The eBay Myth

I notice that there are other plays on words from Palin or supporters in an effort to mislead. According to the interviews by her lawyer of two witnesses regarding Troopergate, her aid, Baily, told the lawyer that he was not asked to make the calls.
I get the impression that she does not ask ANYONE to do anything. Either you do what you are told or you are fired.
Its all misleading and a play on our intelligence. The polls say that the most educated people are clearly for Obama. Maybe they analyze things more than the average educated person.

Uh Oh say it aint so, a new scandal to add to the Palin Scandal list?? Sarah Y?
Sarah Palin is the new Obama, The new most famous person in the world. Uh Oh, Wonder if she is a
Muslim too? Or worse, the anti-christ?
Its all about Palin for the next few weeks. It might be a bad thing that she is more Popular then McCain.

I’m just shaking my head in disgust. Can they tell us anything that is the truth? This is just beyond ridiculous.

“I wonder how this compares to the $300k raise Michelle got”
Yes it had nothing to do with her development of a program that slashed their emergency room costs while improving overall care for the poor.
That raise was as much as Cindy McCain’s Ming the Merciless outfit the other night.
“once her husband swung all that pork at her hospital?”
How dare he give $1 million to a hospital!

$300k less than the asking price, eh? No big deal — they can just sell one of Cindy McCain’s convention outfits to make up the difference.

ever hear of depreciation?

“So is anything the McCain campaign has told us about this woman true?”
That she has more experience than Obama.
So far that is the one that the Obama campaign hasn’t found a way to refute.
Who cares?
We have sixty days to get a Deal from these candidates before they both return to their cocktail parties and we become the dull noise outside. Submit your top ten questions to every web site you can find before the debates.
Do yourself a favor: don’t ask the Who Shot Mom questions or the Spy vs Spy questions. Work out exactly which changes will mean something to your life personally and ask those questions.
It worked wonderfully well during the primaries. We have 60 days. Don’t waste them listening to the paid bloggers or the talking heads who can’t figure out if advocacy journalism is anything more than rah rah for ratings.
Sixty days. Two men enter: one man goes to the White House.

you all try try try
this woman is the WORST Presidential candidate judgement we have ever seen.
and whether you realize it now or in a month…it is clear…
she can’t answer questions
she makes statement deriding Obama about the surge…
yet a week ago she said she hadn’t really been paying attention to Iraq.
the worst VP candidate in our history…
it would be funny if it wasn’t soo scary.

Spock – They could fall into those categories or they could fall into the category of non-foolish.
Its good to hear all the things that excites us about the candidates…. but everyone falls into a class wether it is described appropriately or classless.
They way that she is holding up the investigation in Alaska reminds me of Florida in 2000. Just hold them off long enough….. That includes her getting in front of the media too.

why can’t she answer questions!
no more libbies
no more falsifying WMD
no more veil of silence bologne fooling the americans…
no more!

“So is anything the McCain campaign has told us about this woman true?”
That Palin has more experience than Obama.
Wow.
Submit ten questions anywhere you can submit them for the debates.
Use them wisely. Asking about jets on eBay and the size of Michelle’s dress budget won’t help. Trying to decide if the Republican party is too white or if Obama is black enough won’t help.
Get personal. What do YOU need from your government in the next four years?
Ask for it.
We have sixty days before they become Cinderella and return to the Georgetown ball and we go back to being pumpkins in the patch. Sixty days: two men enter. One man goes to the White House.
So we ought to take McCain’s advice and quit shouting at each other and work on those ten questions. It worked wonderfully well during the primaries.
Sixty days. Don’t blow it.

MaryD
what they teach in journalism class is to ask questions.
you know the ones that Mccain campaign is not allowing to be asked.
get the witness in their own cone of silence
his vetters I guess missed the plane fairie tale….
along with the rest of the 100 issues that have shown up that they hired an army of lawyers now to try and quash.
no more curtains with false info…
no more
8 was enough
shiver
throw these evil crooks out.

Government purchases aren’t always the most competitive market prices; that’s part of the problem of bureaucracy and corruption. Remember McCain’s investigation of the Boeing contract? Hope someone can come up with more circumstantial information on this jet.

how can you not feel like this is a cartoon rendering of the WMD in Bush’s state of the union
like practice runs and how they can cover for it afterward…
this is how we will deal with the press and make sure they don’t get behind the curtain.
it’s not about truth or issues…ugh

She still got rid of it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

would they be able to do a misstatement like this about WMD and iran?
or that there was no one involved in the Plame thing …if they were they would be fired…
quick get libby away from reporters…

I honestly cannot believe for a minute that anyone is really taking McBush seriously. Really.
Jiff

PLEASE look up “The Word From Wasilla” story in the Nation.
Scary, SCARY stuff.

