The Huffington Post points us to this interview with The Obama family and Maria Menounos recorded for Access Hollywood in July. Michelle Obama discussed shopping on a budget and finding fashion bargains. She said the dress she was wearing cost $30 and that she usually shops at The Gap for herself and her daughters. Michelle has been praised in the press for her style, and was featured in People Magazine’s style section in a black and white print dress that cost less than $150. Her daughter Malia, 10, said that she reads People and was surprised to see her mom there alongside other fashion icons like Angelina Jolie.
There’s a big scandal now for the Republican party, because the Republican National Committee was caught using official campaign money to outfit Vice Presidential Candidate Sarah Palin and her family to the tune of $150,000. Palin’s seven year-old daughter was even seen carrying a Louis Vuitton purse that hopefully belonged to her mother, but may have been paid for with campaign funds. (Update: Piper Palin was carrying a knockoff LV purse.)
In contrast, Michelle Obama takes pride in getting clothing bargains with her family’s money while her Presidential Candidate husband says he “hates to shop.” In the interview above, Michelle and her daughters pointed out that Barack isn’t the snappiest dresser and said he just buys the same jacket in different colors. Barack admitted “I hate to shop.” Michelle pointed to his pants and said they were about ten years old. She also said she hopes he’ll buy a new belt and shoes. Obama’s shoes are so old he’s worn holes in the bottom of them.
Michelle Obama is shown below in a dress from H&M that cost $34.95
Michelle and Barack Obama are shown on 10/21/08 ata ‘Vote for Change’ rally at Bicentennial Park in Miami, Florida. Credit: WENN
It just goes to show, expensive clothes aren’t the equivalent of class.
I love Michelle’s style so much. She just makes me happy. 😀
What a contrast… To be honest, I would trust Michelle Obama sooner to be a responsible and wise VP than I would Palin.
Michelle was also the same one ordering caviar and champagne up in her hotel room a few weeks ago.
I find nothing wrong with the RNC paying for a Palin spruce-up. Frankly, she and her husband really don’t have the money for nice clothes — not with 5 kids. And if she didn’t look presentable, the press would have eaten her alive for it. She’s damned if she does, and damned if she doesn’t.
but using official campaign money?? sorry, that´s just wrong.
and why would michelle not eat caviar and drink some champagne? i kinda think these things are on the house, hotels tend to do that for publicity.
I’m sorry but how do you justify spending $150,000 for clothes, really? It’s one thing to spend a some bank for clothes that make Palin presentable and appealing to the public. I don’t think there would be such a backlash if it were $20 to $30 thousand, but $150? For 7 weeks of appearances? And outfitting the family too?
Good God. Republicans, once led by Lincoln, now led by Rush. It’s really become laughable 😆
I agree that Palin would have had her lunch eaten for dressing in her normal style, but I think they could have snazzed her wardrobe up for less. A lot less. The Palins aren’t exactly poor, either – they pay Governors pretty well and her husband has a good job.
Do you have a source on Michelle’s food bill? I read something along those lines, but it was all from sites I don’t trust to be fact-driven.
To Jen in Dallas, those who reported Michell’s supposed champagne and caviar dinner have since retracted the story, admitting that the couple didn’t even stay at the hotel cited in the original article.
I’m with the above on several points. While I’m only sort of comfortable with the concept of using campaign money to supplement the costs of the Palins’ wardrobe, $150K way too much money to justify. Especially when you have Michelle Obama, not just pulling off some really fine-looking outfits at more decent costs (which they pay for with their own hard-earned money) but being able to look like a million dollars. She herself has the style, grace and confidence to make those clothes LOOK like they should be expensive. She’s so awesome that this woman doesn’t wear clothes to make herself look better but does so for the better of those clothes, if you ask me.
I’m slowly coming to the realization that Michelle might be the most intelligent person in this race and agree with MissMara that she could probably make a more worthy VP candidate than our dear, simple Sarah.
The New York Post ran a story a couple weeks ago stating that Michelle Obama ordered Lobster and Caviar while she stayed at the Waldorf…unfortunately, the story wasn’t TRUE and they had to run a retraction stating that their source was incorrect and Michelle Obama wasn’t in New York or staying at the Waldorf.
