On Palin’s GOP Funded “Shopping Spree” and “Duties of the VP”…
October 23, 2008 by PUMA Pundit
I think it is amusing that folks in the MSM are making a big deal about the fact that $150,000 has been spent on Sarah Palin’s wardrobe since she became the VP nominee…
It might not be common knowledge, but Sarah Palin is interviewing for the Job of Vice-President of the United States of America. Like any other person who has ever interviewed for any position of relative significance, appearance is extremely important. The sweaters and jackets she wore while stumping for Mayor or Governor just won’t cut it. Since Sarah is the nominee of the GOP, it is within reason that they would use their budet to present her the way they want their nominee for Vice-President to look; coiffed.
Since the donations are not coming from campaign funds and the clothes are going to be auctioned off when the campaign season is over, it is obvious that those who are making a big deal out of it are doing so not out of any sort of objectivity, but out of a desire to grasp for straws and bring Palin down by any means neccessary.
Hotair has a great exit quote:
Was this a good use of funds for the RNC? They have had more than a $100 million on hand between the campaign and the RNC in September. They spent around 0.15% of that on Palin’s wardrobe. It’s less than they’d pay for a single network-TV spot, and they’ll get more use out of it.
Oh, as for the media’s infatuation with her statement about what the Vice-President does, I hate to be the one to tell the media this, but Sarah Palin is 100% correct. The Vice President is in charge of the Senate. In fact, the only part of the Constitution of the United States which spells out the duties of the Vice-President, is Article II: The Legislative Branch.
So while recent Vice-Presidents have focused more on executive duties, nothing in the constitution says they cannot take a more pro-active role in running the Senate, which they preside over.
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“The Vice President of the United States shall be President of the Senate…”
Article I, Section 3, United States Constitution
Why hasn’t the media made a big deal of what Obama is spending on his wardrobe. I hear that one taylor made suit of his cost $55,000. Another question we should be e-mailing the msm, is how much has Obama spent.
President Barack Obama’s suits cost $1500 and are made in the USA. He purchased four new suits for the election and paid for them himself. The Palins’s net worth is $2.1 Million, The Mccain’s are worth more than $100 million. Do you think these people should have paid for there own clothing? Just asking
-Mike the teacher, net worth <$50,000
Also, although Palin is correct in the literal sense that the VP is the President of the Senate, her comments seem to imply a level of VP involvement in Senate proceedings which would be completely without precedent.
This in answer to a question about how to talk to the Palin-Haters.
[I don't care what BHO spent on his suits or about Governor Palin going shopping. There are more important things going on. But, I do appreciate that Mike has these pertinent facts. I know. People with money suck. I get it. But, back to our regularly scheduled program.]
I have run up against the Palin-Hating hyenas myself and it’s astounding the supposed “facts” that they’ve chiseled into their rock-hard skulls and how rabid they are to hunt her down and rip her apart, limb from limb. Where do they get this stuff?
When asked the other day by a kindred spirit what to do about such encounters, rather than spending more of my valuable time, which I’m trying to devote to causes of good rather than to riding ‘round and ‘round on the Ferris Wheel of Whoppers with deranged fools, I thought to come up with a couple of quick suggestions.
First, tell them to go watch Sean Hannity’s interview with the Governor. Give it to them if they don’t have it. Let her tell them, in her own words, what she thinks rather than finding out from the check out line at the grocery.
And, strange as it might sound, go back and watch Charlie “I’m a Lot Smarter Than She Is and I Have the Harumph and the Sneer to Prove It” Gibson’s interview (more like a cross-examination than an interview). Listen to what she really says, not what the press told you she said.
Watch it in context of what we know now. She’s looking for reasonable questions and getting inside pitches from somebody obviously out to make a point rather than get information. They’d never done that before. They certainly didn’t do it with Obama, rather trying to turn slow pitch softball into the national pastime.
Then, go watch her recent one-on-one interview with the reporter in New Hampshire. Now that’s she’s figured out the interview is not always about the questions, she lets nothing by her and she’s as sharp as a razor. She ended up making me feel sorry for the poor reporter who’d been sent to interview her by the time it was over. It was painfully obvious that the reporter was totally unprepared to explain her questions or know what it was she was really asking.
Totally different picture. As they say, you be the judge.
Okay, so, what else? By the way, if they won’t look at any of this, then they value their opinion more than the truth and more than your friendship. Move on (to steal a name).
What else? Let’s see.
Governor Palin’s an idiot. The people of Alaska are all Eskimos living in igloos and are themselves as dumb as rocks for electing her in the first place and for liking her so damned much. They’re all fools.