Most voters without formal education will be voting for the new Palin barbie doll. They don’t know any better.
These are the same people that think Obama has accomplished nothing and has no experience. Pitiful.
Those with education, and common sense, are horrified by this farce.

“Even curious George has an MBA.” I’ll bet Palin could have gotten into both Yale and Harvard if her Daddy had been Curious George’s Daddy. She needed some
Alumni/Congressional Affirmative Action. Just like McCain got into the Naval Academy on Admiral Affirmative Action.

geevil: “Obama has some pretty weak bloggers today. Posting crap about McCain’s VP is hardly a winning stategy. keep it up”
The previous post was about Obama commenting on the McCain campaign – not Palin.
Outside of this site, numerous sites have posted regarding the lack of policy statements or actionable strategies put forward by McCain. McCain is rapidly earning the title of “empty suit” as he puts forward just soundbites and fury in the face of the ever growing list of detailed and defensible policies Obama has put forward in speeches and (in far greater detail) in policy papers on his website. And, as pointed out here, even the petty, self-aggrandizing “facts” offered by the McCain campaign are shown to be exaggerations.

jpt – gee, thanks for another very important piece of reporting!

Obmam would never have sold it…he would have added to his fleet and painted more “O”‘s on it.

Jake, from Yahoo’s sources, it says that the Jet was actually listed on Ebay but no one makes the minimum bid so they sold it through a broker. And you’re right, they didn’t make a profit. It’s still honorable for this woman to do that. Your article makes it sounds like she’s liar more than done something for her tax payers.

So this qualifies as a myth? “Put it on eBay” vs. “sold on eBay”? Man, that’s a stretch.
In other news … just who is “Uncle Frank” in The Audacity of Hope?

The GOP uses little lies like the ebay airplane story so that we don’t worry about the big lies…
Like the WHOPPER that a man who voted with Bush 95% of the time is a reformist Maverick who can “shake up Washington.” What a load.
He’s McBush the Oiligarch II and don’t forget it.

McCain had a bigger audience and Palin is viewed more favorably than Obama.
Time for Obama to offer us more money for our votes: maybe $2000 this time?
Or maybe something mysterious will happen to Biden and Obama will ask Hillary to save him again.
McCain/Palin08

Weird! It was a free perk and she got rid of it? When was the last time a politician says no to a free anything? This woman must not be educated enough to act in a very unconventional manner.

Palin = Pain

She got rid of a corporate jet. It cut wasteful spending.
What has Obama done to fight corruption in Chicago? He’s up to his neck in the Daley Machine.
And how about the millions he lost on apartments he never fixed for the poor in Chicago.
But if Obama had been vetted by the MSM media everyone would know that.

I think the Valdez Alaska Entpreneaur explaination isn’t as identifiable or easy to say as ebay. She did try to sell it there….she accomplished what she set out to do elswhere….I’m thrilled she’s such a reformer. Me, I would never have got rid of my staff cook and cleaning help….Gov. Palin rocks and is truly CHANGE we need in Washington….can’t wait until McCain gets her there. More Governors should follow suit, starting here with Arnold in California.
McCAIN/PALIN ALL THE WAY

Democrats could not be happier that McCain got more viewers than him.
His speech was horrendous.
He was a toad.
He also admitted that his party was garbage.
thanks mcsame. i admire your honesty.

“I think the Valdez Alaska Entpreneaur explaination isn’t as identifiable or easy to say as ebay. She did try to sell it there”
So she lied for political reasons.
Good catch Debra.

If she said she PUT it on ebay, it’s NOT a lie. DUH!

At least she tried. Bottom line….She sold it for good reason. This story is SO OBAMA DIRTY POLITICS.

Palin already had her own family plane, not uncommon in Alaska because of a bad road situation coupled with the sparse population and its large spread over unpopulated areas. She said she got rid of the governor’s chef because she felt like her kids would do fine with macaroni and cheese.

Concerned in Ohio, I am glad that we all have our opinions in which we have all informed ourselves, some more than others. Keep Fighting!

