I think McCain just represents a trigger happy generation.look at his take on the Russia-Georgia conflict,I think some of dis leaders need to a bit of diplomatic studies ,else people like McCain would plunge us into another 4th world war.the world is watching America to take its rightful lead.

For those whose post are implying that those of us that make under $250,000 a year are "lazy" or "didn't go to college", how many police officers do you know that earn $250,000? How about elementary school teachers? How about doctors? District attorneys? Construction workers? Nurses? The list goes on and on of hard working people that went to college and don't earn $250,000 a year. No one is asking people that do make that much to do any more than their fair share.

Greg: Let me start this off by telling you that you are a sicophant, spherical, and cylindrical idiot! No one is talking about taking money from those who work and giving it to those who don't. We're talking about balancing the tax responsibility in this country. The wealthiest people are paying less taxes dollar for dollar than the rest of us period. There are certain tax write-offs you can't take unless you make above a certain figure.

Hi America, Everytime McCain laughs at the end of his statement, he's laughing at you.

He thinks you really believe what he says. He believes you - the average citizen can relate to him and vice versa. But how can you? You don't have the same 10 war stories to repeat. You didn't leave your sick wife to go hit the jack pot with Cynthia. You don't have 5 to 8 houses to try to remember. Ever been on a private jet mr. average american.

Hey you use computers too. Did you know McCain is not even computer literate enough to find this blog and leave a comment. Is this guy someone you could relate to? Is this the man you want to represent you? Wanna watch the internets together?

Hey ladies, I'm sorry about Hillary, but hey you can vote for McCain if you want to get rid of your right to choose, and you have a few children to send to the next war. He's your man, and he'll be there for you just like his first wife. but watch out for his temper - he might yell at you.

The straight talk express is crooked and this ad is yet another example. If you voters can't see that - well you and McCain can have this country - I'm moving to Canada. Because if you vote for McCain you send a loud message that the Europeans are correct about us when they say we are nothing more than self righteous stupid fat lazy trigger happy cowboys, and McCain is the guy that can best represent us in the world.

Don't be stupid.

Obama 08, or else it's Canada for me.

I feel a lot more pain in this economy, mindful that my 6 homes and off-shore accounts had dwindled to 4,999,999.67 dollars as at last check. By any perceptive standard, I 'm not rich, just getting bye. McCain is my champion in this ugly economic mess. We ought to ascribe rich to those better off than myself. Lest I forget we only need to ask those well off to invest in folks like me to enhance our ranks. The strength of our great economy can sustain more ill conceived war adventures and a few more shoot first, then questions later foreign policy initiatives. With John McCain's stewardship of the George W. Bush agenda, we are good for more years of splendid growth and prosperous bounty.

To Greg-The key to prosperity is getting your lazy rear up off the couch and GETTING A JOB!! —the fact that someone other than you owns more houses than you own has NO IMPACT on whether you can reach the means to afford more*** McCain has so many houses he lost count and his $500 shoes it is called Out of TOUCH– Americans are not Lazy ….Due to BUSH & Co and the UNJUST WAR Economy is
a Disaster……yes we work ..some of us just can't make ends meet CUZ of the food and gas prices in other words the cost living…. Of Course YOU and McBush are RICH and OUT OF TOUCH!! SO SHUT H_LL UP!!!

Why do McCain's staff put these adds out trying to tear Obama down, and when he answers back with his own ads, the say he's being childish and need to stick to the issues. I think the McCain camp need to stick to the issues. They run one attack ad after another because McCain can't win on the issues that really concern the american people. You see McCain hasn't gone up in the polls, so he's doing all he can to bring Obama down. I think we should protest nation wide aginst McCains negative attacks. Let them know this is not how to win an election.

John McCain's Tax Plan:

Lower High Income Taxes ($250,000 +) from 39% to 25%
Raise Moderate/Low Income Taxes

Obama's Tax Plan:

Windfall Tax for Record Breaking Oil Profits (Exxon-Mobile charted the highest profit margin in U.S. history last quarter)
Rollback Bush Tax-Cuts for High Income Brackets (Top 2)
Lower Middle/Lower Income Taxes!
Raise Estate Taxes (For Dead Millionaires! If you're not a dead millionaire, you're an idiot if you oppose this!)

Stop being lazy America and go spend 1 hour of your time on BarackObama.com and JohnMcCain.com, its says right on their websites what their plans are! So unless you make more that 250k per year, try voting for Obama and your own best interests!

Anyone really interested in Obama or is setting on the fence better look at the book "Fleeced" and also check out with the NRA and get his views on wanting to have complete gun control. See how high your taxs will be and the tax breaks that everyday people are getting now he is going to take away. Then the problems with our med ins. will be way worse unless you like Canadas.

wow, cnn is really becoming the mecca of the liberal. You guys have some strange idea that obama is poor or something? okay, Mccain's WIFE is very very rich, and Obama is very rich. ????!!!! and you think one of them actually lives a normal life, neither one of them does. get over it (by the way, Mccain doesn't get a cent from his wife's fortune, according to the prenup).
and the people who are trying to say that Mccain is unintelligent, keep in mind that his IQ was tested, 133 - which is considered genius. so you can let go of that argument. of course we don't know the IQ of obama because NONE of his test scores are available to the public, not sats, not grades, nothing. he is very smart for riding this ride, without anyone asking him any hard questions and demanding anything out of him (substance maybe?), especially the media.

On your second blog BK you really are spouting fiction. You are truly an uninformed moron.

BK you moron…Obama did not buy his house from Rezko Rezko's wife bought the vacant lot next door because the woman that owned both the house and the lot wouldn't sell the house without selling the lot. The house was 1.6million which really isn't a lot for that area of Chicago. Obama got most of his money from the sales of his two great books that he wrote himself. Get a clue.

What is it with the Mccain followers and their obsession with Rezko? Is Obama having a tenuous relationship to a minor felon somehow worse than Mccain's lifelong relationship to Charles Keating, the worst corporate criminal in American history?

Can you spell h-y-p-o-c-r-i-t-e-s?

