palin's waist of $$$$

[stinkyattic]

Tailoring is more common and less expensive than you would expect.

Very few people, male or female, can buy a suit or formal dress off the rack and have it fit perfectly without tailoring.
Last time I had alterations done on a business suit it cost me about $30. An evening gown re-hem cost $15.
You wanna get Barack 'Barry' Obama's 'look'? He's a sharp dresser; but that doesn't mean he spent $2500 on a Valentino jacket! Try this- go down to the local last-season retailer (marshalls, tjmaxx, filenes basement, burlington coat factory, etc), spend $100- $150 on a nice suit (yes, this is an accurate price range for a non-couture designer suit from these types of retailers), spend another $50 (being generous) to have the sleeves done and the slacks taken in and hemmed, and you have a perfectly reasonable business suit that fits as if it was made for you. This is what us normal everyday cubicle-monkeys do... hell, I even had them do my motorcycle leathers! Rrrowr!

[justanotherbozo]

Tailoring is more common and less expensive than you would expect.

Very few people, male or female, can buy a suit or formal dress off the rack and have it fit perfectly without tailoring.
Last time I had alterations done on a business suit it cost me about $30. An evening gown re-hem cost $15.
You wanna get Barack 'Barry' Obama's 'look'? He's a sharp dresser; but that doesn't mean he spent $2500 on a Valentino jacket! Try this- go down to the local last-season retailer (marshalls, tjmaxx, filenes basement, burlington coat factory, etc), spend $100- $150 on a nice suit (yes, this is an accurate price range for a non-couture designer suit from these types of retailers), spend another $50 (being generous) to have the sleeves done and the slacks taken in and hemmed, and you have a perfectly reasonable business suit that fits as if it was made for you. This is what us normal everyday cubicle-monkeys do... hell, I even had them do my motorcycle leathers! Rrrowr!

what sucks is how everyone is making an issue over money that was spent
so the media wouldn't say they were dressed like 'cubicle monkeys'.
keep in mind that the Palins are the only ones in this race that aren't rich,
even by Obama's standards.

and don't kid yourself, those suits cost at least $2000.00, ask any guy
who's ever shopped for a suit.

man, here we are talking about cloths rather than about this Obama
character who began his political career in the living room of a domestic
terrorist. or how he bought his house, with a $300,000.00 price break,
from a thief, or how he spent 20 years listening to a radical preacher!

i'm completely flabbergasted that anyone would even consider
electing this guy. shit, he's gonna get elected simply bedause
he's black for God's sake. i guess that'll prove we're not racists.

he has no experience at all and he hangs around with some awful
shady characters and, when asked about it, he pretends ignorance,
if he's really telling the truth that he didn't know about Ayers past
then hes a fool because Ayers is very open about his beliefs, even
to this day. he must be the only person in America that didn't know
about him, he sure ought to have known if he planned a career in politics

so, he's either stupid, or a liar, either way, he's undeserving of the
presidency!

[happiestmferoutthere]

happiest, why don't you eat cake, or maybe you should stop eating cake

First off all that doesn't make sense. :wtf:
and second of all I can't barely afford cake any more. Maybe the repubs will throw me some crumbs?! Doesn't seem like it. I'm starving here!!( figuratively speaking, of course)
I realize you think I should vote for the guy whose plan won't help me at all, but I'm not into that. I have an idea. You can send all the extra money you'll save with Obamas plan and send it directly to John McCain. That way I'll get my tax break, and you can still give all your money to the Republicans.:thumbsup: I, for one, am done with that.
Oh, and bozo, Sarah Palin did a new interview on FOX. Maybe you should watch it and find out about this Aryes guy. I'm sure they uncovered something new.(insert sarcasm here) He sounds shady to me!

[justanotherbozo]

First off all that doesn't make sense. :wtf:
and second of all I can't barely afford cake any more. Maybe the repubs will throw me some crumbs?! Doesn't seem like it. I'm starving here!!( figuratively speaking, of course)
I realize you think I should vote for the guy whose plan won't help me at all, but I'm not into that. I have an idea. You can send all the extra money you'll save with Obamas plan and send it directly to John McCain. That way I'll get my tax break, and you can still give all your money to the Republicans.:thumbsup: I, for one, am done with that.
Oh, and bozo, Sarah Palin did a new interview on FOX. Maybe you should watch it and find out about this Aryes guy. I'm sure they uncovered something new.(insert sarcasm here) He sounds shady to me!

i already watch Fox hon, and MSNBC and CNN too. which means i already saw that interview.

and you're so busy hating Bush and painting McCain with that brush that
you aren't really looking at this guy Obama and what he's gonna do to
your wallet once he gets in.

or maybe it's just that you're too young to have lived through the '70's.

maybe you should study some history so you'll know where Obama wants
to take you and your family, what kind of world he wants to 'provide' for
your children. or maybe you don't care about thier future.

think about it, what if you are wrong? do you think we'll be able to just
'go back'?

