Jay Bookman

By AJC/DNC Management

October 22, 2008 2:39 PM | Link to this

GOTTA EAT: OBAMA CAMP SPENDS $437,144 ON FOOD…

And that’s just for Michelle…

By AJC/DNC Management

October 22, 2008 2:42 PM | Link to this

She looks damn good though, don’t she?

AP presidential poll: All even in the homestretch

IBD/TIPP Poll shows a sudden tightening of Obama’s lead to 3.7 from 6.0. McCain has picked up 3 points in the West and with independents, married women and those with some college.

$200,000 for thee inaugural ball dress?

By tcoach

October 22, 2008 2:47 PM | Link to this

Maybe a tad excessive of an amount of money. Maybe very well spent though. I do feel if she did not look the part there are some in the media who would have used it as another of the excuses as to why she would not be ready. Everyone knows had she been at Goody’s or even Dillards she would have been accused of being too small town to be Vp as that has been the claim against her not being ready.
I too think one must consider how many outfits you must buy when you are going to be on the road for weeks and months at a time. However still this is WAY less excessive than the Greek Columns and stage at Obama’s dNC acceptance speech. But no mention of their over the top decor though.

By "The Corporal"

October 22, 2008 2:56 PM | Link to this

Jay

This is beneath even you.

You can only redeem yourself by doing an expose on the Obama camp and disclosing all of their like expenditures.

Of course, I won’t hold my breath.

Is there no journalistic integrity left out there ?

By Copyleft

October 22, 2008 3:01 PM | Link to this

Yeah, nobody ever mentioned John Edwards spending $400 on a haircut!

Oh, wait… they did. In fact, it’s ALL they talked about for six solid months whenever Edwards’ name came up.

Goose and gander, losers. Suck it up.

By lrd

October 22, 2008 3:04 PM | Link to this

After Edwards being bashed for 500 haircuts…or hillary;s fashion, now its wrong to bring up Palin.. very funny

Of course instead of giving to charity, the RNC should auction it on EBAY.. imagine how many bidders and how much it would earn . Sure there is some male gopr who would auction his house to have one of her outfits…

By Joey

October 22, 2008 3:06 PM | Link to this

No way, Jay. You were never torn about posting this. You were wetting you pants to get it posted. And your fanatics will have a field day just like you hope. Good for the blogger with no principles Jay Bookman.

My guess is if Palin had been told to upgrade her and the family wardrobe she would have done it for a lot less. But most likely it was professional shoppers who made the purchases. Hence the high cost.

By Paul

October 22, 2008 3:06 PM | Link to this

tcoach 2:35

well said.

Jay

Would it be different if it was from her earnings and not a donation?

Not sure I’d go with the “doesn’t fit the image” line. Sen Obama had significant private funds so he and his wife can ‘look the part.’ No one does (and no one should) question what they spend on themselves. It’s as I observed with John Edwards and his house - it’s his money, he earned it, he can buy whatever he wants.

So the only real difference here is the family didn’t have personal resources to get decked out for the public showing. As far as the amount - next we’ll get into did Sen Obama really need expensive leather, not cloth seats, on his jet? Even though the money came from donations?

Does this not say more about how we expect our leaders to look and if one is electable who doesn’t look the part?

For an answer, check Nader. Same suit he’s worn since 1967…

By Swami Dave

October 22, 2008 3:07 PM | Link to this

Jay:

It’s ok.

Personally, I’ll take it as a positive that you’ve gotta go this deep to find something worthy of mention. Apparently, the “caribou barbie” stuff is going over so poorly that today’s talking point is where she shopped.

Lets see: Where she shops vs. How he (Biden) continues to make John McCain’s point that Senator Obama is not ready….

She’s talking to the American people vs. Democrats (like Murtha) calling them racists…..or rednecks….or - what was his “clarification” today?

He’s telling “Joe The Plumber” that he wants him to keep his money, buy the business, hire other employees, and grow the economy vs. “That one” (heh)telling “Joe” to watch his wallet because the tax man cometh & its time for “Joe” to “share” -his- wealth by allowing Senator Obama to “spread it around”.

Wow. I feel better already. Thanks Jay

-Swami Dave

By E

October 22, 2008 3:07 PM | Link to this

I understand that the $150,000 for clothes is for the whole family. And I’m guessing future family, like probably that suit Levi(baby daddy)showed up in. Does anyone know, have they gotten married yet?

$150,000 is, by the way, about three times the family income for a year for the average American.

I believe Michelle Obama managed to appear on The View in an under-$150 dress which I assume she paid for herself.

Having the RNC spend this enormous amount of money to clothe the candidate and family is completely unprecedented.

Besides, I’m guessing after running for, and being governor, Sarah Palin and her family already had a ready-for-prime-time wardrobe.

A lot like having the state pay to bring your kids to many conventions and events and pay their hotel bills, when they have no duties and were not invited, and then changing the records later to make it look like they were. Which Palin did.

Or I suppose charging per diem expenses to live in your own house instead of the governor’s mansion, also provided by the state.

Obama/Biden ‘08

By AJC/DNC Management

October 22, 2008 3:08 PM | Link to this

Good point, tcoach, if she had done her shopping at Goody’s the hacks and goons in the drive by media would be gnawing on their own arms about it, 24/7.