Yes, please continue to nitpick issues such as these. Jake, there is depreciation, the used car effect, and the low economy to think about.
Also, she did put the plane on ebay before it was sold thru word of mouth, correct?
Also, with regard to benefit to the state, there may have been no profit, but the maintenance costs were made nil, right?
So, please, please continue to inflate such issues before the public eye.

The ebay myth is miniscule compared to the Obama myth.

Debra
you didn’t hear me
I wish the whole world could have saw that toad speak last night
he admitted that he and his party suck.
i think america can decide that a 10% chance of change coupled with a toad and a barbie doll that can lie with the best of them, WE CAN DO BETTER

concerned in Ohio
I don’t know about Sally Quinn but most of the press is trying to sort through the massive amounts of discrepancies and omissions and questions issues…etc
that ANY candidate would have been thrown out from the vetting process by the sheer number and their lack of ability to speak about these issues in any kind of knowledgeable way.
McCain should have had the answers to these questions and she should have been able to answer questions 3 days after the choice.
as we see she will not be.

“I said McCain said ebay as she did try to sell it there and the Valdez Alsaka entreprenur thing doesn’t roll off your tongue, idiot.”
So he went with the more identifiable company so a larger audience would understand even though the truth was she used the less identifiable one.
IOW, He lied for political reasons.

Well, as long as we are into comparative myth making, let’s talk about the myth of WMD’s that led to the loss of American lives and treasure and the loss of uncounted innocent Iraqi’s.
Both Bush and McCain pepetrated that one.

The ABC news group is trying so hard to tear down McCain and Palin with these ridiculous stories. On a local radio show in Memphis, TN yesterday, several members of the station were at the convention and were giving updates. They mentioned that the ABC group laughed and mocked Sarah Palin during her speech. It is obvious we are dealing with a very unprofessional news group who are in Obama’s pocket!!

Debra should also talk about the number of police chiefs and public safety commissioner’s she has thrown out, not to mention librarians.

Well, the idea is to repeat the lies over and over again REALLY LOUD. With a straight face. Never back down. And, now that you bad, bad media types are just out to get her, any “truth” you put out must just be wrong. And hey, how dare you attack her pregnant daughter!
A lot of people still believe that Iraq was behind 9/11 (a lie). I wonder – has the toothless media failed us, Jake, or are we just doomed? I’d like to think not, on both counts.

Lies Lies Lies.
Palin may be new to Washington (has she ever even been to Washington?) But since she’s being molded by Republican McCain’s advisors (former Bush advisers iincluding Rove) Palin is just a cookie cutter of McCain/Bush.

Obama’s OR interview was done to go after Palin today. He’s sooo SLOW at facing the opposition. It took him 18 months. Wow, he must have been hoping everyone would care by now…..Or thought we all would have been under his spell. Especially when race baiting has been working sooo well for him. Obama, he thinks American’s are as stupid as he HOPES.

Jake,
Your all out onslaught against Plain is truly pathetic. Why don’t you look into the recently surfaced connection between Obama and a black nationalist muslim that supposedly wrote a letter of recommendation for him to get into Harvard Law??

Obama is a lying, divisive myth pusher. It took him a long time to have a reason to sit with media that isn’t in the tank for him. He finally does it in order to go after Palin for not doing it fast enough. I guess the US article she agreed to which tried to slam her while building Obama up is suppose to be the Left WING motivation she needs. SHE doesn’t owe Obama any thing he asks for. She’s not asking for his support, she is talking to the people.

as for the airplane that was sold–wish i would have known i might have put in a bid—-OR WAS IT FOR SPECIAL FRIENDS ONLY—–AND REMEMBER THAT MCDUMMY OPENED THIS CAN OF REPUB WORMS—WONDER WHO PURCHASED FOR UNDER VALUE —THAT SHOULD BE VERY INTERESTING.

HEY DEBRA
WHO BOUGHT THE AIRPLANE–AND WHAT IS THEIR CONNECTON TO PALIN—-LETS HEAR THE TRUTH.

What’s your point Jape, Tapper? Do you think keeping the jet in gov. office is better?

Why did they always color that bump on his nose to look like a mole all the time. Now I know why he only wants to do sit downs with his right side to the camera, but OR wouldn’t let him. NO, NO it’s not about image at all.

I love this headline as it actually brings attention to what I think, is something 90% of the entire country would agree with…get rid of the jet, get rid of the hired help in the home, SAVE TAXPAYERS DOLLARS! The bots are just so upset THIS IS THE REFORM/CHANGE WE NEED IN THE WH WITH THE MAVERICK.

