Photos: The Saks Girls on Sarah Palin

I have worked professionally for 35 years (since the age of 20) as a special educator, administrator, and consultant. I can honestly say that I have not paid $150,000 on my entire life's wardrobe, let alone for 7 weeks. I am successful and work constantly with the public. I guess I am not one of the "productive" members of society that I hear John McCain talking about. For that, I'd need to make triple my salary (even though I work 50-60 hours a week). Combine this clothing idiocy (have you ever heard of Marshalls and TJ Maxx like the rest of US working women?), along with the thought that the local socialite lounging at the club is somehow more "productive" than the club's cleaning woman who works there (and who has a second job to afford her small rental) makes smoke come out of my ears. I wonder how much money "Joe the Plumber" spent on his work clothes last year? And now, if she donates the clothes she can take a charitable deduction. This is a tax policy that the Republicans can believe in!

Report the truth the clothes do not belong to Sarah Palin,but to the RNC. and will be sold,auctioned or donated after a few times of wear.Quit attacking this woman if you really want to look at someone it seems that Obama has more to hide. Where are his medical Records?why did he lie about his relationship with william Aryes?How come he still will not state the truth about what Joe Biden said about his inexperience and him being tested by trail by fire into a few months if he is elected?

You call youself journalist you need to check the facts the clothes thr RNC buys does not belong to Sarah Palin and will be sold or auctioned off after a few weeks of use.Why haven't you reported on the amount of money spent on food for the Obama Campaign?

It's nothing compared to Cindy McCain's $330,000.00 dress she wore to the RNC..........................

And where was this investigative work when it came to EDward's other wife? Where is the real reports on Obama's shadowy deal with Rezko, come on..

Michelle nailed the 400,000 paying job as soon as Barack 's star rose as a Legally won Senator. If you so called journalists spent 5 minutes reading through their history you would have found the truth.

I resent her being called "Caribou Barbie" -- her name is "Mooseolini"

$150,000 in new clothes in TWO months. Nevermind that that is the income for five years in most pro-McCain households, who sent their hard earned money in donations so Sarah Palin could dress like Paris Hilton. You know, Maverick stuff.

hey

Obama's tax and spending plans alone would be bad enough, but add Reid and Pelosi to the mix, with the three of them controlling both houses of Congress and the executive branch without any effective restraint, and you have something that should causes concern even among moderate Democrats.
See Wall Street Journal: A Liberal Supermajority:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122420205889842989.html

Dont believe me? See Barney Franks comments on the news, including face the nation last week, stating that Democrats in Congress intend to raise taxes and go on a spending spree.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1Mazjm_A5k

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJGnSAlqjoU

You will also hear him try to shift the blame away from himself, but what was he saying in 2003 when problems in Freddie and Fannie first started to surface:
I want to begin by saying that I am glad to consider the legislation, but I do not think we are facing any kind of a crisis. That is, in my view, the two government sponsored enterprises we are talking about here, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, are not in a crisis. We have recently had an accounting problem with Freddie Mac that has led to people being dismissed, as appears to be appropriate. I do not think at this point there is a problem with a threat to the Treasury.
I must say we have an interesting example of self-fulfilling prophecy. Some of the critics of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac say that the problem is that the Federal Government is obligated to bail out people who might lose money in connection with them. I do not believe that we have any such obligation. And as I said, it is a self-fulfilling prophecy by some people.
So let me make it clear, I am a strong supporter of the role that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac play in housing, but nobody who invests in them should come looking to me for a nickel--nor anybody else in the Federal Government. And if investors take some comfort and want to lend them a little money and less interest rates, because they like this set of affiliations, good, because housing will benefit. But there is no guarantee, there is no explicit guarantee, there is no implicit guarantee, there is no wink-and-nod guarantee. Invest, and you are on your own.

"Now, we have got a system that I think has worked very well to help housing. The high cost of housing is one of the great social bombs of this country. I would rank it second to the inadequacy of our health delivery system as a problem that afflicts many, many Americans. We have gotten recent reports about the difficulty here.
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have played a very useful role in helping make housing more affordable, both in general through leveraging the mortgage market, and in particular, they have a mission that this Congress has given them in return for some of the arrangements which are of some benefit to them to focus on affordable housing, and that is what I am concerned about here. I believe that we, as the Federal Government, have probably done too little rather than too much to push them to meet the goals of affordable housing and to set reasonable goals. I worry frankly that there is a tension here.
The more people, in my judgment, exaggerate a threat of safety and soundness, the more people conjure up the possibility of serious financial losses to the Treasury, which I do not see. I think we see entities that are fundamentally sound financially and withstand some of the disastrous scenarios. And even if there were a problem, the Federal Government doesn't bail them out. But the more pressure there is there, then the less I think we see in terms of affordable housing."

See http://www.taxfoundation.org/blog/show/23617.html

And again what was Frank saying at roughly the time McCains attempt at S.190. to fix Fannie and Freddie.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MGT_cSi7Rs

"These two entities -- Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac -- are not facing any kind of financial crisis, the more people exaggerate these problems, the more pressure there is on these companies, the less we will see in terms of affordable housing."

So who really is the liar that soaked the American people?

See also: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/01/08/politics/main2335631.shtml

Comment: THE GREAT BUSH DEPRESSION
I follow an economist named Bob Proctor. He has called the top and bottom of every market crash since the 70s correctly.
He perfectly predicted the current meltdown and the picture he paints about what will happen next
is terrifying.He thinks it will be worse then the great depression.
The banks in the U.S. are going under one after the other. Countrywide ,Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch , Fanny and Freddy Mae ,AIG
The government took them over because they are bankrupt. Even with the goverment nationalizing hundreds of billions of dollars in debt the stock market is crashing
the credit markets are frozen and all of us may suffer beyond anything seen in generations
McCain just like Bush " doesn't understand the economy".
That not just my opinion its his own words. Not only does he not understand how to fix it but he does not understand how its been broken.
It is no surprise that he doesn't. The people that make up these securities use quantum mathematical models very few people understand.
Bush and McCain both can take the credit for this mess since they helped deregulate the laws that were protecting us.
Bush's economic advisor Phil Graham wrote the deregulation bill that allowed banks to take huge risks with all of our future.
Now, Phil Graham is the head of McCain's economic policy.He is also McCain's choice for the next secretary of the treasury.
No one in this country can afford for that to happen. The last time Bush met with his economic advisors was in March. He was the last to know somthing was wrong. Phil Graham had the guts to say that we are in a mental recession after he helped create the worst economy meltdown in our lifetime. Check out this link to the truth http://my.barackobama.com/keatingvideo
It will take the best and brightest minds in the world to get us out of this nightmare. As bad as Bush has done, McCain would be
even more destructive because things are in much worse shape. The next president will not inherit a budget surplus like Bush did but a crashing economy and a 11,600,000,000,000 (trillion) dollars deficit. Most of it Bush created and it will take decades to pay it back.
If you do what you have always done then you will get what you have always got.
When it comes to policy Bush and McCain are the same 90 percent of the time.
So why are the polls even close then ?
Mccains team just said they no longer want to talk about the economy.Instead they would like to spend time talking about obama
which means running the biggest smear campaign in history.
They think they can just tell you lies and you wont be smart enough to see through it
Let's teach him we are smarter than that
Stand up and hold them accountable
Bush isn't on the ballot this year but his policies are
Elect Obama Biden 2008






Check out this video of sarah palins interview and ask your self if she understands what she is talking about.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r36Xc0GG4iQ