Saturday, April 26, 2008

This guy calls other candidates "elitist"?

By J. Kingston Pierce



Following up on its recent TV spot pointing out how John “100 Years War” McCain and George W. Bush are joined at the hip as far as their political policies go, the group Progressive Media USA now rolls out a second ad, this one making clear that the elderly, anger-management-challenged McCain comes by his ignorance of problems facing everyday Americans honestly: he’s too rich to know better, married as he is to a beer heiress and toting around one of American Express’ ultra-exclusive Centurion Cards. (Believe it or not, he also pockets about $20,000 a year in Social Security income, draining money from coffers that would better be used to help poor and out-of-work Americans.)

As Matthew Yglesias observes quite rightly at TheAtlantic.com, “[I]f you’re looking for an elitist in the Presidential race you might want to look at the super-rich guy who made his fortune by marrying an heiress.”

(Cross-posted at Limbo.)

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posted by J. Kingston Pierce at 6:37 PM

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2 Comments:

  • The Social Security comment is a cheap shot. At his age, i.e. >70 1/2, the law REQUIRES him to take social security. Sorry - you just can't have your cake and eat it too on this one.

    By Blogger QueersOnTheRise, at 7:50 AM  

  • While it's true that he has to receive those $20,000 in Social Security payments, he doesn't have to KEEP them. McCain could make a point of GIVING AWAY that money, if only to demonstrate that others would benefit more by having it. Instead, he's simply another wealthy Republican't, falsely sympathizing with Americans who've been hard hit by seven-plus years of Bush's borrow-and-spend policies--the same sort of policies McCain could be guaranteed of perpetuating. It's the symbolism that counts here, mate.

    By Blogger J. Kingston Pierce, at 9:15 AM  

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