A few notes, call them talking points if you like.
So, Governor Palin’s an idiot but, since she’s never left Alaska, nobody else knows she’s an idiot and we needed Tina Fey and Matt Damon to tell us. Ask your friends if they know that Governor Palin serves as Chair of what we call the Interstate Compact, The Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission, a multi-state government agency, and that she also serves as Chair of the National Governor’s Association Energy Committee?
Apparently, she’s not only fooled the people of Alaska, who are all sitting around the igloo eating seal fat, but she’s also managed to fool the other states of the union and her fellow Governors. And, if they care to read comments of Governors who serve with her, who have seen her present and preside at the NGA Energy meetings, they’d find out she’s anything BUT dumb.
Next. She doesn’t believe in evolution and is opposed to teaching it in schools. WRONG. Her dad was a science teacher, for goodness sake. Watch Hannity. Listen to what she says in her own words, if you really want to know what she thinks. Of course evolution should be taught in our school’s science classes. She’s never suggested otherwise.
She also doesn’t believe in global warming. WRONG. Do they know that, as Governor of Alaska, she established a Subcabinet entity on climate change, tasked specifically to develop a plan for Alaska to deal with this issue. And, listen to Charlie Gibson (he obviously wasn’t listening to her but I was). Her position? She never said man had nothing to do with Climate Change but, the point is, rather than arguing over who or what is responsible, we need to get to work and deal with it. Typical of her. Take action. Charlie would rather play semantics.
Have your friends actually heard this Governor speak, since she figured out the press really was not her friend? She wises up pretty quickly. And it shows.
When she won the Governor’s seat in Alaska, she and her opponents, the incumbent Republican and, later, the former U.S. Senator, debated numerous times and she thumped them, repeatedly, like a drum. People laughed about the story of the Obama campaign spokesman briefing the press on the plane headed for the Palin/Biden VP debate, telling the press that he’d studied every one of her debates in Alaska’s Gubernatorial campaign and not to underestimate this woman, she could bring it. Some members of the press openly laughed at him.
Why? Who knows. I often wonder why you see somebody in pants hanging off their ass and in a few weeks you see everybody else has to have their pants hanging off their ass, too. Or, among the “elite” I guess it’s the Birkenstock syndrome. All of a sudden, it’s the thing and, if you’re cool, too, you’re going to have them on your feet. And that makes you just a little bit better than somebody else. The story of human nature. Everybody, no matter how high or how low, needs to have somebody to look down on.
Today’s Starbucks special kick me doll? The Governor of Alaska. Does it make sense? No. But, neither does ordering coffee without any coffee in it filled with milk that has no milk in it. It becomes the thing and you’re not the thing unless you have it too and you know the slang of ordering. You have to tell the cashier just the way the cashier yells it out to the new-this-week Barista, and that means you’re better than somebody who just says, “Coffee, black.”
But, back to the challenge of the moment. How to pierce the she’s a dummy fantasy.
You know what? We’ve all got better things to do.
Let’s put it this way.
Governor Sarah Palin is dumb as a rock?
Yeah, you wish.
And if they don’t want to at least stop and listen, go make some calls or shake some hands because you’re wasting your time talking logic to a zealot.
Who called her stupid? I didn’t.
Also a couple of points:
1. I wouldn’t make Tina Fey out to be the enemy you want her to be, she supported Hillary in the primaries.
2. What does Starbucks have to do with anything?
Okay, so the republicans spent $150K on Palin’s clothes for the convention and the campaign events.
How much did the Greek temple cost at the Democrat convention, where Obama accepted his messiah mantle?
It’s all show-business set and stage dressing. It’s marketing.
Have you heard how much it costs to shoot a single commercial for a consumer product, especially fresh fruit under studio lights? Did you know that most ice cream advertisements on TV use colored mashed potatoes and not ice cream, because the real thing doesn’t hold up under studio lights?
Each campaign has money to spend on selling their product. (But Obama reneged on his promise to stay with public funds, so he has a lot more doe-rey-me now than McCain.) They are just trying to make their best advertisements.
Besides Obama’s expensive suits, what’s the big deal? I guess CBS / NBC / ABC / MSNBC / PBS / CNN can’t settle for pushing their messiah. They want Palin to wear rags so that Obama can win the swimsuit and evening gown competition, too.
Okay, here’s the whole story about this, which the Dems have been trying to keep quiet.
You see, Todd Palin, before becoming a championship snowmobile racer, back in the day, used to race bobsleds, like everybody else. When the snowmobile came along, it went a lot faster and some people, like Todd, thought it was more exciting and decided to switch over.
