LOL- McCain's "small" businessman "Bob the Boat Builder"- his biz reported $67 million in revenue

npincus

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LOL- McCain's "small" businessman "Bob the Boat Builder"- his biz reported $67 million in revenue

last year!!! So much for authenticity. I'll bet Bob the Boat-Builder shops at Neiman Marcus, too.

http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2008/10/cindy_the_beer_1.html

Cindy the Beer Vendor?

Email|Link|Comments (0) Posted by Sasha Issenberg October 24, 2008 08:18 PM
DURANGO, Colo. -- Ever since John McCain discovered "Joe the Plumber," he has exalted "small business" owners -- inviting them to announce their professions on signs at rallies -- as the country's only virtuous economic movers.

But now McCain has begun to define the term upward, leaving no mogul or tycoon behind.

On Thursday in Sarasota, Governor Charlie Crist introduced J. Robert Long, the CEO of Marine Concepts as a "small businessman." The man McCain dubbed "Bob the Boat Builder" spent, as Crist noted, most of his career at Wellcraft Marine, which reported revenues of $67 million last year, according to Yahoo! Finance.

Tonight in Colorado, Senator Lindsey Graham, a close friend of the McCains, described Cindy as "a great small businesswoman." Her "small" business -- Hensley & Co., a family-owned Anheuser-Busch distributor that is the third largest among the 800 in the country -- had revenues of nearly $200 million last year, according to Yahoo.

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Sat Oct-25-08 07:10 AM
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1. What do you expect from someone who thinks 5 mil is a nice starting point for rich.

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Sat Oct-25-08 07:10 AM
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2. self delete

Edited on Sat Oct-25-08 07:10 AM by Feeney2

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Sat Oct-25-08 07:42 AM
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3. I saw a McCain town hall type appearance on tv and he was getting the

people to say what types of jobs they did and equating their jobs to being average Joe the Plumbers.

They had
a plumber, ok
a house painter, ok
an obstetrician, um ok
a land developer. haw-haw

How out of touch to you have to be to think that doctors and land developers make the same as plumbers and house painters?

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Sat Oct-25-08 08:38 AM
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4. Dear Lord! I can hardly wait to see what they pull out their asses this week.

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