McCains Bought Beach Condo At Around Time McCain Said Struggling Homeowners Needed To Skip Vacation

[gatorboy]

http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/08/mccains_bought_second_beach_ho.php

Here's a fun little find that is likely to give Dems more ammo to blast away at John McCain's number-of-houses gaffe.

It turns out that a few months ago, a McCain family corporation closed on a second multi-million-dollar beach condo in the same building in exclusive Coronado, California -- at around the same time that John McCain offered his somewhat tone-deaf observation that struggling homeowners were "working at second jobs" and "skipping a vacation" in order to make mortgage payments on time.

Cindy McCain discussed the timing of the second condo purchase in a June interview with Vogue magazine (not online) that's newly relevant in light of the explosive controversy over John McCain's inability to recall how many homes the McCains own.

And in another fun fact that could pour fuel on this controversy, Cindy told her interviewer that the reason they needed a second beach condo in the Coronado building was that the first was too crowded because her kids were staying there and as a result she "couldn't get in the place."

Cindy continued: "So I bought another one."

[lonestarnot]

1. What a swell rich fuck. We so need him to run us peons.

:sarcasm: on the second line.

[tbyg52]

2. Stop whining, peon! ;-> nt

[librechik]

3. Hey they were doing the right thing and planning a "stay-cation"

just hangin around the ol' beach shack...with the staff.

[beac]

4. Yup, the McCain are just regular folks!

They buy vacation homes like I buy boxes of spaghetti.

[fla nocount]

5. The pigs live in the big house.....

animals live in the barn. Read your Orwell, everybody knows this.

[HughMoran]

6. You know, he's even more of a hypocritcal ass than I previously thought

Amazing. Maverick my ass...

[bertman]

7. Great find, gatorboy. Obama campaign, this is a good one.