More on McCain
Just in case anybody is confused as to why McCain would be involved in such evil doings as those described in yesterday's post, take a look at these:
This is where Cindy McCain's 4.7-million-dollar estate was until 2006, under the Phoenix Mountains. Note the green, green grass and the lush lakes everywhere. It takes coal and water from the north to fuel this sickening kind of lifestyle - the reason the rich move to Arizona in the first place.
This is the north view of the site of their new 4.6-million-dollar condo, four miles west of the Biltmore estate. They wanted to "downsize". Good for them! Still green everywhere, but now they have to share their pool with the neighbours. Shucks. The $100,000 they saved better be worth it!
And of course, like every Republican man whose career has been made by his wife (he moved to Arizona to start a political career at the behest of Peabody executives who recruited him while he was working for Cindy's father at Anheuser-Busch), McCain needs to recover from the emasculation of living in a country club estate next to a premier shopping establishment. So he (along with some "longtime family friends") bought six properties on Oak Creek between Cottonwood and Sedona, allowing himself that much-fantasised-about Republican American Dream of solitude and masculinity in the countryside with tumbleweeds and ranch. Look at Bush, raised by New English culture and Southwestern oil money, thinking of himself as a cowboy. Well, McCain is no different. Of course, McCain has no real connection to that land. To him it's just a masculinising decoration, a place where he can feel like a man, invite GOP buffs to his "cabin" (which is large enough for McCain to showcase to 75 journalists how the only way he can relax is to stack ribs on a huge grill) and go "camping" and hire people to teach him about the oft-quoted "65 bird species" so he can sound in the media like he gives a shit about the earth he is polluting. In fact, like every other rich man who purchases a dick and balls way out in the boondocks, all he is doing is contributing to the glut of overpriced housing and long, long, long commutes for no purpose that has characterised our entire country, but especially the swath of it between Atlanta and Los Angeles.
Here's a glimpse at the auspices in which McCain's "Cottonwood" properties find themselves:
And these bastards have the audacity (yes, intentional pun) to call Obama an elitist because he lives in the slowly gentrifying community around the University of Chicago? Yes, the professors there are elitist, but I thought Republicans complaining about elitists usually meant liberal elitists, not the little Friedmans that inhabit that area. And let's keep in mind that Hyde Park is reputed by the white yuppies north of the Loop to be too dangerous even to dream about setting foot in: from Wrigley Field the University of Chicago just looks like a dim castle twenty miles away under siege from the brown people. Even though Wrigley Field is the real piece of shit. The only reasons people like it at all are (a) history and (b) the hipster cred derived from its pathetic condition. Would it be enough for these Republican talking heads if Obama lived in the real ghetto? No, then he'd be frontin' for real, no fist bump required!
Well, at least those pictures of McCainia will reassure you that 2000 Dinés at Queen's Hill have not died of radiation-induced cancer for nothing.
Images of Biltmore and Oak Creek areas from Google Maps, accessed 10 Aug 2008. Image of Residences at 2211 Camelback courtesy of their site.
This is where Cindy McCain's 4.7-million-dollar estate was until 2006, under the Phoenix Mountains. Note the green, green grass and the lush lakes everywhere. It takes coal and water from the north to fuel this sickening kind of lifestyle - the reason the rich move to Arizona in the first place.
This is the north view of the site of their new 4.6-million-dollar condo, four miles west of the Biltmore estate. They wanted to "downsize". Good for them! Still green everywhere, but now they have to share their pool with the neighbours. Shucks. The $100,000 they saved better be worth it!
And of course, like every Republican man whose career has been made by his wife (he moved to Arizona to start a political career at the behest of Peabody executives who recruited him while he was working for Cindy's father at Anheuser-Busch), McCain needs to recover from the emasculation of living in a country club estate next to a premier shopping establishment. So he (along with some "longtime family friends") bought six properties on Oak Creek between Cottonwood and Sedona, allowing himself that much-fantasised-about Republican American Dream of solitude and masculinity in the countryside with tumbleweeds and ranch. Look at Bush, raised by New English culture and Southwestern oil money, thinking of himself as a cowboy. Well, McCain is no different. Of course, McCain has no real connection to that land. To him it's just a masculinising decoration, a place where he can feel like a man, invite GOP buffs to his "cabin" (which is large enough for McCain to showcase to 75 journalists how the only way he can relax is to stack ribs on a huge grill) and go "camping" and hire people to teach him about the oft-quoted "65 bird species" so he can sound in the media like he gives a shit about the earth he is polluting. In fact, like every other rich man who purchases a dick and balls way out in the boondocks, all he is doing is contributing to the glut of overpriced housing and long, long, long commutes for no purpose that has characterised our entire country, but especially the swath of it between Atlanta and Los Angeles.
Here's a glimpse at the auspices in which McCain's "Cottonwood" properties find themselves:
And these bastards have the audacity (yes, intentional pun) to call Obama an elitist because he lives in the slowly gentrifying community around the University of Chicago? Yes, the professors there are elitist, but I thought Republicans complaining about elitists usually meant liberal elitists, not the little Friedmans that inhabit that area. And let's keep in mind that Hyde Park is reputed by the white yuppies north of the Loop to be too dangerous even to dream about setting foot in: from Wrigley Field the University of Chicago just looks like a dim castle twenty miles away under siege from the brown people. Even though Wrigley Field is the real piece of shit. The only reasons people like it at all are (a) history and (b) the hipster cred derived from its pathetic condition. Would it be enough for these Republican talking heads if Obama lived in the real ghetto? No, then he'd be frontin' for real, no fist bump required!
Well, at least those pictures of McCainia will reassure you that 2000 Dinés at Queen's Hill have not died of radiation-induced cancer for nothing.
Images of Biltmore and Oak Creek areas from Google Maps, accessed 10 Aug 2008. Image of Residences at 2211 Camelback courtesy of their site.