“Nothing McCain and Palin have done put together can top even 10% of the lies, crooks and scandals that BHO is associated with!”
—-
You may want to do some research before making that claim.

Yourgameletsplay: “Obama Democrats are making all the women go out in full force for him today. PANDERING.”
If you think Senator Clinton needs and encouragement to go after Palin, who if McCain wins will kill Senator Clinton’s best chance at election in 2016 (and certainly 2012), then you’re not thinking very clearly.
And since you really LIKE the WORD, could you perhaps define “pander”? Just curious – I’ve found a lot of partisans have a very… unique definition of otherwise common words.

Putting the plane on ebay is the truth. No lie.

Yourgameletsplay: ” Hillary is being a good and loyal Democrat. Obama doen’t deserve her having to pander for him. INvest in a dictionary and look it up for yourself.”
So, you don’t think Hillary would mind Palin being the first woman VP, ever in 2012? Possibly the first president ever? While she gets a bit fat veto on every legacy-making healthcare bill she puts out? I don’t see your “logic.”
And clearly the answer is no, you don’t know the definition of pander and are just repeating something from today’s talking points. Thanks for letting me know.

Debra: “HILLARY SUPPORTER FOR McCAIN/PALIN!”
Don’t be an idiot, it’s clear you’re not a Hillary supporter. Now that Palin’s in the race not only does McCain oppose all of Senator Clinton’s core values, his ticket also would kill her own personal goals.
It hurts your credibility when you keep lying about your true affiliation (Republicans for Hillary? Yeah, that’s a big group…).

IT WAS SOLD AT A PROFIT
After depreciation, the value of the jet was less than $1.8 million. Very poor reporting by you.

LEXI
DO YOU KNOW WHAT IT SOLD FOR

Looks like Palin is as big of a liar as Mccain and Bush and Cheney…..She has told so many lies in the last few days

KURT
THAT SOUNDS LIKE A LOT OF FLIP FLOPPING

TIM
ANSWER THE QUESTION WHAT WAS THE PLANE AND WHAT DID IT SELL FOR AND TO WHO.
ANSWER THE FREAKING QUESTON

Okay Ryan C:
Your posts are consistently anti-republican, and filled with well-surfed factoids. Let’s see how consistent you are.
Got a challenge for you. Can you name a positive attribute or act of Bush or any other republican?
Here is another sample question. Are there any positive effects of lowering corporate taxes? If so, what are they?
My theory is that if you can’t, you are so subject to the “true believer” phenomenon that you can’t have a rational discussion with someone of another viewpoint.
So, let’s see…

“CANNOT GET WHAT THE PLANE WAS AND WHAT IT SOLD FOR —AND TO WHO–I MUST HAVE HIT IT ON THE HEAD—–SOMEONE SPECIAL GOT A SWEETHEART DEAL.
THAT SUCKS”
Instead of worrying about the plane why don’t you investigate Barry’s real estate deal with Rezko while he was under idictment.

The cost of maintaining luxury planes, their hanger cost, their gas cost was eliminated and it might have saved much more money than loss that have incurred in selling.
-Rodney Media, JT and people like you who have selective hearning problem are creating nuisance.

to RL in Illinois, It may be anyone any rich guy who knowa Palin or some random guy or the company who has valid tax id. What is the issue here? She reduced the Luxury expenses.
Do you think if she would have brought this topic in convention and brought trouble for herself?

ebay is a business model that created new jobs for people. People who can FIGHT have started doing business and created supplimentary revenue for themselves. So, reference to ebay was required for people to encourage people to do same.
Not like Maytag who sneak a political ad(Florida incident).

BROOKLYN
AT LEAST THAT IS PART THE ANSWER—I FEEL THAT SOMEONE GOT A SWEETHEART DEAL—-COULD BE VERY SUBSTANTIAL.

Debra
You vote on emotions? Cool. You are qualified to be a candidate. Here is the instruction manual for the nuclear arsenal.

The Ebay reference was a cute little marketing to the ‘in crowd’ and another
reference to Feminist Capitalism and
those angry Hillary supporters who have no ethics(all 10 of them)
Non-starter. another bit-o-camoflage,
moving on…

I see a bar and the internet as one and the same.
Also, ever notice that American corp taxes are higher than most European tax rates? I found that surprising…
A tax cut, in itself, would encourage all companies to develop in the US wouldn’t it?

