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Monday, August 25, 2008
You Might Be an Elitist (4)...
...if your wife's $100 million of inherited dough puts you in the top 100th of the top one percent of the nation's wealthiest people. John McCain's joke that $5 million might make you rich was setting a low threshold indeed for the 15,000 Americans in his money bracket, but not for the rest of us 301 million lower-income slobs. McCain's tax plan "delivers by far the biggest boost to the average incomes of the richest households; Obama's plan does the opposite. McCain really does double-down on Bushonomics, which takes the inequities inherent in today's market outcomes, and injects them with a dose of steroids" ("Why McCain's Wealth Matters").
Labels: Bush economy, elitism, John McCain
Saturday, August 23, 2008
You Might Be an Elitist (3)...
...if your brother Joe tries to explain away your vagueness about how many homes you own by blaming the way you were brought up as kids: "The person who took care of all the business was my mother," Joe McCain said. "My father had no idea about the family business, what oil leases he owned in Oklahoma."
An underachieving elitist, by the way: Joe McCain bragged that his brother finished fifth from the bottom of his class at the Naval Academy.
"By the way, that's a McCain tradition," he said. "My father and grandfather, both four-star admirals, and they graduated in the bottom fourth of their class, too."
An underachieving elitist, by the way: Joe McCain bragged that his brother finished fifth from the bottom of his class at the Naval Academy.
"By the way, that's a McCain tradition," he said. "My father and grandfather, both four-star admirals, and they graduated in the bottom fourth of their class, too."
Labels: elitism, Joe McCain, John McCain
Friday, August 22, 2008
You Might Be an Elitist (2)...
...if it takes a nine-car motorcade to get you to the local Starbucks for a vente cappuccino (source: LATimes, 3rd graph from the end).
Labels: elitism, John McCain
You Might Be an Elitist...
...if Robin Leach, host of "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous," becomes your chief defender two days after you can't remember how many houses you own.Leach told the Los Angeles Times that "he isn't really surprised at McCain's odd memory lapse, given the complex lives that the super-rich lead."
"He probably was confused as to which homes are in his name, his wife's name, or corporate names," said Leach, trying his best to be helpful. Leach also said that McCain "tends to answer questions very rapidly without thinking of the correct answers. ... I would call it honest confusion."
Ouch.
Labels: elitism, John McCain, Robin Leach
