A different answer to why McCain does not know how many houses he owns is because they, like all the McCain property, are in his wife-- Cindy's-- name!

Why? Well, the convenient answer is a prenup agreement. Another is, to protect investigation into McCain and her father's 'help' installing McCain in Arizona politics and therefore a clean line of association with the crime lords of Phoenix-- like Kemper Marley-- who supposedly established the Budweiser distributorship the Hensley brothers James and Ed were gifted for taking the fall for a criminal investigation in the 50's of Marley. The fortune now in trust for Cindy McCain and of which she sits on the board, oddly enough yields to her annually the amount McCain thinks is what makes a millionaire-- $5 million-- to be exact.

When Arizona Republic (owned by the family of one-time Reagan VP Dan Qualye) reporter Don Bolles tried to get the story in the 70's he was murdered. The men responsible rolled over on Marley, who wanted then AZ governor Bruce Babbitt also murdered. Bolles murder was never properly investigated. Instead the most work on it was done by the local alternative paper New Times (current owner of today's Village Voice).

For background check out New Times "Vintage McCain" not to mention the Right wing's own 'hit-man' Jerome Corsi's piece McCain fortune traced to organized crime.

Some of those people were also involved in land deals, real estate, contracting-- and Charles Keating.

Did McCain help Charles Keating stall federal investigators of the failing savings and loans he ran in the 80's as family payback for Marley's or other 'family' help?

Nobody can definitively say, as murdering reporters in the 70's had a chilling effect on investigations from then forward.

But, can you imagine the brush-up we'd be seeing if Obama had this relationship in his past? Yes?

Then why the kid-glove approach with McCain?