Shame how people continue to spread lies and never seek the truth.
Aha! It’s BS – the story was run in the NY Post (no comment). Michelle Obama wasn’t even a guest in the hotel where she was accused of ordering lobster and caviar. The Post itself ran a retraction. http://www.nypost.com/seven/10212008/gossip/pagesix/room_disservice_134490.htm
Well, better to spend the RNC’s money on overpriced designer clothes than on more hate-filled robocalls IMHO.
That said, I think Palin is just a power-grubbing small town Diva who cares nothing for America. If she DID respect her country and its citizens, she wouldn’t try to divide us with her hate-filled rallies.
You can’t buy class, that’s for sure.
Thanks, Linda. I just googled the story and posted the link to the retraction, but my post disappeared after I hit submit. Darned internet gremlins…
Following all of this and sorting the truth from the BS is a full time job….
Jen in Dallas, looking presentable is in a whole different hemisphere than wearing Prada, Oscar de la Renta and Louis Vuitton. Please don’t be ridiculous and try to sugar coat this one. This whole article is about how Michelle Obama looks fantastic for very little. No one is saying that Palin should have shopped at the Goodwill or even Target, but Saks Fifth Avenue is going a little too far. We’ve all seen footage of her before this VP stuff and she looked perfectly “presentable” then and she wasn’t wearing $5000 dress suits.
The other part of this whole thing I TOTALLY don’t buy is that she’s going to give it all to charity when she’s done. There’s no way she was parting with those boots that she won’t take off (to be fair, I wouldn’t either) and she’s sure as hell not going to take her kids’ new designer clothes away from them. It is never ceasing to amaze me how stupid this Republican ticket thinks us little ol’ normal people are.
Agree, Diva, re donating to charity – that sounded to me very much like a panicked afterthought in a sad little attempt to try and redeem the situation. Not fooling anyone.
EDit: I think she has to NOW, Chamalla. Had it not come to light, I doubt it.
I think she has to give them back – they aren’t hers, they belong to the RNC. (those boots are AWESOME, btw. Bet they cost more than my mortgage payment. *sigh*) Campaign finance may not be the most transparent and seamless process, but I think they have to prove they didn’t use the clothes as a gift.
To be totally fair, we’d probably all gasp audibly if we saw how much money was thrown around by both parties in the past six months.
The GOP had to do this–Palin is running for the second most powerful job in the WORLD, so she can’t campaign in a parka. The jewelry Cindy McCain wore at the convention was worth more than the $150K they spent outfitting the Palins. Both women look great, but unfortunately I don’t agree with their politics.
Anyway Michelle Obama is tall and thin and looks good in anything. As a candidate’s wife, she doesn’t have to follow the same dress code as the candidates. As First Lady, she will be representing our country, not just her husband, and will have to dress up more.
As to the cost, I’m sure many designers would be happy to donate their creations to her, just to have the publicity.
She may have needed new clothes, as her photos before her nomination are horrendous, but have you ever heard of medium priced clothing? She did not have to go to Neiman’s or Saks to get nice clothes. It is the total hypocricy that is wearing on people and not the new clothes.
She talks about Walmart shopping, but when given a chance dresses herself and her family with high end designer wear. Sorry, this makes John Edwards $400 haircut look silly and he paid for it by the way, not his campaign.
Mrs. Obama is the true working mom, whos has had to dress herself and her family, not this hypocrit.
“PJ: As to the cost, I’m sure many designers would be happy to donate their creations to her, just to have the publicity.”
The problem is that these clothes weren’t donated by designers. They took campaign contribution from hard working Americans & used them to buy ridiculously over-priced clothing that are now going to be given away. People donated that money to support their candidate, not put the homeless in $5000 designer suits.
Sarah Palin makes appx. $108,000/year for being Govenor of Alaska and she can’t afford her own clothes… I know that Todd also has a job and brings in money – please someone tell me that we think these people cannot afford clothes.
