Heard on NPR today some pundit saying the whole McCain not knowing how many houses he owns is at best a "medium" gaffe.
I beg to differ.
Considering the state of housing drama in the U.S. today, I think this will resonate far greater that George H.W. Bush's surprise at supermarket scanners in 1992.
I am in my 50s and I only own one house. Never have owned more. I have a mortgage. Fortunately I've been conservative in my buying and remodeling so I don't face the stiff increase in payments or terrifying circumstances of Americans who have lost income or job.
I am not John McCain, and never will be, but that's allright.
But the cumulative effect of him saying someone needs to make $5 million a year in INCOME to be rich (more than I will make in my lifetime as a teacher) plus this latest gaffe just shows how out of touch he is right now while so much of the country is in economic turmoil. We, at this point in our nation's history, do not need another president who does not know or cannot remember the struggle to make ends meet simply because they lack the empathy necessary to effect productive changes.
Like Loser Phil Gramm, they're likely to see such problems as "whining."
Obama needs to keep hammering on this point, that McCain sees nothing wrong with our current economy, would bring more of the same and is quite comfortable in his circumstances to the point that he doesn't really, truly, in his heart understand what AVERAGE Americans are going through right now.
I know we'll hear the "class warfare" crap, but Obama represents the best chance since Bill Clinton for real change, real progress. And McSame has not reason to be president other than that he was unfairly cheated out of the chance to run as the Republican nominee in 2000....
The die has been cast. As time passes, this whole house thing will loom over the campaign like Willie Horton, "I invented the internet," and the swiftboating of a true war hero, John Kerry.