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Report: Republican donors criticize Palin's fashion bill
Oct 23, 2008, 5:35 GMT
Washington - Republican donors were outraged over bills worth more than 150,000 dollars for Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin's new wardrobe to outfit the vice-presidential candidate after her nomination, a US media report said.
'I want my money back,' the online paper Politico quoted an anonymous donor as saying.
Running for the White House seemed to pay off, another donor said. 'Even if you lose, you have a wardrobe full of new clothes.'
The Republican campaign spent more than 125,000 dollars in September just for Palin's outfits, finance reports confirmed. Most purchases were made at high-end stores like Neiman Marcus or Saks Fifth Avenue, contrary to the governor's self-described image of the average, down-to-earth 'hockey mom.'
Make-up and trips to the hairdresser added another 4,700 dollars to the bill, Politico said.
Republican candidate John McCain's campaign said the outfits were to be donated to charities after the November 4 elections.
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'Republican candidate John McCain's campaign said the outfits were to be donated to charities after the November 4 elections.'
Sure, the favorite charity of Sarah Palin, it turns out, is Sarah Palin.
Yeah, I can sure see some down and out person trying to put those shoes on and wearing them in a Chicago winter.
From Poitico; an overlooked story from the same site that you chose the Palin story from.
'The good news for John McCain? He's now receiving as much attention from the national media as his Democratic rival. The bad news? It’s overwhelmingly negative.
Just 14 percent of the stories about John McCain, from the conventions through the final presidential debate, were positive in tone, according to a study released today, while nearly 60 percent were negative — the least favorable coverage of any of the four candidates on the two tickets.
The study, by The Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism, a nonpartisan journalism watchdog organization, examined 2,412 stories from 43 newspapers and cable news shows in the six-week period beginning just after the conventions and ending with the final presidential debate.'...
Democracy depends on a well informed public. A well informed public depends on an honest press. Our press has not been honest, it has carried the water for a man who was in the senate for 143 days before he decided he could be president.
“Would the last honest reporter please turn on the lights?”
These are facts. This financial crisis was completely preventable. The party that blocked any attempt to prevent it was … the Democratic Party. The party that tried to prevent it was … the Republican Party.
Yet when Nancy Pelosi accused the Bush administration and Republican deregulation of causing the crisis, you in the press did not hold her to account for her lie. Instead, you criticized Republicans who took offense at this lie and refused to vote for the bailout!
What? It’s not the liar, but the victims of the lie who are to blame?
Now let’s follow the money … right to the presidential candidate who is the number-two recipient of campaign contributions from Fannie Mae.
And after Freddie Raines, the CEO of Fannie Mae who made $90 million while running it into the ground, was fired for his incompetence, one presidential candidate’s campaign actually consulted him for advice on housing.
If that presidential candidate had been John McCain, you would have called it a major scandal and we would be getting stories in your paper every day about how incompetent and corrupt he was.
But instead, that candidate was Barack Obama, and so you have buried this story, and when the McCain campaign dared to call Raines an 'adviser' to the Obama campaign — because that campaign had sought his advice — you actually let Obama’s people get away with accusing McCain of lying, merely because Raines wasn’t listed as an official adviser to the Obama campaign.
You would never tolerate such weasely nit-picking from a Republican.
If you who produce our local daily paper actually had any principles, you would be pounding this story, because the prosperity of all Americans was put at risk by the foolish, short-sighted, politically selfish, and possibly corrupt actions of leading Democrats, including Obama.
If you who produce our local daily paper had any personal honor, you would find it unbearable to let the American people believe that somehow Republicans were to blame for this crisis.
[....]
If you had any principles, then surely right now, when the American people are set to blame President Bush and John McCain for a crisis they tried to prevent, and are actually shifting to approve of Barack Obama because of a crisis he helped cause, you would be laboring at least as hard to correct that false impression.
Your job, as journalists, is to tell the truth. That’s what you claim you do, when you accept people’s money to buy or subscribe to your paper.
But right now, you are consenting to or actively promoting a big fat lie — that the housing crisis should somehow be blamed on Bush, McCain, and the Republicans. You have trained the American people to blame everything bad — even bad weather — on Bush, and they are responding as you have taught them to.
If you had any personal honor, each reporter and editor would be insisting on telling the truth — even if it hurts the election chances of your favorite candidate.
Because that’s what honorable people do. Honest people tell the truth even when they don’t like the probable consequences. That’s what honesty means. That’s how trust is earned.
Barack Obama is just another politician, and not a very wise one. He has revealed his ignorance and naivete time after time — and you have swept it under the rug, treated it as nothing.
Meanwhile, you have participated in the borking of Sarah Palin, reporting savage attacks on her for the pregnancy of her unmarried daughter — while you ignored the story of John Edwards’ own adultery for many months.
So I ask you now: Do you have any standards at all? Do you even know what honesty means?
Is getting people to vote for Barack Obama so important that you will throw away everything that journalism is supposed to stand for?
[....]
It’s not too late. You know that if the situation were reversed, and the truth would damage McCain and help Obama, you would be moving heaven and earth to get the true story out there.
If you want to redeem your honor, you will swallow hard and make a list of all the stories you would print if it were McCain who had been getting money from Fannie Mae, McCain whose campaign had consulted with its discredited former CEO, McCain who had voted against tightening its lending practices.
Then you will print them, even though every one of those true stories will point the finger of blame at the reckless Democratic Party, which put our nation’s prosperity at risk so they could feel good about helping the poor, and lay a fair share of the blame at Obama’s door.
You will also tell the truth about John McCain: that he tried, as a Senator, to do what it took to prevent this crisis. You will tell the truth about President Bush: that his administration tried more than once to get Congress to regulate lending in a responsible way.
This was a Congress-caused crisis, beginning during the Clinton administration, with Democrats leading the way into the crisis and blocking every effort to get out of it in a timely fashion.
If you at our local daily newspaper continue to let Americans believe — and vote as if — President Bush and the Republicans caused the crisis, then you are joining in that lie.
If you do not tell the truth about the Democrats — including Barack Obama — and do so with the same energy you would use if the miscreants were Republicans — then you are not journalists by any standard.
You’re just the public relations machine of the Democratic Party, and it’s time you were all fired and real journalists brought in, so that we can actually have a news paper in our city.
