Not only does John McCain have at least 10 properties he can't remember, but he also owns a parking lot in Phoenix Arizona worth between $1.4 and $2.4 million. That's over $1 million more than the average American home!
It's no wonder McCain has said time and time again that the "fundamentals of the economy are strong." He's living in the land of affluence, and has no concept of just how terrible our economy has become under President Bush. According to the U.S. Census, 37.3 million people were living in poverty in 2007. 45.7 million (15.3 percent of the population) don't have health insurance—a staggering number that has risen by 6 million since Bush took office in 2001. And yet McCain extols Bush's economy and proposes his own policies that would sink our country further into debt.
AFL-CIO President John Sweeney said that when it comes to the economy,
"I think John McCain is wrong. He doesn’t even know how many homes he has. … We’ve seen the McCain position as just a continuation of the Bush Administration. It’s President Bush’s policies that got us into the mess that we have now. And it’s not only a short term crisis, it’s long term and it has to be addressed. Workers are having a tough time. The wage inequality that’s out there is unbelievable, and health care and retirement security are threatened. Those are some of the reasons that we’re not supporting John McCain."
When we launched McCain's Mansions, you recognized that McCain is out of touch with hard-working Americans. That's why you spread it around and got the mainstream media to take notice and question McCain on this issue. It exposed McCain for the elitist he really is, and turned our ailing economy into a number one issue for Democrats.
Now's your chance to keep the economy front and center by spreading McCain's Million Dollar Parking Lot. Let everyone know that while the majority of Americans are struggling to make mortgage payments and pay for necessities like health insurance and gas, John McCain has a parking lot worth $1 million more than the average home.
Robert Greenwald, you are proving here how partisan and intellectually dishonest you hare. First there is nothing wrong in owing property and renting it out. Nothing illegal there. Second you show that segment of interview where he is defining rich, but you are cutting his answer at the moment he says that this is a joke and that this would be used against him (and he was right). Third you are showing those people saying that they would know how many homes they would have if they owned them. John McCain does not own 7 homes. Most those properties are owned by his wife and maybe, just maybe, he respect the right of his wife to invest in real estates and, therefore, does not get involved with her investments. Oh I forgot, you are probably one of those who wants to take it from the rich and give it to others and that would explain why you don’t understand that he has not tried to take it from his wife.
Shame on you!
How do you spell “filanderer”? Everyone knows that the Naval Investigative Service is the lap dog to the Navy’s powerful and rich and influential and will have absolutely NO information it can release, but, has anyone asked the question – Was McCain PRESENT at the infamous famous “tail-hook” party!
During Republican Convenion, John McCain he said during his POW experts that he Broke, by him doing that he violation the Military Code Of Conduct. About the his VP select, all he is doing is using her and Some people beliefs every word comes out of his mouth, That is so sad.
I think that these liberals do nothing but whine at everything that a non lib does. And a liberal also would even back up a person like Hitler if he ran on the democratic ticket.
whoever made this site and video is an idiot. please spare the intelligent people of this country by shutting this down
To all the young Americans who are prepared to vote for John McCain I say “THANK YOU!” As a man approaching retirement, I was actually worried that my generation might have to pay off the huge federal deficit that is accumulaing. By voting for John McCain you have agreed to pay it in the more distant future. Don’t worry–it won’t feel like a tax increase for you–I know how you hate those!
To some of the Republicans leaving comments on here: MISSY GIRL– you said that McCAin gets distorted on his answer about when someone is rich, and YOU leave out the part he wasn’t joking– you know, the part where the ‘straight-talk express’ says “I want everyone to be rich”. If McCain gets elected, we will all be begging for Bush!
Every Obama hater here are clearly hillbillies. What Mcsame is doing is just dirty politics. Attacking his opponent with low blows. Shame on you Mcsame and shame on all the Mcsame supporters, are a bunch of morons!!! Wake up people….America is becoming more retarded with McCain supporters.
**Show the old joke McCain McCain used in his first SENATE race about a women being RAPED by an APE.
Change the upper right corner of the site.
No one gives a f*ck what kind of parking lot he owns. At first glance, it looks petty. Small ‘potatoes’
I think the real issue here is not about how McCain is a savvy businessman but rather how disconnected he is from the average American. How could a man know the struggles that middle America are going through when one of the numerous properties he owns is a parking lot worth over a million dollars more than the average home.
Missy Girl – No one is saying that you can’t be rich,the point being made is a valid one – the richer you are the further out of touch you are with those of lower and middle incomes. The question asked was ‘how many houses do YOU own?’ and girl he couldn’t answer that. Do you think he and the Mrs. don’t own at least one home together? And don’t worry about Mrs. McCain, I’m sure is a pre-nup in place, the rich don’t get married without one – she’ll take all of that money to the grave.
