Wow, can this day get any worse for McCain? (well I guess Obama could announce his VP choice after the news cycle rehashes his Houses answer a million times tonight)
THe excellent Greg Sargent from TPM uncovers that while McCain was telling us all to get a 2nd job and skip our vacations to pay for our mortgages, He was in the middle of buying a 2nd Million dollar Vacation Beach House because...wait for it...wait for it....
Those darn kids were always using it!
More after the Jump...
the article just posted on TPM Election Central goes through the timeline for their new beach house and how it corresponds with his "Pull yourselves up by your bootstraps, you lazy bums speech" McCain delivered
It turns out that a few months ago, a McCain family corporation closed on a second multi-million-dollar beach condo in exclusive Coronado, California, at around the same time that John McCain offered his somewhat tone-deaf observation that struggling homeowners were "working at second jobs" and "skipping a vacation" in order to make mortgage payments on time.
Sargent recounts the Vogue story with quotes from Marie Antoinette...errr...Cindy McCain
It is a late Sunday afternoon in April, and I am sitting in a condominium in Coronado, California, taking in the view of the gorgeous San Diego Bay with Cindy McCain. She closed on the place just two weeks earlier, and the only things unpacked so far are the family photos that dot almost every surface. It's her family's second condo in the building. "I like the ocean, and the kids love it here, and I love that," she tells me, curled up on a nondescript couch that looks like it might have come with the apartment. "When I bought the first one, my husband, who is not a beach person, said, 'Oh, this is such a waste of money; the kids will never go.' Then it got to the point where they used it so much I couldn't get in the place. So I bought another one."
John made his famous quote on March 25th
And 51 million homeowners are doing what's necessary: working at second jobs, skipping a vacation, and managing their budgets to make their payments on time.
...the house closed no later than mid April but of course they were already in the process of buying it when he made that bold statement!
Update: JennyL in the comments section makes a good point about this photo of her in Vogue being shot at that house, she is probably correct
TPM also includes this picture though it is only from the same condo association
Hey, Thanks to Jed for his tour of the McCain households!