FOX and the Republicans have gone into overdrive trying to defend John McCain for not knowing how many homes he owns. As you’ve seen on this blog, they’ve attempted to explain it away with made up excuses, deflect it by claiming that calling out McCain’s cluelessness is somehow attacking Cindy McCain, and there’s the ever-popular, way-overused, “But he was a POW!” card that supposedly excuses you for every unethical, stupid thing you’ve ever done, said, or will do or say in the future.
Predictably, the right is attempting to reframe McCain’s cluelessness by saying that Barack Obama is actually attacking people for doing well and owning multiple homes, not people like McCain who are so clueless/obscenely wealthy that they don’t know or care how many homes they own. On Your World, Neil Cavuto claimed that by attacking McCain for having multiple homes, Obama was really “bashing the American Dream.”
The American Dream is not to become so obscenely wealthy that you lose track of how many homes you own and don't know/care how wealthy you are. For the vast majority of Americans, including myself, the American Dream is owning one home, paying it off, raising your family there, and being able to send your kids to college. Having too many homes is the dream of the extremely rich. But McCain thinks the problem with America isn’t that people are losing their homes and their jobs and seeing their wages decrease. No. John McCain thinks America's real problem is that rich people and corporations don’t have enough money.
@Craig P
That image is a sad fake. You can see the original image composited with the fake, here:
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