The McCain Thread

[USMC]

Get off the money issue.
Cindy has done alot of good.

Offhand, she looks MUCH better with her hair down, then up.

Seriously?? She looks like a freakin' old bag. Plastic surgery has not been her friend.

 

[Superman4ever]

Yeah, but liberals would rather complain about what clothing she wore to the RNC, and gripe about her wealth. Funny how they completely ignore Obama's wealth, though...

And you conservatives would rather oafishly bash Obama's community work and service to his country as a form of "attack". It's just low-down, desperate hypocrisy. http://www.time-blog.com/swampland/2008/09/what_a_community_organizer_doe.html


As for the Obama wealth issue, I offer thee:

Official Net Worth: McCain $36.4 Million, Obama $799,000

Posted August 21, 2008 | 10:50 PM (EST)

One of the clumsy arguments that the McCain camp tried to make today in hopes of slowing down the media freight train over not knowing how many homes he and his wife, Cindy, own was that Barack Obama (D) is also a rich guy who lives in a mansion himself, just like McCain. I believe the term they used was "a frickin' mansion."

Well, there's just one problem with that argument. These guys aren't even in the same class.

Earlier this year, the nonpartisan Sunlight Foundation did an analysis of the net worth of each of the 535 members of Congress based on their personal financial disclosure.

Guess which one is worth about $36 million and which one is worth $799,000?

http://www.oldamericancentury.org/bb/index.php?showtopic=21753

 

[USMC]

Yeah, but liberals would rather complain about what clothing she wore to the RNC, and gripe about her wealth. Funny how they completely ignore Obama's wealth, though. The McCains rescued two children and adopted them as their own, yet Obama can't or won't even rescue his own brother from unbelievable poverty ... and his supporters don't say a word. Could you imagine if McCain had a brother living in absolute poverty in another country, who openly expressed that he wants to be brothers, but who was left there to rot? Liberals would be UP IN ARMS.

I'm beginning to understand what McCain said when he stated that the dems 'just don't get it.'

cough*seanhannityrhetoric*cough

 

[Tron5000]

Yes and Obama is the elitist who is out of touch with people. BTW, how many houses do the McCain's own again?

I'll wager that the houses they do own were bought legally. I'd be willing to bet that none of the purchases of their homes were subsidized by a slumlord felon paying $200,000 extra for the lot next door so that the McCains could save money on their home.

How many houses does BO own? 1. And how many of Obama's homes were illegally financed? 1.

 

[jaguarr]

Yeah, but liberals would rather complain about what clothing she wore to the RNC, and gripe about her wealth. Funny how they completely ignore Obama's wealth, though. The McCains rescued two children and adopted them as their own, yet Obama can't or won't even rescue his own brother from unbelievable poverty ... and his supporters don't say a word. Could you imagine if McCain had a brother living in absolute poverty in another country, who openly expressed that he wants to be brothers, but who was left there to rot? Liberals would be UP IN ARMS.

I'm beginning to understand what McCain said when he stated that the dems 'just don't get it.'

Obama's HALF-brother was born in and lives in another country where his father moved to after he left Obama and his mother when Obama was a small child and then proceeded to produce half-siblings for him that he has met all of once and really doesn't know. And you're ripping on Obama for not helping him? Give me a break.

jag

 

[jaguarr]

I was really impressed with Cindy McCain's bio video.

I never knew that she has done so much humanitarian work around the world.

I'm not being asked to vote for Cindy McCain.

jag

 

[lazur]

cough*seanhannityrhetoric*cough

I have noted that you did not dispute the truth in my 'rhetoric,' and I don't watch Hannity.

 

[lazur]

Obama's HALF-brother was born in and lives in another country where his father moved to after he left Obama and his mother when Obama was a small child and then proceeded to produce half-siblings for him that he has met all of once and really doesn't know. And you're ripping on Obama for not helping him? Give me a break.

jag

Ah okay, since it's only his HALF-brother, I guess he can stay there and rot.