However, what he hadn’t realized was that being a dog on a dog sled team was a union job (UMA / United Mushers of America) so he couldn’t just fire the dogs, even though they didn’t need them any more. Even though he’d offered to set them up with new jobs, as voter fraud sniffers (with an old ACORN as a clue), except they found out nobody really cared about voter fraud so they tried to latch on with HSA (Homeland Security) as drug sniffers but they were from Alaska and nobody in Washington knew anybody from Alaska so nobody trusted them, since they’d never seen them at the Old Ebbets Grill talking to attractive Congressional interns.
So, the dogs couldn’t get jobs and Todd couldn’t fire them because they were union so he’s still got them and they’ve become friends of the family. Some have suggested that they have become a source of warmth and comfort for Todd on long winter nights while his wife, the Governor, is out being a bad mommy trying to run the world and all that and speculation has it that this is one explanation for the Palin children’s kind of funny sort of names. Track? Like track in the snow? Like dog track? See? Makes sense.
But that has nothing to do with the clothing budget. You see, these are union dogs. So, they have uniforms. And, since they’re required to wear these uniforms (basically fur, mixed colors, mostly black, some grey), they’re a part of the job and the employer must supply them.
So, you see, and I know this is BIG and I hope it doesn’t derail the Sarah Palin Express that’s steamrolling what’s their names, but the wardrobe budget is a combined total, for all staff.
It’s basically a new vest for Sarah, because hunting season’s starting up and she didn’t have the right vest and color for hunting down the roving male mysoginist, this year’s prize hide. And some booties for the kids who normally have to walk barefoot 10 miles in each direction through the snow to school. And the rest was for new outfits for the dog sled team.
I know. Scandalous. But, I believe the truth shall set you free.
And B.S. will only make you smell funny.
So, there you have it.
Breaking news.
By the way, this reminds me of that old saying, for some reason: On a dog sled team, as in life, the scenery only changes for the lead dog!!
Stand up!!!!
(No, not the dogs, just the people).
Amazingly fun way to start my day IndieDogg. I want to add something clever but you’ve left me speechless. (for now)
Hey Indie dog droppings- Why is it that you bring up the class warfare? I never said a word about peoples’ right to inherit hundreds of millions of dollars or to dump their spouse to jump into the lap of a sugar mama. If you can do it, I say go for it. My very simple point is that spending political dollars on top of the line clothing at a rate of two grand a day is unprecedented and incredibly dense in a public relations standpoint. John McCain (I’m sure you heard of him, your spokeswoman gave him $500 in 2000) stood on the senate floor in 1990 and tried to ban it.
Take heart my little puppy, when President Barack Obama is sworn in you can rest assured the country will be in good hands and you can go back to licking your own brain and sorting through your neighbors garbage. Sounds a lot like writing eight paragraph entries on this PUMA site
I am watching the TV and from what I see, I think the issue about Palin’s clothing is the McCain-Feingold bill that says that campaign money can’t be used to buy candidates’ clothing, right? And if McCain helped to author that bill, that is what is the issue which I can kind of understand. Is that right? I really don’t know how the campaign monies can be spent. Does anybody know? Where can I find out how the Obama campaign has spent their funds and if it is legitimate? Oh well, hopefully this issue will go away as it really isn’t that important.
It’s not technically illegal since the RNC not the McCain campaign bought Emperor-to-be Sarah ‘Let’em wear Gucci” Palin’s new clothes.
well mrs. amma, if you REALLY want to investigate issues of wrongdoing, why don’t you research information on the millions BO has received via CC from questionable donors. He has access to $500 million and you are sweating $150,000 for Palin’s wardrobe? Lemme see, money from his Uncle’s Muslim-based, Sharia-law imposing, Christianity-outlawing, home-for terrorists Kenya, vs. some new threads for Sarah… Well, OF COURSE we should be worried more about Palin attire than potential VOTER and DONOR fraud of the Obama campaign, sounds logical.
Boemery–I am confused–are you angry at me or at the media? I was just asking about this and telling what I am hearing on TV. I just want to know how to counter the things I hear on the media with my BO friends. Oh well…I will try to visit the DNC site to get an answer–never done that and don’t even know what’s on that site.
LOL Kenya is imposing sharia and outlawing christianity? Thats a new one!
PUMA thank you for all your hard work.
This election is about working hard to maintain our democracy or having government being in charge of our lives.
This country was founded by our forefathers who left their homeland to escape tyranny. They wanted religious freedom, freedom to live their lives, freedom for their children and families. We all have to remember the priciples on how this country was formed. It is the greatest country in the world and people from all over the world look up to us and hope someday they can experiences the freedom we have.