"That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves."
-- Thomas Jefferson

"With all these blessings, what more is necessary to make us a happy and prosperous people? Still one thing more, fellow citizens -- a wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities."
-- Thomas Jefferson, from his First Inaugural Address

"The national budget must be balanced. The public debt must be reduced; the arrogance of the authorities must be moderated and controlled. Payments to foreign governments must be reduced. If the nation doesn't want to go bankrupt, people must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance."
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero, 55 BC

[flyingimam]

i already watch Fox hon, and MSNBC and CNN too. which means i already saw that interview.

and you're so busy hating Bush and painting McCain with that brush that
you aren't really looking at this guy Obama and what he's gonna do to
your wallet once he gets in.

or maybe it's just that you're too young to have lived through the '70's.

maybe you should study some history so you'll know where Obama wants
to take you and your family, what kind of world he wants to 'provide' for
your children. or maybe you don't care about thier future.

think about it, what if you are wrong? do you think we'll be able to just
'go back'?

"That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves."
-- Thomas Jefferson

"With all these blessings, what more is necessary to make us a happy and prosperous people? Still one thing more, fellow citizens -- a wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities."
-- Thomas Jefferson, from his First Inaugural Address

"The national budget must be balanced. The public debt must be reduced; the arrogance of the authorities must be moderated and controlled. Payments to foreign governments must be reduced. If the nation doesn't want to go bankrupt, people must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance."
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero, 55 BC

nice quotes, will ya get real for a sec? in the last 8 years we have had the largest growth in government spending and this is totally a conservative govt

just cuz 200 years ago some party had some values it does not mean they are sticking by it anymore, cuz u can see that very few influential people are for the original small fed govt intended for us by the 4 fathers among the right, they keep talking about it but in action almost everyone votes in a way that indirectly or directly has led to this gigantic and manipulative govt we got now, revoking some of our most important rights, running undeclared wars, and running big deficits

there is a reason for all the "bashing"

[stinkyattic]

oh, and just so you know, 'waist' is where you put your belt, and
'waste' is what it is reading your words

This sort of comment is NOT cool and is considered a personal attack. FYI.
If this thread degenerates into attacking other members it is GONE so if you want to keep on arguing/debating I suggest you do it with more respect for the other people on this site.
Thank you.

Edit: Digging deeper, we have an ongoing issue.

[justanotherbozo]

nice quotes, will ya get real for a sec? in the last 8 years we have had the largest growth in government spending and this is totally a conservative govt

lol, i guess the dot-com bubble bursting, 9\11, 2 wars and the near colapse
of the entire economy don't explain some of that spending, something 'real'
you seem unable to credit.

just cuz 200 years ago some party had some values it does not mean they are sticking by it anymore, cuz u can see that very few influential people are for the original small fed govt intended for us by the 4 fathers among the right, they keep talking about it but in action almost everyone votes in a way that indirectly or directly has led to this gigantic and manipulative govt we got now, revoking some of our most important rights, running undeclared wars, and running big deficits

there is a reason for all the "bashing"

and, with all due 'respect', those guy's in that party 200 years ago,
with those values? those were the founding fathers of this country
and it was those values that have made this country the greatest
country on the planet, even now.

the bigger the government becomes, the less free you are, that's the reality.

"A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away."
-- Barry Goldwater

[dragonrider]

Seems funny that when it's about the RNC you find this type of thing as an "issue"

I know it's not a REAL issue, but it is a hillarious laugh riot! She's passing herself off as a maverick reformer, out to cut wasteful spending, just an ordinary hockey mom, not one of the elites, part of the "real" America --- and she is spending $3,000 a day on haute couture!

Hypocrisy can be funny!

it wasn't 'campaign' money dude, and it wasn't taxpayer money
either, it was money donated to the RNC by people that want America
to remain free.

Apparently it was money donated to the RNC by people who want Valentino, Gucci, and Armani to remain free.

If you believe McCain and Palin, their support is among Joe the Plumbers across the nation, so if Joe the Plumber wants to donate to the RNC so that Sarah Palin can spend more money on clothes in a month than Joe makes in a year, that's Joe's perrogative. But if Joe resents that, I can see why.

[Psycho4Bud]

I know it's not a REAL issue, but it is a hillarious laugh riot! She's passing herself off as a maverick reformer, out to cut wasteful spending, just an ordinary hockey mom, not one of the elites, part of the "real" America --- and she is spending $3,000 a day on haute couture!

Hypocrisy can be funny!

I agree that hyupocrisy can be funny like the statement cheap Joe made about giving up your money for the common good is patriotic. For somebody that gives less than MANY middle income people this dude should win an award for hypocrisy.

Have a good one!:s4:

[stinkyattic]

Things have changed a bit since the time of the founding fathers. Welfare and other public assistance, for example, were not as big an issue in a young country that had not had time to become overpopulated, and where there was more work than there were people to do it. While their philosophical approach to a government for the people is timeless (ironic that one of their problems with the Monarchy was frittering away money on expensive crap, and that's how the French nobility lost their bewigged and powdered heads during THAT revolution of the same era- LET THEM EAT CAKE! *chop *thud), trying to apply that philosophy in the modern world takes a far deeper understanding of its tenets...

OBVIOUSLY the wars are a major outlet for government spending- unpopular wars, that The People are having a hard time digesting, as tehy were shoved down our throats with the lubricant of National Security and Patriotism...

Edit: Anyone remember that the early settlers of this fine country were so appalled by the excesses of the contemporary monarchy, that the wearing of something so simple as silver coat-buttons or any type of jewelry was considered scandalous in some communities?