A new video from Brave New Films and The Real McCain website postulates that John McCain doesn’t care about the mortgage crisis.
In the new clip, titled “McCain’s Mansions: The Real Elitist,” testimony from Eileen Gillis, a systems engineer and sales clerk who lost her home after not being able to make mortgage payments, is juxtaposed with photos and valuations of McCain’s six homes.
McCain’s residences, in Arizona, Virginia and California, are each worth between $800,000 and $4.5 million, according to the video.
Pictures of the homes are interspersed with statements by McCain about the mortgage crisis. He says, “Any assistance must be temporary and must not reward people who are irresponsible at the expense of those who weren’t.”
Gillis discusses the impossibility of preventing foreclosure on her home, despite being responsible and taking on a second job.
The video was posted by on YouTube by Brave New Films and is also featured on TheRealMcCain.com, the website that promotes Cliff Schecter’s recent book, The Real McCain: Why Conservatives Don’t Trust Him and Why Independents Shouldn’t. Brave New Films has made 15 online videos for the Real McCain series.
Brave New Films, headed by producer Robert Greenwald, is known for its liberal-viewed documentaries, including Uncovered: The War on Iraq, Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price, and Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism.
Brave New Films intends to push for the distribution of the video, with the help of the AFL-CIO. On TheRealMcCain.com, viewers are encouraged to mass-email the video, and post it to social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace.
In response to the video, a spokesman for the Republican National Committee told the New York Times, “Considering Barack Obama lives in a multi-million dollar house bought with the help of his buddy, Tony Rezko, who is now a convicted felon, it’s odd that Obama’s supporters would choose to make the candidates’ homes an issue.”
UPDATE:
In an interview with Politico on Wednesday, McCain was asked how many homes he owned. He was unable to immediately provide a definitive answer.
Obama’s spokesperson, Hari Sevugan, subsequently told The Wall Street Journal, “The fact that John McCain can’t keep track of how many houses he owns is a telling moment that helps explain why he thinks ‘the fundamentals of our economy are strong’ and why he’s just offering more of the same economic policies that we’ve gotten from President Bush for the last eight years.”
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