It is our responsibilty to maintain our democracy. We all go out every day and work to support ourselves and our families. In our everyday lives we work and socialize with people of all different races, cultures, faiths, and socioeconomic backgrounds. We are the ones who make this country great. When there is a disaster the people help other people. When other parts of the world experience a disaster the first place they look to is the United States.
I do not want my government to take care of me. I do not want my government to place rules and regulations on me that impede me from achieving my goals. I will take care of myself and if my neighbor needs help I will help them. I want my government to protect and defend my country and take care of those people who can not take care of themselves.
Government needs to step aside and let us live our lives. We are ones who make this country great.
Lets be fair. Palin is a crook and now the media is discovering so. That is all.
Reminds me of the attacks about the cost of Cindy McCain’s cloths she wore at the Republican Convention. Only for the story to be later corrected but like with any correction it received little attention.
Attacking any candidate on the way they dress is wrong but it isn’t unheard of. Gore’s neutral colors was talked about, Lamar Alexander and his flannel shirts was a campaign image. I’m glad to see Obama only spends $1,500 on a suite, only about 4 times as much as the average gray-collar worker.
Obama’s type of ‘Populism’, call it Maxist or Socialist or whatever reminds me a lot of that of would be President Huey Long-
“Always the music lover, Huey wrote a catchy campaign song, “Every Man a King”, that summarized his share-the-wealth philosophy: “Every man a king, for you can be a millionaire — but there’s something belonging to others — there’s enough for all people to share.”
First, some facts, for perspective: 1/3 of the clothes were returned (they were bought, tried on and sent back), 1/3 are still boxed up, unopened, and 1/3 are “in use” for the candidate. But, that’s beside the point.
A. Ask donors, not CNN. We donated the money; ask us if it’s OK for the campaign to help out with the next VP’s “campaign” wardrobe. I approve. Next question.
B. It’s for the CAMPAIGN. The clothes are being donated to charity after it’s over. It’s tantamount to a RENTAL of a campaign wardrobe, needed due to the speed with which all this cranked up. Liken it to Obama’s plane which he spent hundreds of thousands of dollars re-doing. He’s not going to KEEP it after the campaign is over (well, knowing him, he might), any more than the campaigns are going to keep the vehicles and computers and cell phones and walkie-talkies they all use on a daily basis. These are not HER clothes. What does it take for an ounce of fact to get through to the rabid news dogs. It’s like my neighbor’s dog. He barks like a maniac at anybody passing behind the back yard wall, whether a professional burglar or a harmless grandma. These people bark and snarl at fact and fiction alike. They, apparently, don’t know the difference.
Okay, and to TD’s point.
We have larger fish to fry, I would hope, as a nation.
Barack Obama funneled close to 6 times the amount we’re talking about here to a front group for ACORN. Mislabeled the expenditure in finance reports, not only claiming it went to some other group but claiming it was for something totally unrelated to voter registration. Only admitted the description was wrong when called on it by the FEC, still not identifying the correct organization, all while claiming to have never trained with ACORN and never to have had anything to do with ACORN (all claims subsequently removed from the campaign website because they weren’t true) and only admitting the over $800,000 was paid to the fraud purveyor ACORN for get out the vote work after the facts were uncovered by others. That seems like an important story.
The Obama campaign, it now appears, has disabled credit card verification on its donation web page, allowing millions of dollars to flow into the campaign from blatantly fictitious donors from around the world in a massive campaign finance scandal while, at the same time, refusing to disclose the names of any of these (under $200) donors.
You can literally donate as much as you want to the Obama campaign using any credit card you like, whether or not it’s yours and you can use Man In the Moon as a name and Moon Crater as an address and it will go right through. To hell with campaign finance laws, Mickey and Minnie are welcome at Team Obama.
But those stories aren’t as important as campaign clothing?
Bought by the campaign? Hidden from no one?
On this last point. This is not an “expose” though these reporters want the Woodward/Bernstein award for “discovering” what has never been hidden, from anybody. Why? Because it’s not a story or anything that needs hiding.
The campaign has made expenditures it feels are appropriate. What’s the story here? The mayor of Detroit (another Obama pal) charges trips to France and other jaunts on the city credit card without telling anybody, something north of $125,000. That’s news. That’s theft, conversion, whatever you want to call it.
If anybody’s got a beef with the McCain campaign and any of its expenditures in the campaign, including this one, they should take it up with the campaign.
Governor Palin sold the state plane and flew commercial.
She shops at a second-hand store in Alaska.
Somebody explain to me where the story is.