 

[Tron5000]

Obama's HALF-brother was born in and lives in another country where his father moved to after he left Obama and his mother when Obama was a small child and then proceeded to produce half-siblings for him that he has met all of once and really doesn't know. And you're ripping on Obama for not helping him? Give me a break.

jag

Doesn't he want to help the "less fortunate"? I think his brother qualifies. Charity starts at home, you know.

 

[jaguarr]

Ah okay, since it's only his HALF-brother, I guess he can stay there and rot.

Doesn't he want to help the "less fortunate"? I think his brother qualifies. Charity starts at home, you know.

So, you're telling me that if your father had left you and your mother when you were a small child and moved to another country entirely and had some half-siblings that you wound up meeting just once in your life, you would feel obligated to help them financially if they wound up being poor in that other country? Gotcha.

jag

 

[lazur]

I'll wager that the houses they do own were bought legally. I'd be willing to bet that the none of the purchases of their homes were subsidized by a slumlord felon paying $200,000 extra for the lot next door so that the McCains could save money on their home.

How many houses does BO own? 1. And how many of Obama's homes were illegally financed? 1.

Not to mention that the seven houses the media and the left like to keep talking about are actually not owned by John McCain at all. They are owned by Cindy and her family, and most of them were Cindy's BEFORE she and John were married. The media likes to leave that little factoid out, though, since it crushes the entire argument. Let's not allow the truth to stand in the way of insulting and misrepresenting a true American hero, who also happens to be republican.

 

[Tron5000]

So, you're telling me that if your father had left you and your mother when you were a small child and moved to another country entirely and had some half-siblings that you wound up meeting just once in your life, you would feel obligated to help them financially if they wound up being poor in that other country? Gotcha.

jag

He wants to take my money and give it to the "less fortunate," but he can't use some of his own to help his own brother? Why does he want my money for charity when he won't hook [his] brother up?

 

[lazur]

So, you're telling me that if your father had left you and your mother when you were a small child and moved to another country entirely and had some half-siblings that you wound up meeting just once in your life, you would feel obligated to help them financially if they wound up being poor in that other country? Gotcha.

jag

That's exactly what I'm saying. They are blood, and for no other reason than it makes Obama look cold-hearted and uncaring, he should at least step forward and make the gesture.

 

[Franklin Richards]

Well at least McCain pays the medical bills for the wife he left.

 

[jaguarr]

He wants to take my money and give it to the "less fortunate," but he can't use some of his own to help his own brother? Why does he want my money for charity when he won't hook [his] brother up?

So you wouldn't help your own half-brother from another country who was a total stranger to you and you had met only once, either. I don't blame you.

jag

 

[jaguarr]

That's exactly what I'm saying. They are blood, and for no other reason than it makes Obama look cold-hearted and uncaring, he should at least step forward and make the gesture.

So you would help your half-brother in another country that was a total stranger and you had met all of once, then? No holding him accountable for personal responsibility for his own life at all? He may be poor from his own laziness and inaction for all you know, not because his environment or circumstances dictate it.

jag

 

[Franklin Richards]

The brother himself said that he was fine.

 

[jaguarr]

The brother himself said that he was fine.

http://carywesberry.blogtownhall.co...m,_and_doing_just_fine_thankyouverymuch.thtml

CNN Reports: Obama's Brother Living in Nairobi Slum, and Doing Just Fine Thankyouverymuch

Posted by Cary Wesberry on Saturday, August 23, 2008 4:20:11 PM
Doing their job as part of the liberal media's Obama campaign propaganda department, CNN tracked down George Obama who lives in a hut in a Nairobi slum in Kenya. Even though Obama's brother lives in squalor and gets zero help from Barack, who himself is worth millions, the team of expert impartial crack-journalists at CNN are here to report that young George Obama is doing just fine living in a filthy disease-infested slum and fully supports Barack's campaign for President. Also, George states clearly he wants no help from Barack because eating dirt in order to live is just dandy.

