John Kerry, man of the common folk.... he feels your pain

[spiker77]

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Class warfare is not right, but neither is being a hypocrite. This man wants to be our president, while claiming that he relates to Joe-6-pack and the common man. He wants to raise income taxes on the rich, well, guess what? He won't pay those taxes because he is already rich! He wants to make it harder for you to get rich by raising taxes on your income! Talk about snobbery and protecting his "class."

The many homes of Democrat Presidential candidate, John F. Kerry.

Fox Chapel, Pennsylvania (Assessed value: $3.7 million)
http://us.news2.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20040322/capt.kbs10103222219.kerry_homes_kbs101.jpg

Ketchum, Idaho ski getaway/vacation home (Assessed value: $4.916 million)
http://us.news2.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20040322/capt.wx10803222102.kerry_homes_wx108.jpg

Washington, D.C - Georgetown area (assessment: $4.7 million)
http://us.news2.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20040322/capt.wx10703221935.kerry_homes_wx107.jpg

Nantucket, Massachusetts waterfront retreat on Brant Point (Assessed value: $9.18 million)
http://us.news2.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20040322/capt.wx10603221940.kerry_homes_wx106.jpg

Boston, Massachusetts - Beacon Hill home (Assessed value: $6.9 million)
http://us.news2.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20040322/capt.wx10503221934.kerry_homes_wx105.jpg

He sold this ($7.8 million) estate in Italy to left-wing activist actor George Clooney, just before announcing his running for president. I guess he thought it might not sit well with the common man.
http://www.drudgereport.com/jki.jpg

Other foreign property ownership by John Kerry is unknown... because he denied repeated requests for this information.

[toolman846]

Yeah - I feel his pain too - every time I take a piss.

[Die Allerbeste]

You left out a few details:

The aggregate value of these five homes is roughly $29 million, but the claim that John Kerry "owns" all of these properties is problematic. John and Teresa Kerry signed a prenuptial agreement and have kept their premarital assets separate. The Boston townhouse (which John Kerry mortgaged in 2003 to finance his presidential bid) is the only one of these homes that they own as a couple; the other four belonged to Teresa before her 1995 marriage to John Kerry, and some of them are even still listed under the name of her late husband.

Snopes - Urban Legends (http://www.snopes.com/politics/kerry/homes.asp)

[goddesscon]

Die Allerbeste
How dare you show the truth....It won't be as much fun to bash him now!
One thing for sure...he married a smart woman...
She's keeping her stuff seperate ....
Smart and EXTREMELY wealthy woman ....
Shows he is fairly smart too...!

[Zan de Man]

I find it hugely amusing that Americans have permitted the creation of a political system that is an effective bar to all but the most resourceful non-millionaires (e.g., Clinton) and they then throw rocks at each other, over the party political dividing wall, with messages wrapped around them saying, in big letters,

YOUR MILLIONAIRE IS RICHER AND MORE PLUTOCRATIC THAN OUR MILLIONAIRE!!

[goddesscon]

Agreed Zan....

[Die Allerbeste]

I know! I'm such a party pooper.

'Course I'm not trying to say the man isn't wealthy. I'm just a stickler for details. :D