Well said Ian, but it's worse than that. The top 1% in this country pay 40% of the taxes. But for Obama, that is still not their "fair share". If all of the lefties on this blog put even half of the energy they use to scream about McCain and praise Obama into actually working hard and providing for their families, then the rest of us wouldn't have to give so much to fund their social welfare programs.

Who's less likely to raise taxes on persons in Cindy McCain's tax bracket ? Exactly.

That leaves YOUR tax bracket to tax.

McCain is no financial wiz folks.

Is McDork really running for president or is this a joke?!?!?! Its gotta be a joke!!!!

JOHN KING TALKING ABOUT DEMOCRATS HAS A AUGUST CURSE NO JOHN THEY JUST GOT STUPID PEOPLE OUT THERE WHO LIKE THE REPUBLICANS WALKIN ALL OVER THEM

John McCain for president - a grown-up doing a grown-up job!

Wilson August 22nd, 2008 11:30 am ET

How long has Obama been in Congress?

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3 years and 7 years as an illinois state senator, then several more years as a constitutional professor. He's 47 not 27 as some republicans would have you think.

Tell me, how long was Bush a Senator ? How about Reagan ? Sorry but your talking points MAKE NO SENSE. Since when did being a Senator for x years become a requirement to be the President ? Most Presidents never served in the Senate at all….

That add is dead on. Obama is nothing more then an empty suit, a celebrity who is well rehearsed who has shown without his rehearsed speeches, he has difficulty explaining his positions. Why? b/c he isn't sure what his positions are. Obama gets a free lot next to his house courtesy of a convicted felon and you obama can do no wronger's are foaming at the mouth over these charges because like obama, you're all rabid.

Its time to put McCain in a home…heck he has 7 to choose from.

How many white hair loss do you (McCain) have? I bet he will say, "My barber will get to you later." This could be myth and this could be fact that he forgot how to count. Missteps and misstatements often he made mistakes that explain, white hair losses. Maybe brown or black dye will help you better a little bit.

Go Obama

John "lighten up" McCain jokes about $5M mark being a measure of being rich. He jokes about bombing Iran; he jokes about using cigarettes as a weapon of war; he jokes about rape; he jokes about Chelsea Clinton being ugly…

Karl Rove told John McCain how stupid you are and McCain believes him. And if you elect John McCain, America, the joke IS on YOU.

Ian "The fact that 10% pay 50% of the taxes still is wrong" not really when you realize 10% also take home 90% of the country's wealth / income.

McCain is a petty hothead who can only deal in low blows because that's all he's got. Not what we need in a leader.

From McCain's mouth:

"Obama is an elitist, he has no idea how the average American lives.
Cindy, is this one of our houses? I don't recognize it."

Honestly, the McCain campaign is unbelievable…it's as if they're deliberately producing the most underwhelming depiction of a candidate possible. All I ever hear from McCain is about how he'll keep taxes low and drill for oil. The funny thing is, I'm more inclined to agree with McCain than Obama on most of the issues…the way he's acting during the campaign makes it impossible for me to support him. This ridiculous ad is only another example of why.

LOL this add is so ironic coming from McCain, the guy with 9 houses and $270,000 a year in domestic help.

Obama is the curse that the media enabled the dumb Democrats to nominate in the primaries!

But, Americans are smarter than Obama thinks. Obama, himself, has revealed the dark side the media tried to keep under wraps!

This former Democrat will vote for McCain 08 and Hillary 2012! They are both moderates in touch with mainstream America!

McCain must be stuck in the past–again. He thinks he's still in Hanoi, and his (first) wife is at home trying to make it on his Navy pay.

500.00 for a pair of shoes, and obama is the elitist. 7 homes, and obama is the elitist. obama owns a home and rezco is linked to it, and mccain was doing business directly with keating, and obama is the elitist. mccain sponges off of social secruity, and obama is the elitist.

And contrary to all of your posts — Obama is threatening to raise taxes on FAMILIES making more than $250K and INDIVIDUALS making more than $125K. He has also threatened to eliminate the social security tax cap, which would be an immediate 7% tax increase on anyone making more than $98K (in addition to his other promised tax hikes).

McCain once said that he couldn't in good conscience vote for the Bush tax cuts as they were heavily weighted to the already wealthy.
Now that Cindy's told him that they could hold onto an extra $400,000 a year if he could push that tax cut through again, he is all for it.

Well, probably they need that money more than America does anyway.
Who cares about the infrastructure falling apart with total Blackouts from the ancient electricity grids, to people being killed when unrepaired bridges fall apart.

A couple of years of those tax cuts and the McCains could buy house number 8.

DOES OBAMA WEAR 500.00 SHOES?
DOES MCCAIN THINK THAT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE DUMB?
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY ARE THE SPENDERS.
WE ARE SO FAR IN DEBT THAT IT WILL PROBABLY TAKE 12 OR 15 YEARS TO BE IN THE POSITION OUR COUNTRY WAS IN WHEN BILL CLINTON WAS PRESIDENT.
NO MORE REPUBS……THEY DO NOT MANAGE MONEY WELL.

OBAMA 08………2012……….YES WE CAN

I don't care if McCain is out of touch and super rich. Really, I couldn't care less. That fact won't cost me money. I care greatly about Obama's threats to raise my taxes. That will actually hit me in the pocketbook (where it counts).

NPR is a good news source. Also FSRN and just about anything on a Pacifica station. Just straight talking news with no corporate influence.

Quite frankly noone in Congress, Supreme Court or White House is having to deal with a "family budget". Obama and McCain both try to act liek they are dealign with the same issues we are. They aren't. They are typical politicians pandering to try and get a vote so they can reap more power and influence.

Poor ignorent liberals. Don't worry, the conservatives will take care of you like they always have. You'll still have a country to be proud of no matter how stupid you sound.

To our next President of these United States
God Bless John McCain.

When he says "we" is he talking about himself?

What a joke!