Our girl’s got style!

By SL3

October 22, 2008 3:09 PM | Link to this

Yes it is an outrageous amount to spend on clothes. How much of Obama’s enormous fundraising amount has been spent on his outfits and his wife and kids? I don’t care on either side. These campaigns are out of control on spending with the tv ads insulting our intelligence. I didn’t like the lame ad on sex ed. against Obama. I don’t like the current misinformation ad running against Chambliss regarding the fair tax. Seems like a terrible way to pick the leader of the most powerful and influencial nation on earth and a lot of wasted money.

By Bosch

October 22, 2008 3:19 PM | Link to this

I can forgive $150,000 in spending clothes for her, hell, it’s the RNC’s money, and their donors money, but not so much this:

especially when she is preaching as being the agent of reform:

Palin charges Alaska for kids’ travel

or the fact that she thinks she’ll be “in charge” of the freaking Senate as VP.

OMG!!!! Make this nightmare go away.

By Kim

October 22, 2008 3:19 PM | Link to this

A quick poll question

Should Sarah Palin:

1.) Give the clothing back and continue to talk like a Hockey Mom?

2.) Keep the clothing and stop talking like a Hockey Mom?

3.) Say “the hell with it all” and start a love triangle with Joe the Plumber?

By Morningstar

October 22, 2008 3:27 PM | Link to this

OHMYGOSH! Just watch the Wingnuts whine and poopoo! Lil’ Ole Sarah’s wardrobe and accessories kinda makes John Edwards’ $400.00 haircut Pali (excuse me, Pale) by comparison doesn’t it?

Remember some of these idiots and their whining about the Edwards cut? I’ll “BETCHA” John paid for that haircut???

Anyhoo, as we have been told, everything will be, at a later date, donated to charity??? What? It’s gonna be a bit hard to donate that $4,000 plus hairstyling and makeup tab to charity isn’t it????

Poor Sarah. Bless her little heart if she only had Eckerd Drugs.

By Taxpayer

October 22, 2008 3:27 PM | Link to this

I hear that even though Sarah now looks the part of a Republican aristocrat with inherited wealth, Cindy won’t let her within arm’s reach. I mean, after all, what does Sarah or her family bring to the dinner table; beer? drugs? good war stories about sinking battleships? Anything at all more tasteful than those simply dreadful tales of shooting wolves with one’s own hands. Horrid, I say.

On the lighter side, we could have had Tina Fey for VP for $1000 in wardrobe and no excess baggage to worry about. She even throws in intellectual conversation at no extra charge. It’s not too late to make the switch, John. You can claim that the notable change in intellect was a miracle or whatever. Do it for your country.

By Darren

October 22, 2008 3:33 PM | Link to this

$150,000.00 is a lot of doe for clothes. My guess is they all spend a lot for clothes incuding the Obamas. Maybe that will help the ailing economy.

By Bud Wiser

October 22, 2008 3:33 PM | Link to this

While we’re here:

1) where did Obama get the money for his college and post grad (Harvard) degrees?

2) who fronted the cash for Obama’s first venture into politics? (wait, I retract that one, its already been answered by Bill Ayers)

3) where does $150 million in one month contributions for The Token One come from?

4) Michelle O. dresses down anyway, so who cares what she spends for clothes? what do they charge her at Goodwill?

5) if Palin dressed like a cleaning lady, she’d be eviscerated by the press …. wait, she’s already being raked over the coals, forget it

6) if Hillary was running, would we even be having this discussion?

Obama/Biden ‘08 - making it easy to be stupid, and sexist, and so full of yourself you’re as swollen as a pimple, but full of something else

By Dennis

October 22, 2008 3:34 PM | Link to this

This just in: Obama spent $2.5 Billion taking polls. Journalist Jay Blogman just grinned and posted the poll results as he was instructed.

Also, Palin and family do not own the clothing and accessories. They belong to the RNC. The Palin’s could buy them, but more likely they will be auctioned off as a fundraiser after the campaign is over.

By Mrs. Godzilla

October 22, 2008 3:34 PM | Link to this

RNC is going to donate the clothes when the election is over.

SO….

If McCain/Palin win (fantasy, I know) will she take the oath of office in her bathrobe and fuzzy moosie slippers?

By Darren

October 22, 2008 3:41 PM | Link to this

I think Bud Wiser is on to something. Good post.

By Pat

October 22, 2008 3:44 PM | Link to this

I agree it seems a trivial topic - but Repubs have done it repeatedly to Dems (Edwards haircuts anyone?)But symbolism can be revealing.

Remember Cindy “let them eat cake” McCain prancing around the RNC stage in a dress costing over $300,000? Over a quarter mil, folks! I guess she thinks she’s running for Queen.

No wonder John thinks a guy who coughs up $200,000 for a business is “average” - hey, that’s less than just one of his wife’s outfits!

It does, however, send a message to us working folks that we get loud and clear. In fact, I saw that same message today from a driver who cut me off in a parking lot - the extended finger of his hand. Message received.

By getalife

October 22, 2008 3:49 PM | Link to this

“Six Degrees of GOP Sleaze Okay, here’s some special bonus robo-clothes shopper snark.

