Palin: Accessible…And Accessorized?

Getting your VP a wardrobe is not a big story. The Obama campaign should stick to the real issues that matter and let McCain continue to shamble around in the weeds.

Plus, as Jake Tapper stressed, does she know that she has to pay taxes on her 150,000 clothes?

Does ABC News really have nothing else to report on? Are you now complaining that she is too accessible? Give me a break. The media is stealing this election for Obama.

I wonder how this resonates with all the Joe & Jane sixpacks out there. I doubt any of them can afford to shop at Barneys, Saks, Atlier and what was the name of that high-end baby store? Talk about a waste of money, an infant Trig’s age does not need designer onsies…..

Maybe she Sell them on E-Bay like the Jet lolo

Well, it just reinforces the notion that you can dress-up a pig, its still a pig!

It is an issue given her maveric & Joe the Plumber rhetoric. They want to clean up Washington huh? Does that mean Palin will charge the people for her days at home & for her extensive & expensive wardrobe?
Hard to take them seriously when they speak of being one of ‘us’ when McCain has 7 houses & 13 cars and his running mate can rack up $150,000 in clothing in 1 month!! Those 2 are real mavericks!!!

Well, now that Palin, who doesn’t like the “filter” of the media is more media accessible, here are some questions I hope she gets asked:
1) Why did you record a welcoming statement for a meeting of the Alaska Independence Party – a Secessionist organization? Why was your husband a member of this party for the better part of a decade? Isn’t that, perhaps, a little less than patriotic – to want to secede from your own country?
2) Why did you and your husband work so hard, and so inappropriately, to get a state trooper fired? Was he the only state trooper who had exhibited misconduct? Or was it personal? If it was personal, isn’t that abusing your office?
3) The “troopergate” report stated that you abused your power as governor and violated state ethics laws. Yet right after the report came out you claimed you had been cleared of all “legal and ethical wrongdoing.” Were you confused, or lying?
4) Why don’t you know what the Vice President does, still?
5) Why did you allow women in Wasilla, during your term as Mayor, to pay for their own rape examination kits?
6) When you have had 150,000 dollars spent on you wardrobe and accessories, can you really claim to be a regular hockey mom, or “just like Joe sixpack”? Or does claiming that make you a deplorable hypocrite?
7) Why did Alaska state taxpayers have to pay for your children to travel to events with you, and pay hotel costs, when there was no possible “official” reason for bringing them? Why did you later have expense forms altered? Are you completely unethical and dishonest? Do you really feel that you are this entitled?

typical republican hypocracy.

The people of Alaska paid for her family trips. The RNC clothes the Palins. Palin is a shill for the super rich and big corporations. Great to see her out there all the time in the last couple weeks of the campaign. She is the face of today’s GOP! They are going to get a serious clobbering on Nov. 4.

Ambassador, will you give the same scrutiny to your candidate?

$150,000,000 all less than 200$ donors, means 750,000 people (at least) donated. I don’t believe it. Frauds and going to put the fraud in office. Stolen election, stolen election, stolen election.

No wonder other countries look at us and have no respect for us, they see a stupid, ignorant group of people, that take pleasure in tearing each other down, a media that is a joke,starting to look secondary to Al-Jezeera. People that are Envious of those who have struggled and pulled themselves up to success, it’s pathetic, this is supposed to be America the land of hopes and dreams, but don’t you dear get to ahead of yourself and be successful or powerful because they will rip you down, and women are the worst no wonder we are behind in everything, we are now the true minority and it’s our own fault because of our catty attitude towards each other, we are a joke to the rest of the world, there are so many other countries that did not hesitate to have women leaders, but we will never have a female vp or President unless she is frumpy, don’t have any style and is looked upon as one of the boys, God forbidd the woman is beautiful, smart and successful, it’s like Crabs in a basket, pull her down, people can’t even commend her for being able to go from City Council to Mayor to Govenor and make good changes in her State, it’s all nasty all the time it’s pathetic. The media is a joke and we will quickly become the laughing stock of the world.

jhw539
Getting $150,000 is a big deal when someone tries to act like she is acting. AND, it was not Obama who brought this up. Why do you always want to blame Obama?

The only thing more damaging to the McCain/Palin ticket than Palin’s being inaccessible is having her be accessible!!

Kim
Once again, you are spreading false information. Michelle Obama WAS NOT at the Waldorf and has been retracted by the New York Post, a Murdoch publication.
And has been pointed out to you before, ALL of the candidates stay at upscale hotels for SECURITY reasons.

Justme;
yea, I gave you the opportunity and you came with an attack other than a fact…Listen closely to this, I make more than your mascot Joe The Plumber…I work in logistics. At work right now in my cubicle typing you this. Should be doing work, but typing you right now. Whether McCain or Obama is elected isn’t going to kill my pockets, because Hampton Roads in Virginia is Recession Proof right now, which is where I am. So once again, since I knocked that attempted characterization out of the park, I ask you; what do you have against Obama that is valid?

Jake, when are you going to report on Mechelle’s poor taste in clothing and how she dresses her daughters in inappropriate clothing. Someone should tell her that her house dresses are not OK, no matter how much she pays for them. And she can put a black bow on them, doesn’t help. Tell her to cover her arms, she looks awkward enough without those long sticks at her side and she needs to exercise with the empty suit and try to get that back down to a size that fits with the rest of her. Just giving some friendly advice, after all she wants to be our (throwup) first female. Can’t say lady and mechelle in the same sentence.