And Obama's tax plan makes sense with the millions of struggling Americans. Obama will provide tax breaks for everyone making $250,000 or less and McCain's will give tax breaks to millionaire's and corporations, I who currently makes 60-70k a year could use a tax break!

jenny from in…….omg, girl, are you stupid?????? Pay no taxes if you make less than $250,000.00. You had better wake up and get off the kool-aide…..it's affecting your thinking.

Carman you show america, and the world how stupid you are every time youopen yourdumb mouth, first of all if Obama was a terrorist
he would have bee in Gitmo years ago, second if he did anything
illeigal with Rezko he would be in jail ,so in closing quit falling,
for Repub's lies

McCain said that he wants everyone to be rich and his definition of a rich person is anyone making 5 million dollars upwards. Moreover he is not going to anyone to pay taxes! So McCain where are you going to get money to maintain the system, payback 1 trillion dollars for Iraq war, make everyone rich? You are not only out of touch, you are out of your mind! Anyone who believes such lies does not deserve to have voting right!

McCains manager is having him spew more meaningless drivel.
Forget about it dirty hands McCain. Even you olsd ship mates wont vote for you. They know you too well. I sure as heck do not want another intellectually shallow president. So I will be voting Obama this round. The man cant say anything without a que card or notes. All he does is repete tha same ols worn out speach over and over.

It's incredible to me that ad add painting Obama as so wealthy he can't possibly be in touch with America's families won't be laughed off the airwaves. McCain courted a multimillionaire, while he was still married, while Obama came from nothing and actually earned his money. When will the Republican voters start asking themselves what the party of wealth has done for them the past 8 years? The economy is failing, healthy care is out of reach, gas and food are getting there and your retirement is long gone! Great track record!

McCain 08

John McCain puts out an ad saying Obama doesn't know anything about family budgets "but we sure do"? McCain who flies around in his own private jet, has known wealth the majority of his life, and has 7+ multi million dollar homes. What in the heck does McCain know about OUR family budgets? There is no doubt that Obama has known in his personal life what it feels like to be poor, live on food stamps, and struggle to pay bills. Obama gets what every day people are struggling with in this economy because he once lived it himself. This ad is truly laughable because it shows just how out of touch McCain is and how stupid he thinks people are.

I am 100% with you, Disgusted Again!
I am barely holding on to my ONE house….

Hopefully he will spend a trillion of tax money on the American people, rather than spending a trillion of tax money on other people - like IRAQ.

I think republicans forget what country they live in.

Oh, PLEEEEASE!!!!
Obama a spendthrift????

The same Obama who has shown such masterful management of his resources throughout his campaign, while boith McShame and Hillary ran out of money and had to mae so may changes in their management teams?????

Get real, McSlime!!!!
Your Republican slime machine won't work this time around!

hey cnn did you ask who obama supporters wants as vp

Here's a thought, all candidates for POTUS must live on minimum wage for 30 days to experience how the least of our brothers live. That would show us how much they really care about their christianity and their integrity.

lies, all lies.

So boring. McCain has to fret over the whether to take the private jet or not. I WISH my family budget included such concerns. I guess it's all relative.

Beverly NYC
Obama gave 14 million of your tax dollars to Resko in exchange for that 300 thousand dollars. Wake up!

I finally get it.

Democrats like rich politicans like Obama, the Clintons, Edwards, Kerry and Gore because they believe they share their values.

Republicans like rich politicans like McCain because they believe they share their values.

Good, for a while there I thougth I was supposed to not vote for any rich politicans. I wasn't going to be able to vote for either Obama or McCain.

Now I can go back to being happy for the both of them that they are rich, enjoy, they have both earned it.

I can go back to voting based on where they stand on the issues and forget about all this who is richer and more out of touch drival.
I see more value in McCain on the issues, so I'll be voting for him.

We should vote for the most intellegent person for President and not the one who is most like us. So you have a choice of an accomplished Harvard grad who was President of the Harvard Law Review or a man who has always failed at everything he does and only has made it on the coat tails of others.

John MCcain wants to get dirty bringing up tony rezco
well fine let's bringup keating 5 and if you try to mess with MRS.Obama we'll bring up your first wife. Remember how you dumped her for a younger woman with money.

Thanks for not posting my previous comment, CNN.
DOES ANYONE REMEMBER THAT RONALD REAGAN WAS A CELEBRITY, TOO???

To borrow a phrase…

It's the Hypocrisy, stupid!

THE REPUBLICAN PARTY HAS THE WRONG TITLE—THEY CALL THEMSELVES ' comservatives"—-GIVE ME A BREAK, 10 TRILLION IN DEBT—-THAT DOESN'T SOUND LIKE CONSERVATIVE TO ME.

You would think McCain can be a bit more creative then this crappy ad. Besides, he has the money so there are no worries about his spending. He ain't nothing but a pimp, first he pimped Cindy, now he trying to pimp America, for his own self gain. What a hustler…. Since he is so secure about his war tactics, lets make him Secretary of Defense…. Old Bastard…

Obama 08

As far as which tax plan (McCain's or Obama's) is better for a majority of Americans……all you have to ask is this question…..

Which tax plan will these candidates and their families personally benefit from the most?

McCain and Obama would both personally gain from McCain's tax plan because it favors the rich.

Obama and McCain would both lose under Obama's tax plan because Obama wants to raise taxes on those who make more than $250/300K….. an income level that both Obama and McCain easily occupy.

Trust and vote for the candidate who places the good of the nation and its citizens above his own personal interest.

I guess just McCain has a little extra money to blow on these ridiculous ads…He's not going to win anything with these sorts of ads.

McCain is just insane. What is his problem? His voting record and his parties spending spree has cost us far more than Obama's budget will ever cost. Give me a break.

Vote Obama.
One House.
One Spouse.

Yes, Barack Obama actually wants America to pay its' bills. Also, if Barack Obama becomes president, no one will have to worry about not being able to get a college education. Remember what he said in the beginning? Youth give volunteer hours and receive college education in return. Come on McCain camp, try again.

Ha ha, that was cute how the McCain roach won the "race"!