Jeff Larson is not only John McCain’s chief robocaller and Sen. Palin’s $150k clothes shopper, he’s also the guy who’s giving that sweetheart rental deal on his apartment in DC.”

—Josh Marshall

By Dusty

October 22, 2008 3:51 PM | Link to this

Mrs. Godzie,@3:34

Bathrobe and fuzzy moosie slippers? NO, I don’t think Palin will be borrowing YOUR wardrobe, Mrs. Godzie.

By Darren

October 22, 2008 3:52 PM | Link to this

Hey Pat,

Got to get your facts straight. The Three-carat diamond earrings were 280,000.00 Cindy’s Oscar de la Renta dress was 3,000.00.

By AJC/DNC Management

October 22, 2008 3:54 PM | Link to this

What follows is by no means comprehensive, but it does shed some much-needed light on a number of Obama’s positions, statements, and associations about which he has been less than honest. We’ve attempted to boil each issue down to a succinct explanation with an accompanying, brief video clip—often starring Barack Obama in his own words. Before pulling the lever for someone who hopes voters will ignore his paper-thin resume, unsavory associations, and hard-left voting record, each citizen has a duty to do his due diligence.-Ed Morrisey and friends

By AmVet

October 22, 2008 3:54 PM | Link to this

Mr. Bookman, this topic is gratuitous at best and sophomoric at worst. And is worthy of being on Entertainment Tonight.

ALL of these fat cats and kitties dress up in $1000 (or more) Perry Ellis suits. They eat, drink, travel and recreate like the French aristocracy . (Well at least before 1789 and Robespierre.) Let’s just call it the AIG syndrome, shall we? There may be a tiny few, like Warren Buffet, who don’t behave in this “it’s all about me” fashion, but I’d sure like to know who else doesn’t.

Do you really expect anyone with an IQ over 75 to think they have much of anything in common with the average hard-working middle class American?

Sister Sarah can blather on endlessly about how she is one of us. There is not the slightest chance in hell that is true. And certainly not now.

And Brother Obama can tell us ad nauseum about his humble beginnings and how he pulled himself up with his own bootstraps. And I say good on him for it. But his and his wife’s sense of entitlement to live as one of the landed gentry now is also totally intoxicating.

I don’t see any of them ever putting their constituents before their own comfort and gratification.

By getalife

October 22, 2008 3:55 PM | Link to this

Over 13 grand for a make up artist for Sarah.

Where is the RW outrage like Edwards hair cut?

By Morningstar

October 22, 2008 3:58 PM | Link to this

By Joey October 22, 2008 3:06 PM No way, Jay. You were never torn about posting this. You were wetting you pants to get it posted

You loved those rediculous comments and reports about Edward’s $400.00 hair cuts didn’t you Joey?

If I remember correctly, this included expenses related to his hair stylist’s travel etc. etc. etc. Wha’evah. Makes no nevahmind to me. Don’t know and don’t care. In my little neck of the woods, $400.00 is a far cry from $150,000.00.

I also remember some reports that Rosalyn Carter designed and sewed the apparel she wore when President Jimmy Carter was inaugurated; however, that was a long time ago and would require a bit of ‘lookup’ for me. If I remember correctly, she was critized by the nutty buttys. Rosalyn, a talented, intelligent, well spoken, caring woman who would have been a wonderful vice president, or PRESIDENT. At any rate, she was gorgeous on inauguration day, dressed in her ‘conservative’ and most ladylike apparel.

For everything under the sun, there’s a time and place. Biblical students may check the Old Testiment.

By Darren

October 22, 2008 4:00 PM | Link to this

Hey Pat,

Got to get your facts straight. The Three-carat diamond earrings were 280,000.00 Cindy’s Oscar de la Renta dress was 3,000.00.

By Mrs. Godzilla

October 22, 2008 4:00 PM | Link to this

Oh Dusty,

Nothing important to add today? Just drive-by insults?

Besides, my slippers are fuzzie labradors. (like Joe)

Darren

You’re right, the dress (uber ugly color, great cut) was not the big ticket item.

I like facts.

By AJC/DNC Management

October 22, 2008 4:01 PM | Link to this

Hey, it was a good idea to call all those Americans “racist rednecks:”

Report: Obama Internal Poll Shows Two-Point Race in Pennsylvania…

Attack the woman, the plumber and spin.

By GodHatesTrash

October 22, 2008 4:04 PM | Link to this

$150,000 for lipstick on a pig.

Reminds me of the $15,000 toilet seats we taxpayers used to buy from the defense contractors.

By GodHatesTrash

October 22, 2008 4:08 PM | Link to this

$150K to tart up a trollop.

By AJC/DNC Management

October 22, 2008 4:17 PM | Link to this

(CNSNews.com) – The Association for Community Reform Now (ACORN) submitted nearly 90,000 voter registration applications to the registrar’s office in Clark County, Nev., this year, among which were “thousands and thousands and thousands of phony and duplicate applications” that ACORN did not mark as suspicious, Larry Lomax, Clark Country registrar of voters, told CNSNews.com.

By Midori

October 22, 2008 4:32 PM | Link to this

CNS “news”???

ROFL!!!

