SLIDESHOW: McCain Owns 13 Cars; Obama Owns One

Newsweek has a story up comparing the number of cars owned by the presidential candidates. It's not even close. And certainly, it doesn't provide the type of man-of-the-people image that John McCain's handlers want to present in the current economic crisis.
As the magazine reports: "When you have seven homes, that's a lot of garages to fill. After the fuss over the number of residences owned by the two presidential nominees, NEWSWEEK looked into the candidates' cars. And based on public vehicle-registration records, here's the score. John and Cindy McCain: 13. Barack and Michelle Obama: one."
Here's a slideshow of the vehicles in the McCain family's garage (pay special attention to the bubbly little 2000 NEV Gem electric vehicles -- gotta love those buggers).

When you have seven homes, that is a lot of garages to fill. Based on public vehicle-registration records, Newsweek found that John and Cindy McCain own 13 vehicles.

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As for Obama, he and Michelle own a 2008 Ford Escape hybrid.

Bush Insider Advises McCain: Paint Obama As "Uppity"

A Bushie's advice
From this morning's Playbook, under the heading "A PRESCRIPTION FOR McCAIN, from one of the smartest Bushies," emphasis added:
I personally would make a lot of ‘accidental’ straight talk on the plane with reporters. Oh no. McCain was chatting with the press, slipped up and called the Paulson proposal totally lacking on detail at best and nothing more than bailout of Wall Street fat cats at worse. Oh no. McCain said it is time for a recusal by Paulson given that he is conflicted five ways from Sunday. Let staff say that they will see about clarification. Let McCain come back and say that he won't apologize and in fact it is worse than what he said the first time. … And you also could guard against underwhelming debate performances, which McCain needs to be worried about given his ability in that regard and his history of performance. The tactics that got them to mid-September in a tie are not going to get them to 50 percent plus one in November.
They need … an eye toward driving out the range of contrast that makes McCain different from Obama (action-oriented rhetoric v. grand prose; accessible v. uppity; humble servant of country v. arrogant).