Obama's brother, happily standing in front of his hut

HURUMA, Kenya (CNN) -- We found Barack Obama's half-brother living in a Nairobi slum.

George Obama says he is sure his half-brother will win the U.S. presidency in November.

George Obama, whose birth certificate shows that he is Barack Obama's half-brother, lives in a small house in Huruma that he shares with his mother's extended family, far away from the presidential campaign circus.

In his memoir, "Dreams for my Father," the Democratic presidential candidate describes meeting George as a "painful affair." Barack Obama's trip to Kenya meant meeting family he had never known.

In the book, which is popular in Nairobi and can be found in almost any supermarket, Obama looks back at his personal story and his struggles to reconcile with a Kenyan father who left him and his mother when he was just a child.

Barack Obama Sr. died in a car accident when George was just 6 months old. And like his half-brother, George hardly knew his father. George was his father's last child and had not been aware of his famous half-brother.

"I think I wanted to learn about my father the same way he did," George Obama told me about why he read the book. "He came here searching for his roots, and I was also trying to find my roots."

Unlike his grandmother in Kogela, in Western Kenya, George Obama had received little attention from the media.

But reports surfaced in the past few days, springing from an Italian Vanity Fair article saying George Obama is living in a shack and "earning less than a dollar a day."

The reports left him angry.

"I was brought up well. I live well even now," he said. "The magazines, they have exaggerated everything.

"I think I kind of like it here. There are some challenges, but maybe it is just like where you come from, there are the same challenges," Obama said.

Obama, who is in his mid-20s, is learning to become a mechanic and is active in youth groups in Huruma. He said he tries to help the community as much as he can.

At least one of his neighbors feels that perhaps the candidate should help the brother.

"I would like Obama to visit his brother to see how he is living, to improve his way of life," said Emelda Negei, who runs a small dispensary near Obama's house.

But George Obama will have none of it. He draws inspiration from his famous half-brother. He acknowledges that he is biased but said he knows that his half-brother will be the next president.

"Because he wants to be [president]," he said. "I think in life, what you want is what you are supposed to get."​

jag


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[Tron5000]

So you would help your half-brother in another country that was a total stranger and you had met all of once, then? No holding him accountable for personal responsibility for his own life at all? He may be poor from his own laziness and inaction for all you know, not because his environment or circumstances dictate it.

jag

Well, he wants to "help" (read: give my money to) millions of people he's never met, without "holding [them] accountable for personal responsibility for [their] own [lives] at all."

 

[lazur]

jag
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I've read the story, but it doesn't change that Obama should say *something* about it to quell those who believe he could be doing more for his own brother.

Perhaps George is doing okay, and perhaps he's happy where he is (though one of his neighbors seems to disagree), or perhaps he's too proud to ask for help. Whatever the case, Obama should let his detractors know that he made the offer, but the offer was rejected.

Perception IS reality and the less he does to address the negative perception, the more power it will gain and the more it will heighten people's concerns about his 'character.'

 

[Tron5000]

jag
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"I think in life, what you want is what you are supposed to get."

Spoken like a true liberal. Not "what you work for," not "what you earn," but "what you want." Now I can't believe Obama won't help a brother out. Two peas in a pod.

 

[jaguarr]

LOL! Okay, guys. I sure feel sorry for YOUR Kenyan half-brothers.

jag

 

[Tron5000]

LOL! Okay, guys. I sure feel sorry for YOUR Kenyan half-brothers.

jag

If I had one, I'd help him out.

Actually, maybe I wouldn't. I forgot that Conservatives don't care about black people, so even though I'd want to help him out, perhaps my racist tendencies would forbid it.

 

[jaguarr]

If I had one, I'd help him out.

Haha! Okay, man.

jag

 

[X Knight]

something struck me last night......I was very impressed with Cindy McCain's bio video....and I was really struck by how much humanitarian work she has done.

Just wondering.....have the Obama's done any humanitarian work on the same scale ( or even a fraction ) as Mrs. McCain has?