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I can't believe I agree with Knox either, but I don't wear makeup as I'm breakout prone.

It's about equal to what Biden spends on tooth whitener in a week.Must be hard to donate $13,000 in make-up.

Man, I bet Palin threw the queen of all hissy fits when they told her last night she'd have to give all her clothes to charity

Edit off of some CBS news story...

Edited, Oct 22nd 2008 6:52pm by Jophiel

Uh huh. A Hollywood makeup artist is a requirement for campaigning? $150K in designer clothes IN A SINGLE MONTH are a requirement for campaigning?

A Chanel label does not a potential president make. I don't give a rat's *** if she's in Old Navy or Christian Dior, if she ain't qualified I don't want her second in line for the Oval Office. The fact that SHE thinks designer clothes are what she needs to make herself seem presidential is extremely telling about just how UNqualified she is--how about she spends that time it took her to go on a $75,000 shopping spree and spend it learning something about the plethora of issues on which she is humiliatingly ignorant?

It's neither sexist nor elitist to expect something more of our would-be leaders than for them to be spend-thrift clothes horses who are more concerned about APPEARING like they're serious people than actually, you know, BEING SERIOUS F'UCKING PEOPLE!

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Hmmm, do you think her "daughter" will make an appearance in "Nailin' Paylin"?

Strange. Can you honestly say you've heard anyone make note of the clothing that Sarah Palin was wearing prior to hearing about the fact that it was purchased by the RNC? Anything? Did you once see her on TV and think "Wow. That outfit is just too high class for the occasion..."? Ever?

Assuming not, it would appear then that what she was wearing isn't considered unusual for someone on a presidential ticket to wear, right?

The difference isn't what she's wearing, but that she can't afford that level of clothing on her own.



No. But we (the American people) apparently don't think it's unusual for a potential president to wear it. That's the real point here, isn't it?




Again. You didn't seem to mind what she was wearing until you heard that she didn't own the clothes she was wearing. So you're basically saying she's not qualified to be vice president because she's not wealthy enough to afford those clothes on her own. Which makes you elitist. It's ok for her to wear expensive clothing, but only if she's actually rich, right? And since the cost for formal and semi-formal clothing is massively greater for women than men, it also makes you sexist. Afterall, if she were a man, the cost to get her (him?) an acceptable, dare I say it "presidential" wardrobe would be far less and you might not think so much about it.

Did you really just write that?

The woman is a Govenor. Bet she had some old things around. If not, the Good Will has a nice selection that I'm sure would be within her budget.

I know for a fact that the Goodwill in DC has haute coutre too. Goodwill recently did a charity fashion show, and the DC fashionistas grabbed designer coats, pants, dresses, and minks all for under $100 a pop.

Remember, Michelle Obama made a big splash with her $150 black and white dress on The View. Michelle has admitted that she does most of her shopping at The Gap, quite a far cry from Saks Fifth Avenue.

Obama, on the other hand, needs a new pair of shoes.

Yes. I did. They purchased those clothes for her to wear on the hundreds of appearances she had to make over the couple months she'd be campaigning. Do you really think the RNC would have done that if she had a closet full of outfits laying about?



I'm sure she did. Probably has about a half dozen or so nice outfits for official occasions. Which, when you're working as a governor is just fine. When you're going to be making multiple appearances a day 6 days a week for 10 weeks in a row, all on national TV, that's *not* going to be sufficient.

Again. The proof is that no one took note of what she was wearing. It wasn't considered unusual or out of place for someone running on a presidential ticket. It's kinda silly to assume that she had all that stuff but the RNC just decided to buy her a whole new set anyway, don't you think?

Doesn't it make much more sense to assume that the campaign looked at the schedule of appearances she was going to have to make, asked to see her wardrobe, gasped in shock at how sparse it was and decided to pony up the cash to make her look presidential.

She's a middle class working woman from Alaska. Even as Governor, exactly how many really "nice" outfits do you think she owned? The only thing this really highlights is the fact that she actually has come pretty much directly from a middle class family background. She's as middle America as you can get, so you're all bashing her because they had to buy her clothes so she'd fit in at all the events she was going to attend?



Lol. You're kidding right? Again. No one once said that she was overdressed for any of the appearances or events she's been at. I'm pretty sure they'd have noticed (and you all would have derided her) if she'd shown up in hand-me-downs from Goodwill...

I only thought this was true with Wedding Dresses and Tuxedos because of the whole "Buy a dress, rent a tux" thing.

Is there really that much of a difference in prices, or is it just that the majority of men don't care and buy tshirts and jeans from walmart?

Oh no, not at all. There's lots of stuff that's new, or brand new looking. It's usually the first place I go if i need to look specially spiffy.

Look, if the RNC wants to buy her spensive cloths, well so-be-it. But aint' no one in their right mind, gonna convince me that it was necessary, and they were getting good value for their money.

If she was really a maverick, she and her minions would be whipping up an outfit on her Singer sewing machine. Christ, she'd even score some points by joining hte interests of the indie feminist crowd and the Eagle forum. I wish I could sew. Maybe i'll buy me a sewing machine too. Or take up knitting.

There was a really odd girl in my high school graduating class. During junior high she was really superficial, tons of makeup, designer clothing, etc. Then one year about 10th grade or so she suddenly goes all Vegan and Green. No makeup, sewing her own clothes in her free time during class, anti-war, peta type.

Crazy people...