Is the media totally unaware that there is a shadow man running for President that won’t release medical, college or campaign records? Which do they think is more important and which is a larger scandal?
The only scandal being perpetuated at the moment is the media’s total disregard for their own professional standards.
They no longer report on the Mob. They have become the Mob.
How much money does Biden spend to ride the train back to Delaware every night? I’m sure he spends taxpayer money to ride the train and bill it as travel expenses.
How much money has Michelle Obama spent? How about he fact that Obama is trying to buy this election by putting ads anywhere and everywhere? Obama isn’t reporting contributions (legally) which is highly unethical.
Glad Obama made it home to visit his ‘typical white woman’, racist grandmother that raised him.
JMann, I am more concerned on where Obama got $600 million dollars from contributors considered most Americans are “cash strapped” at this time.
When is that EVER going to be investigated?
By the way JMann - welcome aboard!!
I’m not at all concerned about Sarah Palin’s clothes. C’mon! Did people really expect her to get up there in the fleece that she wore while campaigning for Gov of Alaska???
It was in extremely poor taste on the part of the RNC, but we’re in the race of our lives here. She’s got to look impeccable, just like Hillary does.
The press is extremely biased and pounding her,,and she’s showing that she’s made of great stuff and she just lets it roll off of her. I’m sure that is not as easy as she’s making it look.
She’s staying on focus and keeping the real issues right out front, where they belong, and she’s doing it with grace.
Frankly, we need to notify our representatives to STOP all taxpayer monies to ACORN immediately and conduct a thorough independent investigation of Obama aka Barry Soetoro’s campaign financing.
He and Acorn both run according to the rules of Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals”.
Things are so turbulent here in Kansas City that I fully expect chaos, conflict and bullying at the polls,,and, if Obama loses or wins, race riots and cities burning.
I’ve lived for over half a century and I’ve seen it all,,,,the best predictor of future is history.
Isn’t it alarming that the MSM finds Sarah Palin’s clothes a bigger issue than, say, Obama’s ties to the New Party and Democratic Socialists of America? I am so sick of the treatment of Gov. Palin, and the obvious lack of research on the shadowy Obama.
Exactly mbander! That is just one of many questionable ties to Obama! What about his contribution - Geez - WHERE did he get that money. Other countries are giving him money and it ILLEGAL - Congress won’t push the subject and is blocking investigations on him - because Pelosi and Reid control Congress.
That leaves it up to WE THE PEOPLE to stop him.
We march on.
blondgenes - welcome aboard. We appreciate and admire your passion on the subject of stopping Obama!
Hey Sparky, Why no smiley face for me? Where is the love>
McCain and Palin are the only two people that can prevent Obama to become America’s first black muslim marxist dictator. Forget about Sarah clothes, she is gorgeous any ways, stop being jealous!
Obama’s Hawaii Trips Cost More Than Palin’s Clothes
Sunday, October 26, 2008 3:21 PM
By: Ronald Kessler Article Font Size
Barack Obama’s trips to Hawaii on a chartered Boeing 757 each cost more than twice the price of Sarah Palin’s new clothes.
Brad Blakeman, who was in charge of scheduling for President Bush, says a Boeing 757 costs about $20,000 an hour for fuel, crew, and maintenance. Since a trip to Hawaii entails 10 hours of flying time from Chicago, the total cost for each round-trip comes to about $400,000.
Obama used the Boeing 757 for trips to Hawaii over the summer for a vacation and again last week to see his failing grandmother. Admirable though that visit was, “By Obama using a private jet to go on a purely personal visit to see his grandma, he’s wasting not only energy, but he’s using the money that his supporters have given him for campaign purposes,” Blakeman says. “It’s a purely personal visit paid for with campaign funds.”
On the other hand, the media are highlighting the Republican National Committee’s purchase of $150,000 in clothes for Palin, even though the dresses will be donated to charities. The New York Times played the story on page one.
“They’re picking on Palin, who was provided a wardrobe by the RNC strictly for political purposes, and it was always intended that these garments would be then given to charity,” Blakeman says. “So there’s a benefit that’s going to charity, not a benefit that Palin will have after the election. There was a need for it because she’s a modest person who didn’t have an extensive wardrobe to do 24/7 campaigning.”
To pick on Palin without going after Obama’s plane trips is “an absolute journalistic abuse,” Blakeman says. “This is the same plane that he took to Hawaii when he went on vacation. In the summertime, when gas was soaring and Americans were having to pinch their pennies, this guy gets on his campaign plane and goes to Hawaii on vacation. He did a couple campaign stops in a state that is not a swing state and is a guaranteed win for Obama. That was clearly to cover the tracks of this vacation.”
