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Cindy McCain tells Stephanopoulos that Obama Offended Her
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/08/cindy-mccain-te.html ^

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."


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KEYWORDS: cindymccain; mccain; mccainfamily; mccan; obama
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1 posted on 08/30/2008 2:01:33 PM PDT by traumer
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To: traumer

Good for her.


2 posted on 08/30/2008 2:02:35 PM PDT by snarkytart
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To: traumer

They hit with houses. You hit back with Rezko and Ayers.


3 posted on 08/30/2008 2:03:25 PM PDT by Norman Bates (Freepmail me to be part of the McCain List!)
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To: Norman Bates
McCain - the rich white man....
4 posted on 08/30/2008 2:04:51 PM PDT by traumer
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To: traumer
McCain also said beer the distributorship her father built, which is the source of much her family's wealth, typifies the American Dream.

What a sentence!

5 posted on 08/30/2008 2:04:53 PM PDT by SolidWood (McCain/Palin 2008)
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To: traumer

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”.


6 posted on 08/30/2008 2:05:44 PM PDT by AprilfromTexas
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To: Norman Bates

Palin has three homes. Expect this line to continue until it stops working.


7 posted on 08/30/2008 2:06:16 PM PDT by Alter Kaker (Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
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To: traumer

that her father and mother built the business

means nothing to a socialist that thinks in black and white.


8 posted on 08/30/2008 2:06:30 PM PDT by ken21 (people die and you never hear from them again.)
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To: traumer

White Mans Greed.


9 posted on 08/30/2008 2:06:59 PM PDT by silentreignofheroes (In my day,Flunking gym was not an option , even for Stupid Kids!)
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He and my mother sold everything they had to raise $10,000

Just think what they could have accomplished if only they had given all of that money to the Federal Government to fund pork-barrel, nanny-state welfare programs.
10 posted on 08/30/2008 2:07:43 PM PDT by Question Liberal Authority (DRILL HERE. DRILL NOW. PAY LESS!)
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To: traumer

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...


11 posted on 08/30/2008 2:08:46 PM PDT by Issaquahking (McCain/Palin rule - libs drool. All over but the crying now!)
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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.


12 posted on 08/30/2008 2:08:48 PM PDT by ilgipper
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To: Alter Kaker

If you unleash a thicket of Ayers, Rezko, and Wright it will easily stop working.


13 posted on 08/30/2008 2:08:58 PM PDT by Norman Bates (Freepmail me to be part of the McCain List!)
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To: traumer

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.


14 posted on 08/30/2008 2:08:58 PM PDT by Palladin (Michelle and Barack: The New Rosenbergs)
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To: traumer
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

McCain knows how many houses he purchased with the help of Tony Rezko and William Ayers. Can Barry say the same?
15 posted on 08/30/2008 2:09:12 PM PDT by Question Liberal Authority (DRILL HERE. DRILL NOW. PAY LESS!)
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To: Norman Bates

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


16 posted on 08/30/2008 2:09:40 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat
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To: SolidWood
Cindy McCain's parents are what American upward social mobility is all about. Start off at the bottom, work their tails off to get to the top, and leaving a legacy to their children. Leave it to Obama and the liberals to crap on the American dream. How is one who is poor, who is in the lower income brackets supposed to make it to the top Mr. Obama? From a government handout? If it weren't for people taking risks and starting businesses, the poor would have little hope in this nation. A poor person never gave a job to another poor person. Mr. Obama you can go back to the senate and continue to do nothing of any consequence. We don't need marxist, terrorist sympathizers as president.
17 posted on 08/30/2008 2:09:58 PM PDT by mainerforglobalwarming
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To: traumer

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.


18 posted on 08/30/2008 2:10:19 PM PDT by Thane_Banquo (To paraphrase Garth Algar: "If Governor Palin was a President, she'd be Babe-raham Lincoln.")
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To: Question Liberal Authority
McCain's could buy a decent home to Barry's brother...
19 posted on 08/30/2008 2:11:22 PM PDT by traumer
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Obama offends ANYONE who is a red-blooded, American who understand what oppressive socialism and Marxism are, and stand for.....


20 posted on 08/30/2008 2:12:39 PM PDT by EagleUSA
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