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Decisive Strong And Clear
Balloon Juice — ... I just heard Tim Pawlenty on CBS tell me that John McCain is decisive and clear and showed that last night, and then I went over to the Carpetbagger and read this jumbled mess of an answer from McCain: ...

Decisive Strong And Clear
Balloon Juice — ... I just heard Tim Pawlenty on CBS tell me that John McCain is decisive and clear and showed that last night, and then I went over to the Carpetbagger and read this jumbled mess of an answer from McCain: ...

McCain jokes: $5 million a year is a good definition of rich
Crooks and Liars — ... We should not and cannot raise taxes in tough economic times. So it doesn’t matter really what my definition of rich is because I don’t want to raise anybody’s taxes.” John Amato: I thought McCain was pretty good Saturday night except in some crucial areas which I discussed here. Most of the media said McCain was just magnificent last night. He hit a HR. I guess they forgot about this answer. What the heck was McCain talking about? Steve Benen has more. ...

McCain jokes: $5 million a year is a good definition of rich
Crooks and Liars — ... We should not and cannot raise taxes in tough economic times. So it doesn’t matter really what my definition of rich is because I don’t want to raise anybody’s taxes.” John Amato: I thought McCain was pretty good Saturday night except in some crucial areas which I discussed here. Most of the media said McCain was just magnificent last night. He hit a HR. I guess they forgot about this answer. What the heck was McCain talking about? Steve Benen has more. ...

Sunday reading: Five million
Ben Smith's Blog — JMart captures McCain's unexpected strength last night. Noam argues that Obama did well on McCain's turf. Broder captures that Chicago is either confident or very good at projecting confidence to reporters. The campaign goes to a real war zone. McCain embraces the confrontational Poland missile deal, an implicit challenge to Obama, who has opposed it. And an exchange on wealth that, as McCain seems instantly to recognize, could come back to haunt him: Warren: Define rich. Everybody talks about, ...

Sunday reading: Five million
Ben Smith's Blog — JMart captures McCain's unexpected strength last night. Noam argues that Obama did well on McCain's turf. Broder captures that Chicago is either confident or very good at projecting confidence to reporters. The campaign goes to a real war zone. McCain embraces the confrontational Poland missile deal, an implicit challenge to Obama, who has opposed it. And an exchange on wealth that, as McCain seems instantly to recognize, could come back to haunt him: Warren: Define rich. Everybody talks about, ...

John McCain: Make Less Than $5 Million/Year? Congratulations! You’re Not Rich.
Oliver Willis — ... So, we all know that John McCain with his multiple homes and marriages is far out of the mainstream, but who knew that he considers people who make just shy of $5 million a year part of the great unwashed? I guess that’s the side effect marrying into money and being a media darling produces. ...

John McCain: Make Less Than $5 Million/Year? Congratulations! You’re Not Rich.
Oliver Willis — ... So, we all know that John McCain with his multiple homes and marriages is far out of the mainstream, but who knew that he considers people who make just shy of $5 million a year part of the great unwashed? I guess that’s the side effect marrying into money and being a media darling produces. ...

Hullabaloo — ... by cutting taxes massively for the rich, or that he thinks anyone who makes less than $5 million a year isn't rich, and on and on. Stories about politicians embellishing parts of their personal biography for dramatic effect are fairly routine and show little more than that they're... ambitious politicians, looking to connect emotionally with voters to gain an advantage. Remember how Ronald Reagan ...

Hullabaloo — ... by cutting taxes massively for the rich, or that he thinks anyone who makes less than $5 million a year isn't rich, and on and on. Stories about politicians embellishing parts of their personal biography for dramatic effect are fairly routine and show little more than that they're... ambitious politicians, looking to connect emotionally with voters to gain an advantage. Remember how Ronald Reagan ...

uggabugga — Solving McCain's dilemma: McCain: Some of the richest people I’ve ever known in my life are the most unhappy.The Democrats can help with that! Seriously though, the "some rich are unhappy" is a line designed to make it seem like they are struggling just like everybody else. They are not. Money can buy happiness and it certainly can help avoid unhappiness.

uggabugga — Solving McCain's dilemma: McCain: Some of the richest people I’ve ever known in my life are the most unhappy.The Democrats can help with that! Seriously though, the "some rich are unhappy" is a line designed to make it seem like they are struggling just like everybody else. They are not. Money can buy happiness and it certainly can help avoid unhappiness.

Quick links
The Sideshow — Jim Henley follows-up on Diane's post about Aafia Siddiqui and learns that it's even weirder than we thought, leading him to suspect "that the US government has been secretly taken over by the Brotherhood of Dada." Turkana recommends Jack Balkin's explanation of net neutrality, and reminds us that, "Barack Obama supports network neutrality. John McCain doesn't." Steve Benen says one highlight of Sidney and Barack's recent encounter was when they defined the meaning of "rich". So, Michael Gerson says Joe Lieberman would make a great VP ...

Quick links
The Sideshow — Jim Henley follows-up on Diane's post about Aafia Siddiqui and learns that it's even weirder than we thought, leading him to suspect "that the US government has been secretly taken over by the Brotherhood of Dada." Turkana recommends Jack Balkin's explanation of net neutrality, and reminds us that, "Barack Obama supports network neutrality. John McCain doesn't." Steve Benen says one highlight of Sidney and Barack's recent encounter was when they defined the meaning of "rich". So, Michael Gerson says Joe Lieberman would make a great VP ...

Did McCranky lie? cheat? plagiarize and fabulize? say idiotic stuff that shocked even Pastor Rick Warren? Well, of course, but so what?
DownWithTyranny! — ... There doesn't seem to be anything our McCranky can't get away with saying. Apparently he managed to shock even Saddlebrook's Pastor Rick Warren with his definition of "rich." On The Carpetbagger Report, Steve Benen quotes the answers both Obama and McCranky gave to Pastor Rick's simple question "Define rich" -- Obama trying to score substantive economic and social points while actually answering the question, McCranky rambling incoherently from right-wing talking point to right-wing talking point, doing everything in his power to avoid answering the question -- and ...

McCain jokes: $5 million a year is a good definition of rich
Crooks and Liars — ... We should not and cannot raise taxes in tough economic times. So it doesn’t matter really what my definition of rich is because I don’t want to raise anybody’s taxes.” John Amato: I thought McCain was pretty good Saturday night except in some crucial areas which I discussed here. Most of the media said McCain was just magnificent last night. He hit a HR. I guess they forgot about this answer. What the heck was McCain talking about? Steve Benen has more. ...

Now Who's Effete?
Swampland — ... John McCain was asked recently: How many houses do you have? And he said, “I’m not sure I’ll have to check with my staff.” True quote he said, “I’m not sure I’ll have to check with my staff.” So they asked his staff and they said at least four. Now think about that. I guess if you think being rich means you have to make $5 million and you don’t know how many houses you have than its not surprising that you think the economy is fundamentally strong. But if you’re like me and you have one house and you're like the millions of people who are struggling right now to make their ...

FMB - Friday McBush Bashing
Discourse.net — Some pretty brutal stuff this week. And something subtle too. And then …. THE GAFFE …. Peter Swire, Wonk Room, McCain’s Privacy Paper Gets His Own Record Wrong CNN Politics, Roberta McCain denies lawsuit against son’s ex-wife — who you gonna believe, the McCains or those lying court documents? WashPo, McCain’s Maverick Side: Grandpa Would Be Proud Mother’s Father Made Fortune on Liquor, Gambling TampaBay Trib, Tropical storm costs McCain a million ThinkProgress, Jindal stumped when asked to ...