' I can sure see some down and out person trying to put those shoes on and wearing them in a Chicago winter.'
Maybe they're 'down and out' because the Chicago government has sought to give them just enough in welfare to keep them struggling along instead of creating opportunity for themselves to be a success in their own right.
Chicago is Obamas home town, yet in the south side of Chicago you are more likely to be killed by gunfire then a soldier in Iraq. Is that the 'change we can believe in'?
Watch this clip from a CNN interview with Sarah Palin:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3uvukT3R4Y
And then read the context of the quote from Byron's favorable story on how Palin governed from an issue ago:
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'Watching press coverage of the Republican candidate for vice president, it’s sometimes hard to decide whether Sarah Palin is incompetent, stupid, unqualified, corrupt, backward, or — or, well, all of the above. Palin, the governor of Alaska, has faced more criticism than any vice-presidential candidate since 1988, when Democrats and the press tore into Dan Quayle. '
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Here is the entire stry, written as a defense of Palin:
article.nationalreview.com/?q=MjEyMzk3MWU4Yzk1NGQyMWYwZjk0OTcyNmEzYTM5N 2E=
What this smarmy little 'reporter' did was completely invert the meaning of the story from an indictment of the press and a defense of Palin to an attack on Palin, thereby confirming the original message of the story that the press isn't to be trusted to do it's job in this election.
Americans... Please don't get taken in by these liars.
I think Joe got some touch ups on those hair plugs that look like they were originally done with a nail gun as well. Hey, at least she didn't take the cash and turn it over to her family:
Biden Dishes Campaign Cash to Family Members
Wednesday, October 15, 2008 12:23 PM
By: Jim Meyers
Democratic vice-presidential nominee Joe Biden has paid more than $2 million in campaign funds to family members, their businesses and employers over the years, raising questions about potential conflicts of interest.
The money came from Biden's failed presidential campaign during the past two years. The largest chunk, $1.8 million, was paid to a company that employs his sister and longtime campaign manager, Valerie Biden Owens, according to campaign disclosure filings viewed by The Washington Times.
Biden also gave campaign legal work to a lobbying and law firm co-founded by his son R. Hunter Biden, the filings reveal...
'Even though legal within restraints, it's not something I view as completely ethical,' Craig Holman, legislative director for the campaign finance watchdog group Public Citizen, told The Times. 'Any candidate ought to shy away from that.'
Noticed how one guy from the GOP internet smear campaign manages to produce a series of posts containing nothing more than smears without any substance in a few minutes time .Considering the very effective way the GOP smear team has investigated the lives of every democratic candidate since Lee Atwater directed George Bush senior campaign against Dukakis to reveal anything that could be turned against them ,even if it needs plumbing and stretching ,it is remarkable that NOTHINg could be found in the private life of Obama,neither has the army of investigators found anything to incriminate Obama for spending on his own clothes .
But suppose for a minute they did find something (they didn't ) then still it would be incomparable with the shopping spree of Palin.Remember how the GOP is trying to sell Palin to you ?As a middle town mum with the same worries as the average voter,who knows what it means to struggle to keep her head above the water ....All that is a far stretch from reality,image building with as sole purpose to lure the most naive voters into their nets .Are you perhaps one of these naive voters ?How thibks the image given by the GOP about Palin is reality ?
And before the GOP internet smearer try to get back at Obama an return the critics,let me remind theme that Obama never tries to portray himself as something he is not .
The tradition of smear campaigns as waged by the GOP has cost the USA dearly,starting with Dukakis who was demolished by Lee Atwater in a very effective smear campaign.Dukakis was too naive and honest to even reply to the smear ,he got whacked .
The result is 20 years of stagnation for the average american,as the gap between rich and poor widened dramatically.I shouldn't have to explain this to most of you as you feel the result in your daily lives .Your living standards,your education,health care are now comparable to emerging economies .What happened to the results of the dramatically improved productivity of the last decades ? Who gained from it?Why is 1 percent of your population holding 38 percent of all your assets ?And how is it possible that those wealthy thieves only scream 'murder' when the redistribution o wealth turns the other way around?
Until now they never wailed when 'wealth was redistributed from the poor to the rich',they only have a problem when you reclaim the gain from the increased productivity to which you are all entitled .
Will you be taken for a fool much longer ???
Yeah its true McCain & Palin have been getting more negative press then positive and there is a reason ( beyound the paranoia of a left wing media bias - yeah right, TALK RADIO ANYONE?) the reason is that they are actually doing the things that are being reported on!
Obama & Biden + their families PAID for thier clothing! Palin and her family had thier outfits bought unfortunatly, by the campaign donors of their party, which whose donors should be the angry people but I'm guessing everyone here complaining about this story has probably contributed to that campaign.
What I'm saying is if there was more positive things to cover about McCain and Palin then negative the media would have to use it because they would run out of the other and have to run a story on something.... BUT they just keep giving them amunition to shoot down their platform mainly because they are not saying anything new they are just attacking the other sides credibility meanwhile ignoring holes their own.
So if you dont want to hear about the gaps in the trueth they are sending out just turn on your radio and soon you will find plenty of right wing voices that will say all the things you WANT to hear, but you should WANT more then just views that agree with yours otherwise your view of the world will stay small and unchanging.
'Obama & Biden + their families PAID for thier clothing!'
So the DNC and campaign donors haven' bought the Obamas and the Bidens any cloths or paid for makeovers.. How do you know this? (Had the media been asking the questions you would)
'Palin and her family had thier outfits bought unfortunatly, by the campaign donors of their party,'
Joe Biden gave 2 million dollars in campaign contributions to his family. That is documented fact. Why hasn't this been made an issue?
'What I'm saying is if there was more positive things to cover about McCain and Palin then negative the media would have to use it because they would run out of the other and have to run a story on something.'
Why not cover the 2 stories I just cited? Because they are too busy gushing over Obama and burying Palin. Barack Obama was a member of the Socialist Party (the New Party)... Have you heard anything about that? No. Why? Because the media is covering Palins wardrobe.
Do you have any idea what 1 of Obamas Kiton suits cost?
'So if you dont want to hear about the gaps in the trueth they are sending out just turn on your radio'
So is that the way it works? We all just tune in to what we want to hear and the truth be damned.
