To put the cost of McCain's $520 pair of Ferragamo's in context, the median annual American household income as of 2006 is $48,201 or $39,525 after, say, 18% taxes. Per week, that’s $760 or, to McCain, less than three shoes.
That should be the new economic metric for all things McCain: how many shoes could it buy? For instance, one shoe equals not two feet but 65 gallons of $4 gas. Or if a ticket to a fundraising event like that thrown last month for McCain by Carl Lindner, who funded Columbian terrorist groups while the CEO of Chiquita, costs $25,000, that would be a 48-pair event.
This should demonstrate just how in touch with the economy of regular people he is.