By @@

October 22, 2008 4:40 PM | Link to this

jay, this column does not speak well for you. My gawd, the only people here complaining about Governor Palin’s wardrobe were the three biddy hens…..Mrs. G…..Goldie and Midori.

Do you join ‘em for scrap booking parties while watching Oprah…..their soaps too?

Petty is as petty does.

By Dusty

October 22, 2008 4:45 PM | Link to this

Yes, Mrs. Godzie,

Your bathrobe and slippers are JUST as important as your reference to Sarah Palin.

You don’t like the same kind of stuff you give us all the time?

Your facade is a little more gentle and foolish than God Hates Trash. Does he get paid more than you?

Obama is flooding the country with paid “volunteers” among other things. Good thing Soros and all his friends are helping Obama after he broke his campaign financial agreement. OH WELL!! What’s a promise!!!

By Wyld Byll Hyltnyr

October 22, 2008 4:50 PM | Link to this

Jay, its just plain foolish to even consider the Al Qaedi endorsement as you have. Clearly, AQ would rather want BO. But AQ knows “useful fools” will make a big deal of this nonsense promulgated by harrific terrorists. That said, why don’t you cover the preconditions that Iran set forth to meet with the US. Not even on the job and Iran is already mocking BO. Are you gonna cover this or just wait until Joe-the-Biden’s catastrophe is visited upon it to address that the dark elements of the world view BO as a weakling and “that one” who can be trifled with. Oh, Jay, you’re people are the ones what started calling her, “Caribou Barbie” what did you expect. The $ amount is high, but it is all private money that was contributed and I’ve yet to hear a contributor complain.

On a more serious note, this topic is why the AJC editorial page is no more credible (i.e “Britney back with husband!!!!!!!!!”, etc..) that the ajc.com page.

Perhaps, if you spent some time on important stuff, your circulation wouldn’t be sinking so fast.

Howsabout you report that Iran has established preconditions to meet with the US.

Vice President for Media Affairs Mehdi Kalhor said on Saturday that Iran has set two preconditions for holding talks with the United States of America. In an exclusive interview with the Islamic Republic News Agency, he said as long as U.S. forces have not left the Middle East region and continues its support for the Zionist regime, talks between Iran and U.S. is off the agenda.

Its not hard to see that Iran spit in OB’s eye before he even won the election. Guess we’ll have to wait for the catastrophe that Joe-the-Biden prophesized before you report serious problems with OB stature in the world.

By Mrs. Godzilla

October 22, 2008 4:54 PM | Link to this

@@ and Dusty….

@@ lies about who’s complaining and Dusty is still confused.

That’s ok ladies.

I still think you are REAL AMERICANS.

But dangerously wrong-headed.

By Midori

October 22, 2008 4:57 PM | Link to this

mCcAIN sure likes to use the “c” word

By RW-(the original)

October 22, 2008 4:59 PM | Link to this

I was torn about even posting on this story

Bull

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

There they were — John, Jane, Josie and Jack — standing with the president and before the entire country. The nominee was in a sober suit with the expected white shirt and red tie. His wife and children stood before the cameras, groomed and glossy in pastel hues — like a trio of Easter eggs, a handful of Jelly Bellies, three little Necco wafers. There was tow-headed Jack — having freed himself from the controlling grip of his mother — enjoying a moment in the spotlight dressed in a seersucker suit with short pants and saddle shoes. His sister, Josie, was half-hidden behind her mother’s skirt. Her blond pageboy glistened. And she was wearing a yellow dress with a crisp white collar, lace-trimmed anklets and black patent-leather Mary Janes

(Who among us did a double take? Two cute blond children with a boyish-looking father getting ready to take the lectern — Jack Edwards? Emma Claire? Is that you? Are all little boys now named Jack?)

The wife wore a strawberry-pink tweed suit with taupe pumps and pearls, which alone would not have been particularly remarkable, but alongside the nostalgic costuming of the children, the overall effect was of self-consciously crafted perfection. The children, of course, are innocents. They are dressed by their parents. And through their clothes choices, the parents have created the kind of honeyed faultlessness that jams mailboxes every December when personalized Christmas cards arrive bringing greetings “to you and yours” from the Blake family or the Joneses. Everyone looks freshly scrubbed and adorable, just like they have stepped from a Currier & Ives landscape

In a time when most children are dressed in Gap Kids and retailers of similar price-point and modernity, the parents put young master Jack in an ensemble that calls to mind John F. “John-John” Kennedy Jr

Separate the child from the clothes, which do not acknowledge trends, popular culture or the passing of time. They are not classic; they are old-fashioned. These clothes are Old World, old money and a cut above the light-up/shoe-buying hoi polloi

By Taxpayer

October 22, 2008 5:00 PM | Link to this

Mrs. G,

You are too kind.

By AmVet

October 22, 2008 5:02 PM | Link to this

Wow this getting truly amazing!

One cannot look at any reputable news source without a plethora of yet more horrific news for the faux conservatives.

