The Elitist Celebrity Quiz

This is too easy --- you forgot the $500 Italian loafers -- Great Job!!
Could it be that this is be nice to McCain week -- even when he falls on his face, pick him up and tell him his great!!

Jake,

great piece. I think you should also write about McCain's temper problem. 3 of his GOP Senate colleagues (Domenici, Smith and Cochran) have already gone on record saying that he is unfit to be President.

This is hte paradox of this campaign. The self made man, who did it entirely on his own, who wrote his own books without a ghostwriter, who chose grass roots community service over a prestigious clerkship or Wall Street law firm job, who was the president of the Harvard law review when he was a student, and whose parents died when he was a child is characterized as the elitist, and the guy who was a son and a grandson of Admirals, who screwed and drank and partied his way through the Naval Academy (just like a certain President whose middle name begins with a Dubya, except he did it in college -- he wasn't Naval Academy material, and his daddy wasn't an admiral) and never would have gotten into the Academy had he not been an Admiral's son, who wrecked several jets and quite possibly caused a major aircraft carrier accident during Vietnam, who committed serial adultery and then abandoned his invalid wife to marry into one of hte richest families in Arizona, and who wears $510 Italian shoes, is hte ordinary Joe.

The Corporate Media in this Country is a disgrace. Go serve your corporate masters. They pay your salaries, they fund your corporate dividends and you don't care how many lies you tell, as long as the advertisers are happy, you're happy. There is no line between news and opinion, serious and entertainment . . . . just a few days ago, the an Inspector General's report consluded that Monica Goodling had committed crimes in politicizing the hiring of career attorneys at DoJ, and Wolf Blitzer's story was that an Inspector General's report "suggested" that crimes "may have been" committed. It didn't "suggest" that crime "may have" been committed. It concluded that they had.

When does this coverrup of GOP crimes end? When will you people start doing your jobs? It's supposed to be the fourth estate, not for the state. Sheesh.

Bravo! This is what I call real journalism and real analysis.

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It is about a lack of humility--acting as if you are smarter, richer, better than other people. Sticking your nose in the air, acting smug, thinking you know it all, unwilling to admit mistakes.

I don't see that in McCain or his wife even though they are rich.

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You my friend are obviously NOY from Arizona where the McCains are seen as far from the average person.

And just an FYI...Obama is very good at admitting his mistakes...go look up his quotes on the gas tax holiday he voted for in Illionois...it was a mistake which he readily admits now and refuses to let happen again

Who wears $500+ Italian shoes? And Obama is an elitist?

I bet everyone will be blaming Obama when we all have to live with the consequences of what our last president did to our country over the last eight years; won't you?

What's done is done and now we get to try to pick up all the pieces and try to make things better.

I'd like to have someone pick up the pieces who has been where I am instead of someone who has been living the high life and bought his way into politics in the first place.

Nice :) Now just take on this tired "arrogant" meme and we'll have some balance.

Well done, Jake Tapper. Thanks for being honest and cutting through the clutter with this simple refutation to a tired, tired anti-Obama talking point. Republicans need to wake up from 8+ years of Faux News delusion.

That's 1%

Keep up the good work.

Jake,

Much appreciated. Keep up the good work. The truth shall set us free...

And who supports further tax cuts for the wealthiest 1% of the nation?

Gummo-

So who doesn't want to make the Bush tax cuts permanent? It ain't Bush and it ain't the Republicans. It is?

Bill M-

I agree, but don't forget BHO SAID just in the past few days that he would like to see "reparations" (not just words, but DEEDS too). Add that to the bill we'll get in the mail if BHO is POTUS.

The official apology for slavery and Jim Crow is just the beginning of setting the stage for a reparations handout. It is just a Dem ploy to get African-Americans to vote for BHO hoping they will get a reparation check in the mail.

They forget that affirmative action was their reparation.

Thank you, Jake, for telling this one straight.

I'm hoping to see more of this kind of honest insight from you in the future.

Gummo-

I know you are referring to the Iraq war when you say Bush has spent money like a drunken sailor. The war has cost $500 billion, not a small sum, but Congress just voted for a $300 billion dollar mortgage bailout that Bush did not want to sign but did anyway. I'm sure that didn't bother you. Let's focus on the war monger instead who by the way cannot legally spend any money himself. It is Congress who approves all this. If you are unhappy, write your Congressman - don't blame Bush.

Flame on!

Hilarious. The four or five people who keep posting the "I'm an independent Hilary supporter who has just naturally gravitated to McCain" meme under different names are hilarious. how much do the McCain people pay you?

McCain is a corrupt hothead who has called his wife an obscene name in front of reporters and used a racial epithet repeatedly in an interview. He can't control his own behavior and speech. How can we expect him to run a nation as great as ours?

Just wanted to say thank you, Jake.

Good journalism is appreciated.

OK, you're right. you forgot the $520 loafers.

But now - who has the best tax policy?
Who has the best health care policy?
Who has the greatest integrity and consistency on national security?
Who has the most fundamentally sound energy policy?

(Obviously it's Obama, since he's not under the control of lobbbyists. But those are the things we should be talkign about)