I think the answer is six, or is it seven? The next question should be "How many homes do you pay taxes on?" and, "Do you and missie take your private plane to each and then charge the flight off as a business expense?" "Since you're worth more than $100M, why do you keep receiving $58K in military disability payments?"

"Your closest friends all seem to be super wealthy and several of them are scheduled to speak at the Repub convention, is that how you're going to connect to the common folks you pretend to care about?" Like, Carlie Fiorina, ex CEO of Hewlwett Packard who was sent off with $20M for doing a poor job, or Meg Whitman, former and currently super wealthy, of Google fame, and Mitt Romney and Arnold Schwarzenegger, who has little, if any, affiliation with the current repub administration? Yes, should be an interesting group of speakers telling their hard luck, struggle stories. Nothing wrong with the economy if you can park millions into your IRA, or pay health insurance with the change in your cookie jar!

Can't wait for that convention to tell us what's right with the American economy, to help the rest of us get over it and stop whining!

First - Obama should use this one in an ad. The ads themselves (Obama's) are so weak. He needs to get rib of the voice over and start using McCains own voice.. he needs to start really attacking McCain. We've had a whole month of nice ads from Obama and McCain is ripping Obama a new one.. time to stop these silly games and go after the geezer.

Second - when giving a speech - please have Obama stop with the "McCain was a great solider thing - Obama giving McCain a free ad.... enough already. Obama gives him a pat on the back and then McCain turns around and questions Obama and his love for this country. What's wrong with that picture.

If Obama wants to win, he needs to use the "Housegate" number agaisnt McCain.. it just shows how out of touch McCain really is!

So John can't remember how many homes are in his invesment portfolio? What a load! Was he not paying attention?

So John can't remember how many homes are in his investment portfolio? What a load! Was he not paying attention

Just imagine, sitting on that bench in same room with he and his wife's investment advisor for over twenty years and not a clue as to what is going on?

Not listening to his advisor's rants and recommendations? I think he even named his book after one of his recommendations? Not a clue?

Now how stupid do they think we are to buy into that?

John McCain: "I don't know how many houses I have"...Oooops.

John, the Vietnam war is over.

John McCain, "War more years of Bush"

And as for McCain's surge: I didn't support it then and would not support it now because to succeed it involved paying off the terrorists who have been blowing up our soldiers for five years.

Oh, and by the way, tell me any candidate who's ever won an election after not polling above 45% for four months head-to-head against his opponent in a two-way race?

Only two times in the last 12 elections has the person who led 100 days out not won the election.

Coming Democratic argument: Iraqis pay 5 cents a gallon for gas. Why can't we get them to produce more oil and sell to us? They are an Arab nation that is not run by a tyrant because of American blood and treasure. Republicans will soon have to explain why this can't happen, which would poke holes in their "Drill here, Drill now" argument. It's the market, stupid!

Yes, let's talk about gas and oil. We don't have enough refineries to increase the amount of oil we presently import. So where are they going to be built and who's going to pay for it? Maybe some republican politician in congress can offer up land in his constituents' home base.

We might generate a total of 3% of total oil consumption in the world with the addition of oil drilled from our shores, in seven to ten years. Oil companies won't start drilling unless they can generate the same level of profits enjoyed by the rest of the oil producers throughout the wold, in other words, OPEC will continue to set the prices. The oil will be added to the worldwide pool, it will not be made exclusive for American consumers, or at a final gas price that we consumers will dictate.

Even at the current inflated price, oil companies refuse to drill in places where they already hold leases, including oceanic areas, but if the price continues to increase there will be plenty of incentives. To make money, oil companies want to produce it at the lowest possible price, with as many tax incentives and taxpayer support as possible, and they must sell it at the highest possible price to satisfy their CEO's, and stockholders. Who loses every time: the consumer!

Sure drill offshore, after you make an ironclad agreement with the American consumer that we will tell them the price we will be willing to pay for the gasoline that reaches our pump. A pretty fair offer to allow them to potentially soil our beaches and threaten the stock of fish we depend upon for food.

Yes, let's talk about gas and oil. We don't have enough refineries to increase the amount of oil we presently import. So where are they going to be built and who's going to pay for it? Maybe some republican politician in congress can offer up land in his constituents' home base.

Good point.

Posted by CalDemo on August 21, 2008 at 07:15 PM
Sure drill offshore, after you make an ironclad agreement with the American consumer that we will tell them the price we will be willing to pay for the gasoline that reaches our pump.

More practical is encouraging the oil companies to begin drilling right away in the areas they already have rights too - they're sitting on over 60 million acres of reserves off shore right now waiting for the price of oil to go up even more which raises the value of those reserves.

I'd say make one of those areas productive and they can lease another if they want.

It was the President's father who first put the offshore oil drilling ban into effect and his brother in Florida stridently opposed offshore drilling.

The President failed as an oilman but he has succeeded in turning the GOP into the Gas and Oil Party.

Posted by Matt Ortega on August 21, 2008 at 12:08 PM Politico reports that John McCain was asked how many houses do the McCain family own and his answer was, well, very telling. He. Didn't. Know.

He knows now.

four? Six? Seven? yep, one or more. suppose he'll use his 2nd wife to help him purchase the white house too, literally.

Most business people (as well as Hollywood biggies) have accountants who handle such concerns. John McCain does know how many states in the United States, Obama knows how many Muslim Nations. I think it would be best to find something else to down McCain for lest you bring up Obama's "lack of knowledge" and show how really confused he is.