AMERICAblog: Palin amended govt expense reports after McCain picked her for VP
CitizenTwenty
· 1 year ago
She must have really, really wanted to be Vice President... Sitting up there all by her self in Alaska...
For Beauty Queen Sarah... It must have been like Ed 'effing McMahon showing up at your door with a big 'effing cardboard check that says you've won... The "Vice Presidency of The United States" on it. Any impediments to getting your hands on that big cardboard check... Need to be swept as quickly as possible under the rug... Sadly... For her and her family... She will undoubtably go down in history as... Sarah Palin=Cheap and quickly boring political parlor act.
KISSman
· 1 year ago
You'd have to think that the McCain camp were the ones to think to 'ammend' these sorts of things so they wouldn't stand out to anyone. It's creepy as hell since it was knowingly done to cover up these rule violations.
Palin reminds me a lot of Dubya. Not just in intellect, but due to the fact that there are SO many issues with this woman that each new revelation doesn't have the same impact as it should.
I remember back in '04 that there would be so many things in question with Bush that the shock factor had worn off by the election. However, if Kerry had a gaffe, it was a HUGE deal because his campaign lacked the scandal and corruption that was so plentiful in his opponent's camp.
Point being, this is a big deal -- as is the $150,000 in clothes -- but it's just one of many running stories about this woman and they stop having the proper impact on people because they all start to blend in.
You have to put the term "redneck" into historical context. Anglo-Saxon types toiling in the sun all day did (and still do) get red necks; rednecks is more of a class-bias term than anything else. Using "redneck" as a pejorative term for racist whites just doesn't fit quite right. I've run into many "suits" who were far more racist than less privileged whites, and they had a lot more power as well. I grew up in the south and was a keen observer of this kind of behavior.
You could say that all types of white working people, from farmers to construction workers and everything in between, could technically be called "rednecks" but it would not define them either politically or sociologically. In fact, you could call me a "redneck" too, and while I'm a blue eyed blonde, the term doesn't quite seem to fit someone who marched for civil rights as a young mother in the south. Some of us do understand that we have more in common with our brothers and sisters in the same position we're in, than with the rich and powerful who oppress us all.
sukabi1
· 1 year ago
yeah, I know... but... the folks holding those signs above ARE the demographic that McCain / Palin were trying to appeal to ... and from the looks of things they aren't succeeding...
Also, I didn't bring "rednecks" into the equation... the guy holding the sign did... I just thought the signs were telling... :-)
DCinDC
· 1 year ago
Commenting on a new joint interview with John McCain and Sarah Palin, NBC News Political Director Chuck Todd described the Republican ticket as lacking cohesion, chemistry, and (he hinted) trust.
"There was a tenseness," Todd told MSNBC's Chris Matthews. "I couldn't see chemistry between John McCain and Sarah Palin. I felt as if we grabbed two people and said 'here, sit next to each other, we are going to conduct an interview.' They are not comfortable with each other yet."
Speculation is McCain is blaming Palin for his problems.
Polly_Tics
· 1 year ago
Yes this IS disturbing and why does this happen at all?
It happens when you have a candidate who values personal political gain over what is best for his country.
It happens when you have someone believes that honor is something that is best left at the door when entering a new career possability.
But worst of all it is when that same person values lies and smears above all else, no matter the final effects inflicted upon the people in this nation.
And this is someone whom so many used to look up to? What a horrible shame...
Older_Wiser
· 1 year ago
Could someone straighten this out? I thought Palin claims she is responsible for Alaskans getting a check every year as their cut of oil revenues. Yet, when a Dem brought it up on one of the shows yesterday (you will have to forgive me--all of this is coming at us so fast and I can't remember if it was Hardball or what)--anyway, when the Dem brought it up as a rebuttal of a charge of "socialism" against Obama and positing that Palin actually did the socialist deed, the Rethug surrogate said Palin had nothing to do with getting Alaskans a share of the oil revenue (trying of course to distance Palin from that horrible word!).
So, guess I'll have to find out exactly who can take credit for that. Anyone know offhand?
TxDeb
· 1 year ago
I think it was Phote-whatshername on Hardball. She forgot to mention that Palin initiated a windfall profits tax so Alaskans could get more moola.