'but you should WANT more then just views that agree with yours otherwise your view of the world will stay small and unchanging.'
And what about you? Have your horizons been broadened by any of this reporting?
'We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip little by little at a truth we find bitter.'-- Denis Diderot
The anti-Obama non-stop , lengthy posts of verbal diarrhea coupled with hysteria,
lead me only to one conclusion.................
It's BYE! bye! Bush and McCain.
A LANDSLIDE for Obama.
'it is remarkable that NOTHINg could be found in the private life of Obama,'
You must be joking. My God you must be joking.
'But suppose for a minute they did find something (they didn't ) then still it would be incomparable with the shopping spree of Palin.'
His father wasn't legitimately married to his mother. (He was a polygamist)
He was registered at his Indonesian schools as a muslim and received religious training as such.
His childhood mentor; Frank Marshall Davis, was a communist.
His pastor hates white people and the USA.
His OTHER pastor hates white people and the USA.
His wife resents the USA.
His mentor and friend founded a terrorist organization that 'declared war on the USA' and murdered Americans and destroyed property.
His OTHER friend supported the PLO, which has murdered Americans and destroyed property.
His business associate stole millions from the taxpayers in Illinois and kicked back money and property.
His OTHER friends kicked back millions to the democratic party and him so they could keep giving out bad loans and that cost the taxpayers BILLIONS. What did the do then? He hired them as his financial advisers.
He gave 830,000 to a socialist organization that has has been convicted of election fraud and is committing it again on a gigantic scale,
He was a member of that organizations socialist 'new party'.
He failed miserably at the Woods foundation.
He got elected to state senate after challenging every signature of his opponent after she had been very gracious with him.
He voted 'present' on most controversial issues except voting 'Yes' for a bill which allowed doctors to let a baby that had survived an attempted abortion die.
He got in to the Senate after the press went through his opponents sealed divorce records and reported the on the details, despite it being illegal to do so.
After serving 143 days in the senate he decided he was ready to become president of the USA.
So yes, that and many, many more horrifying details ARE 'incomparable with the shopping spree of Palin.'
'And before the GOP internet smearer try to get back at Obama an return the critics,let me remind theme that Obama never tries to portray himself as something he is not .'
My God you must be joking.
'.Your living standards,your education,health care are now comparable to emerging economies '
Bull. You are such a jackass.
Foreclosures of US homes in were up 93 per cent from a year earlier?
Freddie and Fannie shouldn't have listened to ACORN and given out all those sub-prime mortgages to people who couldn't afford to pay them.
So the multi-millionaire Barbie Boy wants to ridicule Sarah Palin for needing money to buy the clothes she MUST BUY to campaign for the White House. Nice. Barack Obama is a creep and a fraud, and if you are a Democrat who hasn’t figured this out yet, YOU ARE NOT PAYING ATTENTION!
It never stops. Never, ever. If Sarah Palin had tried to campaign in the wardrobe she has hanging in her closet in Juno, you know, the Ann Taylor suits that cost $148.99 and the three or four pairs of $200 shoes, the 4 jackets, six scarves, five handbags, and one pair of snazzy but scuffed gen-yoo-ine snakeskin boots with which every professional woman with children tries to look good while making do, she would have been HOUNDED RELENTLESSLY and ridiculed as a shabby, amateur hick in every media outlet in the universe. Just ask Michelle Obama. A very stylish lady, in my opinion. But nothing protects her either. She is ridiculed and hounded for wearing belts that are too big, dresses with floral prints, and scary boots. She probably spends a LOT of money on her clothes. And why not? She’s a very wealthy woman. Cindy McCain has made getting dressed a full-time job since she was 7 or 8 years old. She looks great, perfect even. At all times. It’s a bit scary actually. And Hillary? Cleavage, kitten heels, and pantsuits. Enough said.
This is how it works, Folks. An impossible standard is raised and we are all expected to bankrupt ourselves to meet it — to spend a phenomenally STUPID amount of money on clothes and accessories, to hate the way we look in order to motivate ourselves to BUY MORE, and to feel shamed and ugly when we cannot or will not play the game.
The Palin’s combined income in 2007 was $170,000, with $25,000 going to taxes and $8,000 to charity. That means $11,500 a month net for a family of seven. Not bad. All the bills get paid on time, presents fill the room on Christmas morning, college gets saved for, Dad gets a snowmobile, and Mom can buy a reasonable amount of clothes every year to do her job. In 2006, their net monthly income for their family of six was $9,833. And it was less in the years prior to 2006. A nice, comfortable two-salary family in this day and age.
But NOT enough to dress like Cindy McCain, or Mika Brezhnev, or Andrea Mitchell, or Candy Crowley, or Michelle Obama.
Sarah Palin is an upper middle class WORKING CLASS person. No one so “poor” has run for national office in 150 years. When Bill Clinton ran he had been Governor for 8 years and Hillary had already made them wealthy (plus, der, he’s a guy and this is a DOUBLE standard we are talking about). Dan Quayle, Al Gore, John Kerry, both George Bushes, Dick Cheney, Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter? Barbie Barack Obama and Joe Biden? All rich. Really rich. And male too, so it doesn’t even count. Nancy Pelosi? RICH. Even Geraldine Ferraro was rich. Hillary is rich.
There aren’t enough short piers in the world for this crew. Who do they go after? Always, always, always it’s the vulnerable. Women — always, unceasingly and relentlessly (Sarah, Cindy, Michelle, Bristol, Geraldine, Chelsea, Samantha, Melissa, Amanda, Randi, and, unforgivably, Hillary)
Let me repeat, Barack Obama is a creep and a fraud, and if you are a Democrat who hasn’t figured this out yet, YOU ARE NOT PAYING ATTENTION!
The Obama campaign has been spending $12.5 million a day.
(indignation .... about the final truth about Obama revealed for the first time !)...Oooohhhh My God,his father was a polygamist ...Huuhhh ?
Is this for real ?
Tell me politics is more than smear ?
Tell me something about the 750 billion dollar present for the Wall Street bankers in return for nothing at all.
You lng list of smear is not only false but completely irrelevant .
