One home
69% (29 votes)
Two homes
12% (5 votes)
Three homes
0% (0 votes)
Four homes
2% (1 vote)
Five homes (hey that might beat the McCains!)
0% (0 votes)
None, I rent my home
17% (7 votes)
None, I'm homeless since Bush shipped my job overseas
0% (0 votes)
Total votes: 42
McCain's House Inventory
What's a "moonbounce" ?
Ramona Crocker
You ain't bounced till you bounced on a Moonbounce!
Sometimes referred to as a Bouncy Castle, it's an inflatable Playland that little kids hop around in at the fair or a fancy birthday party.
Usually after the kids are all tuckered out, the parents who have enjoyed too many mojitos at the party will give it a bash, often with hilarious/injurious results.
Please don't ask how I know this.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflatable_structure for a full history.
And click here for a very boring video of a man demonstrating how to erect a Moonbounce in his backyard.
Glen
How many homes?
I said two:
I rent the house I live in. I do have two homes, however.
1. One in Flagstaff, Arizona, but I only get to live there only one week a year. I would be arrested for trespassing if I tried to live there any other time.
2. One in Ocean Shores, Washington, but it hasn't been built yet, if ever, and my mattress is a big sand lot.
I actually am not that excited that McMansion can't remember how many homes he has. Probably most belong to Cindy and he doesn't have to bother with those details. He really doesn't have any fixed schedule to occupy them, except perhaps his townhouse in DC.
However, the hypocrisy of him calling Obama "elitist" is huge!
You could say that McMansion could never be elitist because he wouldn't last two weeks at Columbia or Harvard unless his daddy was President of the school.
Bob May
Did I say four houses? Might be more like eight!
Thanks for your comments Bob, I think you make my point.
I got no beef with someone owning some properties, even lots of properties, that is the American dream, but the real issue is McCain presents himself as a Maverick, a Man of The People, a regular Joe who serves his country and cuts brush on the weekends (oh wait that's the other dude who like to cut brush on his "ranch") but in fact he is orbiting with the top 1% of income "earners" and regardless if he owns the houses or his heiress wife does (now THAT'S elitist) he must have visited all of them at one time or another and should have a vague idea of their number.
Thursday night on Countdown, Howard Feinman detailed seven houses and condo properties, and possibly an eighth, plus commercial properties, that the McCain's own, but when McCain was asked the original question he could not answer the question, not even "Well, quite a few, my wife is from a wealthy family and we own a lot of properties, and we are quite blessed". At least he would not appear clueless. The kind of clueless we can't afford to have in the White House (Iraq-Pakistan border clueless, Sunni-Shiite clueless, invade foreign countries clueless...)
I'll post a link to Countdown when it's available and you can enjoy it as I did.
And Bob, good luck with your beach property, maybe you can put up a moonbounce while waiting to build the dream home.
Glen
I wish MY wife was a wealthy beer heiress -- free beer!
It really is amazing when a candidate for president can't even keep track of how many homes he and his $100 Million beer heiress wife own. In addition to owning at least four homes in Arizona, California and Virginia, the McCain family apparently owns about eight properties. Now there's nothing wrong with being wealthy and owning a bunch of homes and yachts and even your own personal moonbounce or two, I would never begrudge anybody just because they were stinking filthy rich, but I would expect such a person to know the number of moonbounces owned.
Read this little article in the Christian Science Monitor about McCain's response when asked about his homes, and watch Sen Barack Obama address (pun intended) the issue.
Full disclosure: I own zero moonbounces. But a man can dream, a man can dream...
Glen