Several here have said it makes no odds that he's not really buying (or even "preparing to buy") his boss's little two-man company, let alone a company that nets in excess of $250,000. They suggest, charitably speaking, that his real meaning was that there are or may be those in that position, and he just personalized it to himself.

Let's say that that's the case. If he had only added one of two words, "say" or "suppose", before "I am preparing to buy". . . or before "I am buying". . .   That would make clear what those charitable posters want to give him credit for doing.

If he'd only said that (which we'll assume for the moment is what he "really meant") how much argle-bargle would have been saved! McCain wouldn't have gotten egg on his face, and Obama would presumably have said exactly what he DID say, and then just think how much indignation might have been saved for all and sundry!

Dave Oesterreich