Through some sort of self-imposed amnesia, I’ll be able to forget everything about what it was like to have student loans, living from check to check, so forth and so on.

It must be very liberating!

No, the original point was to complain that John McCain brings up his status as a POW in every discussion. I merely pointed out that I am equally tired of hearing about Obama’s blackness and how the GOP is going to use it against him, even when it has been Democrats, from Hillary Clinton on, who have been the ones using it.

Frankly, I don’t really care about how many houses John McCain owns. Senators are wealthy people and McCain, like John Kerry, is married to a very wealthy woman. And it isn’t like Obama is poor. Does owning one million dollar house make Obama “more like the rest of us”? I don’t see any difference when he spends $10k a year on “enhancements” for his children. He’s just as far removed from my life.

And in that world, stripping away the regular-guy facade — pointing out that everything Rush Limbaugh said about Mr. Kerry applies equally to Mr. McCain, that Mr. McCain lives in a material world few Americans can imagine — is only fair. Yes, Mr. Obama vacations in Hawaii — and Cindy McCain says that “In Arizona, the only way to get around the state is by small private plane.”

The squealing from the usual suspects demonstrates how much the Obama counterattack has the G.O.P. worried. Back in 2004 Fox News described John Kerry as “one of the haves” with a “billionaire wife”; now it asks whether raising the issue of Mr. McCain’s houses is “bashing the American dream.”

And “I’m rubber, you’re glue” doesn’t exactly qualify as scintillating discussion. This thread was once about McCain’s houses. The fact that you and Sharon refuse to talk about that and have turned the discussion to Obama’s perceived faults instead does not change the original point.

1. Make a critique of John McCain
2. McCain and his supporters say POW
3. Obama supporters laugh and say GTF Outta Here
4. McCain supporters accuse Obama playing the race card.

They aren’t going to be able to link to anything real (as in something the man has said himself). This is their best chance at changing the subject on the POW idiocy.

Reporter: Senator McCain, when was the last time you molested a child?
McCain: [stammers for 30 seconds] POW.

Care to link to something Sharon? I’ll accept even a link to Fox News. Anything that gives me some idea of where you come up with the stuff.

I mean, I could just say, “John McCain is a child molester” but that does not make it true.

You’re right. He just uses it as an excuse for not being able to defend himself.

And this isn’t including the idiocy of “dog whistles” that every argument made against Barack Obama is because he’s black.

Of course, you have Joe Biden who thinks Obama is a “clean and articulate” black man on your ticket, so maybe that balances out the “OMG, I’m black!” argument.

And this isn’t even talking about his books which are all about being a black guy in a white world (even though he’s half black…is there such a thing?).

So, who’s lost their grip on reality? People who actually note Obama discussing his race and accusing others of racism when he’s feeling the pinch, or Democrats who don’t remember what happened less than 2 months ago. But hey. Accusing everybody of racism is way less important than how many homes one of the rich guys running for president has.