thinkprogress.org - 8/22/2008
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During the Saddleback Church presidential forum on Saturday, when Pastor Rick Warren asked both Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) to define where “you move from middle class to rich,” McCain reflexively joked, “ How about $5 million? ” He then added that “it doesn’t matter really what my definition of rich is.” Noting that “McCain’s answer is just ...
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FOX defends McCain against charges of elitism, leave false accusations against Obama unchallenged
News Hounds —
... Steve Doocy allowed that they're both rich guys (not by John McCain's standards!!), making sure both times to note that Obama earned $4 million last year, and defended the McCains again as holding investment properties. ...
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Crooks and Liars —
... - and it probably should - but yet again someone has to pay the bill eventually for deficit spending and that someone will be you and your grandchildren. Ditto the huge bills for Iraq, massive homeland security and defense spending, the trade deficit and so much else we can thank the profligate Bush administration and Republicans in Congress for. They have, as a solid group, opposed any kind of financial regulation legislation. For Republicans, it’s a free market only until John McCain’s “middle class” with over $5 million in the bank are hurting, ...
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