ALL of these headlines are from today:

Palin: Election Result Rests ‘In God’s Hands’ (yeah, sure it is, loon)

Dow Plunges over 500 points on Worries About Earnings Forecasts (fairly or not the GOP is gonna get clobbered on this entire financial ‘crisis’ debacle)

Schwarzenegger to Pursue Gender Balance in Calif. (those misogynists, er I mean, compassionate conservatives aren’t going to like this one bit)

Gov. Palin to Give Troopergate Deposition Friday (that naughty, naughty soccer mom)

London’s Conservative Mayor Endorses Obama

NC Lawmaker: Comment on Liberals Came Out Wrong

Iraqi Cabinet Says U.S. Pact Needs Change

Ex-GOP operative tells cautionary tale about ‘how to rig an election’ (and goes to federal prison)

Early voting suggests record turnout (damn “those” people and those damned libs!)

Climate changing ‘faster’ and ‘sooner’ (ostriches beware!)

Poll: Americans angry, worried over nation (NOT good for you neo-cons)

Mass layoffs highest since 9/11

OK, all you members of the once Grand Old Party, repeat after me!

Republican Bloodbath, Part Deux. Coming to an election everywhere in 13 days.

By Midori

October 22, 2008 5:07 PM | Link to this

Taxpayer,

she is extremely too kind, but correct as usual.

@@ lies about who’s complaining and Dusty is still confused.

By @@

October 22, 2008 5:10 PM | Link to this

@@ lies about who’s complaining

Oh really Mrs. G?

By Mrs. Godzilla October 22, 2008 7:53 AM | Link to this

just heard on Bill Press….a REAL AMERICAN named Mark….

“Sarah Palin should just have said Thanks but No Thanks to that wardrobe from nowhere!”

By Mrs. Godzilla October 22, 2008 10:11 AM | Link to this

AND….for the person who has brand new clothes…..are you talking about Governor Palin?

Are you saying ^^^ those aren’t your posts?

Petty is as petty does.

By Dusty

October 22, 2008 5:12 PM | Link to this

Still depressed, huh AmVet??

By Midori

October 22, 2008 5:15 PM | Link to this

Which speaks volumes about your pettiness, oh lying idiot.

You have to be mighty petty to be willing to scour the threads just to show how petty someone else is.

oh ignorant lying liar.

By Dusty

October 22, 2008 5:18 PM | Link to this

Hey Midori

You forgot your usual “broom and witch’ repetition.

But, as Mrs. Godzie coos, YOU ARE A REAL AMERICAN..just a bit wrong headed.

By AmVet

October 22, 2008 5:24 PM | Link to this

Oct. 22 (Bloomberg) — Employees at Moody’s Investors Service and Standard & Poor’s privately questioned the value of some mortgage-backed securities that were given creditworthy ratings, saying they created a “monster,” according to e-mails released by a U.S. House panel.

“Let’s hope we are all wealthy and retired by the time this house of cards falters,” one e-mail from an S&P employee said.

The companies in recent months have downgraded thousands of mortgage-backed securities as delinquencies have soared and home values fell. The downgrades have led to the collapse of Bear Stearns Cos. and Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. and compelled the U.S. government to set up a system to buy $700 billion of distressed debt from financial companies.

The Securities and Exchange Commission in a July report found the credit-rating companies improperly managed conflicts of interest and violated internal procedures in granting top rankings to mortgage bonds.

Representative Stephen Lynch, a Massachusetts Democrat, said House Democrats are mulling legislation that would hold credit raters legally liable for losses to investors.

There are discussions,'' he said outside the hearing room.It’s a matter of how to do it.” Committee members are weighing allowing investors to sue credit raters, he said.

WHAT? Not with tort reform saving their sorry a*******es.

NO MORE BAILOUTS - JAIL CORPORATE CROOKS

By Dusty

October 22, 2008 5:25 PM | Link to this

Oh good one @@ 4:40

the three biddy hens..Mrs. G… Goldie and Midori

They are already cluck cluck clucking…

Now, I am off to find some dinner. Keep the old hens stirring..

By Greg Mendel

October 22, 2008 5:30 PM | Link to this

Gosh darn it! You can’t sit around the kitchen table, worrying about the mortgage and the bills and hockey games — without the whole family wearing designer duds from Neiman-Marcus! Not in Real America!

If Joe the Plumber doesn’t like it, let him eat moose!

— Sarah Ain’t Payin

By AmVet

October 22, 2008 5:34 PM | Link to this

No, musty.

I’m absolutely elated!

At the prospects that you anti-American, a$$-kissing scumbags are going to get your teeth kicked in AGAIN a week from Tuesday!

And moldy, the always cool Mrs. G has you sized up perfectly.

Nothing but drive-by insults.

Pray for rain, hagstress…

By @@

October 22, 2008 5:37 PM | Link to this

You have to be mighty petty to be willing to scour the threads just to show how petty someone else is.

Not really Midori, just correcting a wrong-headed poster.

Didn’t have to go back that far actually.

Today is the 22nd last I looked.

All in a day’s work after a real day’s work.

So tell me Midor, who was on Oprah today.

Never mind, not really interested.

By AJC/DNC Management

October 22, 2008 5:45 PM | Link to this

We realize we are at risk of sounding like a broken record, but that Biden comment—which we noted Monday and wrote about again yesterday—is really bothering us. And not just us. In a column for the New York Post, Kirstin Powers, a Democrat, says the media’s “scattered coverage” of Joe Biden’s disturbing remarks reflect an “incredible bias.” Powers and NewsBusters.org both note that even Dan Rather said, “Certainly if Sarah Palin had said this it would be above the fold in most newspapers today.”-Taranto-WSJ

Can you guess what he meant by “you will not like our reaction?”

