Tikkabik

Both the McCain and Obama camps are taking potshots at each other this week over who's really in touch with the common man. Fact is, neither of these guys is, or to my mind really should be.

So McCain apparently has trouble remembering how many houses he and his heiress wife own. Wish we all had that problem. Meanwhile, Obama's taking vacations on private beaches in Hawaii.

The last time one of our presidents rolled down Pennsylvania Avenue in a brown Buick instead of a limo (Carter) it wasn't particularly well received -- I think we have an expectation that our executives in chief are going to be successful, wealthy individuals, and are going to reflect, for better or worse, the values we prize as a capitalist nation.

Bush notwithstanding, anyway. That dumbass couldn't make money being an oilman in Texas.

Anyway, this whole thing is the same bullshit game that press people have been playing with politicians for years. It started back in the 1980's with Dubya's daddy not knowing the cost of milk; Lamar Alexander got lampooned for it again; John Kerry got hammered for not knowing that a real Philly cheesesteak comes with cheez-whiz instead of provolone; even John Edwards has gotten egg on his face for not knowing what a gallon of milk costs.

It's irrelevant. I wouldn't expect my own wife to know the cost of a half-gallon of milk off the top of her head, why? Because she doesn't do the fucking grocery shopping, I do.

Anyway, McCain and Obama's camps should really lay off the "man of the people" crap. Both of these guys are wealthy elitists; portraying them as otherwise is disingenuous and insulting to those of us who actually work for a living.

Is it too late to vote for Ron Paul? Seriously?