Didn’t the Obama campaign did the same for so called makeover for Michelle? I guess it the Obamas so they are exempt from being talk about.

You betcha this is a big story, in what regard, Charlie? Because it once and for all puts the lipstick on the pig that is the Republican’s claim to being the party of the Joes. Funny how they think there are suddenly “more important issues” to discuss, when NOTHING could be more important than revealing them for the frauds they are.

justme;
Call it what you will; I’m versatile, can do two things at once…But you turned down a chance to spit a fact out. And since you’re typing, and say typing at work is unethical, I guess it’s safe to say you don’t have a job…So i’m done talking to you…
Maybe I should move on to wyobabe spewing out something that a newspaper had to retract because it was false…Michelle wasn’t even at the Waldorf! Uninformed minds will be the reason McCain gets 188 Electoral College votes instead of 90…Still not enough

she has NOTHING in common with the middle class, I could pay off my house with that money….

More power to her. Her governor’s salary does not permit for her to splurge on a well dressed wardrobe. That is a drop in the bucket compared to the amount of money that is used to pay for campaigns…
and I wonder if the media has researched who is paying for Michele Obama’s wardrobe? I doubt it as they work too hard promoting their favorite poster child, Barrack Obama… and look at the work they have had to do to dig up these minor non-issues and try to create major issues out of them.

Trying to hide the real story???
Barack starts his political career with the help of the endorsement of the
New Party:
Marxist political coalition
Active from 1992-1998
Endorsed Barack Obama in 1996 for the Illinois State Senate
this is especially relevant if u watched hannity last night
Co-founded in 1992 by Daniel Cantor (a former staffer for Jesse Jackson’s
1988 presidential campaign) and Joel Rogers (a sociology and law professor
at the University of Wisconsin-Madison), the New Party was a Marxist
political coalition whose objective was to endorse and elect leftist public
officials – most often Democrats. The New Party’s short-term objective was
to move the Democratic Party leftward, thereby setting the stage for the
eventual rise of new Marxist third party.
Most New Party members hailed from the Democratic Socialists of America
and the militant organization ACORN. The party’s Chicago chapter also
included a large contingent from the Committees of Correspondence, a
Marxist coalition of former Maoists, Trotskyists, and Communist Party USA
members.
The New Party’s modus operandi included the political strategy of “electoral
fusion,” where it would nominate, for various political offices, candidates
from other parties (usually Democrats), thereby enabling each of those
candidates to occupy more than one ballot line in the voting booth. By so
doing, the New Party often was able to influence candidates (Fusion of this
type is permitted in seven states — Connecticut, Delaware, Idaho,
Mississippi, New York, South Carolina, and Vermont — but is common only
in New York.)
PUMA!

The Unshrub: “Why do you always want to blame Obama?”
I gotta say it’s refreshing to be blamed something different – usually I’m accused of being a Obama staffer, basement dwelling welfare slacker, hippy or all of the above.
I am a big supporter of Obama. Carping about Palin’s wardrobe is a waste of time and gets away from where Obama is winning – that is on real issues, real policy proposals, and real proven track record (seriously, just look at the work he did in IL or some of his constitutional scholarship).
Just because McCain is reduced to throwing pebbles about trivia doesn’t mean we should throwing the big rocks of real issues at him.

Sarah Supporters:
I’m still waiting to hear an explanation as to how you can legally expense you childrens plane tickets and hotel expenses to the State?

This whole freaken republican champaign is funny.Sick if you want my openion.They have taken this party and tuned even their own members against them…It will be some time before they can hold their heads up again,I am not talking Palin Cindy or even John for they think they have done nothing wrong..

bertrand88, good comment.

Apparently the Empress has new clothes. I’m sure she’s appreciative of all the little Joes and Janes in “real America” who contributed their hard-earned money so she can wear Armani.

I am glad to see as journalist you are right on top of this matter – how much did Obama spend on Acorn – would not that be more important.

As for Ayers, that was when he was 8. People will say, he was associated with him as recently as 6 or 7 years ago. Listen, are we going to say that any young man or woman that he teaches at his University, or the parents of those students can’t do anything dealing with the government? They are all associated in some way with Ayers but are we going to hold his actions against those students and parents? No, we are realistic when it comes to that, so why is Obama under the Microscope?
As for Wright, I indeed have a problem with Wright. He doesn’t have an Anti-American agenda, but yes he has made disgusting Anti-American statements. Close relationship or not, Obama should have left the church, that is a given. He has denounced him and done away with him now.
We could also point the finger at the other ticket’s associations as well. But, I can’t play the guilt by association game. I know how I am, and I know regardless of what I hear, I’m my own person. That’s why I dont blame Sarah for Todd’s Anti American agenda, or McCain for having Sadaam’s lobbyist on his team…Who is more anti-american than Sadaam? But I know John McCain, and I know that’s not his character. Just like I know not to put Obama and Ayers in the same category.

sarah, sarah, storms are brewing in your eyes.
How do you legally expense childrens plane/hotel bills to the state of Alaska…reformererererrer. I’m the reformerererrererererere.

What is this? Kindergarten?

The American public deserves to see the expense details for this silly 2 year campaign for BOTH parties. D’s will outspend the R’s by at least 3 to 1 but that is not the issue. The total is obscene by any standard.

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