Grandmothers & Clothes

It blows me away to see some individuals judging Senator Obama for going to visit his ill grandmother. I also understand the issues with the 757, but what about the reported $21,012 Governor Palin spent in tax dollars for her children to hop on a plain and travel with her according to http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27310849/. How about the report that Palin re-worded tax forms in order to claim her children performed state business on these trips? Hmmm….

It's funny that Brad Blakeman had nothing to say about the clothing expenses of Governor Palin's clothing expenses, but had a mouth full of insults when it came to Obama. I just have one question for all of those "soccer mom's", how often do you spend over $4,000 for hair and makeup? I know what I spend on make-up and hair products amounts to maybe $20.00 a month. I splurge every 4 or 5 months and spend $20.00 on a haircut. I'm lucky if I can buy a tube of lipstick. I know politicians have to spend a little more than the average person because they are suppose to be representing themselves in such a huge limelight, but Ms. Palin is speaking out of both sides of her mouth. She wants to level with us and be like the average person but these expenses are out of my league. I know that I would much rather see Senator Obama fly on a 757 and pay a large sum of money to see his ill grandmother than to watch Senator Palin spend money on a new wardrobe and flights for her daughters.

If you want to hear negative comments about Obama, go to Fox News. If you want to find negative comments about McCain, go to MSNBC. If it's smear speach you seek, one only needs to look in the correct place to find it, and you found what you were looking for at Fox News.

The 757 Obama took to see his grandmother was for a good cause - it may be the last chance he has to see her and he certinly can't charter a commercial flight to go see her. Sarah Palin's clothing, make-up and hair costs everyday are unique to this election cycle. Seriously, if the three male nominees had the same suit and shirt on everyday and only changed their tie, nobody would notice. None of them have any hair to do or daily make-up. Nice, high-end business attire from an upscale shop in New York is EXPENSIVE, and if an occasion like as running for VP of the United States isn't worthy of such purchases, then please tell me what is!

Both sides of these particular attacks are irrelivant to our election and matter only to those searching to start static.

These expenses were listed in the McCain/Palin "campaign expense" reports. That was the same source where the media found out about $400 haircuts of Sen. Edwards & Sen. McCain's $500 shoes.

To try and connect clothing "expenses" to a direct criticism of visiting one's ill grandmother strikes me as disgusting and another sign of desperation. It is a reflection on the priorities of the McCain campaign when the highest paid staff member the first two weeks of Oct. was Amy Strozzi (Gov. Palin's makeup stylist). She was paid $22,800.00; this would translater into a salary of $547,000.00 a year.

This from a campaign that is emphasizing "Joe the Plumber" (a plumbers average salary is under $40,000/yr) and they are for the middle class. I agree this should not be a campaign issue but when Obama is criticized for visiting an ill relative and that is compared to a shopping spree at stores most Americans could/will never afford or patronize.... then it does become something worth discussing.