As Taranto mused, this could be several scenarios, will Iran see this as an indication that we will not protect Israel?

Would Oblahma institute the draft?

Would he lay nuclear waste to thee entire Middle East?

This isn’t the least bit worrisome to you lapdog, trained seal liberals?

By AJC/DNC Management

October 22, 2008 5:51 PM | Link to this

“What we really haven’t seen is white supremacists really rallying over an Obama presidency,” said Mark Potok, the director of intelligence at the Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks hate groups. “Hate groups are in a more or less stunned position right now; they haven’t been able to figure out how to proceed just yet.”

Yes, where are all thee pointy hate wearing klansman at, shouldn’t they be crawling out of the woodwork and parading through the streets, like the gays do?

So far the only ones we’ve spotted was the one the lib reporter made up and the unwashed, ignorant mass of Klinton primary voters.

I thought there was an army of us?

Hahahaha.

Morons.

By Bud Wiser

October 22, 2008 6:00 PM | Link to this

The entitlement crowd is getting more jittery:

Associated Press - WASHINGTON – The presidential race tightened after the final debate, with John McCain gaining among whites and people earning less than $50,000, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll that shows McCain and Barack Obama essentially running even among likely voters in the election homestretch.

As I previously projected as a possibility, there may suddenly be a surge of white voters flocking to McCain, because they do not want to see a socialist elected President, and in particular a black socialist.

After all, if about 94% of the black voters support Obama, project that to 94% of the white voters supporting McCain, and it is quite simply NO CONTEST.

It’s not racism, it’s just white pride?

Or does the saying go, it’s not racism, it’s just black pride? I don’t know, but 94% of a certain race behind a certain candidate just because of a certain color looks racist to me. Just calling it as I see it.

Obama/Biden ‘08 - making it easy to be stupid, and _, well, you fill in the ___.

By GodHatesTrash

October 22, 2008 6:05 PM | Link to this

Relax Andi, your kkkooky and kkkrazy Klan friends are busy busy busy attending Hensley-McCain and L-o-l-a Palin rallies, watching the RNC try to put $150K worth of lipstick on a pig.

Better than a tractor pull.

By Paul

October 22, 2008 6:11 PM | Link to this

AJC/DNC Management

Well, Sen Biden said the action might not be popular and he appealed for support in going forward.

He sounds a lot like the Bush Administration, doesn’t he? (we don’t take polls to do what’s right; once we’ve begun we don’t turn back).

Nuke strike? Well, if you take Sen Obama at his word, on a couple of occasions, that we will not let Iran get nukes (so if they say “screw you USA, this is what we’re going to do and when” an Obama Administration is committed), that the consequences are too dire (sounds like Obama thinks the conventional restraints may not apply and the mullahs might use them. Golly, Obama’s taking them at their word?), that there is nothing he would not do to keep Iran from getting a nuke….(I love that phrase, ‘nothing I would not do)…

Kinda’s limited his options, hasn’t he?

As I’ve said, Obama or McCain, I don’t think it’ll matter much in the long run to AQ - and I’ll amend that to Iran, also. Biden was right. Some people are going to go absolutely nuts…

By RealityKing

October 22, 2008 6:14 PM | Link to this

Just before Hillary’s last the MSM focused on a whole rack of pantsuits, of all colors. Remember that? They were endlessly talking about the symbolism of the color she would choose to wear for the speech. Tangerine was her choice, not so good for Obama, somehow. But you know what.., not one word about the cost. Object observing is obviously dead in America.

By Peter

October 22, 2008 6:23 PM | Link to this

Real American’s don’t want cheating during elections…………….BUT REPUBLI-SCAM’S DO !

MANCHESTER, New Hampshire (CNN) — Allen Raymond is living proof that political dirty tricksters do exist.

“I had a responsibility to my family,” says Allen Raymond about his decision cooperate with investigators.

The former Republican political operative went to federal prison after he pleaded guilty to charges of phone harassment. He jammed the phone lines of New Hampshire’s Democratic Party on Election Day six years ago.

“The concept was to disrupt lines of communication. That’s a fancy way of saying, ‘make it so the phones didn’t work,’ ” Raymond said recently. “No calls going out. No calls going in.”

We’re not going to give away exactly how Raymond did it. According to federal prosecutors, two top Republican Party officials tapped Raymond’s Virginia-based telemarketing firm for the operation. Raymond then contracted out the job to a private phone bank in Idaho.

Former New Hampshire Democratic Party Chairwoman Kathy Sullivan remembers the ensuing flood of hang-up calls that created havoc in her office.

“At first, people had various impressions about what was going on,” Sullivan recalled. “For example, at the Manchester field office, the young man who opened the office thought, ‘The phones are all ringing off the hook. Nobody’s here. I’ve broken the phone system. What did I do wrong?’ And he was on the verge of tears.”

The operation also jammed the lines inside a firefighter’s union hall in Manchester, New Hampshire, where Jeff Duval and other local firefighters were lining up car rides to help senior citizens get to the polls.