Blakeman notes that at the height of the gasoline price surge, Obama suggested that Americans check their vehicle’s tire pressure as a way of conserving fuel.
“I wonder if he checked the tires on his jumbo jet before taking off for a purely personal visit?” Blakeman says. “The way he spends campaign money is a direct reflection of how he will spend ours. He could have easily flown commercial or taken a much smaller corporate aircraft that would cost a fraction of a 757.”
Ironically, it was Palin as governor who saved money for Alaskans by selling the state’s jet and instead flying commercial.
Kellyanne Conway, one of the most respected Republican pollsters, says the media’s attack on Palin’s clothes is an example of elitist snobbery or “classism.” Noting the media’s treatment of her, “I can’t believe her own family still approves of her, after the unprecedented, personal and relentless attacks that this woman has undergone,” Conway says.
Besides attacks on Palin over her clothes, Conway cites snide remarks about “the way she speaks, her husband’s lack of a college degree, the barefoot and pregnant 17-year-old daughter, you know who hunts moose anyway? The classism is so raw and unapologetic, so unconsidered and so undisguised.”
Great information boemery, I’m going to cut and paste it so that I can pass it along to others!
Pounce!
Hey, speaking of wasteful spending, has anyone heard if it is true that Obama spent $400,000 on two trips to Hawaii out of his campaign funds? I read this yesterday that the cost of the trip to see his grandmother, plus the flight he took earlier to Hawaii, had a cost of $400,000. If this is true, why are we hearing so much about 150,000 of Sarah Palin’s clothes, when BO spent more than double on these trips. Wheres the media of this???? Oh thats right, we are not allowed to question him.
Boy this entire website is about spreading and repeating lies and half-truths. I have decided after reading hundreds of posts this is just a bunch of catty women who have nothing better to do. The reason her clothing is being brought up is that Ms I dont have a single independent thought, has portrayed herself as “Hockey mom, Joe six pack, straight from Alaska” and here she is getting $150,000 in clothes. Kind of goes against that image she is pretending to have. Thats the point! As for the Obamas, they have not reported either during the primaries or the general election of spending ANY campaign money on personal clothing. In fact Michelle buys her clothes from J.Crew per her interview last night on Jay Leno. So who is really the elitist here. Having contributed around $300 to the Obama campaign I would be pissed if I found out they were spending that money on clothing as should you “GOPers” if you donated money for her highnesses Saks shopping spree.
hminton,
You do raise a good point. Obama’s campaign hasn’t reported ANY campaign money being spent on clothes. … but then they also didn’t report $830 million for Acorn to “Get Out the Vote” - truly a bigger issue.
Anyway, you will be happy to know that your $300 was well spent by Obama - you bought almost six one hundred thousandths of his styrofoam stage for his one night speech to make HIM look better. Not NEARLY as irritating, I am sure. He is surely a good steward of your money.
Oh hminton,
One more thing. I am not catty - I am a small town bitter clinger. And I am sure you would be surprised to know that Obama has contempt for both of us.
hminton - good points. SP and McCain claim to be the “average joe” yah right…she’s a thief (that charged her state for flights for her family and per diem to sleep in her own home, as well as appointed 100s of friends to Alaska state positions) and he’s a multi millionaire thanks to his wife. they are out of touch, out of ideas, and out of TIME. Be glad SP will not get ahold of your $$$$. **My husband and I have given Obama $2300.00 each and I don’t care what he spends it on.
We know the world you live include finds voter fraud acceptable; it is not the world as it should be however! Bots are like little children excited by the idea that there are no rules without the ability to forsee the consequences… look at how the two thing that Obama claims as experience worked out; Housing and Education in Chicago; Oh and he has apparently been able to milk fools out of there money. He says he will redistribute the wealth; compare his and Biden’s tax returns with McCains and Palins for charitable giving. You know when he looses this election he will get to keep the money he raised. Do you think the Obots will get a share?
Got a feel for P.U.M.A tonight on FOX news…I have to say…you guys are fighting more than just the Hillary issue…you are bringing to light the issue Ronald Reagan had with the party, too…that democracy has been polluted and abandoned. Perhaps you can bring back the Democratic Party from the far Left Liberals…they have high-jacked a once very honorable platform and distorted it.