Why is celebitchy comparing the two? Your role as First Lady is no comparrison to your role as Vice President. I am asshamed to have even read this! Michelle O. married into her role, Sarah P. earned it. We need to stop discussing clothes, the fact that they (press) continue this further exploits the woman issue as something where only fashion matters.
Love love love this family, and Michelle Obama will be the coolest and smartest first lady we’ve had in awhile.
Did anyone else read about Piper Palin’s purloined LV purse ? Say it fast 3x and watch the fashion anti-counterfeit unit descend.
Yes it’s time for John and Sarah to gather up their sacks of lies and their silent zombie spouses and crawl back to their mcmansions.
crazycatlady: it is about more than clothing, it is about character. mc cain & palin keep talking about how they are for the average joe, and palin even calls herself a jane sixpack or some nonsense. yet he doesn’t know how many houses he has, his wife owns a private jet, and palin is spending shitloads of money on clothes, charging the state of alaska for nights she spent in her own home, etc. it helps paints a picture of who they really are and where their priorities lay.
Sarah ‘earned’ it, crazycatlady? What precisely did she do as governor of Alaska that qualifies her, over all the other Republican politicians (male OR female) who could have been chosen for the position, to be vice-president? Anything particularly spectacular that she did, other than being born with two X chromosomes?
McCain picked her for his running mate in a misguided attempt to capture the female voters that were hoping to elect Clinton. Sarah Palin’s biggest political achievement to date is actually convincing some people that she really didn’t know what was going on when the police in her state were charging victims for rape kits.
As for whether she ‘needed’ to spend as much on clothing as my family makes in three years because she’s a candidate and not a candidate’s wife? Just because Michelle Obama isn’t running for office herself does not mean that her modest personal style wouldn’t work for Palin. Palin is a beautiful woman too and could look just as presentable as she does now for easily a third or a fourth of what was spent to outfit her, and for all the Joe Plumber BS she spouts, her target demographic *should* praise her for it, not slam her. The kind of people who are rich enough to be able to slam her for not wearing $10,000 suits will be voting for McCain anyway.
yeah like catlady said, you can’t compare the two… michelle obama doesn’t have any rights to campaign money… i’m sure the obamas are holy and everything but the bias is ridiculous…
Christina and crazycatlady –
The world where “only fashion matters” is obviously the world of the Republican party, otherwise they wouldn’t have spent $150,000.00 on FASHION for Sarah Palin.
Can’t you see where this is a hypocritical problem???? That’s great that you’re a Republican, I appreciate the difference of opinion in this country, I used to be a Republican myself, but there is no way you can justify this amount of money for those kinds of clothes. There just isn’t.
Are you honestly insinuating that the only way Sarah Palin could be an effective Vice President is if she wore $5000 suits? Because that’s what “Your role as First Lady is no comparrison to your role as Vice President.” says to me. That if she wore the same Gap and HM clothing Michelle wore, she wouldn’t be seen as a qualified VP candidate. THAT, my friend, is making fashion the only thing that matters.
By the way, if Michelle Obama isn’t entitled to any of the campaign money, than either are Sarah Palin’s kids or husband, right? And where has some of that money gone?
Come on, you can like someone, even admire them, and still be able to rationally see when something they’ve done is just plain not right.
amen Musey. nice cogent post.
Palin and co. never cease to amaze me. all this woman is good at is getting $$ out of taxpayers. from charging alaskans to stay in her own house to having the state pay to fly her kids around to events around the country they werent invited to (check out the Time article on this) to fleecing taxpayers for her non-fleece cindy McPillpop-inspired clothing, Palin has shown us her talents for wasting tax payer money on enriching her personal life, whether it be charging for her childrens’ junkets or playing an expensive game of dress-up.
she AND her family make me sick. she should have spent 10 cents making a photocopy of the consitution so she could read it and figure out what her job as VP would be. what a moron.
I noticed a couple people repeating the story about Michelle Obama ordering fancy roomservice. That story was retracted and it turns out Michelle never even stayed at that hotel.
But lets not let a little truth get in the way?
http://michelleobamawatch.com/
“Michelle O. married into her role, Sarah P. earned it.”