What everyone, economically, forgets to mention are all the ways the middle class are prevented from moving up – mainly by deregulation laws created at least by the influence of the RICH AND POWERFUL:
living-wage job elimination & jobs sent overseas, poorer workplace safety, weaker unions, fewer employee benefits, expensive healthcare, home ownership out of reach, loss of pensions, not enough money going to failing schools, underfundin the HeadStart Program, it goes on and on.
Meanwhile, many top corporations, as a result of tax subsidies, pay no taxes at all, or even get a rebate. The only individuals benefitting, besides those in the company, are stockholders, not the middle class. The money that goes to this “corporate welfare” program is three times the size of that spent on social welfare for the poor, has no needs requirements, and is renewed automatically from year to year without Congress lifting a finger.
So the capitalist system isn’t even neutral in our country – it is severely unbalanced to favor the rich getting richer because of these unethical laws being in place, not just because the rich invest wisely, as some have said here.
A vast number of the middle class can’t even get to the point of investing in higher-yield, higher-risk areas in any meaningful way, because we’re still working diligently on housing, clothing, feeding and educating our children.
McCain and the Republicans aren’t even going to begin to change this system THEY CREATED that works fine for them, thank you very much.
We also need to admit that a social safety net and regulations are needed (and those are NOT dirty words and that is NOT socialism)as long as these scoundrels run these corporations and Presidents are willing to run Wars and deficits and our economy into the ground.
I don’t understand why you all communist democrats feel like everyone should be on the same level adn make the same money. I am not rich by any meens, but because of the American system if I work hard i have the oppertunity to make alot of money. This should be nothing against Sen. McCain. Just because yall lazy left wing liberals would rather spend your day protesting something or just sit at home and expect the government to make it all better, does not mean i can not go to work everyday and make my own fortune.
The idiotic responses of neocons like “James” below are just another indication of the blind, knee-jerk responses that the right has to fall back on to comment. I’ve worked my rear end off for *everything* I’ve accomplished – returning to college at age 36, graduating at 40 with a Computer Engineering degree after competing successfully with hormonal 20-somethings and landing a job with a fortune 50 corporation that I enjoy to this day. I worked extremely hard and expected to do nothing less.
Why the vitriol and hatred of an opposing viewpoint with literally no facts on which to base the view? Has critical thinking been banned on the right? It seems so with the myriad misspellings and word usage errors in “James’” diatribe. It’s almost awful enough to have been a hoax, but I suspect that it is all too tragically genuine.
America is great because people of *ALL* beliefs and convictions can reap the benefits of hard, honest work. I know because I did!
This website is counteracting everything which Obama means by a clean campaign. I thought you want our candidate to win rather than his opponent to lose his dignity.
THIS IS PATHETIC
LOL,
I had to lol when I read your comment.
Bush/McCain
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Bush/McCain
Lies before Honor
Lets get one thing straight. I own my own company and i own two homes and….I’m 23. This isn’t a bragging right it’s to show you that not everyone who’s rich supports republicans. By the way. The richest Man there is (buffet) is voting for Obama
You guys have to wake up and understand that Obama doesn’t threaten jobs or capitalism. What he threatens are rich people who make obscene amounts of money WHEN the middle class and lower class are starving and losing their homes. It’s not communism you dipshits, it’s called having a heart. I own real estate, i give credit to John McCain for investing smartly and owning a 2 million dollar parking lot and 7 or 10 or whatever other homes. WHAT I DON’T GIVE CREDIT TO. is a man who proposes a tax plan that saves less than his opponents for 90% of working families. I don’t give credit to John McCain who proposes a tax cut that will save him and his wife over $200,000 in tax money every year
You idiots, you want us to take John McCain’s money out of his politics, but John McCain won’t take his money out of his politics.
P.S ~ Based on Obama’s tax plan, Obama is going to pay higher taxes based on his plan and save more money based on McCain’s plan. THAT’S WHAT DESERVES CREDIT.
There are many rich people who devote themselves to public service. That is true. John McCain is just not one of those people.
McCain was a war hero 40 years ago. Since then what has he done to further this country? Don’t tell me he has reached across party lines because the biggest accomplishment he has is McCain-Feingold wherein he improved ethics standards for campaign finance. That was over a decade and a half ago. Since then Obama, in less than a year, has passed “the strongest ethics legislation yet”
So McCain talks about improving finance and spends a decade trying to do it, than Obama makes it better in a year
AND, one more huge problem. McCain is taking 80+ million of tax payers dollars for his campaign. WHAT THE FUCK. I don’t support McCain why the fuck is he taking my money? Many dems pay taxes and don’t support mcCain, Why is he taking my money and then smearing my candidate with it?
