Obama: By McCain's standard, $3 million is middle class

Obama: By McCain's standard, $3 million is middle class

Obama, who has notably sharpened his jabs at John McCain since he returned to the campaign trail this week, took aim today at John McCain’s crack during a Saturday forum that $5 million is the line between middle class and rich, my colleague Ken Vogel reports from Albuquerque, N.M.

“Maybe he was joking,” Obama said at the town hall this morning in a library, joking that by McCain’s standards, making $3 million must mean you’re "middle class."

Obama continued that McCain’s skewed idea of wealth "is reflected in his policies.”

Here's the McCain comment to which Obama was referring, which occurred at a forum with Pastor Rick Warren at his Saddleback Church:

WARREN: Everybody talks about, you know, taxing the rich, but not the poor, the middle class. At what point, give me a number, give me a specific number. Where do you move from middle class to rich? <…>

MCCAIN: How about $5 million? No, but seriously, I don’t think you can, I don’t think seriously that the point is I’m trying to make, seriously, and I’m sure that comment will be distorted but the point is…that we want to keep people’s taxes low, and increase revenues. … So, it doesn’t matter really what my definition of rich is because I don’t want to raise anybody’s taxes. I really don’t.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0808/Obama_By_McCains_standard_3_million_is_middle_class.html

and I think we'll see that reflected in the debates when he's allowed to give direct rebuttals to McCain's crap.

Even if they wire the weasel. Of course the media will pander to the right and pitch McCain softballs.

:applause:

Rick Warren is curious where to draw an upper line on wealth, to know where to divide the rich from the not-quite-as-rich.

A Christian would be asking about where to draw the bottom line of poverty.

He is a PHARISEE. I fucking loathe the pig. He is worried about his taxes and the status of his TAX FREE PONZI SCHEME oops I mean his ministry.

Total heretical wanker shitbag.

Four? Six? Eight?

(that's rhetorical of course, because we all know the answer).


That was such a bullshit answer from McCain. And as soon as he realized he fucked up, he said "Oh, that's going to be taken out of context". That's a good line to use after you know that you've made a gaffe. Pathetic. His answer for this question was so stupid, yet I just read on MSNBC first read that Rick Warren of course said that Obama's abortion answer was "vague". Well, it probably is ALWAYS vague to people who do not agree with it and refuse to see any grey areas. Yet I'm sure that he thought McCain's answers, like this one, were just "so direct and concise".

Damn! I'm down by $2.965 million! I've got some catching up to do!!!

Five million puts you in the upper extreme of income. Here is some actual numbers, rather than John McCain's uniformed rambling:

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His little "jokes" are very disturbing "tells" about his true nature. He WASN'T joking about five million being the line between middle and upper class, he did the same with with that douchebag Rick Warren when he said he was "listening at the wall." He is a sociopath.