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obsidianwings.blogs.com - 8/21/2008
You Knew This Was Coming ...
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by hilzoy It didn't take more than a few hours for McCain's people to cite his experience as a POW in response to his gaffe about his houses: ""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," Rogers said. "The reality is they have four that actually could be considered houses they could use." (...) He ...

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The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — ... , McCain spokesman, responding to Obama mocking McCain for not knowing how many houses he owns. This was McCain's rhetorical gambit when accused of carpet-bagging earlier in his career. Hilzoy is getting tired of McCain playing the POW card without reason. Ben Smith's ...

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