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Elitist!!

by BooMan
Thu Aug 21st, 2008 at 06:02:35 PM EST

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...
...That's right. The McCains pay $270,000 per year for butlers and maids--that's $50,000 more than the median value of an American home.

Out of touch!! Elitist!! A-R-U-G-U-L-A!!

Elitist!! | 15 comments (15 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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I'll bet he has a barrista on the payroll too. That latte-drinking, New York Times reading, multi-home-owner...

"If you look for the social economic motive, you will not have to wait for history to tell you what was propaganda and what was truth." - George Seldes

by Real History Lisa (lpeaseRemoveThis@gte.net) on Thu Aug 21st, 2008 at 06:17:57 PM EST

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True. Maybe that explains where Vicky Iseman's been?

Be nice to America. Or we'll bring democracy to you country.

by Drew J Jones (blahblahblah@blahblahblah.com) on Thu Aug 21st, 2008 at 07:24:10 PM EST
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this just keeps on giving.

Kevin Drum finds it's A gift for the Dem Convention...and provides a Luxury Real Estate Guide to "McCain's Houses" and ponders Ann Richards (RIP) running with this line.

I wonder if there are any career openings. Seems to me the butlers and maids need a tax break.

Well, "You can't vote for war and disown the results"

by idredit on Thu Aug 21st, 2008 at 06:18:42 PM EST

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Apparently both NBC and ABC hit McCain on the house issue, and they did not run his Rezko ad.

The Rezko ad may simply have no oxygen supply, since it's been so thoroughly investigated by the press already.

Be nice to America. Or we'll bring democracy to you country.

by Drew J Jones (blahblahblah@blahblahblah.com) on Thu Aug 21st, 2008 at 07:25:07 PM EST
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the McCain camp is damaging the brand..not many moderates are happy. I just posted a diary that Eisenhower has made public her goodbye to the GOP...citing among her reasons the McCain camp's "unworthy Karl Rove-style political campaign."

wonder what she thinks of Limbaugh's Everyone's afraid to 'criticize the little black man-child'

Well, "You can't vote for war and disown the results"

by idredit on Thu Aug 21st, 2008 at 08:05:35 PM EST
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Re: Elitist!! (4.00 / 2)

It's about time, too. The McCain brand should've been shit from the beginning.

The guy's a corrupt, spoiled psycho. Period.

Be nice to America. Or we'll bring democracy to you country.

by Drew J Jones (blahblahblah@blahblahblah.com) on Thu Aug 21st, 2008 at 08:30:20 PM EST
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Boo, how dare you mock John McCain. He's a POW. Why do you hate America?

Be nice to America. Or we'll bring democracy to you country.

by Drew J Jones (blahblahblah@blahblahblah.com) on Thu Aug 21st, 2008 at 07:28:00 PM EST

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"He's a war hero and POW who gets his offices attacked by powder filled envelopes from dirty f'ckin hippies, so who cares about how many houses he has!"

Watch and learn how the McCain boys spin this. It will be used to justify everything said tomorrow by the Right Wing Noise Machine and the suggestions made to turn Denver into a fortress...for the safety of Obama, of course.

More at Zandar vs. The Stupid.

by Zandar1 on Thu Aug 21st, 2008 at 08:39:34 PM EST
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What do you want to bet the campaign sent this to themselves? Sorry to be so cynical, but that's what the last 8 years have done to me. It will turn out to be a harmless substance - like the baby powder sent to Dykstra's office on Monday.

I wonder if we'll see a whole rash of this type of thing over the next few months. Only affecting republicans, of course.

by conglomerNation on Thu Aug 21st, 2008 at 08:52:55 PM EST
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zandar, denver's already a city under siege, and the cops paranoia is being carefully ratched up by someone. the responses are more than predictable:

lodo bomb scare

suspicious package bomb scare...in progress...

a massive security apparatus...

cages for protesters...

and on and on and on.

this has a huge potential to get very ugly. geov parrish, and others who are going in there had best stay very alert.

the revolution will not be televised...

by dada on Thu Aug 21st, 2008 at 09:04:14 PM EST
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a trifling amount...and, it's probably a tax deduction for the trusts and corporations that own the property. when you're well over a mil deep in credit card debt...what's another $270k?

how much do you want to bet they pay most of them minimum wage?

the revolution will not be televised...

by dada on Thu Aug 21st, 2008 at 07:41:53 PM EST

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John McCain, the quintessential clown, is turning his campaign into an absolute farce. I am watching him in utter disbelief. As to the mass media, they become more and more pathetic. And, the Russians are supposed to be afraid of us?

Republicans suck.

Suppose you scrub your ethical skin until it shines, but inside there is no music, then what? Kabir

by Dongi 2 on Thu Aug 21st, 2008 at 08:18:36 PM EST

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man that is wealthy not rich...McCains boosting the trickle down theory...

Booman you Volvo driving elitist keeping track of other peoples wealth...

by americanforliberty on Thu Aug 21st, 2008 at 08:49:14 PM EST

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On the Arugula note:

Al Giordano says:

(And here's a goombah public service announcement from yours truly: Italian-American working class families have been eating and growing arugula in the garden next to the tomatoes for generations; there's nothing novel or boutique or elite about that food among that part of the Roman Catholic swing vote. Put that microtrend in your pipe and smoke it, old man!)

by RandyH on Thu Aug 21st, 2008 at 08:52:17 PM EST

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Yep. Call arugula by its other name, rocket, and lots of old-timers will know what it is.

by Second Nature (denn1214 at gmail) on Thu Aug 21st, 2008 at 09:59:53 PM EST
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