Several stories on McCain's and his wife's personal finances.

I found this one to be the most interesting, detailing McCain's personal wealth and assets, and its specific sources:

http://www.slate.com/id/2189898/

  • As with Sens. Clinton and Obama, McCain's personal wealth is dwarfed by that of his spouse. Cindy McCain has assets worth an estimated $40 million, based on information McCain has provided annually in Senate financial-disclosure reports.

    Compared with his wife, McCain is decidedly middle-class. Based on his tax return, he collects his Senate salary ($161,708), a Navy pension ($58,358), and some Social Security income ($23,157). The money he's earned over the years writing books ($176,508 in 2007 and about $1.8 million since 1998), he gives to charity.




Despite the smarminess in the article about how McCain and his wife invest their personal fortune, there is no overt poor money management (they are criticized in the piece for not taking more high-yield risks, but if you already have 100 million, why take risks to possibly lose it?)



Much ado is made about wife Cindy's personal wealth "being a liability", and about the source of that wealth. But despite the punchy headline, there's very little in the piece to back it up.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/07/02/politics/politico/main4226787.shtml

And this one alleges the beer fortune originates from 1920's illegal bootlegging:
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=57354

Which, again, is about as relevant as Arnold Schwarzenneger's dad being an S.S. officer in W W II.
Or the Kennedy's fortune being made from bootlegging and insider trading. The sins of the father in these cases are not the sins of the sons, or daughters, who had no control over these actions.