That’s not honor, that’s not fiscal responsibility, that, along with his tax plan and 140 corporate lobbyists that work for him, is nothing other than fascism
Last point. If you love war, vote for McCain, that’s all he knows, that’s all he loves.
Pat Buchanan a Republican even said “McCain will make Dick Cheney look like Gandhi”
That my friends, is fucking scary.
Warren Buffet supports Dems because he wants other people’s money spent on social programs, instead of his own.
Why not ask Mr Billions why he does not take a salary commensurate with his position at Berkshire Hathaway? Hmm??
I’ll tell you why, little 23 year old entrepreneur, because he lives off dividends from his holdings, which gives him enormous financial advantage over having to declare taxable income. That’s why, junior.
Nothing illegal about it at all, but I find it laughable that he is then more than pleased to allow Big Brother to take from you and me to make of for the shortfall he and guys like him create through money diversion.
So there you go, kid. Next time do your own research after you get the DNC daily talking pints memos.
Up yours,
Otis
Gee Otis, What’s up your ass? Warren Buffet SUPPORTS taxation of the rich and ultra rich. He is totally game with paying his part, it’s the small price for prospering in a great country like ours.
If you’re sick of money diversion, you must be voting for Obama. There’s no way McCain is going to straighten out the mess Bush created when he and Cheney dismantled banking and consumer protections in place since the Great Depression. Banks and investment companies are failing, but all the top brass made their money a couple of years ago and now taxpayers and investors are going to bear the brunt. Bears & Stern was bailed out, which means Bush puffed taxpayer dollars into the golden parachutes before the whole mess was sold off. McCain has his nose so far up the asses of the establishment, he says at 10am that the fundamentals of our economy are strong, and then says at 3pm that those fundamentals are in bad shape.
Palin is a puppet: cute on the outside and empty on the inside. Right now she’s being briefed by the same neocon con men behind Bush: William Kristol to name the first and foremost. She’s a blank slate who parrots everything she’s told, because she wants to look informed.
I’m sick of people who want something for nothing. On one hand you hear people saying, “Don’t tax us, we’ll take care of ourselves.” Then when there’s a disaster, everyone asks, “Where’s the government to rescue us, feed us, bail us out?”
Why are you so condescending to a 23-year-old entrepreneur who appears to have achieved more than most 40- and 50-year-olds?
So, Otis, stop being an old TOOL!
Steve-O,
You are correct on a couple counts. First I should have been less insulting to the lad. I’ll take that hit.
You are also correct that many people are two-faced on Government with “don’t tax me, but give me what I think I deserve”.
But that isn’t me or my philosophy.
And Buffet is a hypocrite. He uses the tax code to his benefit, but expects others to pick up the slack.
And don’t lay the Wall Street mess solely on Bush, because that is intellectually dishonest. All of Washington is at fault. Fanny and Freddy lay directly at the feet of the Democrats, that’s a fact.
Tis I,
Otis
Well, lets see, Senator McCain continues to believe that the economy is basically sound. Right?, and his solution to our current economic situation is to form a commission (in November?, this year?) when he becomes President?, then we as American citizens wait.. what? perhaps another 6-8 months for findings from this “commission”? and then what? The truth is.. most of us Americans who find ourselves living from pay check to pay check, attempting to feed our families, pay for our mortgage, cover our medical needs are getting further and further behind each and every month, slowly going broke. I have to say it, Senator McCain still doesn’t get it!! I believe Senator McCain is a good person, however 25+ yrs. in the Senate and a military career of 30 yrs. ago, doesn’t qualify him to be President of the United States. We need someone in the White house with a little bit of good old common horse sense. Senator McCain’s continued poor judgment and the choices he continues to make at the advice of others will eventually cost him the election.
SIR,I JUST HAD A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS.I WAS INJURED AT WORK(BROKE NECK)AS A DET. DEPUTY IN JULY 06.I NEED HELP!!!!THE SYSTEM HAS DELAYED TREATMENT SO MUCH THAT I HAVE USED UP ALL OF MY ACCRUED HOURS,ALONG WITH ALL OF MY SAVINGS.I HAVE A GREAT WIFE WHO HAS LUPUS AND FOUR WOUNDERFUL KIDS.IF ANYONE CAN HELP OR POINT ME IN A DIRECTION MY FAMILY AND I WOULD BE EXTREMELY THANKFUL,GOD BLESS YOU.
McCain -a senior U.S. Senator
and decorated war veteran –rich?
Remember folks –
this is America!
-you know, the place where daytime
TV talk show control-freaks and
enmeshment peddlers earn 400 million
a year.
GET REAL —
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