You are so right! I mean, Palin busted her ass puking in toilets all through her childhood so that she could come in second place in the Miss Alaska race! All the partying pictures of her youth aside, she then went to what…3, 4 different colleges? To get a degree and got a job as a news anchor. Then, realizing her potential, she was smart enough to know hot hockey sports caster mom would probably run a better chance at getting the mayor spot in a small town than Bob who sells tires at the local tire shop, THEN went on to become the governor of ALASKA (just a stones throw away from Russia, dontcha know)…she totally earned her spot as the VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. Give me a f****** break.
Fashion Icon? Any woman with hips like Michelle Obama should know better than to wear horizontal stripes. I dont think you have to look cheap to dress cheaply but I do think Michelle Obamas dresses scream “Dress Barn”. She really needs to stop with the stripes and prints.
Love them both! She has a great sense of style, expensive or not! When you have a good body and good personality, you can pull anything off!
Any Republican who stands up for this kind of spending needs to send John Edwards an apology for sliming him over a $400 haircut. Gov. Palin sees politics as a way to become wealthy. Period. In no way does she share values or experiences with me, a middle class worker, who is proud of having worked for every dime I make, no matter how she spins it. And since I make less than $250,000 per year (way less) I will actually pay less in taxes under Obama’s plan. I looked it up and read the plan to figure that out for myself, everyone should.
Sarah could have looked perfectly presentable in some Jones New York, Ann Taylor or Talbots. She didn’t need Saks and Neimans.
I make waaaaay less than $250,000 a year so I appreciate Michelle’s bargain-hunting fashion skills. It’s not the label that makes you look good, it’s knowing what fits and flatters you.
Palin is radiculous. And McCain should lose the election for no other reason than because he had the absurdly bad judgment to pick her.
What a slap in the face to all the qualified, intelligent Republican women he passed over for the job.
“intelligent Republican women”
Now there’s an oxymoron
It just goes to show you that there is a double standard where Republicans are concerned. If Joe Biden had spent 150,000 on suits and his familys sweater vests and charged it to the campaign he would have been THE most irresposible man in the history of the world. But Sarah needs to look pretty. This kind of stuff makes me puke.
CrazyCatLady, you’ve missed the point. This is not merely about fashion but rather about the amount and source of the funds used to purchase Palin’s wardrobe. And your claim that she has earned this by being nominated is just silly.
This is yet another example of how out of touch McCain & Palin are. They have spent $150K, a large amount for Real Americans, when most workers/families are stressed about their finances.
You know, shopping sprees aside what concerns me more than anything is her daughter was carrying a knock off bag. How many times have we heard in recent news that these purchases “support crime and terrorism”? And she has the nerve to bring up ties to Ayres?
Michelle Obama, if her husband makes it, will be the ugliest first lady I’ve ever seen (worse than Barbara Bush, and that’s just hard to beat). She looks cheap and moves cheap. Of course it doesn’t mean she’s a bad person (or that her husband is because of that), but sure as heck she’s very ugly and totally classless.
🙄 Well, everybody’s entitled to their “cheap” opinions.
“intelligent Republican women”
Now there’s an oxymoron
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That was really rude and uncalled for.
Oh please. She isnt that ugly. Did you never see a picture of Eleanore Roosevelt? Now she was a howler. I dont think she is classless either but as the British say, “terribly common”. I felt she made a complete ass out of herself dancing with Ellen Degeneres on her show.
“She looks cheap and moves cheap, she’s very ugly and totally classless.”
Well, someone’s looking cheap and ugly and classless here but it’s definitely not Michelle Obama.
In truth, I’m sure Hilary Clinton spent campaign funds for clothes, and I wouldn’t be surprised if it was the norm for candidates (done by their “image consultants” or whatever they are called)
Still, it makes you realize just what kind of absurd costs these campaigns produce. I don’t blame Palin for not spending her own money, since I doubt she even chose the clothes herself, but that it would be considered reasonable to spend 150K on clothes?? When there is a huge financial crisis on Wall Street and the possibility of an economic recession and/or depression?
