So What's Three Million A Year?

For those of you that missed it, there was a strange dual-interview conducted last night by Pastor Rick Warren at Saddleback Church with Presidential hopefuls Obama and McCain. Obama went out first and was interviewed for an hour, followed by McCain who received the same questions for the same length of time.

By and large, the event is what you would expect, with both candidates trying to look good and talk about their close personal relationship with Jesus as much as possible. The highlight of the night in terms of amusing, however, was when McCain was asked to define what it meant to be rich. He hemmed and hawed for a second before stating that if the question was regarding income, then five million dollars a year might be the line between rich and ordinary.

This will make a nice drop-in when it comes to the sort of "not one of us" ads that the AFL-CIO have been trying out. It also casts him in an elitist light in a rare year when that is potentially a more useful line of attack against Republicans than Democrats. No one said or did anything that is going to change the course of the election last night, but the time of vacations has clearly passed, and the general election campaign is starting to pick up.