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At the forum held by Rich Warren, John McCain defined being rich as someone who make $5 million a year.

Talk about elitist.

It may be that to someone worth $100 million, who owns 10 houses, who flies around in a $12.6 million corporate jet, and who walks around in $520 Italian loafers, $5 million a year in income is the cutoff for the wealthy — that those making $500,000 a year, or $1 million a year, or even $4 million a year are not “rich” — but to most American people that’s just an absurd statement. Indeed, not only is it absurd to say even jokingly (and it’s not clear what the joke would be, or if it really was intended to be a joke, despite what the McCain spinmeisters say) that the cutoff point for being rich is $5 million per year, it’s almost unfathomable that anyone could believe that to be the case.

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