I sufggest you busy yourself with reading the tabloids about the latest adventures of Paris Hilton or Britney Spears .I'm afraid that is more up to the level of your understanding of political affairs .
If ever Obama wins the elections,then those elections will be written down in history book as being the turning point in a decade long tradition of smear campaigns finally rendered inefficient...thanks to the progress of the internet .
Let's just hope it happens ,for the sake of democracy .Figures like Lee Atwater and Karl Rove have done too much damage in the past ...
Would someone like to donate a house, a car, plenty of fashion items to me, so I make a fool of myself on TV. Then, once I've lost any elections that are happening, I'll give all these secondhand items to charity.
Thank you for your future donations
Re Martin, I agree.
My grandmother always taught me
'Never buy anything new, if you can buy it secondhand and never buy it secondhand, if you think you can get it for nothing'.
She also said
'theres no such thig as secondhand or hand-me-down clothes,
They were only tested by someone to see if they worked'
LOL
You see, never having a credit card nor a bank debt Ive never owed anyone a cent in my life and I feel sorry for those that do especially those with foreclosures.
I have always set an example to my own family.Thanks Grandma.
I just donated $150 to Palin for her next pedicure, so her toes will look gorgeous in her shiny new pumps.
All of you putting unfair attacks of Gov. Sarah Palin, should see this videos and compare to what DEMS (Obama, Edwards) have spent.
This is Unfair
There are just so many negatives about Palin, this is just another. There really isn't anything much else to say about her, so it would have to be a negative. She is just dust in the wind.
All of you putting unfair attacks of Gov. Sarah Palin, should see this videos and compare to what DEMS (Obama, Edwards) have spent.
youtube.com/watch?v=R0jLd441YbM
This is Unfair
Please make all cheques payable to 'Care,Aid,Save Homes'
(CASH)
.........Thank You .
LOL.
Please make all future cheques payable to 'CASH'
Thank You
Sarah.
THE BILL FOR SARAH
$75,062 spent at Neiman Marcus in Minneapolis
$41,850 spent in St Louis
$4,100 on make-up and hair consulting
$4,902 at Atelier, a men's clothing shop in New York
$92 on a romper suit and hat with ears
Blah, blah, blah, blah. Whine, whine, whine, whine.
What does all this have to do with your party spending $150,000 on cloths for Caribou Barbi? Do not see a connection!
'How much did Obamas wardrobe cost?'
Did the DNC pay for it?
'How much did Bidens Botox cost?'
Again, did the DNC pay for it?
'What does it cost to keep Michelle Obama locked away from the press so she doesn't blurt out how rotten the USA is? '
If they did this die the DNC pay for this?
'Why don't you report that Obama spent HALF A MILLION DOLLARS spray painting his aircraft. (He put his obamamessiah logo over the American flag)'
God what a whiner! Why don't you talk about what your 'over the hill sky pilot' and 'rookie bible thumper' are going to do to help the economy?
'How much does it cost to keep Obama in Bruno Malgi shoes and Kiton suits? '
Did the DNC pay for them?
'The one sided reporting on this election has become a sad joke. '
Please move on to something that is more your liking---maybe a Rush Blog, a Savage Blog, a Hannity Blog? Or if you are going to stay here why don't you post something positive your side is going to do to get someone who does not have a job a job?
'You people don't even have any shame.'
And you do you? From your posts you are the most miserable person on this board. Even SP4 seems to have some sort of life, you do not.
$75,000 spent for clothes at Neiman Marcus.......unethical
$41,850 spent for clothes at Saks.......unethical
$4,100 on make-up and hair consulting.........unethical
$4,902 for clothes at Atelier men's clothing shop in New York........unethical
$2,900 for entire education.........priceless
I think this exorbitant cost for her clothes rankles so many people because she and McCain are constantly ranting about being for the 'Joe the Plumbers'. Doesn't really sound much like it. Granted she would probably need a lot of clothes to run around the country, but not at those prices. Maybe Cindy McCain could have loaned her some!
We don't want no stinkin hollyweird starlet wannna be politician who parades around in fancy, expensive clothes, and panders to the anti-American elitist Washington crowd. We don't want no wine-sipping, cheese nibbling phony who sucks up the the evil MSM and the political lobbists. We don't want someone for whom appearances mean everything, and plastic money is something to play with.
We want an authentic, down homey, self-sufficient, conservative, real American person from God's country for our leader. We want Palin.
I agree.
We don't want somebody who's IQ is larger than their $500 shoe size.
We don't want anybody who can think.
We don't want a person who has substance
We want a Paris Hilton type person
We want Palin
So if you have a figure on what his suits cost donors, how come you don't just post it? Is it because it doesn't compare with $150,000, or is a non-existent expense? You seem to make alot of accusations with no substance to back it up.
Here's a line from a song from your childhood.
Think about it.
WE DON'T NEED ANOTHER HERO.
we all know Mccain has the election won hands down.
if he gets behind he will just call Bush and he will tell him how to cheat.
Mccain all the way ...you go old fart
This is a tempest in a teapot. Donors know, or should know, going in that the money they contribute will be used at the discretion of the committee. As for the amount, it's pretty paltry compared to the bucks the Obama campaign is flinging about. As a matter of fact, most of the negative reporting about the McCain Palin campaign hasn't offered up anything nearly as meaty as the dirt dished on Obama and his trail of questionable actions, associations, supporters and Senate performance. The media needs get its collective head out of its ass and do its job fairly and honestly instead of swooning over some sweet talking flim-flam man.
McCain is getting more confused by the day, and Palin always was. She doesn't even comprehend the duties of the job she agreed to run for. Clearly, neither one is stable enough to lead this country.
Sounds like you've got a case of sour grapes there, honey.
'How much did Obamas wardrobe cost?'
Did the DNC pay for it?
Probably not the DNC, probably his campaign donors.
'How much did Bidens Botox cost?'
Again, did the DNC pay for it?
Probably not the DNC, probably his campaign donors.
'What does it cost to keep Michelle Obama locked away from the press so she doesn't blurt out how rotten the USA is? '
If they did this die the DNC pay for this?
We will have to go through their books to see if there are stable fees.
'Why don't you report that Obama spent HALF A MILLION DOLLARS spray painting his aircraft. (He put his obamamessiah logo over the American flag)'
God what a whiner!