I, Agree with MR Obama, That John Mccain try to tare him down, because John Mccain knows he can not beat Mr Obama , On health care, energy, and other issues, So he go the cheap way , To try to win, By useing negitive ads, And to blind voters that O' Bama have A Like of judgement, And useing words like he not ready to lead, And not ready to be commander, cheif

I love how they leave out that taxes are only going up for those who make more then 250k and Obama isn't "raising taxes" he's letting Bush's tax cuts for the wealthy just run out, he won't be signing new taxes into law. Plus I make under 250k a year and under Obama's plan i'll get an extra 1000 bucks off my tax bill, McCain i'd get 17 bucks.

Please Obamatrons, tell me which US presidents have NOT been rich? Obama is rich, too, and getting richer by the day. The amount of money a President has should have nothing to do with how they will govern. I value qualities that matter, like political records and solutions to pressing issues. Obama's political record is voting "present" 40% of the time and getting nothing accomplished, just like the present Congress. The democratic party's biggest mistake: putting their eggs in Obama's basket when they should have been promoting HRC instead. Now, many Dems, and disgruntled conservatives like me will end up voting for the lesser of two evils, McCain.

Where was he on the promise of a gas tax holiday? Oh yeah, there was none.

OK… so this ad speaks of what Obama's will do but nothing of what McPOW will do. Is it to be implied that JohnJohn will do the exact opposite?

What are your plans, POWPOW McSurge?

(spendthrift? what's next flippertyjibbet?)

I think I'll switch from "Bud Light " to "Millers Light" so
Cindy and John might have to sell one of their 7 Homes.

I'd bet 20 bucks that every single person who posts "No Hillary = No vote for Obama!" is a paid staffer working for Mark Penn in the basement of Burson-Marsteller's headquarters in New York.

Good job Hillary, pick a chief strategist who is the CEO of the PR firm that has represented Blackwater USA, Countrywide, numerous South American juntas, the Saudi government, and of course Union Carbide after the Bhopal disaster. That's the kind of judgment I don't want to see in a President or a Vice President or even a Senator. Luckily I'm not from New York so the last one is moot.

Good Lord - McSame is simply senile and has nothing in common with the "common folks". Budget ?? Give me a break. Oh, and I just counted my houses and I have none. McCain married into money - Obama worked hard and is a self-made,intelligent person. I can't believe that anyone would vote for 4 (8?) more years of the Bush philosophy.

All I can say is talk to Ciny McCains long lost sister. Cindy, I thought you were an only child?

Does this old man ever grow up?

So let me get this straight…somehow Democrats think the key to "prosperity" is to steal money from people who work to give it to people who are "too good" or simply "too lazy" to work. Are you kidding me?? The key to prosperity is getting your lazy rear up off the couch and GETTING A JOB!!

Oh, and not to mention that there isn't a finite amount of money out there. In other words, the fact that someone other than you owns more houses than you own has NO IMPACT on whether you can reach the means to afford more houses. To suggest that the solution is to steal from those who work to provide for the lazy in our society is to promote SOCIALISM!! Wake up, people…Socialism is Un-American!!

Yeah, Obama is one of those irresponsible Tax and Spend Liberals. Why can't he be more finantially conservative, lower taxes, increase spending, and borrow the difference. Thats so much better for the country in the long run.

Can the federal government file for bankruptcy?

Maybe McCain cares more about his country than material things. We know what the 1 year senator cares about, anything to win throw everyone in your way under the bus. Just the way he got elected in Chicago, he couldn't beat his opponents so he hired lawyers to eliminate them because he knew that some people can print, but they can't write. This is one form of voter suppression and the other is not agreeing to a revote in Florida and Michigan. Do you see a pattern here? Democracy is more important than any party. I will never vote for this dishonest man.

Obama camp need to hit this one back with Ms. McCain spending problem of $750,000 in one month. Now that is what you call
spendthrift.

The media is not talking about the demographics,Fox news only have Mccain winning the white vote by only 10%,Nbc have him winning the white vote by only 9%,if these polls are accurate in anyway it means Mccain is going to get killed,because of the big rise in the minority vote, Mccain will have to win the white vote by 20% to beat Obama,4 years ago the minority vote was 23%,that meant bush had to win the white vote by at least 16%, to win,he won by 18%,the white vote will be only 72% this year according to the wall street journal.everytime the minority vote rises,the higher percentage of the white vote a republican have to get,for instance back in 2000 Bush won the white vote by 14%,but lost the popular vote,thats why bush knew he had to increase his white vote total,the media is not talking about this sleeping giant,the gop cant win anymore elections unless they get more minority voters because their base is 92% white,that means the gop will never win another election,in they know it,so does the media,in 2012 if the minority vote goes to 31%,that means the republicans have to win the white vote by 24%,right now mccain is only leading obama by 10%,its not even close,its going to be a landslide for obama in the gop knows it,but the media continues to tell the public the race is close,go in look at past elections people,in see how the minority vote has risen,the whites will be the minority in 30 years something the media is not talking about,the effects of this is starting to happen right now.

Rezko house deal, so what, Obama has admitted it was a bone headthing to do and I'm sure Mrs. Rezko has been reimbursed. How many sweetheart low rate mortgage deals did John McCain and his wife get from their friends to own 10 homes and investment properties? Go back to sleep if you think they are paying the same rates as you!!

I know that the American people can't be that stupid! If anyone thinks that John Mccain is not a for the rich it's beyond me.

I was just reading about how McCain's wife charged over $750,000 on 2 credit cards in one month.

Wow! talk about calling the kettle black!

You hit it right on the nose. Most of us wont' even see that kind of money in our life time.

This is McCarthyism all over again!! McCain is a big fan of Regan, and just like him, he is using "No Tax" as his core campaign. But guess what? Supply Side Economy is a failed ideology, advanced by overrated presidents like Regan. If anything, the republicans have made Regan the Messiah.

