This is rich: Why John Sidney McCain's 9 homes are pertinent

By GottaLaff

First, let me update the number of homes J Sid owns. According to David Bender, it is now 9. I'm willing to go with that, aren't you? And why is this important? How does it really play into this election, other than who can outsnipe whom with rapid response attack ads?

Think Progress makes the point that the media defended J Sid's memory lapse about the number of homes he owns. But I think that, rather than the favorable treatment angle, the more important point is this one:

Unfortunately, these reporters are ignoring an obvious and glaring reality that McCain is running a campaign of the rich, by the rich, and for the rich. He recently defined rich as earning $5 million or more and doesn’t know how many houses he owns, and at the same time, McCain is proposing a tax policy that primarily benefits the rich. In fact, under his proposal, McCain himself would receive a $300,000 tax cut, while middle class Americans would receive only a few hundred.

Moreover, while ordinary Americans are struggling to keep the one house they own, McCain has a record of denying assistance to homeowners, having voted against mortgage protections and other steps to help consumers fight unfair credit terms.

That is the real issue. His being out of touch is symptomatic of someone who has benefited from a lifetime of the very policies he wants to extend. He and his cronies have been in that big protective bubble so long, they can't see past their Ferragamo loafers to the other side of the tracks where bubbleless people are living under bridges.

Or if they do notice them, the Reginald Van McCains choose to run them down as they motor their way to McMansion #8, leaving struggling families hacking and wheezing through a cloud of Exxon-infused exhaust.

That is, if they can remember where they live. After awhile, all those McManors start to look alike.