I wouldn’t hold Palin personally responsible, but both the Republicans and Democrates should have a cold, hard look at what sort of spending they are doing…there is no need for that kind of waste.
As to donating the clothes…if they are designer, they are also tailored for Palin specifically. Unless she plans to donate them to someone with her exact measurements…?
This story is BS! Last week’s Chicago Tribune featured a local designer, Maria Pinto, apparently Michelle Obama buys a lot of her stuff. Her dresses range from $500-$2000………..gap–right!!!
AND NBC 5 just talked about Barack having custom made suits for $3500.
Sarah’s all about the perks, isn’t she? She looks great in her expensive duds, but I really don’t see any difference in her appearance in the clothes she is wearing now, bought with misspent money, than in what she wore in photos prior to her nomination.
Curiously, her children don’t look good at all in their perk clothes. I wonder why that is?
I find it incredible that someone would label Michelle Obama as ugly… She is so pretty, has intelligence and style, and is genuinely in love with her husband.
@Katie – And Michelle has worn a few of the expensive dresses to a couple of the big events – like the Dem. convention. But most of the time, on the campaign trail, Michelle wears simple, inexpensive tasteful clothes. What we’re pointing out is two things: Michelle and Barack pay for their clothes *themselves* – out of their own incomes. They don’t have a DNC slush fund to buy their wardrobes. Secondly, the hypocrisy of this whole “just a hockey mom from Alaska” bullsh-t when she’s wearing a $5000 de la Lenta suit.
I agree, Katie.
Obama supporters are quick to attack Palin yet never question how much is spent on Obama’s suits, or Joe Biden’s suits.
At least Palin’s wardrobe was paid for using funds from the RNC. Obama has raised some funny money, for sure.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/08/obamas_donor_contributions_sil.html
“Obama has raised some funny money, for sure.”
Goodness me, I never knew my money was funny 😯
Yet again, if I could say it slower I would, this is about the amount and source of the money. And for those with incredibly selective memories, the following issues were raised by the RNC in the past: Edwards – $400 haircut, Gore & Clinton – image consultants for a few thousand dollars.
Uh, campaign money never bought Obama a suit. There are forms that have to be filed, and that is how Palin was busted.
Clothes, hair and makeup are itemised–Obama has zero.
Of course a politician needs to look good, well-groomed, and dressed appropriately. Did she really need so much?
OK, dig this:
http://www.stylelist.com/blog/2008/10/23/sarah-palin-is-secretly-voting-for-obama/
Maybe Palin really is none too bright!
http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2008/10/obama-rally-in-grant-park-who-pays.html
http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2008/10/mayor_daley_puts_2_million_cit.html
You can’t buy charisma.
yes a few of you are totally missing the multiple points of this story: obama and michelle do not use campaign money to buy wardrobes. if they want to buy suits and special dresses that cost a fair amount of money, they do it from their own incomes, not listed as a campaign expenditure. there is a law against using campaign money for personal items. which is why the campaign is pretending they are going to charity-like they are temporary or something. which is clearly false. hillary’s suits are hillary’s pant suits, meaning, she bought them herself (she is wealthy and can well afford nice ones, which is fine) this expenditure is campaign money made up of donations-not Palin’s own income, which makes it shady, and of course, possibly the icing on the hypocritical cake that is the republican party. six figures in 6 weeks is the new ‘six-pack’
I’d bet designers are lining up to give their clothes to Michelle.
Holy shit…
If we do a currency conversion, Sarah Palin just spent the same ammount of money on CLOTHES in 7 weeks as our PRIME MINISTER gets paid FOR ALMOST HER YEARLY SALARY!!!!!
I have submitted a comment including a link for an article featuring a photograph of Sarah Palin wearing a red, white and blue scarf with the word VOTE emblazoned accompanied by repeated donkeys, the symbol of the Democratic party, but the comment never appears.
It was a bizarre fashion choice, to say the least.
If you google ‘Sarah Palin’ an ‘votes for Obama’ you will find a link to a well written article in the Belfast Telegram on the topic.