Love your organizations name!! I’m so glad to know this group is out here…I’ve been hearing from PUMA Dems on TeamSarah and then tonight the gentlemen who spoke on on Greta was so articulate and his comment about how the democratic party has let the people down resonated in my spirit.
i dont know who told you people that sarah was worth 2.1 mill…….i live in anchorage alaska and the palin’s gave their tax info to the local media here…..and i saw how much she made and it was less than 300,000 and that is with todd’s job and their company…. and saying she had the alaska tax payers had to pay her to stay in her own home. i dont know about you but my gov. dosnt get to clock out at the end of the day so i dont care where she sleeps. she has worked hard fun here people she gave us all $1200 that was an extra $3600 for me and my 2 kids on top of our PFD’s. and she made it where we got the checks with in a month after all the approving was done.SO SHE IS FOR THE PEOPLE!!!!just like sarah said….she dosnt get to keep those clothes…they are like props…..
SHE IS THE REGULAR “HOCKEY MOM” ARE YOU TELLING ME SHE WALKED UP TO THE CAMPAIGN CHIEF AND SAID “BUY ME CLOTHES” YOU PEOPLE ARE JUST B***HING ABOUT THIS BECAUSE YOU DONT HAVE NOTHING ELSE TO TALK ABOUT…….SHE IS A GOVERNOR THAT MAKES DECISIONS……OBAMA COULDNT EVEN GIVE HIS OPINION ABOUT ANYTHING HE VOTED “PRESENT” OVER 150 TIMES IN THE SENATE…..COME ON PEOPLE! SHE TOOK DOWN AN INCUMBENT GOVERNOR OF HER PARTY AND TOOK OUT A VERY POPULAR DEMOCRATIC FORMER GOVERNOR IN THE GENERAL… BECAUSE EVERYONE KNEW HER FROM BEING SUCH A GOOD MAYOR “IN A SMALL TOWN” OF WASILLA!!! AND LIKE HER…IF YOU WOULD GIVE HER A HONEST CHANCE YOU WOULD LIKE HER TOO…
AND HEARING ALL YOU PEOPLE AND THE ELITE MEDIA BASH HER. JUST REMINDS ME WHY I DONT WANT TO LEAVE ALASKA…
jamakers,
I often wonder who can still support Obama now that we have seen behind the flashy speeches, and know of his socialist ideology, but you have cleared it up for me. I guess there are those who just don’t care how he spends their hard earned money. Personally, I would prefer to decide myself, but apparently people like you have decided that, after you work hard to earn it, Obama should take it from you and decide who REALLY deserves. Interesting. You must lack confidence in your own good judgement.
mbander - explain ’socialist ideology’. you have talking points, but just because you call someone socialist, doesn’t make it true. you’ve already decided you don’t like obama, so you’ve jumped on the socialist bandwagon. that’s not thinking for yourself or doing the research. that’s straight out of a fox news talking point.
i will ask you the same question that larry king asked mccain last night … you don’t really think that obama is a socialist, do you? (note, mccain’s answer: no, he does not think obama is a socialist.)
old posts on this site indicate that you, mbander, used to hammer obama on his associations. now, you’ve moved on to his ’socialist ideology’. you are using the same playbook as fox news and other conservative pundits. how is that any different than an obama supporter who reiterates obama’s talking points? when someone on this site does that, however, PUMAs ridicule them for being brain washed, brain dead, a follower, an obot, a troll, and the list goes on.
finally, you really ‘wonder’ who can still support obama? at least 50% of the voting population supports him according to most polls (insert how you don’t trust the polls or how they are skewed, or whatever your retort regarding polls is here ). and you are telling me that you cannot understand how a single person in that group can support obama? not one? i find that hard to believe ….
mbander - don’t bother wasting your breath on jamakers. It is a known fact that Obama operatives are sending out trolls to all the anti-messiah websites to spread their poison.
They are worthless kool-aid drinkers that don’t give a damn about our opinion.
OK Sparky,
They must be low on trolls though, because I have yet to come across one with a well thought out argument. Where are the deep thinkers?? Oh, never mind, I just answered my own question. I don’t think you can be both a thinker and an Obama supporter.
This comment is directed to Hminton, anyone else can feel free to jump in.
You say you would be pissed if you knew your $300 contribution to the “chosen one” was spent on clothes. How are you going to feel when he takes your 401-K and “redistributes the wealth”? HMM!!!!!!!!!
Barney Frank’s plan is for the government to STEAL every citizens 401-K money.
The money will be credited to your Social Security account, but it will no longer be yours to control. The government will guarantee you 3% a year, whew ! A whooping 3%. You will recieve your monthly payments when you retire. When you die the money goes to the government, not your children, not your wife, the government. All Faggot Frank needs is for OSAMA BIN BIDEN to get elected. Once that happens, Obama and Frank will take your 401-K money.
That $300 dollars is starting to look microscopic now. Is your A hole starting to pucker?
