Either Panama-John McBomb has too many houses to count, which makes him an out-of-touch elitist; or he can't count to eight, which makes him an arithmetic moron; or he can't decide one way or another; which makes him a dithering un-decider; or he knows but says he doesn't, which makes him a liar.

No doubt about it, any or all of the above definitely makes the foreign-born John McBomb ineligible for an elected four-year vacation in the nation's White House. As well, that Constitution thing about required birth in the United States for presidents certainly doesn't help McBomb's shabby case in any event.

Apparently he also did not know that Al Qaeda would not be welcome in Tehran, but that's too "sophisticated" a piece of information for Joe six pack.

Stick to the simple jab

God, I hope Obama uses this line. What a great comeback.

A hard hitting populist message!

He could have made a stab at the number of homes, perhaps he realized the political downside to his surfeit of domiciles.

In the usual Loyal Bushie fashion, he refused to respond and figured the truth would just never come out.

McCain didn't respond because he knew that the response would be the one that would be most covered by the media. His non-response is typical, knowing that most voters are unlikely to follow up. Republicans for years have relied upon voters being too lazy to dig a little to avail themselves of factual information. McCain and republicans (politicians?) lie like hell right to the cameras all the time with little very little worry that a majority of citizens or voters will ever know.

This is a little different though. Most people have one house. Thus, the non-response would strike most people as peculiar. A lot of people might think that he has a house in his home state and one where he stays in Washington. But that's only two. How can he not know two? So that makes people think again and ask what the heck is going on here?

No matter how you slice it, if you have so many houses that you have forgotten or don't know the number you are not a typical American by any common measure. McCain suggesting differently is a pile of cow dung. Nor can Obama claim he is a typical American.

Both are U.S. senators. No U.S. senator is a typical American. U.S. senators are a unique minority whose uniqueness and power increases as the population increases. And how many occupations are there which pay far less than the money it takes to get 'hired'? Why would anyone do that you ask? Of the many possible answers to this question money and power top the list. Third is probably an extreme devotion to an ideological concept which introduces a vast array of variables. And I objectively doubt the third can ever be substituted for the first or second. Human nature pretty much refutes that possibility.

In any case a senator or a president saying that he or she is a typical American is irrefutably false. That is an objective fact.