Obama Mocks McCain’s Definition of 'Rich'

[RamboLiberal]

Source: ABC News

ABC News' Sunlen Miller Reports: Senator Obama made light of Senator McCain’s definition of “rich” at Saturday’s Saddleback forum in California, suggesting that even though McCain may have been a joking, it still demonstrates McCain’s mindset in forming his tax policy.

“How about $5 million?” McCain joked back to Pastor Warren who asked for his definition of rich, “No, but seriously…I’m sure that comment will be distorted - but the point is that we want to keep people’s taxes low, and increase revenues.”

Today, at an economic event with women in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Obama brought up McCain’s response.

“Maybe he was joking,” Obama said of McCain’s answer yet joked that by McCain’s definition, people making 3 million a year are middle class.

“But that’s reflected in his policies – where for people making more than 2.5 million, he’s giving folks a $500,000 tax break,” said Obama.



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[Demeter]

1. Not Good Enough

Obama has to take McCain's careless insults and turn them into whips to scourge the flesh off the GOP campaign.

[populistdriven]

3. ...turn them into whips to scourge the flesh off the GOP campaign? Demeter For President! nt

[Faygo Kid]

4. Agreed! Flay 'em. And nuke 'em. Nuke the bastards.

[paparush]

10. I'm on board! 'Specially if he takes a plank in his platform to McCain's backside.

[deacon]

2. It was a great opportunity to hit mcccain with the elitist zing. You have to hit back at rovians

every single day.

[ElZorro]

5. It was a joke....

Well guys you are not going to take seriously the 5M answer are you? Remember that B. O. said if you have 25M in book sales you are a millionaire and that is 5 times higher than the 5M McCain said.

[Bandit]

6. We take seriously everything the Candidates say

They have a purpose in saying what they do..or do you think that they are so weak minded they just blurt stuff out without thought? If that is the case should anyone ever vote for them?

[Zynx]

7. Obama clearly said if you make $250,000 or above that means you're rich.

[bushisanidiot]

8. McLame "joked" because he wasn't going to out himself as an elitist

thus, his LAME non-answer to the question. I only wish McLame would have been asked how many mansions he owns, as a follow-up question.

[Overseas]

9. Love the example he used of the 2.5 million earner getting a $500,000 tax break.

Those examples bring home the true nature of Bush's tax cuts for the super-rich in a time of war. Their tax BREAK is more than the annual income we would consider to be rich.

John Sidney McCain III's off-the-cuff rich number, $5 million, is eight times less than his net worth.


I agree with the poster who said John Sidney McCain III, with 7 homes, $520 loafers, unlimited credit, a net worth of $40 million and an heiress wife with $100 million of her own, didn't want to disturb his image of being a windbreaker-wearing regular guy, not one of the usual Country Club Republicans.

I call him his full name of John Sidney McCain III because it links him with his true peer group, other aristocratic Country Club Republicans.