John McCain Calls Obama an Elitist

[osheaad]

So, Barrack Obama is "an out of touch" elitist; so he is not an in-touch elitist like senator John McCain?

[CruxisFire]

They're both elitists.

[gabbyx93]

McCain has 13 cars and 7 houses. And he's calling Obama an elitist?

Blehhh, whatever. Obama won anyways!

[infinit888]

I just love it McCain call Obama an elitist, Keating (McCains campaign co-chairman) calls Obama "a guy of the streets".

[shamrock1279]

How can you possibly call Barack Obama an elitest? McCain owns a total of 9 homes (which he didn't even know he owned), his networth is somewhere in the 40 million range, and he's married to a woman who is a chair of Hensley & Co (one of the largest Anheuser-Busch beer distributors in the United States). Barack was raised on food stamps, lived in lower class housing, and had to pay for school with student loans and schlorships. I'm not sure if John McCain knows what an "elitist" is.

Obama '08

[dwj91]

You can see why a guy like Phil Gramm is still on his staff after making the comments he made. He agrees with the guy no matter what McCain says. How can white blue-collar workers think McCain will help them out? Barack knows their struggles more than McCain ever will. Barack has lived their struggles. McCain has either only heard or read about their struggles.

[dwj91]

To McCain and McCain fans. You needs to leave Barack Obama alone on the elitist label. McCain is the real elitist. Both McCain's grandfather and father were admirals in the United States Navy. Talk about being born with a, forget silver, platinum spoon in your mouth.

[deanrdd]

McCain is the son of an Admiral. Bush the son of a president. Obama is the son of a single mother who, for a time lived on food stamps. Obama understands "tough times".

McCain, if you can apoligize for publically calling your wife a cunt, you can apoligize to Obama. You did apoligize to your wife? If you didn't, it would certainly show a lack of charactor.

[jaseywacey]

i cant stand this guy

[jemenfoutiste]

HAW HAW HAW!!! McCain wants to criticize Obama for his "out of touch elitism?" Well, uh, not to go all Shakespearean on anybody's ass, but methinks the raven chides blackness.

One thing McCain's dimbulbous comments make abundantly clear though, he thinks he knows who his opponent is going to be in the general election.

[getplaning]

McCain recently returned to his exclusive private high school, one which now costs over $38,000 a year to attend. His wife is the heiress to a beer distribution company, owns 8 homes and has a net worth well over $100 million. His children all attended private schools, academies which also happened to be the primary beneficiaries of funds from his supposed charitable foundation. Shouldn't the American people in fact view McCain as the elitist, and a hypocritical one at that?

[osiris33]

I think it's good that McCain continues to call him an elitist and "out-of-touch", that's one argument that will not resonate. It's a setup.

[bumblehead]

McCain and Clinton need to give up this whole "bitter" argument. What Obama stated was that small town America is voting for things like gun rights because Washington it ignoring the issues relevant to them, like jobs leaving the country. That doesn't make him an elitist, it makes him right!

[toyracers]

so what... ill admit i want my leader to be better than me.. i want him to elite, especially right now

[raaf123]

McCain is not really the problem. It's those bloodsucker 'journalists' who keep pushing this 'elitist' non-story, who are the real problem of democracy.

[loveNcolor]

OMG, I'm sorry but he is just the embodiment of NEAR DEATH. Much respect for the Old Shoe for his American POW veteranship but his ship has long since sailed.

[quicksite]

(1) "Repudiate former President Jimmy Carter" ...

(2) "i think this may be a defining problem for him" (re the constructed meme of "Obama an elitist" -- because he dared characterize some people as bitter with the problems of harsh economic times)

Your 100 years are over, old man. Time for beddie bye bye bye

[cobwebhead]

What does McCain know about "Heartland America"? He was born in Panama to a 4-star Admiral and raised in an elite family.

[jcicd]

Hey McCain quit living off your wife and get a real job.

[chefsanders70]

yeh, this from a man who own 8 houses and is married to a someone worth 11-15 million (cnn figures), voted to repeal the capital gains tax and keep bushes tax cuts going. He ought to know, he is one.

[saminmit]

it's small town america's own fault for beeing in such a bad economic situation... they constantly vote against their economic interest for things like "religion" or "2nd ammendment rights"

[dozdolt44]

Many if not most non-affluent Americans (this excludes McCain) ARE bitter and angry at being economically marginalized. How out of touch do you have to be not to understand that?