You are climbing on to a story where the McCain campaign bought Sarah Palin some cloths so she would be able to present on the same level as all the other candidates and you are calling ME a whiner?
'How much does it cost to keep Obama in Bruno Malgi shoes and Kiton suits?
Did the DNC pay for them?'
THE POINT IS WE DON'T KNOW BECAUSE THE PRESS IS SO ONE SIDED. IDIOT.
'Please move on to something that is more your liking---maybe a Rush Blog, a Savage Blog, a Hannity Blog? '
No thanks, please move on to something that is YOUR liking:
www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/youare
'My God,his father was a polygamist ...Huuhhh ?
Is this for real ?'
Yes, Obamas father had several wives at a time. He was already married when he met Obamas mother:
Yet an investigation by The Mail on Sunday has revealed that, for all Mr Obamas reputation for straight talking and the compelling narrative of his recollections, they are largely myth.
We have discovered that his father was not just a deeply flawed individual but an abusive bigamist and an egomaniac, whose life was ruined not by racism or corruption but his own weaknesses....
At 18, [ Barack Obama sr.] married a girl called Kezia. But Obama Sr was more interested in politics and economics than his family and his political leanings had been brought to the notice of leaders of the Kenyan Independence movement.
He was put forward for an American-sponsored scholarship in economics, with the idea being that he would eventually use his Western-honed skills in the new Kenya. At the age of 23 he headed for university in Hawaii, leaving behind the pregnant Kezia and their baby son.
Relatives say he was already a slick womaniser and, once in Honolulu, he promptly persuaded a fellow student called Ann - a naive 18-year-old white girl - to marry him. Barack Jr was born in August, 1961.
Two years later, Obama Sr was on the move again. He was accepted at Harvard, and left his little boy and wife behind when he moved to the exclusive east coast university.
At the time, Ann explained to their son that his father had gone because his meagre stipend would not support the family if they lived together. But finance was the least of her worries.
Mr Obama Jr claims that racism on both sides of the family destroyed the marriage between his mother and father.
In his book, he says that Anns mother, who went by the nickname Tut, did not want a black son-in-law, and Obama Srs father didnt want the Obama blood sullied by a white woman.
In fact Ann divorced her husband after she discovered his bigamous double life. She remarried and moved to Indonesia with young Barack and her new husband, an oil company manager.
Obama Sr was forced to return to Kenya, where he fathered two more children by Kezia. He was eventually hired as a top civil servant in the fledgling government of Jomo Kenyatta - and married yet again.
Now prosperous with a flashy car and good salary, his third wife was an American-born teacher called Ruth, whom he had met at Harvard while still legally married to both Kezia and Ann, and who followed him to Africa.
A relative of Mr Obama says: 'We told him[Barack] how his father would still go to Kezia and it was during these visits that she became pregnant with two more children. He also had two children with Ruth.'
Could you possibly be any more boreing? What a crybaby!
Now tll me this polygamy ailment is contagious from father to son,please add a bit more of your paranoia to the posts and expose yourself a bit more to be a troll .
Frankly if I were to function on that level I'd be ashamed.
I sincerely hope after the elections this type of behavior will be over and done with,it has nothing to do with politics at all.
Imagine this kind of arguments going on between Washington and Jefferson,how would your history book look like ?
Actually,does the GOP condone or support this kind of campaign or are you just an errant soul ?There must be limits.
if you right wingers really paid any attention to the fact that this article cited the 'Republicans' who were up in arms over this ridiculous spending on Barracuda's wardrobe??
But that didn't stop him being him being a first-rate President.
I don't think Obamas got much to worry about.
'Now tll me this polygamy ailment is contagious from father to son,please add a bit more of your paranoia to the posts and expose yourself a bit more to be a troll .'
You said it was un-true. Now you back peddle.
'Frankly if I were to function on that level I'd be ashamed.'
You should be more ashamed about being Obsessed with lecturing Americans with no idea of who we really are.
'I sincerely hope after the elections this type of behavior will be over and done with,it has nothing to do with politics at all.'
Sure, Ill stop bringing up Barack being a bastard when the press starts doing it's job instead of simply reprocessing Obama campaign PR releases on Palins wardrobe.
'Probably not the DNC, probably his campaign donors.'
Avoiding the question? If the DNC had paid for it we would have heard about it.
'Probably not the DNC, probably his campaign donors.'
Avoiding the question? If the DNC had paid for it we would have heard about it.
'We will have to go through their books to see if there are stable fees.'
Avoiding the question? If the DNC had paid for it we would have heard about it.
'You are climbing on to a story where the McCain campaign bought Sarah Palin some cloths so she would be able to present on the same level as all the other candidates and you are calling ME a whiner?'
Not at all idiot boy. You jumped on the story with your lies and hate. Just thought I would point out the obvious---that is you are a crybaby!
By the way she could have bought the same clothes for 25% of what she paid for them and she would have looked the same---inexperienced and a liar. Go oil your leg and shut up!
'THE POINT IS WE DON'T KNOW BECAUSE THE PRESS IS SO ONE SIDED. IDIOT.'
No you have no point idiot, that was what I was pointing out. You are just a spoiled brat who crys about everything. Nothing substantial from you just right-wing rants!
'No thanks, please move on to something that is YOUR liking:'
Thanks for the Queen compliment, I have spend lots of time in the last 45 days out there collection donations and votes for Mr. Obama. 12 days and counting, you better get your horse some better oats!
'Abe Lincoln was gay...so what.?..big deal'
And you know this how? ?
'I don't think Obamas got much to worry about.'
??? Is Obama supposedly gay as well?
but I know SP4 is
LOL
'Avoiding the question? If the DNC had paid for it we would have heard about it.'
NO WE WOULD NOT HAVE because the press has given them a pass. (How many times does this point need to be made to you before you get it?)
'You jumped on the story with your lies and hate.'
Where have I lied?
'Just thought I would point out the obvious---that is you are a crybaby!'
Original. I call you a crybaby, you call me a crybaby. Productive too.
'By the way she could have bought the same clothes for 25% of what she paid for them and she would have looked the sam'
You are so jealous. It is worse then you think: She didn't even go out and do the shopping! She had people do it for her! Oooooh. She didn't line up at wallmart to get a polyester bra for 25% off!