DIAMOND
DID YOU EVER HEAR OF BLUE BOOK VALUE

thanks for looking out for us, jake. it’s still impressive that she tried to sell it on e-bay and that she ACTUALLY sold it so as not to waste tax payers $.
good to get the facts straight and yet, not lose sight of the point.
ps the city of seattle is trying to hock the city’s $150,000 special toilets ON EBAY. maybe we can contact the buyer of alaska’s former jet and see if he is in the market…

It is about credibility. It’s great that she sold the jet, but why lie about the ebay thing. And then have John McCain say it again “She sold it on ebay, and at a profit”
The problem is Sarah Palin was just introduced to us a week ago, and very few of us had ever heard of her, and we only have 8 weeks to learn who she is.
So lying in your speech, just hurts that process.

Also, CNN just reported when she went on about passing the bill to get the money to build a natural gas pipeline, it MAY begin contruction by the year 2018. What I would have thought it was under contruction or built by the way she talked about. What a bunch of half truths! When she finally said no to the bridge to nowhere, after she was for it, Alaska kept the money.

I just love how the pro-McCain group thinks that anything Palin does is wonderful (lie, have ethics violations, mislead the public, little experience nationally, etc.) and yet everything Obama does (and even things that he has not done) is/are horrible. What a double standard these traditional, moral, upright (sarcasm here) conservatives have. And they are always running around touting the fact that only they have any morality. What a joke!

So she actually accomplished something. Where’s Barry’s accomplishments?
Posted by: Mack | Sep 5, 2008 7:40:33 PM
Wow, how Karl Rove of you. Instead of sticking to the point and answering the question, use distraction and misinformation. Thanks! You prove why we want CHANGE!!

“You prove why we want CHANGE!!”
You’ll get real change and it won’t be empty rhetoric.

And they are always running around touting the fact that only they have any morality. What a joke!
Posted by: citizen | Sep 5, 2008 7:39:43 PM
In case you haven’t noticed, they are called REpublicans. US good – THEM bad.

“Ummmm….in case you haven’t been around the last 8 YEARS, GWB is an honorary member of the House of Saud. He is considered part of the family. Where is the scandal, LOL!”
Exactly why we need real change. Not more of the same.

Tim. That was my point.

“I see a bar and the internet as one and the same.”
It depends on the bar.
Public sites like this I view as biker bars. Always be ready to fight and rip someone head off.
Have a great weekend.

But it’s not true.
Show me ANY proof that proves beyond any doubt as you seem to imagine.
WOW VP listed the kind of stuff buyers ONLY find on eBay.

Oh, puh-leeze. She got rid of the plane. It seems the left would be impressed that she therefore wasn’t wasting the fuel it would take to run it, but nooooooo.
But, Barack Obama has yet to repudiate the man who launched Obama’s career in his own home, who happens to also be an unrepentant self-declared terrorist.
Good luck reading about anything to do with Barack Obama’s inexorable disingenuousness here.

A time-honored Bush/Cheney tactic: repeat a lie often enough until enough people believe it to be true! So much for “change!”

Sarah “I soold it on eeebbay” Palin is wrong for the job. Did she sell her integrity on ebay too? I don’t think she has told the truth yet.
Palin supported the bridge to nowhere.
Palin raised taxes.
Palin hired a lobbyist for her town.
Palin put her town of 7,000 in $26 million dollars of debt.

Palins another crooked republican who just knows how to massage some good p.r for herself.
So many conflicting storys
Sell the plane, push to get federal highway funds, then say you don’t want the highway funds, say your for small govt, then run up deficits in both Wasilla and the state budgets,

She’ll be out before the debates. It’s one lie after another with this woman and McCain will be persuaded he can’t carry her baggage. The only reasons she’s still on the ticket are McCain’s infatuation and the big bucks flowing in from the religious right.

“Palin supported the bridge to nowhere.
Palin raised taxes.
Palin hired a lobbyist for her town.
Palin put her town of 7,000 in $26 million dollars of debt.”
And she was elected Governor with over 80% approval rating.

My God, what a woman! Obama would have added this to the jet he already has (the one he painted over the American flag on it’s tail before the world tour and added his “O” logos for $500,000)…and to let go of the cook and housekeeper in the Governors mansion! With 5 kids and what must be a terrific husband! I can tell you, I wouldn’t have done that, but she really must be a reformer and straight talker. I love McCain’s pick and it’s his first Executive decision and millions of us approve!
HILLARY SUPPORTER FOR McCAIN/PALIN

What they don’t mention is that she had to blow the guy from Valdez to get him to buy the plane. Talk about a dedicated public servant. And it’s not like the Governor of Alaska would ever need a plane, since there are no vast distances to cover there.

