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He Married Well

By Kleinheider Posted on August 21, 2008 at 11:51 am

Nathan Moore takes on Barack Obama for using class warfare in his attack on McCain’s inability to remember how much property he has:

It is tiresome. See, if you are a successful individual, the Democrats will deride you, as if possessing wealth makes you somehow a bad, less worthy person. Barack Obama himself will make you suffer, both fiscally and psychologically. Democrats don’t want you to succeed, because if you succeed too much, you won’t be a Democrat anymore. Instead, you must be made to feel guilty for your success - that is the only way to keep you in the fold.

Problem here is that McCain’s wealth comes mostly from wife’s father’s success. Not that anybody should be chastised by holding wealth passed down to them thru inheritance or marriage but if you start making the “success” argument people might start asking exactly what it was John McCain was successful at.

Dumping his disabled wife and marrying an heiress? Yes, kudos John McCain, how dare the Democrats punish you for your vision, talent and hard work. Is that the argument Moore really wants to make?

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8 Responses to “He Married Well”

  1. GoldnI writes
    August 21st, 2008 11:56 am

    I saw a Rolls-Royce Phantom with an ObaMa bumper sticker here in St. Louis. Explain that one Nathan.

  2. Will writes
    August 21st, 2008 12:00 pm

    I think if you asked Trump how many houses he had, he would probably get within a piece of property or two. This isn’t about wealth McCain has created himself, but wealth he acquired by dumping his disabled wife and trading her in for a newer faster model. On three counts this hurts McCain–he doesn’t seem to know the economic status of his family, their wealth is derived very little from his actual work, and he has a story that few can identify with (a point he has used against Obama successfully for the last three months).

  3. Sean Braisted writes
    August 21st, 2008 12:20 pm

    Democrats don’t want you to succeed, because if you succeed too much, you won’t be a Democrat anymore.

    Warren Buffet, one of the richest men in America, is a Democrat, or at least he supports Obama.

  4. NashCasey writes
    August 21st, 2008 2:12 pm

    As I recall, the Republicans couldnt stop talking about John Kerry “marrying for wealth” in 2004.

  5. Ben writes
    August 21st, 2008 2:36 pm

    You have to be pretty out of touch to not even know how many houses are in your name when the rest of the country is going through a HOUSING crisis. It isn’t class warfare. That is a legitimate question of a presidential candidate. With your potential voters in the process of losing their house, you don’t know how many houses you have?

  6. ScottJ writes
    August 21st, 2008 2:58 pm

    Since he can’t keep up with his homes, I wonder if McCain keeps back-up pairs of $500 loafers at each house, just in case….

  7. Morris Berg writes
    August 21st, 2008 3:50 pm

    Since the Cold War ended and China’s gone the controlled capitalist (communist in name only) route, the whole “class warfare” Marxist boogieman label does not carry as much resonance as it did, say, 40 years ago. Anyway, it looks like Moore doesn’t even use this trite label properly as he takes the Democrats-don’t-like-successful people route which is just . . . weird. It also doesn’t really jive with the Obama-is-the-elitist BS. But then again, as we see with the Obama is a Muslim with crazy black preacher self-contradiction, cognitive dissonance does not seem to be a barrier to those with more of the dissonance than the cognitive.

  8. Tom Paine writes
    August 21st, 2008 4:07 pm

    Wow, Nathan Moore should be getting googly-eyed from all the slap-downs he gets from Post Politics every time he puts one of his wing-nut theories on his blog.

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