BernieHund: The Political Watchdog

After a short vacation, BernieHund returns to some real issues on the campaign trail.  Penelope has escaped Saturday Night Live and has showed up on the campaign trail again.  This time, Penny, twisting her hair and her torso is mumbling about the number of houses each candidate owns.  “You have one ‘frickin’ house and I have four that I live in and nine, maybe ten.  I have more houses than anyone else in the world.”

Well, the “frickin’ mansion” refers to Barack Obama’s house the McCain campaign is quick to point out has been linked to convicted felon, Tony Rezko.  That’s an old story and now has little impact on most of us and little substance to back it up.

On the other side of the trail, the Obama campaign, tired of being called elitist, has pointed out that John McCain and family own nine houses.  So, does that make John and Cindy the winner of the elitist contest?

Not according to McCain spokesman Brian Rogers who referred to Barack Obama’s home. 

“It’s a frickin’ mansion. He doesn’t tell people that. You have a mansion you bought in a shady deal with a convicted felon.”

No longer news, the Rezko connection and the “frickin’ mansion” are old news, history.

In an effort to offset the impact the nine or so houses owned by Penelope McCain…. ah, Cindy McCain and John Boy… have had on the “elitist” strategy, Rogers tried to minimize the number.

“The reality is they have some investment properties and stuff. It’s not as if he lives in ten houses. That’s just not the case,” Rogers said. “The reality is they have four that actually could be considered houses they could use.” [emphasis added]

Oh, gosh darn it!  The McCain’s aren’t elitist!  They only have four houses they live in.  Sad, isn’t it?  And to think he would understand the foreclosure issue.

But, Rogers added

“This is a guy who lived in one house for five and a half years — in prison,” referring to the prisoner of war camp that McCain was in during the Vietnam War.

Let’s play the sympathy card for the hero again.  We all are well aware of McCain’s service to the country and the fact that he got shot down over Nam.  Enough already. 

And to finish up, Rogers made his last stab at the elitist Obama by saying,

“In terms of who’s an elitist, I think people have made a judgment that John McCain is not an arugula-eating, pointy headed professor-type based on his life story.”

Well, it’s getting down and dirty… and Silly Season is in full swing. 

But, Rogers last comment about the elitist “pointy headed professor-type” brings me to this point.  Would we prefer a President who is an intellectual or one that got into the Naval Academy because his father was an admiral and then graduated fifth from the bottom of the class?  Someone needs to tell Rogers that we have had enough dumb Presidents.  If education makes someone an elitist, well, let’s all vote for the elitist.  At least he has a brain!

And, when are we going to get over the arugula thing?  It’s just frickin’ lettuce.