The Obama forces are all atwitter today because McCain doesn’t know how many houses he and Cindy own. (Seven seems to be a conservative estimate; Josh Marshall says 10.)
Hello, the McCains are worth more than $100 million dollars. Big deal, they own seven houses. How could it possibly matter?
What matters is that McCain is wrong on the issues — the wars, the economy, drilling as a solution, abortion, social security, taxes. Beat him there.
What matters to me is that he is either hands-off to an extent we recall from the Reagan years, better known colloquially as ‘out to lunch’, or can’t recall information that he has been exposed to, or both.
Either way, not knowing or not caring that the right answer is ‘We have a lovely home in Arizona and a condo in Washington, and I believe we also have some investment real estate but yes, we are fortunate enough to own homes in both my home state and in DC. Next?’ shows me a red blinking light about either his choice of prep material or his recall of it.