How wonderful of the REPUBLICAN’S……. I wonder what would have happened if someone’s house was on fire !

Republican’ s are NOT real American’s and they apparently …….Hate our American system of voting !

By AJC/DNC Management

October 22, 2008 6:25 PM | Link to this

Guess who:

During one of the Democratic primary debates, Hillary Clinton was hissed for mentioning Syrian national Rezko, and during another, ABC moderator George Stephanopoulos nearly lost his career for asking Obama one question about William Ayers.

Left-wing radicals swarm to free foundation money, where they can give gigantic grants to one another and they will never have to do a day’s work. That’s exactly what Obama and Ayers did with Annenberg’s money.

None of the Annenberg money went to schoolchildren. It went to Ayers’ left-wing crank friends to write moronic papers that we hope no one ever reads.

And that Oblahma has heartily endorsed.

By lovelyliz

October 22, 2008 6:50 PM | Link to this

Feet of clay made by Jimmy Choo

By RealityKing

October 22, 2008 6:56 PM | Link to this

Harry, Nancy, 0bama, an international crisis and Joe Biden desperately trying to keep them from running. Be very afraid..

By AJC/DNC Management

October 22, 2008 7:16 PM | Link to this

If you think about it, AP has been getting hammered about it’s credibility lately, it had gone totally in the bag for the democrat party, with complete disregard for basic decency.

Just recently, they have realized what an idiotic move that was and have tried to inch back to the center.

Maybe this poll was just an attempt at honesty on their part?

After all, the percentage of people that they polled was 80% landline versus 20% cellphone, where as most of these “landslide” polls have been calling 100% cellphones.

Prediction: Next week, maybe sooner, you will see a dramatic tightening of the race across the board, due to the fact that many of these pollsters do not want to be wrong by 10 points or so.

They will start calling people at home, instead of the college kids and the deadbeats.

They have their reputations to protect, after all.

By TN Gelding

October 22, 2008 7:36 PM | Link to this

Fits right in with McCain’s $5,583.43 makeover before an interview.

He did look better tho.

By BDAtlanta

October 22, 2008 8:22 PM | Link to this

Can they give McCain a few bucks to get rid of the caspar the ghost look? Or is he already dead?

By Kev the Electrician

October 22, 2008 8:56 PM | Link to this

150K for clothes? Seems to me, the Repugnants are planning another another trip down the Chattooga river, for you good ol’ boys. Same ‘00 and ‘04, lipstick & vaseline are provided, sound effects are up to you.

By Billy

October 22, 2008 9:05 PM | Link to this

@@, no one here cares about them spending this money. We care about the hypocrisy of it all. If Small-Town is so much better — nay, more American — than New-York-Elite, why spend so much to seem like the latter? To drop that kind of dough when a central theme of your campaign is that the other guy is elitist and out of touch?

Cuh-ray-zee, man.

By "The Corporal"

October 22, 2008 9:21 PM | Link to this

To Ms. G

You never said how you liked my two stories? And how about that martial law thing in D.C. IN 1968 ?

I’m still waiting. Cat got your tongue ?

By demwit

October 22, 2008 9:47 PM | Link to this

$150,000 on women’s cloths id nothing. Hell, Joe spent that much on botox..

By Frederick Douglass

October 22, 2008 10:31 PM | Link to this

Maybe they’re right to fix Sarah up, because as surreal as it might seem, she could be president before very long. I saw McCain today on CNN, and he looked like he’d been dusted with potato flour. I wish him the best on his health, but he’s looking older than Mrs. Roberta.

By McHater

October 23, 2008 5:32 AM | Link to this

Botox? Better hope they aren’t pumpin’ embalming fluid in McOld anytime soon…..

By Mrs.Godzilla

October 23, 2008 6:46 AM | Link to this

CORPORAL

Good Morning. Thanks for giving me another chance to respond to your question, I appreciate your patience!

I read your story. Were you one of the troops deployed?

I had to do some homework and found this:

Since the conclusion of World War II, martial law has not been presidentially directed or approved for any area of the United States. Federal troops have been dispatched to domestic locales experiencing unrest or riot, but in these situations the military has remained subordinate to federal civilian management.

OOOPS! It wasn’t martial law. You might want to get a cat of your own, it might prevent some wrong headedness.

@@

you lied about ONLY Goldie, Midori and I complaining about Palins shopping spree.

I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt - it may not be that you lied, it may simply be you can’t count.

Y’all are still REAL AMERICANS to me.

Albeit, wrong headed.

By Mrs.Godzilla

October 23, 2008 6:56 AM | Link to this

This is an old Obama video….dressing on a budget

I like that man.

By Suzanne

October 23, 2008 9:08 AM | Link to this

Sure, they’re giving all the clothes to charity. What about the hairstylist, though? Is there a Highlights for the Homeless program out there?

No, actually they said they were giving the clothes they bought her for the convention to charity. Since most of the clothes were purchased after the convention, I guess she gets to keep them.

I do hope she gets nailed by the IRS for the clothes and for the money she took from the State of Alaska to pay for her children’s travel when they were not going anywhere to represent the State.

Sarah Palin could end up with quite a tax bill next year.

By "The Corporal"

October 23, 2008 9:25 AM | Link to this

To Ms. G.