Obama has a socialist agenda? Obviously you people have no idea what you are talking about, and learning your "socialism 101″ from Fox News. If one of you Republicans can explain to me (or us), which part of Obama's plan (tax, economy, healthcare, etc.) are "Socialist", I would be happy to vote for McCain. If you cannot do explain the "socialist agenda" of Obama, just STFU and stop the fear mongering.

Obama is too "risky"? Too Risky for what? Too risky for the whites? Too risky for the Asians? Hispanics? Blacks? Go check out his plans for each community. Besides, he is not the one singing "Bomb, bomb, bomb Iran"!!

even walmart feel that obama is to pro american worker for them i can't believe american would vote for a person who surport nafta and shipping jobs overseas

The only things know is tax & spend…create more worthless government programs.

If almost 50% of Americans would vote for McCain, the great U.S.A. would be the laughing stock of the world.

It is supposed to be the greatest country ever, but it loves going for dim-witted Presidents.

II believe it is time for a black president in this country who will have the courage to force all of the rich people like Cindy McCain to have their inheritance taxed at 90%. The rich should also have to pay reparations to the blacks for slavery and I know Obama will put forth the legislation and Nancy will force it through. Go Obama go!!!!!!

Can someone please explain to me when it became illegal to make some money in this country?

The devil's greatest trick was to make the world believe he didn't exist.

Believe your own eyes people.

Who do you think is REALLY doing the lying with the shape the country is in?

McWar have so many of the same ads and they are all lies. The man is a nut cast.

You guys forget - McShame knows what it is like to be without money - remeber that as a POW, he made little or no money …..It wasn't until he was "smart" enough to cheat on his sick wife and find a millionaire to mess with that he "earned his way into wealth)!

What a JOKE - anyone stupid enough to vote for McCain should not be allowed to vote. This guy will say and do anything that benefits himself !

To even bring this up days after FORGETTING how many homes you own? Yes, this guy is totally in touch with the pains that the rest of America, trying to balance the need for food and rent money with the gas required to get to work….,

Obama may be well off - I will grant you that, but at least he did it the HONEST way - he worked for it…… he didn't cheat himself into it by having an EXTRA-MARTIAL AFFAIR! Talk about CHRISTIAN VALUES - thou shalt not commit adultery….. well, unless it nets you a BIG financial gain!

OBAMA 08 - vote for change!

jimmy:

If you think McCain won't raise taxes, you're sorely out of touch - and he'll raise yours, not the wealthy!

All I can say is Obomas adds have answers McCain adds just blame.

So… a man with more houses than Paris 'and' Brittny is calling another man a celebrity….

ok….

So Obama is patterned with swathes from the Republican scythes McCain may be oversimplifying elements (perhaps not) of Obama's knowledge when it comes to the economy McCain believes that Obama is more like a fumbling apprentice therefore McCain thinks the economy will be in deep trouble through Obama succumbing to the lure of squandermania.

It's fitting that John is from Arizona, he a scorpion if I've ever seen one.

Speaking of taxes, when does Cindy McCain release her tax statements?!

And when that happens, then John McCain can explain how somebody who ranks 894 out of 899 midshipmen gets his first choice of billet upon graduation ahead of many dozens of better qualified candidates?! (His father was the ranking 4-star Admiral in the Navy at the time - but that's just pure coincidence, right?!)

Cindy has given a lot of her relatives houses and donated a lot of money to charity. Obama donated only 4% of his income to charity, which is very low for a millionaire. Most of that was given to Rev. Wright's church. Obama continues to play the victim and tell how poor he was. Bull! Did you notice he had the best clothes and went to the best schools, compliments of his grandparents. Obama likes to tell people his other grandmother lives in poverty in Kenya. Obama doesn't help her or his brother that makes $1 dollar a month. Obama is a selfish person that only cares about promoting himself at any cost.

McCain, how hypocritical can you get - are you really keeping a straight face?!

GJ McMillionaire
i sure fell for this one…

OBAMA '08

I can not believe how the republicans dare to make this accussations. Under the republican's rule the defficit has skyrocket and the debt has doubled, becuase of their out of control spending apetite. The ad is just ridicoulus.

The McCain campaign should take a look at their caliber re some of their ads. They are illegal, stupid and doesn't make sense.
I know they like Obama but sure don't know what to say about him. They recognise he is a celebrity, rock star, young, articulate and they are in love, hate relationship. I know they love Obama.

At first it was a little cute if a tad stupid. Now it's just pitiful. These ads reveal the true John McCain for the shallow hypocrite he is. Nothing is sacred before his political ambition including the despoiling of his POW status. This is tragedy, true tragedy because the architect can't see it.

Obama is the equivilent of Randall Flagg in "the Stand"
"A storm is coming. His storm"

At least John is consistant, yesterday he couldn't remember how many houses he owns. Just as he couldn't remember that he was married with three kids, when he had an affair with Cindy Lou, the beer bimbo.

Be careful America, he will also forget that we don't have a draft, and send your sons and daughters to any place on earth to fight his wars.

YOU - HAVE - GOT - TO- BE - KIDDING- ME!!!!!!!

jimmy— wow you must et yourinfo from rush limburger or the hannity insanity. obama is the best choice for president mccain will just keep up the bush giv ethe rich everything why we take from the poor.

THIS IS ACCEPTABLE: " August 22nd, 2008 1:08 pm ET
What really happened to Cindy's arm? Methinks it happened while she was servicing JohnBoy's shriveled carrot because he can't do it himself with those little T-rex arms of his!"

but i dare someone to say something about obama's race. ah, the good hearted liberals…

This coming from a man who doesn't even know how many properties he owns and wear $500 Ferigamo shoes … what will he remember if he's president?

As a German, who has lived and worked iin the US many years, the history of my own country shows that a whole society can learn from its past, not all of its members , but most o fthem. But it sometimes only after complete desaster. I hope for you that that your country is not on this way, this time it would be the economy which would trigger it , I presume, and McCain and his group are on their way, compensating their inability and greed with angry war talk and millions of loosers might follow them, tearing it all down. Hope there will be change, in the best interest of the whole world.

