget a quarter million dollars a year for servants, that's completely the same as worrying about how you're going to pay all of your bills and still make rent/mortage! And being enthusiastic for a candidate is really terrible!

flavor of the month: now you know why he opposed raising the minimum wage.

Only fake rich people pay their staffs minimum wage. They probably live a pretty comfortable life. A lot of those properties McCain owns don't have any staff in them.

Lionel Mandrake: The McCains increased their budget for household employees from $184,000 in 2006 to $273,000 in 2007, according to John McCain's tax returns.

This should be in the next Obama ad.

I think its very generous of John McCain to pay servants $273,000 of the $405,409 he made in 2007. he only keeps $132,000 for himself. he's basically middle class.

I'm just glad that he can afford to support so many hard working American families. That shows that he is indeed a man of the people, by employing them to do his housework and keep his lawns clean and clear. Truly, he is an American success story.

Maybe not quite the same road as a black kid from a single parent home, growing up in Chicago and eventually going to Harvard and becoming a Constitutional scholar, but he's certainly living the American dream to dump his first wife for a younger, hotter, richer model. Whooo hooo!

McCain thinks his domestic staff still only get three fifths of a vote.

baorao: I think its very generous of John McCain to pay servants $273,000 of the $405,409 he made in 2007. he only keeps $132,000 for himself. he's basically middle class.

If it takes $5million/year to make a person rich, I think this classifies John McCain as poverty-stricken.

Poor guy.

Tigger: McCain thinks his domestic staff still only get three fifths of a vote.

And that was a compromise for him

I still can't believe McCain said that you can be a billionaire and be poor. This isn't a farking poetry contest or psychotherapy session, its goddamm tax policy. You can't be a billionaire and be poor.

Tigger: McCain thinks his domestic staff still only get three fifths of a vote.

He's probably pissed that he has to pay them. 40 acres and a mule should suffice.

bulldg4life really did nail it.
Props.

baorao: I think its very generous of John McCain to pay servants $273,000 of the $405,409 he made in 2007. he only keeps $132,000 for himself. he's basically middle class.

And Cindy's just a woman, so her little income doesn't count, right?

bulldg4life: I'm sorry, but I still can't get past the fact that a career politician that used his father's connections to get through the naval academy and then to get started in politics and then left his wife and married a rich younger woman with political connections is calling the black kid that was born to a single mother and grew up in inner-city Chicago an elitist.

This is Rovian politics at it's best. Attack the oppositions strengths. That's how draft dodged Dubya attacked decorated war veteran Kerry and beat him (sort of).

Etchy333: baorao: I think its very generous of John McCain to pay servants $273,000 of the $405,409 he made in 2007. he only keeps $132,000 for himself. he's basically middle class.

And Cindy's just a woman, so her little income doesn't count, right?

Compassion is something you learn when you're a prisoner of war!

DamnYankees: I still can't believe McCain said that you can be a billionaire and be poor. This isn't a farking poetry contest or psychotherapy session, its goddamm tax policy. You can't be a billionaire and be poor.

McCain didn't have time to learn your "new math" while he was a POW for 5 /12 years.

Plus, as McCain has said on economic issues before, it's more a state of mind than a mathematical fact.

Etchy333: And Cindy's just a woman, so her little income doesn't count, right?

It seems so. His stance has always been that her money is hers and my money is mine.

Someone should do a man on the street viral video of this.

baorao: Etchy333: And Cindy's just a woman, so her little income doesn't count, right?

It seems so. His stance has always been that her money is hers and my money is mine.

suuuuurrrreeeeee.