'--inexperienced and a liar.'
She is running for vice president and you think she has time to clip coupons for old navy? Where has SHE lied?
'Go oil your leg and shut up!'
LOL.. Crazy much?
'No you have no point idiot, '
Well no, just because you refuse to see it doesn't mean it isn't valid.
'I have spend lots of time in the last 45 days out there collection donations and votes for Mr. Obama'
So you work for ACORN? Lets hope he takes food stamps. (he probably does) I wrote a 2 checks for the maximums to Mac and the RNC and seeing as my IRA has dropped more then the cost of Sarah's wardrobe because of democratic mismanagement and obstruction of oversight of freddie and fannie let me say that it was a pleasure to chip in and buy Mrs. Palin a new wardrobe. At least she is prettier to look at then my Mutual Fund statement, courtesy of Barny Frank, Chris Dodd and Barack Obama.
Some people need to grow a brain.The fact that the father of Obama was or was not a polygamist is simply irrelevant.I'm not even back pedaling,I've just not wasted a split second in considering if it was true or false .Give ma a break,as I said ;I don't function a that level .That has absolutely nothing to do with politics but all with smear.Understood ?
By the way ,I'm not lecturing americans,most americans agree with the fact that the father of Obama bing polygamist or not is simply irrelevant ....they do ,you don't.The rest of your rants simply is of the same fine quality that I don't even want to discuss,below my standards,sorry.
If Abe Lincoln was gay or that the father of Obama was or was not a polygamist is simply
irrelevant.
but all to do with SMEAR...
Agreed.
So now we're supposed to be aghast at the fact that the RNC spent $150,000 sprucing up Sarah Palin's wardrobe (of meager Alaska Governor's salary) for her national appearances before media and the public. And the point is?
According to the media, the information proves:
(a) the Republicans don't care about the little guy, who is hurting right now, and spending so much money on clothes is a slap in the face to them in a hurting economy.
or
(b) Sarah Palin is not really the 'average gal' she portrays and is just another golddigging rich white person running for office.
or
(c) The McCain Camp blew it because they allowed the media to take them off message again.
You've got to be kidding me. If this is not sexist I do not know what sexism is my friends.
Has anyone ever asked the Obama Campaign where the more than ONE BILLION dollars they have raised...taking small donations from hardworking Americans, is actually going? Greek columns, designer podium seals, latte's on 'Obama One' for the press. And by the way how much does Michelle and Baracks wardrobe cost and just who is paying for it? And what will happen to all the excess money Obama collects after his campaign is over? I'm sure he will send every American a check so that the money can boost the economy right?
How is the exenditure of $150,000, a mere drop in the bucket when the entire campaign for both sides will reach at least nine figures in overall cost, any different than ordering lawn signs, buttons, window decals, or in the case of Obama's favorite community organizers, ciggies and beer to pay for voter registrations?
And don't tell me 'its the economy stupid' because just where did the $150,000 go that the RNC spent? Well right back into the economy, presumably into the retail industry at a time retail sales are off 7% I guess you can say, in addition to helping Palin maintain the professional appearance she needs for her new role, the McCain Campaign is actually HELPING THE ECONOMY by spending that money.
Lastly, the 'average gal' image of Sarah Palin has nothing to do with her clothes. This is a typical liberal point of view, because liberals value style over substance. To the MSM and liberals in general, if you wear $1000 suits (Obama and Biden) and repeat other peoples words in prepared remarks and speeches with careful diction and a haughty air (Obama), then you are brilliant and special.
Conservatives see things a bit differently. They demand proof that someone is who they say they are, look into their history and experiences. No designer Gucci suit will change America's perception that the moose hunting, snowmobile riding, hockey mom that Sarah Plain has always been is anything more than 'one of us.'
Win or lose, America will soon discover that Barack Obama, who has never led or been tested in a time of crisis, never written a bill or supported major legislation, never traveled outside of the US until his 'world rock tour' through Europe and never met an extremist he didn't like (Wright, Ayers, Khalidi, Rezko, Asbahi, Mason, Al-Mansour, etc.), is the single worst prepared and least experienced presidential candidate since Franklin Pierce, another tool of special interests, who at least had served honorably in the US military during the Mexican-American War.
Last but not least. Try as they might, the media, who are deathly afraid of Sarah Palin and her ability to reach the average voter (thereby by-passing their screen of indoctrination) will not succeed in destroying her even if McCain-Palin loses next month. Palin has become a force to be reckoned with, and although she is not Ronald Reagan (sorry folks) she is as close as we have come to him since Reagan's time. Somewhere Lady Margaret Thatcher, former British Prime Minister, is smiling because the 'Iron Lady' knows that America has found their own strong woman politician who just may start her own conservative political revolution on these shores in the next few years.
'Some people need to grow a brain.The fact that the father of Obama was or was not a polygamist is simply irrelevant'
Then why state that it is untrue?
'I've just not wasted a split second in considering if it was true or false'
You don't want to waste a split second thinking about anything that challenges your socialist messiah.
' don't function a that level .'
You are a smarmy little sanctimonious twit who thinks she can straighten us dumb-'ol Americans out by foisting off the SAME policies that made your own country such a mess. We don't want to be like Belgium. We are Americans. we believe in the individual. You believe in going at the speed of the lowest common denominator. (you.)
'hat has absolutely nothing to do with politics but all with smear.Understood ?'
Why state that it is untrue then?
'By the way ,I'm not lecturing americans,most americans agree with the fact that the father of Obama bing polygamist or not is simply irrelevant'
Most Americans don't know because the press hasn't been doing it's job. You don't speak for 'most Americans' by the way.
'The rest of your rants simply is of the same fine quality that I don't even want to discuss'
Then shut the hell up.
Practice what you Preach.......
'Lady Margaret Thatcher, former British Prime Minister, is smiling because the 'Iron Lady' knows that America has found their own strong woman politician who just may start her own conservative political revolution on these shores in the next few years'.
.......Completely wrong!
The nasty Old Cow is now in the advanced stages of Senility, lives in a nursing home , dosn't even know her own daughter and still thinks her husband, Dennis, is still alive.
Ooooooh I am impressed:
'I wrote a 2 checks for the maximums to Mac and the RNC'
Good you wasted even more than you did on crummy stock picks. By the way the 'a' should not be in the sentence. Stupid!
