The Seven Houses of John McCain

I found myself watching with horror as David Brooks, on the NewsHour last night, vocalized much the same sentiment I'd said to Jim an hour earlier.

(Horror because I've had a longstanding negative visceral reaction towards David Brooks - you know like if you eat curly fries and throw up, you can never eat curly fries again? Something like that.)

Namely, will most Americans care if John McCain has seven houses? Isn't there something in being so affluent that you forget how many houses you own that we're all supposed to be aspiring to, in the name of the American Dream?