McCain wants to raise taxes on working people by subjecting employer paid for health care benefits to income tax. At the same time, he wants to cut Social Security (which is paid for by FICA taxes on worker's wages) , so that he can make the Bush tax cuts for the rich permanent. Social Security is solvent on paper at least until 2042, but the rest of the government has been borrowing trillions of dollars from the worker paid for trust fund - and McCain doesn't want to pay the money back when it is needed to pay benefits. He would rather make the Bush tax cuts for the rich permanent. A working person who supports McCain makes as much sense as a chicken who supports Colonel Sanders.

Seeing all of these comment (or at least most of them) makes me have faith in the general public to see past the deception that we have been fed for the past 8 years, and to vote based on fact rather than propaganda and ideology.

When a person never had to count dallars not to mention pennies and probley never purchase a bag of gorcery in theirs life now that a spendthrift person. The rest of us dont have that preference when it come to our budjet.

Everyone knows that this new ad is a lie. I do not understand why news companies such as CNN do not report it when a candidate flat out lies to the American people. McCain has done nothing but lie throughout his campaign, while Obama tries to play the nice guy. Obama needs to point out these lies also. I was actually leaning towards McCain earlier in the race, but when I see all of the lies he has been telling, I just see another 8 years of the same. It is obvious to me that the way Obama has ran his campaign is different, it is change like he has been telling all of us. Obama is apparently the only real change we are going to get. Obama for President!

It's okay Democrats. If Obama is elected, you'll see how grave of a mistake you made inside a year.

What has Obama done as a senator except raise millions of dollars to fund his campaign?

Offer me 2 things that Obama has done as an illinois senator.

Anyone? Anyone?

Dear Mary (Texas):

Barack earned his money by writing a couple of books. McCain got his money by having an affair (while he was still married), with a beer heiress. Barack might have 4 million, while McCain has 100 million. There IS A DIFFERENCE.

If anyone thinks that John McCain can really relate to anyone ethically, morally, socially or economically, I've got some houses I'd like to sell you.

John McCain is starting to get on my nerves. His campaign keeps coming out with ads calling Sen. Obama a celebrity and spends like crazy and dosen't have to worry about a budget. Dude your wife is a millionaire and you don't know how many houses you have and you walk around in $500.00 shoes. Tell your stupid manager to start talking about issues that matter and kill the stupid celebrity bit. It is getting old.

in response to: "… He is a golden boy to say the least. He went to the Naval Academy not because he was smart but because he grandpa and dad new somebody that new somebody. …"

in obama's book he talks about drifting through his high school years , taking drugs and not focusing on school and says he only had average grades.. so, how did he get into an ivy league college? perhaps he knew somebody who knew somebody as well. if not that, it was because he checked the african-american box on his application.

in the end, so who deserved it more?

AND LET THE MUDD FLY!!!!!

How can we expect McCain to be really sensitive about cost of Gas, Food, Education and Retirement, when he cannot remember the number of houses he owns? He is definitely not one of us.
How can someone not remember the number of houses he owns? The question was not - How many pairs of shoes you own?
I don't care if he is rich or elite.
But I know one thing for sure. McCain will be a huge risk for America and the World.
McCain must be asked to take an IQ Test and the results must be revealed to the public. I hope his blind followers will wake-up, then.

You know, I dont care how many houses McCain has. It all boils down to the face of who is most suitable candidate for the position. And to me right now, a swing voter, Obama isn't it. I applaud someone who has been able to make money. That shows that he can do something right and make something of himself. If I had the money, I would have multiple houses and a high credit card bill, too. We need to stop judging either candidate on their income level, their families, and they're bank accounts. We need to start looking at the issues, their experience, and most of all, the decisions that they have made in the past. To me, Obama hasn't made any decisions yet. McCain has made some bad ones, sure, but we all do. Only one senator voted no on the war in Iraq, we were misled. Obama wasnt even in the senate at the time of the Iraq vote, so he cant use that as a cookie just because he didnt have to vote on it at the time. Its funny why no one has really questioned him on why he opposed the war in the first place, even when everyone was misled. Try asking him that. I am sure he will eat around the question just like every other question you ask him…

Joe Christie has hit the nail on the head!! The Obama camp has to go on the offensive, and they need to start doing it now. The Republicans know how to win elections through advertising no matter whether it is truthful or not.

hey come on people…how can you not be for McCain…you have to trust someone who wears $500/loafers and jets around in a private jet—from one home to the next. Why not vote for someone who takes weekends off so he can enjoy the 4 or so homes he owns.

Why not trust someone who is so opposed to abortion but only so that he can get them to grow up and go fight in some senseless war and then be robbed of life after getting to know some of it's joys. How can you not vote for someone with that logic???

With all do respect, McCain has been a celebrity since the day he was shot down and held captive. In addition, McCain quoted both Ronald Regan and Arnold Schwarzenegger during the Faith Forum and they are REAL celebrities who had less experience then Obama. So, McCain is criticizing his own "footnotes."

McCain…GROW UP!!!!

OK, so McCain *does* have to worry about his family budget? With his 10 houses and 100 million dollar Stepford wife? Bull.

John McCain is such an idiot! Why would you put out an ad saying that you have to worry about spending money for gas when you own $13 million in homes in three states…and you can't even remember how many houses you own in the first place?

MCCAIN HAS OBAMA PEGGED RIGHT… TAX AND SPEND MOST LIBERAL CANDIDATE EVER. INCREASING TAXES IN THE MIDST OF AN ECONOMIC SLOWDOWN AND EVER RISING GAS PRICES IS NOT THE WAY TO STIMULATE THE ECONOMY.. FURTHER, IT IS THE SMALL BUSINESSES MAKING 250 THOUSAND DOLLARS OR MORE WHO DO THE HIRING AND PUTTING PEOPLE BACK TO WORK, PAY TAXES, SOCIAL SECURITY TAXES FOR THEM AND WORK LONG 16 HOUR DAYS.. OBAMA'S PLANS WILL STIFLE THE ECONOMY FURTHER. MCCAIN WANTS TO CUT TAXES FOR EVERYBODY…FOLKS THAT;S EVERYBODY. CONSUMER SPENDING IS ONE OF THE ENGINES OF A GROWING ECONOMY.