I see that other commenter’s have posted links to articles, so I don’t understand why m comment didn’t show up. It is definitely relevant to the thread!
The hypocrisy is that Palin is campaigning as a typical hockey mom representing Joe Six-Pack, while wearing a wardrobe from Sacks and Barney’s.
tigerlille,
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Yeah, the whole caviar and champagne crap with Michelle Obama? Didn’t happen. Page Six issued an apology and a retraction. She was given a speech in another state when she was supposed to have been gorging on expensive food. Michelle Obama is clearly as down to earth as they come…
Oops, I meant GIVING a speech, not given. Damn typos!
Sarah Palin and her husband the First Dude, Todd the Shadow Governor” are not poor. Surely she had enough clothes for her job as Governor that would have sufficed for her now. If not, who spends that kind of money for clothes? Ridiculous. They don’t practice what they preach…bunch of hypocrites.
tigerlille,
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Instead of articles on amounts spent on clothes, I’d love to hear why the Democrats have not had a woman running on the main ticket in 24 years (since 1984)?
Quick question Sandy, how many times have the Republicans had women running on their ticket, exempting Palin?
Michelle O. married into her role, Sarah P. earned it.
Most absurd unfounded statement I’ve read today. Shows what a bunch of dead-eyed soulless shills the GOP turns its women into. Sarah was and remains Trojan horse ‘trophy wife’ of a VP candidate set up as a Clinton alternative.
Funny Money- that’s interesting coming from the party built by funny money.
Sandy, I guess Hillary Clinton didn’t count? Dumbass.
this “clothing scandal” is going to distract from the presidential nominees themselves!
classy name calling
actually,vdantev, hillary c. doesn’t count as running on the main ticket because she didn’t win the nomination!
still waiting for an explanation to why the dems haven’t had a woman since geraldine ferraro.
The Palin family isn’t poor.
They have millions in their bank accounts.
The reason Palin is repulsive is because she is a hypocrite. She claims to “reform” Washington but she is found guilty of power abuse in her less-than-two-years governance in Alaska. She claims to be with the working class, then she spends this outrageous amounts of money on clothes – in ONLY TWO months — in the financial crisis like today.
While McCain is a decent guy, he made a terrible mistake in choosing this woman as her running mate. I think McCain deserves to lose, simply because it’s too heart-breaking to see a great country like America to get a lousy politician like Sarah Palin as their vice president — god forbid, even as their president.
God bless America.
Michelle was also the same one ordering caviar and champagne up in her hotel room a few weeks ago.
I find nothing wrong with the RNC paying for a Palin spruce-up. Frankly, she and her husband really don’t have the money for nice clothes — not with 5 kids. And if she didn’t look presentable, the press would have eaten her alive for it. She’s damned if she does, and damned if she doesn’t.
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The lobster in the hotel story was fake. Michelle wasn’t even staying at that hotel when the source said it happened.
As far as her being eaten alive for not looking presentable she could have spent 25% of that on a full wardrobe with cheaper clothes of better or same quality.
“She looks cheap and moves cheap, she’s very ugly and totally classless.”
well, at least shes a “real” woman, unlike cindy mccain who looks like the crypt keeper with all that awful plastic surgery shes had done.
i cannot stand that woman!
i cant wait to see michelle (and her husband of course!) in the white house
Jen said:
>>Michelle was also the same one ordering caviar and champagne up in her hotel room a few weeks ago.<<
Thanks for spreading this lie that the NY Post had to retract. Michelle Obama never order this supposed champaigne lunch. In fact, she never stayed at the Waldorf-Astoria where the alleged decadent lunch was to have occured. Maybe the Murdoc-owned Post should hire a fact checker.
And perhaps you should get your facts from a journalistic source instead of sucking at the teat of Fox News and other Rupert Murdoc cesspools.
classy name calling, vdantev
It’s only name-calling when it’s inaccurate. You didn’t specify whether or not the candidate in question had won the nomination in the previous point, only if they had run for the position. Don’t alter the conditions of your point of contention afterward and then cry ‘foul’ when you are proven wrong.
