http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/alltherage/2008/10/palins-economic.html
enjoy!
QUESTION: How long does it take you to earn $150,000 USD? The really lucky people that is a year or twos total salary. Most Americans thats 5+ years.
She spent that in ONE month on clothes. You think she is fit to lead our financial lives?
Summary:
Sarah Marie Antoinette Palin:
Economic crisis
World crisis
People loosing their jobs
People loosing their heathcare
$150,000.00 shopping spree for palin
What a disgrace.
Sarah Palin, small-town hockey mom and everywoman? More like Sarah Palin, pampered princess. Jeanne Cummings at Politico reports that the RNC’s monthly financial disclosure reports reveal that the Republican National Committee has spent tens of thousands of dollars on the vice presidential candidate's wardrobe and accessories since she was nominated, including $150,000 in September alone.Rage_palin2
So it seems you can take the girl out of the beauty pageant, but you can’t take the beauty pageant out of the girl.
Palin's clothes came from retailers such as Saks Fifth Avenue, Macy’s, Bloomingdales, Neiman Marcus and Barneys New York, and expenses included nearly $5,000 for hair and makeup. Maybe this is actually her one-woman economic stimulus plan. Lord knows the retail sector needs it.
Still, voters must find it unfathomable for Palin, who has been presented as a woman “like us,” to spend that kind of money on clothes in these difficult financial times, to see her speaking so passionately about Joe the Plumber while plumbing campaign coffers for Valentino jackets and pencil skirts. And yet, they’ve eaten it up, tittering on chat sites about Palin’s Kawasaki eyeglass frames and her Naughty Monkey red peep-toe pumps.
Palin’s spokewoman is saying this is much ado about nothing, that we should be talking about more important issues. But can you imagine the outcry if it were revealed that Hilary Clinton’s rainbow of pantsuits was paid for by campaign contributions? Or if college kids’ $50 checks to the Biden/Obama campaign were putting those men in $5,000 custom suits? (Obama’s suits are by Hart Schaffner Marx out of Chicago, and cost in the $1,500 range.)
In Palin’s defense, being a woman in the public eye has its own kind of pressures. And it’s unlikely she has been stepping off the campaign trail to join the ladies who lunch for shopping sprees at Neimans. Instead, she is probably working with a wardrobe stylist, who brings her things to try on and choose from. But the issue of clothing and hair expenses has always been a land mine for politicians (John Edwards' $400 haircuts), and someone should have been sensitive to that.
You also have to wonder how it feels, as a woman, to have everyone know that you really have been dressed up and trotted out like a beauty queen for the American public to wag their tongues at. Caribou Barbie indeed.
From a blog:
"My 35-yr-old sister just had to close her business that she's thrown herself into over the last 7 years. She just lost her car a couple months ago. And now she is on the verge of losing her house, too. In the last cross-state family visit, she took off her shoes and I was saddened to see that her socks had holes in them. My Mom commented, and my sister replied that she did not have money for socks.
As my sister approaches Winter in Michigan with socks that have holes in them, I am very pleased to see that hundreds of thousands of *our* TAXPAYER dollars are being spent on Palin's clothing, hair and makeup.
I've worked in business and wore full suits every day of the year, yet I only spent $1,200 per YEAR on business clothing. Certainly, Palin could have ''squeaked by'' with a $5,000 wardrobe to get her through 2 months of campaigning, don't you think?"
One more:
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Sarah has to endure the main stream media ridicule while trying to look hot for all the Joe six-packs that the NeoCon Gingrich controlled GOP hope to catch with this AK Salmon Egg for bait at the end of their fishing poll.
Hypocrisy never looked so good as in the form of a GOP washed up B actor (Ronnie & Arnold) or in the form of some wannabe-auty contestant backstabbing sociopath from the Klondike.
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Originally posted by jlillyHer problem was opening a business in Michigan -- a state that is very unfriendly to business and the Democrats have controlled for too long. I suppose your "sister" is in favor of the Detroit automakers receiving their $25 billion loan to tide them over?
From a blog:
"My 35-yr-old sister just had to close her business that she's thrown herself into over the last 7 years. She just lost her car a couple months ago. And now she is on the verge of losing her house, too. In the last cross-state family visit, she took off her shoes and I was saddened to see that her socks had holes in them. My Mom commented, and ...[text shortened]... ' with a $5,000 wardrobe to get her through 2 months of campaigning, don't you think?"
Originally posted by jlillyAnd the LOrd said "You can buy a person a new pair of socks, but if you teach 'em how to sew, they will never need to have cold feet again" You sure yor sster was not just looking for a handout?
[b]From a blog:
"... she took off her shoes and I was saddened to see that her socks had holes in them. My Mom commented, and my sister replied that she did not have money for socks".