I'm just like John, well practically. I have seven homes, minus 6 and 1/2. I own one small condo–LOL. I also have about 30 pairs of shoes, most of them old, that amount to about the cost of one pair of his, 600 shoes. I didn't marry a beer heiress, but I like beer. And I don't have servants, but I serve the people–I work for the city. LOL, John and I are practically soulmates. Yeah, I'd say we're both average Americans–NOT.

What really happened to Cindy's arm? Methinks it happened while she was servicing JohnBoy's shriveled carrot because he can't do it himself with those little T-rex arms of his!

How much money with the John and Cindy McCain and her family save due to the BUSH - MCCAIN TAX CUTS FOR THE WEALTHY?

McCain is not serious about alternative energy. He is Big Oil's puppet. McCain failed to show up to vote for key energy bill in 2007 that would have funded alternative energy development at big oil's expense. The bill failed by one vote. That's your "maverick" for you.

I'm just like John, well practically. I have seven homes, minus 6 and 1/2. I own one small condo–LOL. I also have about 30 pairs of shoes, most of them old, that amount to about the cost of one pair of his, 600. I didn't marry a beer heiress, but I like beer. And I don't have servants, but I serve the people–I work for the city. LOL, John and I are practically soulmates. Yeah, I'd say we're both average Americans–NOT.

Does McCain know about some of these ridiclous commercials! Is he even aware of what is going on around him? Someone who has (7) houses and doesn't even know it is trying to make Obama sound like an elitst! What is McWar even thinking - or is he?????

I got a call at three this morning. I didn't answer as I didn't want to hear the bad news.

I think Obama is dissing Harry Reid by not offering the top spot to him. I might add Harry Reid is no friend of mine. However I don't think he would be anywhere near the top of anyone's list. Reid may make the outhouse list , you know at the bottom of it. Isn't he one of the head's of a do nothing congress?

BTW, Obama is a loser. please please don't pick Hillary as the VP.

and now for the real news:I can't stand Harry Reid from Nevada," I flatly told my hometown paper, the Journal in comments Thursday.

I cannot now nor will never stand this back biting senator, Mr. Reid. The only one worse is Obama. Obama is risky and Reid doesn't understand heartland of the Mid West issues. He is stuck in a state of "legal prostitution, gambling and abortions." Yes that is what Harry Reid is all about in his state of Nevada or should we say sinstate.

Remember Reid is a do nothing senator, and 'bama is a risky choice;. Both should be defeated because they gamble with our values and our country's security.

Has John McCain ever had to pay for anything in his life? Has he even gone to College or University or have to pay back student loans or live in a low income area of the USA? John McCain is out of touch.

He has been served with a silver spoon from the day he was born with the exception of 5 years.

GIVE ME A BREAK!!!! THEY BOTH HAVE A LOT OF MONEY !!!!

Get real do you think they care about us?? Will they be inviting us over for coffee?? NOT… ….

Obama and his campaign don't know how to talk political "trash" and therefore the dems are always on the defensive and the GOP wins - no matter how poorly the GOP governs…IT is time for OBAMA to wake up and smash these self rightouse hypocites!!! The Republicans are a joke, a charicature of what was once a party with some merit, but is now run by their spoiled offspring (Bush) and its dark residue (Cheney).

The housing thing is just a start for Obama. Does McCain need another tax cut to buy another 7 houses while the country sells it's soul to China? Does poor little Cindy need to keep all that 100 million, not disclose her tax returns, but still call Obama elitist? Hypocites!

On ethics, morals, and religion (the last of which needs to get out of politics - per the constitution - but the constitution matters only when the Republicans want - and religion make a great weapon). How many Repubs where having affairs when they were going after Clinton (Barr, Gingrich- who left his wife with Cancer). Limbaugh is a pill popping hypocrite who dodged the Vietnam war, has multiple failed marriages, and is worth 500 million, is Christian only in self name, but is considered a everyday guy! In fact, all the chicken-hawk neocons push for war now when they were hidding behind daddy's money in the 60's. George Bush was busy doing coke and having premarital sex while poorer Americans were dying - yet Kerry, who could have also bought his way out of war, but didn't, is the war coward? Hyporcites.

McCain's wife says, unlike Michelle, she has always loved America and Americans. Did she love her fellow American when she moved in on McCain's first wife. McCain calls the failure of his first marriage a moral defeat (in front of Rick, self righteous, Warren) did he feel that way when he was seducing a 24 year old rich kid, 20 years his minor, while he was still married to his first wife? Hypocrites

McCain is a sell-out. He fell in line with the republican machine to get elected. The same machine that destroyed his character in 2000 is still slandering everything democrat with his blessing! Hypocrite.

I would love to be Obama right now. He has nothing to lose and tons on material to go on the offensive. Either way, McCain is screwed. Even if he wins, he has painted himself in a corner and he will not be able to live up to his promises, unless he let the country continue to slide into deficit and war. But, with the GOP, anything is possible - hypocrites.

So who is going to pay China for the Iraq war. The time to complain against raising taxes was before we started the war. We can avoid higher taxes by just having the lobbyist donate their influence buying budget to the country's debt. That's a more effective way for them to buy influence.

After observing over the last several years one of the most repugnant displays of ingratitude in the history of the world, I've decided that removing the Bush tax cuts for certain individuals is called for.

All the Democrats that have severed in the House or the Senate and everyone, upper, middle and lower income alike, who has demonized, insulted and ridiculed President Bush and his tax cuts should have the pre Bush taxes cut rates reinstated for them. On top of that, they should be made to refund to the government all the mooneyes they received from those tax cuts and refund their stimulus rebate.

This money would then be polled and dulled out in equal portions to all those, upper, middle and lower income alike, who have supported and appreciated the Bush tax cuts. I think this would amount to the most appropriate and deserving redistribution of wealth the world has ever seen.