How can you sell a jet at a profit, who would pay for a 2 year old jet the original price, and let’s not add the fuel, pilot, and maintenance costs which anally would be another couple of hundred thousand a year, just ask P.Diddy. Next time she tells the story she can go on to every detail, how she put it on Ebay and after a couple of months it didn’t sell so then through word of mouth …….. would that make the fine (unbiased, saw this story yesterday on Huff.) media happy. She recouped 90% of the plane’s cost for the tax payers and the maintenance and fuel costs, what a bad bad person.

Okay I give, what is the difference between a “myth” and a lie?
It can’t be lipstick.
Smooth Sarah, and the magic plane.

Maybe in the grand scheme of thing this story isn’t that important but I hate feeling manipulated – they did want to create the perception that she “sold” it on eBay.
Still, I continue to shake my head. Vain? Arrogant? Condescending? Inexperienced? An empty suit with no knowledge of national security or world matters? Someone with attachments to radical fringe groups? (Todd Palin’s former membership in the Alaska Independence Party – they want to LEAVE America, not put it first.) Someone who has sat in a church and listened to hate speech?
Those criticisms have been slung at Obama by his detractors. So why did the McCain campaign choose someone who can be described in the same way?
The more I read about her the more petty and vindictive she seems. Anyone who wants to ban books from the local library would never have my vote. And the stories coming out show that she seems to like firing people who don’t agree with her.
I teach in a small-town high school and have worked with plenty of PTA moms. Some are in it because they truly care about the kids. Others are in it for their own glory – it make THEM feel special and powerful. And from what I’ve seen, she’s the latter.

Also…everyone says, “She’s only running for the second spot on the ticket and Obama’s at the top.” Well, that would normally be a good argument but the odds of her having to step into the presidency on an emergency basis are greater than they normally would be. McCain seems energetic and robust but I shudder to think what would happen should – God forbid – anything happen to him.
That is why this choice was so very important and why it makes me question Senator McCain’s judgment.

I love the fact that she saw it as a waste of taxpayer money and put it on eBay. Whether or not she actually sold it through them doesn’t matter to me (though to say that it “sold” there is a slip-up that shouldn’t happen again). She did sell it; that’s the bottom line.
McCain/Palin will save the taxpayers money; that’s REAL Change We Can Believe In!

Sarah Palin’s candidacy has been a revelation about the media and Obama’s supporters.
Suddenly they’re worried about a candidate’s background.
Suddenly they’re worried about the truth.
Suddenly they’re worried about experience.
Awesome! But about 18 months too late.

Palin told the truth. She did not claim to sell it on eBay.
Get over it.
Stop insulting women

Don’t feel to bad for Sarah she has a sea plane docked in her backyard.

We LOVE Sarah! What a lady – a real role-model for the modern woman! Love the jealousy – keep it coming! It makes me happy to know that she is the centre of your universe! LOL!!

Beckie -
No one here is jealous. This isn’t high school. This isn’t a student council election. This is the future of our country and in my own case I am legitimately scared that there could be an emergency and she may have to step into the presidency.
Ms. Palin may be an appealing person, someone equipped with common sense, and a former broadcaster able to read a scripted speech, but Senator McCain clearly did not choose her because she is not the best-qualified person to take over in a worst case scenario. She’s not.
Hmmm…Obama detractors said that his supporters blindly followed him after hearing one or two speeches. Sound familiar?

Whow, what brilliant reporting! She put the jet on Ebay, but it didn’t sell on Ebay so they had to sell it the traditional way with a broker.
You missed the whole point.
The important thing is that she got rid of the jet and all its trappings and expenses. Do you have a clue as to how much it costs to maintain, fuel, and staff a jet? The fact that she first tried to sell it on Ebay to save the State the broker fee was smart.
No need to thank me for thinking this through for you.
Maybe now you can look into your next big story. What did Barack Obama do with his Greek columns?

Everyone is on Obama about his past with Rev. Wright. Well, how about John McCains past with Charles Keating? Listening to Pat Buccanon tonight it sounds like the Christian right is already gearing up. I seem to remember them pumping up G.W.Bush. Good job.