As for the girls' travel, every story I've ever read on this only mentions the girls. Where was Track?
dances_with_beagles
· 1 year ago
I finally figured it out! The Palins are the Riches on the FX channel! the show starring Eddie Izzard. Check it out
The Riches follows a traveling family of con artists. Dahlia (Minnie Driver), the family's mother, has just completed a 2-year stint in prison. As well as dealing with Dahlia's drug problem, the family begins to question their marginal lifestyle. Along with their three children, they assume the identities of a normal, high-income family.
Ubiquitous
· 1 year ago
so if the girls were 'invited to attend' these events, there'll be records of them actually attending?
won't there
pictures and the like? and people who remember their presence?
vkobaya
· 1 year ago
The story about the $150,000 the Republicans blew on Palin's wardrobe calls into question another thing, not only their hypocrisy and wastefulness, but their financial judgment in the current economic crisis. $150,000 won’t solve the nation and world's problems but that isn’t the point. The Republicans lack judgment and can't be trusted to handle any amount of money. If they lack the judgment to outfit Palin in tasteful clothing without blowing a massive budget for designer clothing, how good is their judgment about other much, much more significant financial issues like the $250 billion that will be used to bail out homeowners in foreclosure, the $700 billion for bailing out the Wall Street banking corporations, whether or not the CEOs are paid their massive $70 billion in bonuses after failing to do their jobs. Also, can we trust them to wisely spend the trillion dollar Pentagon budget or the few pennies they toss in the gutters for children's healthcare and education.
As I said, I had a coworker who could out-dress any of the Hollywood movie stars on a clerical salary, okay, to be honest, a clerical manager’s salary. My guess is she could have made Palin look like she had spent not $150,000 but $1.5 million or more and probably on less than $1,500. The Republicans could have hired her, spent $1,500 on Palin’s wardrobe and another $15,000 on my friend’s consultant’s salary and come out vastly ahead. And Palin would have been eternally grateful not having to pay the gift taxes on $150,000 worth of clothing.
Come to think of it, my coworker also was a wiz with makeup. True, top quality makeup isn’t that cheap, but hardly the $15,000 that McCain blows for two appearances or whatever they spent on Palin, something on the order of $10,000, but given my friend’s limited salary, she probably could do that job for another $1,000, and Palin would look much better than those miserable consultants that Republicans hire ... my guess is that if they charge the highest prices, the Republicans think they are the best that money can buy. That is to say they believe if they throw enough money at a problem that will sove the problem without an investment in hard work, knowledge, research and thought. Yet, as is typical, Republicans accuse Democrats of throwing money at problems.
By the way, if Palin wanted to tart it up, also had another friend who was a wiz at that. She had the ability to wear the most garish clothing, even combine things like the most garish dots and stripes and still look very good. She was also very big busted but knew how to show off her assets and still look too elegant and discourage the crudest males who were otherwise attracted.
dougg
· 1 year ago
'Revisionist history'? as Bush would say.
ManOnDog
· 1 year ago
According to the GOP apologist Georgette Mosbacher ( who someone referred to yesterday on one of these threads as 'some tranny hooker' LOL ) "...you know what...I think it's wonderful that she has her family with her and I think that most of those tax payers in Alaska would say that if they had a choice they want their children with them too and they understand that a mom wants her kids with her and they're happy to pitch in so she can have her kids with her..."
I couldn't disagree more. She's working for the state. It's a job. She doesn't necessarily have the right to have her kids with her, just as anyone else doesn't have the right to 'have their kids with them.' You think 'Joe Sixpack' or 'Joe, or Jane the Plumber' gets to cart their children around with them simply because they want to? It's disgraceful! But it shed more light on the Palin's sense of entitlement in everything they do. If it's not this, it's the thousands of dollars she charged back to the state for per diem expenses WHEN SHE STAID AT HER HOUSE for example... the list is growing of her indiscretions
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Sitting up there all by her self in Alaska...
For Beauty Queen Sarah...
It must have been like Ed 'effing McMahon showing up at your door with a big 'effing cardboard check that says you've won...
The "Vice Presidency of The United States" on it.
Any impediments to getting your hands on that big cardboard check...
Need to be swept as quickly as possible under the rug...
Sadly...
