corner.nationalreview.com - 10/23/2008
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In her critique of the Palin wardrobe, Post fashion critic Robin Givhan lets slip in passing that Barack Obama's suits go for $1500 and that Michele wears designer duds all the time (except when appearing on The View when she boasted of wearing an under $200 dress).
Yes the figure of $150,000 ...
politico.com - 10/23/2008
huffingtonpost.com - 10/22/2008
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huffingtonpost.com —
Since her selection as the vice presidential nominee
in late August, the Republican National Committee spent more...
than $150,000 on clothing and make-up for Gov. Sarah Palin, her husband, and even her infant son, Politico reported on Tuesday evening. ...
(more)
Palin Clothes Spending Has Dems Salivating, Republicans ...
blogs.abcnews.com - 10/22/2008
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blogs.abcnews.com —
I just got off the phone with a
well-respected and well-known tax attorney who doesn't want to...
be identified. I asked him earlier in the day whether Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin can avoid paying taxes on the $150,000 worth of...
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Tax Expert: Palin Has to Declare Clothes
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The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
Mona Charen: I cannot escape the suspicion that one reason everyone is so
exercised (other than the obvious, i.e. that she's a Republican) is
that she is so gorgeous in those clothes. There is simply no other
woman in political life to match her. The green-eyed monster strikes! ...
Sarah Palin - The Sexist Double Standard
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog —
... sell someone as a no-frills hockey mom who sold the state plane and fired the official cook and hunted her own moose meat, and then try to explain wardrobing her in clothes from Neiman Marcus — a store occasionally referred to by aggrieved, frugal shoppers as Needless Markup? How do you, in barely two months, lavish her with fashion swag worthy of a starlet and valued at more than her annual governor’s salary of $125,000?
Why, of course it is.
Is anyone talking about Barack Obama’s proclivity for $1,500 suits? Or Michelle Obama’s ...
"The Green Eyed Monster"
The Stump —
Mona Charen on Sarah Palin. (It's a defense/swoon, actually.) Incidentally, I've had two different conversations this week with people who are, or work with, Wall Street Republicans. And what I heard both times was that much of the GOP hedge fund crowd never loved McCain but was willing to vote for him anyway--until they got a good look at Palin. Now they've just given up. --Michael Crowley
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politico.com 10/26/2008 —
Recognizing the clothes kerfuffle still has legs and is damaging her politically Sarah Palin used the start of a rally today to offer her most extended defense of the clothes bought for her last month.
Palin, speaking in Tampa, she ...
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POLITICAL HOT TOPICS: Thursday Oct. 23rd, 2008 —
CNN Political Ticker 10/23/2008
CNN: Enemies won't test me, McCain says
Sen. Barack Obama's foreign policy positions could encourage America's enemies to test it during the early days of an Obama administration, Sen. John McCain said Wednesday.
CNN: Gov. Sarah Palin, Todd Palin to ...
Obama: 'Rhetorical flourishes' —
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Palin isn’t the only running mate who has been creating heading headaches for the principal candidate. Check out this New York Times headline: “Obama Chides Biden Over Remark About a World Crisis Testing His Presidency.”
From the story: “Senators ...
'Ohio, will you hire us?' —
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From NBC/NJ's Matthew BergerTROY, Ohio -- Palin told voters Thursday not to dismiss her opponent’s critique of foreign policy as just a “rhetorical flourish,” Obama did a day earlier.
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