You are correct mbander, the prerequisite to being an Obamamaniac aka troll is to not have a mind of your own, otherwise how will they be able to tell you lies without you figuring it out. No, no, no they need someone weak of mind that they can control and tell lame stories too so that they can cry and shake themselves to the ground in utter amazement of their messiah.
Poor, poor brainless fools….bless their hearts.
donnybb - I’m starting to pucker already! Lordy, lordy it’s not a pretty site!
Sheehy,
The associations I have “hammered” Obama about are mostly, themselves, socialists, Ayres, Wright, Acorn. I haven’t moved on, that has always been my problem with these associations. They SHARE a socialist ideology.
But if you can’t see he’s a socialist from what he says and who his friends,
mentors and supporters are, maybe his involvement with theChicago New Party will convince you.
Obama belonged to an organization known as the Chicago “New Party”. The ‘New Party’ was a political party established by the Democratic Socialists of America (the DSA) to push forth the socialist principles of the DSA by focusing on winnable elections at a local level and spreading the Socialist movement upwards. The admittedly Socialist Organization experienced a moderate rise in numbers between 1995 and 1999. By 1999, however, the Socialist ‘New Party’ was essentially defunct after losing a supreme court challenge that ruled the organizations “fusion” reform platform as unconstitutional.
and:
From the October 1996 Update of the DSA ‘New Party’:
“New Party members are busy knocking on doors, hammering down lawn signs, and phoning voters to support NP candidates this fall. Here are some of our key races…
Illinois: Three NP-members won Democratic primaries last Spring and face off against Republican opponents on election day: Danny Davis (U.S. House), Barack Obama (State Senate) and Patricia Martin (Cook County Judiciary).”
I won’t bore you with the rest because one thing I have learned about Obama supporters is that they don’t like to be confused with facts, but if you want the press releases about this and his membership, you need to check the “wayback machine” because like so many other damning facts about Obama, his campaign has removed this website. It is however archived on the “wayback machine.”
So yes I am opposed to his socialist ideology. But I am not accusing him of anything. HE jumped on the socialist bandwagon all by himself - he used to be proud of it.
Mbander - don’t bother - Sheepish is another Obama Troll. They routinely scan the blogs and throw red herrings out there. They are lame people with no mind of their own.
JenInAk - Welcome aboard! We are delighted to have a true Alaskan on our board.
Sparky,
I can’t stop pointing out where they are wrong. I am wired for debate I guess but I also have no tolerance for ignorance - especially when it is self-imposed. I guess i always hope one of them, when faced with the facts about the ever-deceitful Obama, will smack themselves on the forehead and think “wow, I must be an idiot”
I would feel bad if they really had never heard the truth. It is stunning to me that there are actually people out there who are so easily deceived.
GOSH, some of you are so angry. YAH, I’m a “troll” sent out by Obama operatives…ha ha. I just wanted to read what the other side is saying. The angry vibe on this site is telling for sure.
Troll on jabberjaw - mbander just called you out on what you truly are - an idiot -plain and simple. Now go drink so more kool-aid and try to feel better about yourself, if that is even possible.
PUMA Pounce!
I noticed MSNBC had clips ridiculing Hillary tonight. Keith Oberwhatever just couldn’t resist one more cheap shot at Hillary before the election. He’s not the only one I’ve seen do this lately. The MSM just never get enough. They want Hillary to play the Obama game, but they can’t quite let it go. Good thing Sara came along to take some of her punches.
FOX just announced names of cabinet members that are being mentioned. Guess what- not one woman mentioned on Obama team. Meg Whitman was mentioned as Sec. of Tr. for McCain. Surprise-surprise!
I have been a long time Democrat, but recently have had my eyes opened up. I am sick and tired of the mean spirited press and the majority of Democrats who feel the same way. The way Gov. Palin has been crucified and hungout since accepting the offer is ridiculous. 150K for clothing?? Whoopie do. She makes 125K as the Govenor of Alaska which also has the highest cost of living in the Country. Her husband is a fisherman. I doubt that her wardrobe is that of Michele Obama’s, nor do they live the lifestyle of Joe or BO. Gov. Palin and husband also have a large family for the 2 of them to support with other issues of their youngest. Where is the outrage of the 500 million un-accounted funding, the fall back on Public Campaign financing, etc, etc, etc…. There isn’t any. This man gets away scott free and Chris Matthews and the Arse from MSNBC act as they are Judge and Executioner for Gov. Palin and Senator McCain. Its a damn shame that we have gotten this way. I am going to the “dark side” from now on since I have been “awakened.” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yvc0tYG_YpA