By the way I caught the dynamic duo on GMA this morning and I must say Caribou Barbi had it much more together than McSame, he was stammering and studdering, big eyes, creapy smile. We started a pool today at school for the day McSame really looses his temper. Just like when he was a child someone needs to dunk him in a tank of icewater.
Measly and minor drivel from the smiley D a-hole. Thank god you have depleted your credibility so much no one really takes anything you say 'to heart'.
So now we're supposed to be aghast at the fact that the RNC spent $150,000 sprucing up Sarah Palin's wardrobe (of meager Alaska Governor's salary) for her national appearances before media and the public. And the point is?
You just made the point idiot---$150,000 for a supposed 'soccor mom'-ha.
'(a) the Republicans don't care about the little guy, who is hurting right now, and spending so much money on clothes is a slap in the face to them in a hurting economy.'
Agreed.
'(b) Sarah Palin is not really the 'average gal' she portrays and is just another golddigging rich white person running for office.'
True
'(c) The McCain Camp blew it because they allowed the media to take them off message again.'
Absolutely, thanks.
'You've got to be kidding me. If this is not sexist I do not know what sexism is my friends.'
You do not even know what day it is let alone what is sexist, idiot!
'Has anyone ever asked the Obama Campaign where the more than ONE BILLION dollars they have raised...taking small donations from hardworking Americans, is actually going? Greek columns, designer podium seals, latte's on 'Obama One' for the press. And by the way how much does Michelle and Baracks wardrobe cost and just who is paying for it? And what will happen to all the excess money Obama collects after his campaign is over? I'm sure he will send every American a check so that the money can boost the economy right?'
Gotr it up to a billion already, I hope so and I hope he gets another billion. Supposition on your part and again just right wing talking points---no proof of anything you say.
'How is the exenditure of $150,000, a mere drop in the bucket when the entire campaign for both sides will reach at least nine figures in overall cost, any different than ordering lawn signs, buttons, window decals, or in the case of Obama's favorite community organizers, ciggies and beer to pay for voter registrations?'
Hey stupid, it is the image thing. She is the soccor mom who is just 'one of the guys'. You stupid fool, she should have spend $25,000 at walmart, she would have been a hero. Or maybe she should have lied on her expense account to get the cash for her clothes so no one knew about it---right up her alley.
'And don't tell me 'its the economy stupid' because just where did the $150,000 go that the RNC spent? Well right back into the economy, presumably into the retail industry at a time retail sales are off 7% I guess you can say, in addition to helping Palin maintain the professional appearance she needs for her new role, the McCain Campaign is actually HELPING THE ECONOMY by spending that money.'
Stupid answer from a stupid person---its image, and she lost a bunch of it yesterday!
'Lastly, the 'average gal' image of Sarah Palin has nothing to do with her clothes. This is a typical liberal point of view, because liberals value style over substance. To the MSM and liberals in general, if you wear $1000 suits (Obama and Biden) and repeat other peoples words in prepared remarks and speeches with careful diction and a haughty air (Obama), then you are brilliant and special.'
No stupid it is how much you spend on them, and if it is your money or someone elses. The rest of this blather is just more right wing talking points---Rush Junior.
'Conservatives see things a bit differently. They demand proof that someone is who they say they are, look into their history and experiences. No designer Gucci suit will change America's perception that the moose hunting, snowmobile riding, hockey mom that Sarah Plain has always been is anything more than 'one of us.'
What a joke you really are. The Republican't side only cares what and how much they can get out of something before they embrace it. They took Palin in without vetting or figuring out if she had any experience---of which she is lacking. Now she is bringing them down in the polls and it is funny as heck.
'Win or lose, America will soon discover that Barack Obama, who has never led or been tested in a time of crisis, never written a bill or supported major legislation, never traveled outside of the US until his 'world rock tour' through Europe and never met an extremist he didn't like (Wright, Ayers, Khalidi, Rezko, Asbahi, Mason, Al-Mansour, etc.), is the single worst prepared and least experienced presidential candidate since Franklin Pierce, another tool of special interests, who at least had served honorably in the US military during the Mexican-American War.'
Blah, blah, blah, please as soon as he is elected either jump off the bridge or move to another country.
'Last but not least. Try as they might, the media, who are deathly afraid of Sarah Palin and her ability to reach the average voter (thereby by-passing their screen of indoctrination) will not succeed in destroying her even if McCain-Palin loses next month. Palin has become a force to be reckoned with, and although she is not Ronald Reagan (sorry folks) she is as close as we have come to him since Reagan's time. Somewhere Lady Margaret Thatcher, former British Prime Minister, is smiling because the 'Iron Lady' knows that America has found their own strong woman politician who just may start her own conservative political revolution on these shores in the next few years.'
Ronald Regan just rolled over in his grave and gave a big laugh. This is Caribou Barbi's 15 minutes. She will go back to Alaska and melt into the snow. Her approval ratings in her own state have plunged, and as soon as they can they will destroy her.
You need to embrace reality much more than you do.
'Good you wasted even more than you did on crummy stock picks.'
And you can waste your fathers money at will because you are incapable of earning your own. That makes you a spoiled parasite. My stock picks are fine buy the way, The mutual funds got hammered in this demo-rat created crisis.
'By the way the 'a' should not be in the sentence. Stupid!'
Ill make a note of that, bit*h.
'By the way I caught the dynamic duo on GMA this morning'
What made you roll out of bed before noon? The stench of Jenny Craig, cat-pee and failure wake you up?
'I must say Caribou Barbi had it much more together than McSame, he was stammering and studdering[sic], big eyes, creapy[sic] smile.'
By the way, if you are going to point out a spare 'A' it might behoove you not to be such an illiterate fool.
Stammering? Obama without his teleprompter: 'Unnnnh... Unnnnnnh, I uh, unnnnnh' One day David Axelrod is going to have to drink a glass of water when Obama talks and he will be exposed as the ventriloquist dummy that he is. Big Eyes? Seen Obamas Dumbo ears and that smirking mouth of his? Creepy smile? His teeth were kicked out at the gum line when he was serving the country. The closest Obama came to such a malady was a paper cut taking kickbacks.
