People Who Live In Glass Houses
It’s a buyer’s market in glass real estate as Obama camp attempts to make hay with McCain’s failure to remember how many properties he and his wife own. Washington Post:
“I guess if you think that being rich means you’ve got to make $5 million and if you don’t know how many houses you have, then it’s not surprising that you might think the economy was fundamentally strong,” said Barack Obama during a rally this morning in Chester, Virginia. “But if you’re like me, and you’ve got one house, or you are like the millions of people who are struggling right now to keep up with their mortgage so they don’t lose their home, you might have a different perspective.”
McCain camp makes a dirty offer on Obama’s overpriced fixer-upper. Washington Post again:
“We’re delighted to have a real estate debate with Barack Obama,” said spokesman Brian Rogers, adding that the press should focus on Obama’s house. “It’s a frickin’ mansion. He doesn’t tell people that. You have a mansion you bought in a shady deal with a convicted felon.”
Chris Cillizza of WP’s The Fix at the first link goes on to explain why throwing stones inside the house is a good idea for Obama … in presidential fights between rich guys, the one who can make the other one look richer and more out of touch wins.
For Obama then, McCain’s house confusion is a double whammy. Not only does it allow them to paint the Arizona senator as out of touch with the concerns of voters but it also gives Obama a platform on which to tout himself as a champion of the working class.
Not clear how Cillizza arrives at that conclusion, given the fashionable but impractically delicate vitreous architecture of Obama’s abode. Cillizza notes but doesn’t calculate in the Rezko stink about the place, which contrary to Cillizza’s take means this business will probably remain a one-day summer hiatus issue that the Dems will drop like a rock, or shove back under one, if the McCain camp lets them. It might behoove the McCain camp to point out their candidate belongs to the party that wants all Americans to have a chance at living in a mansion. Obama belongs to the party that thinks no one (else) should.
Reynolds rounds up exactly how poor a decision it was for Obama to put the glass house on the market.
Anyway, here’s the house Tony Rezko helped Obama buy:
Nice hootch. I wonder who took out that trash. Here are some more working class hero domiciles:
Al Gore’s “green” acres.
More Gore, plantation style.
John Edwards’ hee-haw heaven.
John Kerry. In Beacon Hill’s la-di-da Louisburg Square. Gawk if you must but kindly don’t linger, peasants.
Surber kindly brings up the ouchy Auchi thing.
Gateway’s got your McCain housing problem vid. OK, it’s about Obama’s housing problem.
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 10:36 pm on Thursday, August 21, 2008
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August 22nd, 2008 at 8:37 am
Not clear how Cillizza arrives at that conclusion, given the fashionable but impractically delicate vitreous architecture of Obama’s abode.
It’s pretty clear how Cillizza gets there. He’s the Jonathan Alter of the WaPo
Is there anyone in the MSM who is not in the tank for Obama? I haven’t found that person yet. How about y’all?
August 22nd, 2008 at 12:20 pm
Well, there’s Jules, Sean.
Welcome back JC! You are back? I hope you’re back…..
August 22nd, 2008 at 1:47 pm
An argument about houses is petty. These are rich guys, of course they’re not going to be living in trailer parks, and the fact that Obama picks this as a bone of contention shows how fundamentally unserious he is.