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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill who wrote (135480)	9/10/2008 8:27:50 AM
From: TideGlider	Respond to of 173976

Kathy Holthausen: Not like me... Forum Publishing Group September 10, 2008 Sen. John McCain recently had trouble answering an interviewer's question. He didn't know how many houses he and his wife owned. I didn't think this was so unusual. Many wealthy people who have real estate holdings might not know this answer at a given time. But Sen. Barack Obama used this incident to support a claim that McCain was out of step with ordinary Americans and had skewed ideas about wealth. He said, "If you're like me and you've got one house, you might have a different perspective." We are all well aware that many members of Congress are very wealthy people. Think Kennedy. Think Rockefeller. Most of them are millionaires many times over. Many have real estate holdings. Most of them live very differently than the rest of us and McCain is no different. However, Sen. Obama's attempt to paint his opponent as being out of step with the average American focuses the light of scrutiny back on himself. That one house of his is worth a couple of million. Hmm, that's not like me. And I got my house fair and square; no deals with convicted felons in the mix. But it doesn't end with the house. Sen. Obama is very much out of the ordinary in many ways. He has a long list of friends and business associates who seem to be far more out of step with average Americans. Like Tony Rezko, who helped the Obamas with the purchase of their mansion. He's associated with shady Chicago politics where Obama cut his political teeth. He's a convicted felon involved with bribes and kickbacks. There's Obama's mentor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, who says AIDS was a plan by our government to kill blacks and that 9-11 was actually all our fault and the murders were just "America's chickens coming home to roost." There's Bill Ayers from the radical Weather Underground who started riots and set off bombs in government buildings. As recently as 2001 he told The New York Times that he didn't regret this. He just thought they hadn't set off enough bombs. And he posed for that famous picture desecrating our flag. Even Obama's Ivy-League-educated wife seems to have some trouble being proud of her own country. Aside from his acquaintances, there are Sen. Obama's own ideas and beliefs, many of which put him outside of the mainstream. He supports infanticide. He wants to systematically disarm our military. His answer to our energy woes is to inflate our tires, which he claims would "save all the oil that they're talking about getting off drilling." He views people from small towns as being bitter, racist and frustrated and clinging to their guns and religion. He believes the best way to increase revenue is to raise taxes and that the answer to every problem is to spend more. No, we both may have one house, but Sen. Obama isn't much like me at all. And one would think that in all those years at Columbia and Harvard that he might have heard the warning to people who live in glass houses. Freelance writer Kathy Holthausen can be reached at kah1761@bellsouth.net. sun-sentinel.com