McPOW Campaigns

[nhboy]

A NOUN, A VERB, AND A POW!

"The McCain camp is scrambling to deflect the damage from McCain's inability to remember how many houses he own. Here's what McCain spokesman Brian Rogers came up with:

"This is a guy who lived in one house for five and a half years -- in prison."

In other words, "the insinuation that John McCain, a former prisoner of war, is rich is outrageous." At what point does this guy so overuse his experience as a POW that it becomes irreversibly cheapened as a political cudgel?

Also, Rogers clarifies, "The reality is they have some investment properties and stuff. It's not as if he lives in ten houses. That's just not the case. The reality is they have four that actually could be considered houses they could use." We're getting into murky ontological territory when this "actually could be considered houses" stuff, but I guess the count is now at four houses everyone agrees are houses, a few properties some think are houses, and then a few more properties that the McCain's are so rich as to own but not build houses on. That'll make him look like a man of the people."

EzraKlein Archive | The American Prospect

 

[Kerad]

A NOUN, A VERB, AND A POW!

"The McCain camp is scrambling to deflect the damage from McCain's inability to remember how many houses he own. Here's what McCain spokesman Brian Rogers came up with:

"This is a guy who lived in one house for five and a half years -- in prison."

In other words, "the insinuation that John McCain, a former prisoner of war, is rich is outrageous." At what point does this guy so overuse his experience as a POW that it becomes irreversibly cheapened as a political cudgel?

Also, Rogers clarifies, "The reality is they have some investment properties and stuff. It's not as if he lives in ten houses. That's just not the case. The reality is they have four that actually could be considered houses they could use." We're getting into murky ontological territory when this "actually could be considered houses" stuff, but I guess the count is now at four houses everyone agrees are houses, a few properties some think are houses, and then a few more properties that the McCain's are so rich as to own but not build houses on. That'll make him look like a man of the people."

EzraKlein Archive | The American Prospect

It's too late. They jumped the shark with it when they used it to get out of the "cone of silence" questioning last week...and it was wearing thin before then.

Rudy 9/11 should have warned him about that sort of thing.