'We started a pool today at school for the day McSame really looses his temper.'
God forbid you should be doing work or teaching or learning... Incompetent cow.
'Just like when he was a child someone needs to dunk him in a tank of icewater[sic].
Gee, I guess the equivalent would be to say, Just like when Obama was a child his polygamist barbaric father needs to walk out on the family showing that loyalty and narcissism are hereditary. Naaah, that doesn't quite work.
You got walked out on, is that what makes you so bitter?
'You need to embrace reality much more than you do.'
Whomever that was addressed to should know that he or she is dealing with a complete infant who buries her head in the face of facts that she doesn't want to see and calls every inconvenient truth a 'lie' because she is too mentally crippled to provide an intelligent counterargument.
oh, just Smiley D again. He really should learn to use a toilet. Then learn to use toilet paper.
Since we are on the internet the only thing you could be smelling is yourself.
Take a whiff: It is the smell of crazy idiot in mommies basement.
'And you can waste your fathers money at will because you are incapable of earning your own. That makes you a spoiled parasite. My stock picks are fine buy the way, The mutual funds got hammered in this demo-rat created crisis.'
I have plenty on my own, I don't even have his money yet. That is for the future when I am old like you. Good thing is I will never be as miserable as you.
'Ill make a note of that, bit*h.'
Oh, you too good to make a mistake. If I pointed out all your mistakes it would take too much time!
'What made you roll out of bed before noon? The stench of Jenny Craig, cat-pee and failure wake you up?'
I have to be to work by 7:00 am, I am on a break by 10:00 where I can catch up on the news. Your old hores is looking real old!
'By the way, if you are going to point out a spare 'A' it might behoove you not to be such an illiterate fool.'
I will work on that. I have the ability to improve and change if I want, too bad you are such a ignorant stick in the mud.
'Stammering? Obama without his teleprompter: 'Unnnnh... Unnnnnnh, I uh, unnnnnh' One day David Axelrod is going to have to drink a glass of water when Obama talks and he will be exposed as the ventriloquist dummy that he is. Big Eyes? Seen Obamas Dumbo ears and that smirking mouth of his? Creepy smile? His teeth were kicked out at the gum line when he was serving the country. The closest Obama came to such a malady was a paper cut taking kickbacks.'
Avoiding the truth? You are a great debater, you are just wrong. Try and move the emphasis to another person or point?
'God forbid you should be doing work or teaching or learning... Incompetent cow.'
God I love my job. They teach me how to look at things differently.
'Gee, I guess the equivalent would be to say, Just like when Obama was a child his polygamist barbaric father needs to walk out on the family showing that loyalty and narcissism are hereditary. Naaah, that doesn't quite work.'
No just another stupid attempt to take away the focus from your incompetent jokers.
'You got walked out on, is that what makes you so bitter? '
Really, I believe I just saw my husband walk by. Too bad you have no one. I hope it stays that way for you, you are too ignorant to have anyone let alone keep anyone.
forgot his meds again. He's really ranting at everybody today. He must be hiding out in his mommy's basement, like he accuses everyone else of doing, because if he ever pulled this crap out in public, he'd get squashed like the cockroach he is.
What a bitter, twisted, unhappy, lonely, poser headcase.
No wonder he's the RNC poster boy.
Why do you want to repeat your posts and pad them out by repeating yourself over and over again? - so let me do the same to mine .
This time Idiot stick, read it.
you said
'Lady Margaret Thatcher, former British Prime Minister, is smiling because the 'Iron Lady' knows that America has found their own strong woman politician who just may start her own conservative political revolution on these shores in the next few years'.
.My reply was
......Completely wrong!
The nasty Old Cow is now in the advanced stages of Senility, lives in a nursing home , dosn't even recognise her own daughter and still thinks her husband, Dennis, is still alive.
.......................Did you understand me, the second time around ???
In other words Magaret Thatcher ,(who also has had a serious of strokes) is more or less 'non compos mentis', just lke you, because you speak a load of crap.
had a 'series' of strokes or had 'serious' strokes
I'me sure you get the idea.
News Flash......
26 U.S. newspapers that backed Bush in 2004 now support Obama......
I guess someone forgot about the Clintons holding AF one on the tarmac at LAX for a $1,000 haircut.
I'll give anyone a $1000 haircut.
I have cut my own hair for 45 years and so far,it hasn't cost me a cent.
lol.
it happens to be the Republican donors who brought this out in the open since they were enraged about the expense.........huh
Wasted words. the press is all jews.
There's the chance of a Wasilla snowball in hell that the lipstick besmeared pit bull will give the clothes to charity after she and McCain get their rear ends stomped on Nov. 4.
She'll be the best dressed woman in Alaska until them threads is all too old to wear though. You betcha!
palin would made someone a good whore.
take her to church and do her on the alter on top of the bible.
the devil made me write that...
Did they think a new wardrobe was going to make that bimbo look intelligent?
The McCain/Palin camp has a new poster child- move over Joe the plumber, make way for Ashley Todd!
Got any pictures? My friend's mother cut his hair using a bowl for a template. Is that how you do yours? Or do you just shave it all.
Palin is taking lessons about flip flopping from McCain. She told Katie Couric she was a feminist, and then told Brian the other night after he asked if she were, that she wouldn't put a name on herself!
10/25/08Joel Haugen, a Republican fighting a tough congressional race against the Democrats in Oregon, has fallen out with his party.
The reason: his surprise endorsement of Barack Obama for the presidency.
'I believe in putting nation before party and my first priority is following my conscience with regard to what is best for America,' Haugen said in a statement issued by his office today. 'I have a huge amount of respect for John McCain, but I believe that he has more of a cold war mentality.''
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Thanks for another hit piece M&C.Oct 23rd, 2008 - 05:48:50
How much did Obamas wardrobe cost?
How much did Bidens Botox cost?
What does it cost to keep Michelle Obama locked away from the press so she doesn't blurt out how rotten the USA is?
Why don't you report that Obama spent HALF A MILLION DOLLARS spray painting his aircraft. (He put his obamamessiah logo over the American flag)
How much does it cost to keep Obama in Bruno Malgi shoes and Kiton suits?
The one sided reporting on this election has become a sad joke.
You people don't even have any shame.
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