The right and men who live off their second wives' inherited wealth

[SHRED]

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An hypocrisy which knows no bounds.
So much for "family values".

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Friday Aug. 22, 2008 06:41 EDT
The right and men who live off their second wives' inherited wealth
Glenn Greenwald

What's most notable about John McCain's confusion over the number of homes he owns isn't merely that it demonstrates that, after running his campaign based on depicting Barack Obama as an out-of-touch elitist and himself as the all-American Everyman, McCain lives a life that is about as far removed from the Average American as one can get, and has done so for decades. What's notable is how McCain was able to live that way. McCain himself isn't actually rich. He just lives off the inherited wealth of his much younger former mistress and now-second-wife -- for whom he dumped his older and disfigured first wife -- and who then used her family's money to fund McCain's political career and keep him living in extreme luxury (after insisting that he sign a prenuptial agreement, which would make McCain the first U.S. President to have one).

In 2004, numerous leading right-wing pundits had many things to say about men who do that:

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/08/22/gigolo/index.html

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[Demit]

1. GREAT post by Greenwald. All those quotes! I wish the MSM would do their due diligence like this.

[RobertSeattle]

2. If Cindy doesn't trust him why should the American people?

[yurbud]

3. now THAT would be a great commercial!