For her and her family...
She will undoubtably go down in history as...
Sarah Palin=Cheap and quickly boring political parlor act.
Palin reminds me a lot of Dubya. Not just in intellect, but due to the fact that there are SO many issues with this woman that each new revelation doesn't have the same impact as it should.
I remember back in '04 that there would be so many things in question with Bush that the shock factor had worn off by the election. However, if Kerry had a gaffe, it was a HUGE deal because his campaign lacked the scandal and corruption that was so plentiful in his opponent's camp.
Point being, this is a big deal -- as is the $150,000 in clothes -- but it's just one of many running stories about this woman and they stop having the proper impact on people because they all start to blend in.
You could say that all types of white working people, from farmers to construction workers and everything in between, could technically be called "rednecks" but it would not define them either politically or sociologically. In fact, you could call me a "redneck" too, and while I'm a blue eyed blonde, the term doesn't quite seem to fit someone who marched for civil rights as a young mother in the south. Some of us do understand that we have more in common with our brothers and sisters in the same position we're in, than with the rich and powerful who oppress us all.
Also, I didn't bring "rednecks" into the equation... the guy holding the sign did... I just thought the signs were telling... :-)
"There was a tenseness," Todd told MSNBC's Chris Matthews. "I couldn't see chemistry between John McCain and Sarah Palin. I felt as if we grabbed two people and said 'here, sit next to each other, we are going to conduct an interview.' They are not comfortable with each other yet."
Speculation is McCain is blaming Palin for his problems.
It happens when you have a candidate who values personal political gain over what is best for his country.
It happens when you have someone believes that honor is something that is best left at the door when entering a new career possability.
But worst of all it is when that same person values lies and smears above all else, no matter the final effects inflicted upon the people in this nation.
And this is someone whom so many used to look up to? What a horrible shame...
So, guess I'll have to find out exactly who can take credit for that. Anyone know offhand?
As for the girls' travel, every story I've ever read on this only mentions the girls. Where was Track?
Check it out
The Riches follows a traveling family of con artists. Dahlia (Minnie Driver), the family's mother, has just completed a 2-year stint in prison. As well as dealing with Dahlia's drug problem, the family begins to question their marginal lifestyle. Along with their three children, they assume the identities of a normal, high-income family.
won't there
pictures and the like? and people who remember their presence?
As I said, I had a coworker who could out-dress any of the Hollywood movie stars on a clerical salary, okay, to be honest, a clerical manager’s salary. My guess is she could have made Palin look like she had spent not $150,000 but $1.5 million or more and probably on less than $1,500. The Republicans could have hired her, spent $1,500 on Palin’s wardrobe and another $15,000 on my friend’s consultant’s salary and come out vastly ahead. And Palin would have been eternally grateful not having to pay the gift taxes on $150,000 worth of clothing.
Come to think of it, my coworker also was a wiz with makeup. True, top quality makeup isn’t that cheap, but hardly the $15,000 that McCain blows for two appearances or whatever they spent on Palin, something on the order of $10,000, but given my friend’s limited salary, she probably could do that job for another $1,000, and Palin would look much better than those miserable consultants that Republicans hire ... my guess is that if they charge the highest prices, the Republicans think they are the best that money can buy. That is to say they believe if they throw enough money at a problem that will sove the problem without an investment in hard work, knowledge, research and thought. Yet, as is typical, Republicans accuse Democrats of throwing money at problems.
By the way, if Palin wanted to tart it up, also had another friend who was a wiz at that. She had the ability to wear the most garish clothing, even combine things like the most garish dots and stripes and still look very good. She was also very big busted but knew how to show off her assets and still look too elegant and discourage the crudest males who were otherwise attracted.
I couldn't disagree more. She's working for the state. It's a job. She doesn't necessarily have the right to have her kids with her, just as anyone else doesn't have the right to 'have their kids with them.' You think 'Joe Sixpack' or 'Joe, or Jane the Plumber' gets to cart their children around with them simply because they want to? It's disgraceful! But it shed more light on the Palin's sense of entitlement in everything they do. If it's not this, it's the thousands of dollars she charged back to the state for per diem expenses WHEN SHE STAID AT HER HOUSE for example... the list is growing of her indiscretions