I'm sure pretty much everyone has heard about McCain not knowing how many houses he owned. At no point is "I don't know," the answer that people want to hear to this question! Especially those working class voters that wanted to vote for Hillary. I'm sure he was sitting there thinking "If I say 2, they'll check up and know I lied. If I say 7, they're going to make a big deal out of it... Hmm... Aghhh... I DON'T KNOW."
I've been in McCain's shoes before. No, not the exact situation, I know that I only own one house.
It reminds me of WAY back when I was 19 or 20. We had all been drinking heavily all evening and Lee and I got stopped by two police officers (it may have been because I was laying on the ground). Anyway, one of the cops asked me how much I had to drink that day. My thoughts were flying... If I lie and say "two" or something conservative, and then he gives me a breathalyzer, he's going to know I'm lying. But, if I actually tell him the truth, he'll know I'm wasted and arrest me. So, I'm having an internal conflict and I finally just said "Enough." Perhaps John McCain should have used that one. I didn't get arrested or ticketed that night, so clearly it worked!
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I'll defend McCain here, even though that's not really the point of this post. His wife has lots of money, so they have a bunch of properties. I bet that some are for their own use when travelling and some are just investments. So here is John McCain, who is always in either Washington or Arizona (or campaigning the past 1.5 years), and he owns these properties, and he probably has no interest in any of them. Thus, how would he know how many he has? Why would he care? He's a senator and now presidential nominee who married into all the money he needs. It's not that he needs to know about these properties that are in his and his wife's name.
I guess my point is that it's not like me owning investment properties or people owning second homes. Those are a big part of their lives, usually. McCain's homes are clearly not a big part of his life, and I would venture that he doesn't give a rip about any of them other than his houses in DC and Arizona.
Plus, it's just kind of gotcha question, which I always hate (no matter which candidate is getting asked). Every election some dickhead reporter gets full of himself and during an exclusive interview asks one of the candidates who the prime minister of Fiji or whatever is. In variably, either the candidate doesn't know or the name gets mangled. That's supposed to show how "dumb" or "unready" the candidate is. It's garbage, because a candidate doesn't need to know that stuff. Heck, even the president doesn't need to necessarily know the name of every leader of every country. It's there in a briefing or something, and the most important thing is how the president would act during a situation.
So this is sort of the same thing. The reporter was just trying to screw McCain, and I guess he did. Well bravo, jerkoff. You proved what an a-hole you are.
Man, I need to start another blog.
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