Posted on 08/30/2008 2:01:33 PM PDT by traumer
ABC News' George Stephanopoulos reports: Democrats' attacks on her family's wealth are unfair and offensive, Cindy McCain said today in an interview airing tomorrow on "This Week with George Stephanopoulos."
For nearly two weeks, Democrats have repeatedly hit Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., for saying he is unaware of how many houses he owns, calling the presumptive Republican presidential nominee out of touch with everyday Americans. In his acceptance speech at the Democratic convention on Thursday, Democratic nominee Barack Obama turned up the heat on McCain, saying he "doesn't know" about the lives of middle-class Americans.
"I'm offended by Barack Obama saying that about my husband," said McCain's wife Cindy. When asked if Obama went too far in his criticism of McCain, Cindy responded, "I do. I do. I really do."
McCain also said beer the distributorship her father built, which is the source of much her family's wealth, typifies the American Dream.
"My father had nothing. He and my mother sold everything they had to raise $10,000," she said. "I'm proud of what my dad and my mother did and what they built and left me. And I intend to carry their legacy as long as I can."
More of the exclusive interview with Cindy McCain airs tomorrow on "This Week."
UPDATE: The Obama campaign is not backing down. "The fact that John McCain does not know how many houses he owns when millions are struggling to stay in the only house they have shows he's out of touch with the lives of real Americans," said Obama spokeswoman Linda Douglass Saturday afternoon. "McCain is promising to double down on the economic policies of George W. Bush which have benefited corporations and CEO's while leaving middle-class families behind. John McCain just doesn't get it."
Good for her.
They hit with houses. You hit back with Rezko and Ayers.
What a sentence!
I’m still not seeing how his `1.5 million dollar house puts him in touch with the common folk “just trying to stay in their house”.
Palin has three homes. Expect this line to continue until it stops working.
that her father and mother built the business
means nothing to a socialist that thinks in black and white.
White Mans Greed.
Obama the war-monger is going to waqr with some one when elected. He claims that there are 57 states...got a get 7 from somewhere...
the attacks on the # of houses and the $5 million earners as ‘middle class’ show how little the Obambi’s are working with. They really have no ligitimate facts to work with, because those are both weak. The second was strictly as joke. The GOP, on the other hand, has volumes of things to throw at Obama. Not only that, but he brought up Gramm’s comments in his speech, after McCain had dismissed Gramm from the campaign.
That opens up the GOP to bring up a whole bunch of unsavory pro-terrorist comments made by Obama supporters before he dismissed them from the campaign. This election is going to get ugly and Obama is going to lose all his luster as a different kind of politican. It is largely gone already.
If you unleash a thicket of Ayers, Rezko, and Wright it will easily stop working.
This evil thing can get her friend Bill Ayers to blow up McCains’ houses, if she’s so jealous of them.
This is nothing but the same old Communist class warfare routine.
Too bad, Michelle—this is NOT 1933.
Absolutely. Like all other homeowners get a $300,000 discount on their mortgages.
FIGHT BACK GOP . . . OBAMA IS AN INHERENT IMBECILE, YOU’VE GOT TONS OF MATERIAL
I love this. McCain camp showing how his lovely wife was hurt by Obama.
McCain camp’s tack on Obama is becoming clear: They are going to play him as a misogynist.
Obama offends ANYONE who is a red-blooded, American who understand what oppressive socialism and Marxism are, and stand for.....
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