Seven Houses

In the campaign of the Barack Obama, it cites that John McCain has seven houses. And I say, so what? The man, any man can have as many houses as he likes. He can have one, seven, or ten houses and it's okay. This is America. People can buy houses for their own purposes -- mostly investment. And I don't see anything bad about it at all.

Thinking further, here's what came up in my simple mind as an spectator to this presidential campaign funfare:

I would think that there is an implication of embezzlement of public funds when a government official (electoral onr not)who has served the country all his life can afford seven houses. It's only possible if that official has a business co-existing with his public occupation. Then this gets shady because having a private business while in the government service could mean a conflict of interest. And a man who has such a successful business in order to afford seven houses could not be doing his public function that well. It takes a Spiderman or a Dark Knight to do that. well, I use those two because they are the recent superheroes of our time.

I don't want to sound political here. I'm just making a rather objective view of the Barack-John campaign scenario.