Some research I did ……

At least one governor has used martial law to enforce state agency regulations. In 1931 Governor Ross S. Sterling, of Texas, sent Texas National Guard troops into east Texas oil fields to force compliance with limits on the production of oil and an increase in the minimum number of acres required between oil wells. The regulations had been drawn up by the Texas Railroad Commission with the approval of the Texas Legislature, but similar regulations had been enjoined (stopped) by a federal court just four months earlier. In 1932 the Supreme Court invalidated Sterling’s use of martial law, holding that it violated the constitutional due process rights of the property owners (Sterling v. Constantin, 287 U.S. 378, 53 S. Ct. 190, 77 L. Ed. 375 [1932]).

Another governor declared martial law in response to an assassination and rumors of political corruption. In June 1954 Albert Patterson, a nominee for state attorney general in Alabama, was shot to death on a street in Phenix City. Governor Gordon Persons, of Alabama, declared martial law in Phenix City, and dispatched General Walter J. (“Crack”) Hanna and the Alabama National Guard to take over the city. Hanna appointed a military mayor, and the troops took control of the county courthouse and city hall. The troops physically removed certain officials from the courthouse and city hall, seized gambling equipment, and revoked liquor licenses.

Martial law usually is used to try to restore and maintain peace during civil unrest. It does not always yield the desired results. In May 1970, for example, Governor James Rhodes, of Ohio, declared limited martial law by sending in National Guard troops to contain a protest of the Vietnam War at Kent State University. Four protestors were shot and killed by the troops. In a case brought by their survivors, the Supreme Court held that the governor and other state officials could be sued if they acted beyond the scope of state laws and the federal Constitution (Scheuer v. Rhodes, 416 U.S. 232, 94 S. Ct. 1683, 40 L. Ed. 2d 90 [1974]).

*I guess the bottom line is, if you have the National Guard and/or Federal troops pointing a weapon at you …… it’s martial law to you ……….. *

By contented

October 26, 2008 6:34 PM | Link to this

I am a little disappointed at so many negative comments on the Palin wardrobe cost. We are in the middle of a political campaign that spends millions of dollars on TV ads! Do we gripe and complain about that? Whatever it takes to get elected is a given in most circles, yet did anyone analyze Hilary Clinton’s wardrobe or ask for receipts on what she spent over the last months of compaigning. I guess hers all came from her pocket, like the ton she put into her own campaign and hoped to get back.

I’m trying to be realistic. It looks like the media is trying to dredge up anything to discredit the McCain-Palin compaign. How much has Obama spent on advertising? The RNC’s $150,000 is a drop in the bucket. And, if there are those out there who want to pay back the campaign in the way of charity donations for clothes worn by Palin, then let them buy her clothes.

How is Obama going to auction off his used TV ad time or consumed food in the way of charity? Yes, it’s quite interesting to see what Obama charges his campaign for food!! But the point is that it doesn’t matter. People who give to these campaigns know that they are giving over money with no string attached, so to speak. Didn’t McCain say he would not accept monies from public donations (like when you pay your taxes and designate $ for campaigning)? I understand Obama made the same promise, but he has gone back on that promise and accepted public monies. What other promises will he go back on? Just a thought.

I don’t begrudge any man who has made it rich and can open businesses to supply our economy with more jobs. Right now, I am very content. I have learned to live with whatever state I am in…content, in fact, living on less than a $40,000 yr. salary. I am not a plumber, but a public teacher. I would agree that Obama is right that we need to pay our teachers more, but not sure that he’s right about getting rid of the bunch we have now and starting over. We do need to overhaul our education system.

By contented

October 26, 2008 6:34 PM | Link to this

I am a little disappointed at so many negative comments on the Palin wardrobe cost. We are in the middle of a political campaign that spends millions of dollars on TV ads! Do we gripe and complain about that? Whatever it takes to get elected is a given in most circles, yet did anyone analyze Hilary Clinton’s wardrobe or ask for receipts on what she spent over the last months of compaigning. I guess hers all came from her pocket, like the ton she put into her own campaign and hoped to get back.

I’m trying to be realistic. It looks like the media is trying to dredge up anything to discredit the McCain-Palin compaign. How much has Obama spent on advertising? The RNC’s $150,000 is a drop in the bucket. And, if there are those out there who want to pay back the campaign in the way of charity donations for clothes worn by Palin, then let them buy her clothes.

How is Obama going to auction off his used TV ad time or consumed food in the way of charity? Yes, it’s quite interesting to see what Obama charges his campaign for food!! But the point is that it doesn’t matter. People who give to these campaigns know that they are giving over money with no string attached, so to speak. Didn’t McCain say he would not accept monies from public donations (like when you pay your taxes and designate $ for campaigning)? I understand Obama made the same promise, but he has gone back on that promise and accepted public monies. What other promises will he go back on? Just a thought.

I don’t begrudge any man who has made it rich and can open businesses to supply our economy with more jobs. Right now, I am very content. I have learned to live with whatever state I am in…content, in fact, living on less than a $40,000 yr. salary. I am not a plumber, but a public teacher. I would agree that Obama is right that we need to pay our teachers more, but not sure that he’s right about getting rid of the bunch we have now and starting over. We do need to overhaul our education system.