That he never has to worry about money so he can therefore donate it all to charity since $1.7 million is a drop in the bucket to the McCains.
Not even going to bother responding to what you consider funny in the second part of your post.
SO WHAT? Some amazing hypocrisy here.
It might surprise you to learn that the wealthiest Congressional Democrats are wealthier than the wealthiest Congressional Republicans -and there are more of them. Of the 50 wealthiest Congressional members -Democrats are clustered at the top with an average of $55.6 million compared to the average wealth of the wealthiest Republicans of $34.8 million. This is AFTER taking Kerry with his $3.2 billion out of the equation entirely. Apparently Democrats didn't mind putting THE VERY wealthiest member of Congress up for President last time around -but now want to whine because McCain's wife is worth a fraction of that? ROFL And you don't see a SPECK of hypocrisy there, no doubt. So what was Kerry's excuse for not donating even far more than McCain's $1.7 million since he is many, many times wealthier? In 2003, although worth a few billion dollars, Kerry reported charitable donations of just $43,735. See any highly selective bitching here? In fact, do you remember EVER hearing the media report on his highly dubious tax claim of receiving nearly $90,000 in royalties from his book "A Call to Service" -although he received no advance on it and book sales were just 2,212 -which in no way would have produced nearly $90,000 in royalties? Of course you never heard any of the liberal media go after that -he was a DEMOCRAT and the rules are always different for them.
In fact, charitable donations among the wealthiest of Democrat Congressional members -averages less than those of the wealthiest Republicans. Any explanation for THAT either?
The Obama's have donated less than 1% of their income each year from 2000-2004. In 2002 with an income of $259,394, the Obamas reported charitable donations of just $1,050. Even the AVERAGE charitable donations by Americans is $1,872 -with an average income of just a fraction of the Obamas. The stingy Obamas did manage to increase their charitable donations to a paltry 5% in 2005-2006. But still comes nowhere close the average percent of income donated to charity past Republican Presidential candidates -but pretty much consistent with those made by past Democrat ones. Remember the criticism of the Clintons for reporting a few hundred dollars charitable donations when he first ran? Now they "donate" about 9% of their income -to the Clinton Foundation which is a tax shelter. A way of keeping control of the money while pretending to have donated it. Too bad it spends just a TEENSY fraction of the money the Clintons claim to donate each year, isn't it? And most of that on administrative costs. Kerry, Gore, Clinton -all among the stingiest and here comes Obama to fit right in with that pack. Any wonder the majority of people think he is all talk and not a doer? Its because he is all talk.
Oddly enough, the people who are always MOST in favor of declaring a class war and raising taxes on the wealthy - Ted Kennedy, Rockefeller and of course billionaire John Kerry et al., rich Democrats like George Soros who spends his money trying to buy elections, etc. - all keep their money in offshore accounts in order to avoid US taxes! I imagine the Obamas are checking into that right now since his palty charitable donations surely can only indicate they are already having trouble making ends meet.
I'll pass on that kind of hypocrisy AND elitism thank you.