The biggest valued house has been leased to the Obamas.
McClueless will ask his staffer-the Obamas? are they Saudis? to buy the White House.
No stupid - they are hardworking, intelligent , well educated, budget consious American couple , who paid off their student loan,

That ad is so, so not believable!! If anything, McCain is the one out of touch…..the Obama's just recently paid-off their college loans, yep! college loans….McCain can't even remember how many homes he and his wife own!! People will see this ad for what it is….pure baloney!!

Majority of Republicans are same. They have so money they do not know how much and afraid of paying high taxes. So, they always tell lies and attacked their opnents with lies. They destroyed this country for their ego and money.

Obama needs to be honest and tell public what he wants to do for the majority of the people who are in financial difficulties while hitting McBush hard to the points. Let the old man cry in her rich wife laps.

I cannot not believe that how media publish this ads with full of lies, just for money!

McCain and the GOP have been coming down on the Demoratic party for what the impact will be of rasing taxes, but I would rather pay the taxes. Without a job, there are no taxes, but there's no income.

Nobody like taxes but McCain wants to continue Bush's taxes cuts for the rich.

By the way, I don't make over $250,000.

It's also disengenuous to call it a 'recipe for disaster'.

Here's the Republican formula…get someone to make a negative remark and then try to post it as the common wisdom and accepted fact.

What a joke these idiots are….

McCain's activities for today

Open mouth
Insert foot.

Senator, could you have done anything more likely to keep your faux pas of not knowing how many houses you have in the limelight.

Stupid is as stupid does.

That was stupid

I used to like you Mr McCain. not any more. you are lying to the american people as much as Bush has.
I only pray the American people are smart enough not to believe in your efforts to deceive us. It appears you are the one that is willing to win at any and all costs.

Obama took 14 miillion dollars of your tax money and gave it to Resko. Obama knew what Resko was everyone in Chicago knows Resko was a crook and a slum lord that never fixed the places for the poor, no running water in some places and the electric being turned off. Obama knew it and he still got the 14 million for Resko. No they couldn't get Obama legally, but everyone knew what he did. Obama is nothing more than a Chicago thug. Electing him would be like electing the mob. He only cares about himself.

McCain is too old!!! If he is voted in to be fool "my friend" Cindy will be running the White House!!!

Same Old Business McCain running that Same Ugly Campaign

This shouldn't surprise anyone. From now on Sen. Obama will be called everything from a spendthrift to a baby killer. The GOP and John McCain will be spending millions and minutes to slander Sen. Obama. However, I believe this this is the time for Sen. Obama to finally get mad, fight back , and show the world what he is made of.

$500 shoes

Pretty funny coming from someone that doesn't even remember how many houses he and his wife own and the amount he pays out to his staff is 3 times the income my husband and I make.

McCain = out of touch with the average citizen.

Dennis in AL:

"People who live in seven houses shouldn't throw stones…"
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Well done. This should be the enitre content of Obama's reply ad.

Who cares if McCain's wife is rich? I sure wouldn't give a flying rat's posterior, except the fact that he left his first wife when she was crippled after a car accident, not to mention his three kids, to marry such wealth is a huge red flag about McCain's character. Who cares if McCain has 7 houses? Again not an issue - unless he is running around calling a self-made man an "elitist" and claiming he understands what everyday Americans are going through. It's not the fact that he, his wife or whoever owns and enjoys welath. To steal a phrase, "It's the Hypocrisy, stupid."

McCain's add is directed at people's lowest common denominator. Especially the people with no ability of independent thinking or with heightened ignorance. Just like Obamalism.

medicare actually costs less per capita than the private sector insurance companies.

And your statement about "socialist agenda" is simply silly. IGNORANCE is Republicans' native language.

Yeah…. McCain doesn't even know how many houses he owns!! If that isn’t' the ultimate in CELEBRITY, I don't know what is.

Oh wait, it's not his fault he just can't remember. Senility is no laughing matter, and is a serious problem with senior citizens today.

IT'S ALSO A SERIOUS PROBLEM WITH McCAIN BEING PRESIDENT!!

Vote smart, not senile…. WAKE UP, AMERICA!!!!

Spendthrift???

Who has 9 homes in 8 locations???

Earth to McCain, Earth to mcCain, Come in McCain….Over! (like your career)!

MCCAIN! "WE" are not the same…you have 7 houses..i have yet to buy my first.

OBAMA 08

For our CHILDREN

McCain - war/draft b4 diplomacy

Obama - diplomacy b4 war

McCain - oil, coal, nuclear with no holding facility plans

Obama - wind, therma, solar, water

McCain - NAFTA, DHL, Boeing - ships jobs overseas

Obama - NAFTA reform, Green and many other jobs

McCain - No healthcare, tax cuts for rich

Obama - Healthcare, tax the rich ($250k+)

McCain - short tempered, shoots and then asks questions, bad jokes

Obama - cool headed, went to good schools, takes his time to make better decisions

McCain behaves like the celebs and not Obama. That is why Obama has only one House and McCain donot know the number of houses he owns like the celebs!

Why cannot CNN investigate McCain for his houses and other properties?

Jenny from IN August 22nd, 2008 11:10 am ET

How misleading. Obama wants to lower or eliminate taxes for anyone making less than $250,000 a year! I mean, how can they get away with just blatantly LYING?….

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Personal Income tax is not the only tax there is. Maybe you should look at the overall tax implications of the candidates before accusing such things.

** Nader/Gonzalez 2008 **

Typical GOP lies…

Like McCain the multi-millionaire has to worry about a budget? Puhleeeease! Who do these guys think they're kidding?

so basically mccain spends 3 decades in office and still has done nothing effective besides support george bush's condemnation of the american economy? how is THAT "ready to lead". Dont complain about Obama's media attention just because McShame doesn't do anything important enough to garner the same..and they keep saying obama is a celebrity well I rather have a celebrity in the whitehouse than another george bush! The guy is pathetic republicans need to wake up and stop trying to justify these shameful ads that dont even make any sense. He doesnt even know how many houses he ownes yet hes attacking obama? how disgraceful