election: How many houses do you have? - 08/24/08 07:16 AM
The gaffe of the week goes to John McCain, when in an interview with Politico.com he was unable to remember how many houses he has.
Folks of all political stripes who read this blog will probably be willing to give Senator McCain a little slack on this one. We're real estate investors and we buy and sell properties. We might not have married a $100 million heiress like Senator McCain (or made $4 million off a lucrative book deal like Senator Obama, for that matter) but we can understand how LLC's and partnership purchases might turn a seemingly simple question into … (1 comments)

election: Immigration and Real Estate - 12/26/07 05:34 AM

We're so accustomed to having our intelligence insulted by politicians that we rarely complain about the dumbed down worldview that we’re spoon-fed by both sides of the political aisle. The partisan mudslinging that we’re subjected to these days makes it hard to imagine a world in which candidates might campaign by voicing nuanced, well articulated views on the complex issues facing our country. That’s too much to ask for, but at least we get to watch the primaries, which offer up the entertaining spectacle of Democrats savaging fellow Democrats and Republicans bashing Republicans as they fight for their respective nominations.
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