The view from Europe is that you might dress a dummmy in Prada and Hermes but a dummy is still a dummy…
Sandy, the real question is why it took the Republicans 24 years to nominate a woman? And, at least Ferraro was qualified and well vetted. Palin on the other hand ❓
See this is why everyday folk love them. Unlike Cindy McCain and her $93,000 outfits. I love to bargain shop too, granted my idea of a bargain is 30% off at Ralph Lauren but it goes to show you can find some great stuff on the cheap. I mean Gap’s clearance section is the best.
Sarah Palin is making the most of her 15 minutes of fame. Claiming she will give those clothes to charity is a joke, because once she goes back to Alaska, she will undoubtedly never be able to afford $150,000 wardrobe again. Well, that is, unless she has the great state of Alaska pay for them.
Michelle Obama is a classy dresser. She will bring class to the White House the same way Jackie Kennedy and Nancy Reagan did…simple elegance.
@ Jenn In Dallas.
Well I am pregnant with my 5th child, and I am chock full of stupid opinions and ideas, should the government give me hmm, say, $100,000 to buy some designer duds?
SO the Louis V is fake?
That is illegal.
Sarah Palin is hardly doing poorly in the money department. According to HuffPo, “her family income is $250K and she owns five properties, two watercraft, and an airplane.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/30/palin-says-shes-everyday_n_130711.html
As for Michelle, I love her, I love her style, and I love that her and Barack clearly have a solid relationship as can be seen in pretty much any photo or video which shows them interacting.
Most of my clothes are secondhand, so I can appreciate a good bargain shopper!
Non issue as the Obamatrons say. Who cares about the price tag of Palin’s clothes. Trumped up non issue by the bogus press. She is running for VP not first lady you know. And she didn’t even purchase the goods herself. Obama idiots have her running around ordering underlings to buy her the most expensive good. MORONS. How bout that extravaganza the Obamas put on at the DNC. A bit over the top for the party that represents the poor & downtrodden eh?? Who paid for that garish self congratulatory obscenity? Oprah??And remember now who’s the more accomplished at the same age (Palin by a long shot, mayor twice, governor of Alaska, etc. not to mention 5 kids & looking great!!) compared to Michelle holding a $300,000 a year cushy do nothing community organizing job financed partly by her husband’s position. Palin DESERVES it! Ha Ha Ha
The worst hypocrisy is that McCain – who trumpets his “campaign finance reform” as such an important achievement railed against this very thing – purchasing personal items and wardrobe with campaign funds. THAT’s the issue. I don’t care who bought the clothes for whom, but it illustrates that the current republican party runners have totally lost their way.
It seems that a debate on the first lady/VP dresses/makeup is a moot point with the entire globe reeling from TRILLIONS in losses. The fact is neither candidate has proposed a solution that makes any sense. It is laughable when candidates talk about programs that will cost in the trillion dollar range and that the public cheers one or another when we are already extremely over-leveraged. Where is this money going to come from folks?
I am a Canadian, but am very interested in both ladies—Michelle Obama always looks good, sometimes she wears affordable clothing and sometimes she buys more expensive designer clothing—bottom line is she does not waste campaign monies like Palin did. I feel that Palin was trying to take advantage of the campaign monies by splurging on clothing for herself and family and also thinking she could get them all free flights by bringing them—it shows that Palin is a woman of bad character, and thank God she did not become Vice President. Michelle will make a lovely first lady and Barack a lovely President—-
My opnion is It was a bizarre fashion choice, to say the least.You didn’t specify whether or not the candidate in question had won the nomination in the previous point, only if they had run for the position. 😛 😛
Wow I like that you suggest very much, It’s truth.
Thank you. 😮
Re: fake Louis Vuitton purse – Palin should be more careful. Her duaghter’s public appearance with one could be said to be promotion of counterfit items.
Palin did not ask for the new wardrobe. The reason why the bill soared to $150K was because several sizes of each piece of clothing were purchased to ensure a good fit. I’m sure that with all of the negative publicity the clothes caused Palin could not wait to get rid of the clothes.