Yes, which puts them both in the top 5% of earners in this country....
That is exactly the point, they are NOT like Joe Six Pack....so stop pretending to be.
DD
Obama says she's middle class.
I'm glad the media isn't saying a thing about my trip to Hawaii to see my ailing grandmother.
It's not exactly cheap to fire up the jet and bring my entourage of campaign workers and secret service agents.
Obama has repeatedly said he is lucky, watch his talk with Joe the Plant....errr....Plumber.....
DD
No need to contantly sign your posts, DD. We can all look to the left and see for ourselves.
I know who you are. Thanks for your support.
Uh, that is what I do.....you can go ahead and edit your posts as you see fit though, I promise not to tell you how to post.
DD
What a bunch of crap. It's unbelievable that they would spend so much for clothing. Just another example of wreckless spending by the repubs. You can't tell me that a woman running for the second highest position in the US, drawing thousands of voters, could not get someone to donate those clothes to her just for the free advertising that it would generate for their company. i used to work in a men's clothing store that would ask me to wear their clothes just for advertising. This obviously is another example of someone at the top padding their own pockets.
Hillary Designer: Palin Spending Strange
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/...ome;topStories
“Why do you need to pay for it?” Forest told CBS News from her boutique Susanna Beverly Hills saying that most designers would offer to clothe a candidate for free. “It’s an honor, you are going to design for someone who could be the president of the United States,” noting that the exposure any designer would get from dressing someone as famous as Clinton or Palin would be worth much more.
Accepting gifts as a political candidate is extremely tricky and can get you into all sorts of trouble. The tax issue raised by many is interesting, because she *might* have to report them as income. More likely, the RNC will claim ownership of the clothing and consider it "on loan" to Palin until such time as the clothing can be donated to charity (for a write-off) or "sold" to Palin at a much-reduced cost.
In all seriousness it isn't that much money. $150k is actually not that much for the necessary wardrobe of a major public figure from a public relations standpoint, especially considering the fact that her previous wardrobe was likely crap. She has to have an outfit for every community appearance, every formal event, every different climate she campaigns in. She's not going to disappear from RNC events after Nov 4th no matter how the election plays out.
But it is worth examining why a woman who spends so much time and energy being "awww shucks, I'm just a hometown gal" would so eagerly embrace the Evita treatment.
And, for the record, the Ayers discussion was worth having and was important. I don't think any reasonable person has a problem with the question being raised and discussed. What people have an issue with is the leap from "let's examine his civil interaction with a possible unsavory person" to "this guy pals around with terrorists."
Ok, I claim to be no expert but can you not donate anything other than cash to the campaigns?
You can donate clothes to any charity.
But no matter what you donate to any charity, a monetary value must be placed on it and the intentions of the donation matter. I'm not versed enough to know one way or the other if a designer could donate clothes to the RNC that were intended for Palin. I would assume so, but it would likely be messy to coordinate. Having your aides call around begging different designers for donations would take up a lot of time and generate possible media repercussions. Taking the company credit card to the mall is, if nothing else, a time-saver. Especially in the crunch time of an election.
I love me somtime...ok dude you just got owned by DD the last page, everytime you get proven wrong you try to change the subject. If she earns 170 K a yr don't you think she would have a problem with spending just that much on her clothing?
I mean your everyday american spends that much on it right? Isn't that how she caught you in her trap? Telling everyone how she's in the middle class and we all know its bull , that i can't stand liars at all, thats the one thing i hate.
McCain's Oct. 1-15 filing showed that the campaign paid $22,800 to Palin's traveling stylist, Amy Strozzi, an acclaimed celebrity makeup artist. In contrast, McCain's foreign policy adviser, Randy Scheunemann, was paid $12,500, the report showed.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081024/...2X5zNkWQNv24cA
It's all about priorities.
I'm so pissed at the republican party. What a mockery of themselves they have become.
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