Posted on 01/10/2009 8:48:08 PM PST by Toki
An aide to Sarah Palin is disclosing as gifts more than $13,000 in airfare and lodging from the John McCain campaign, logged while helping the Alaska governor with state business during her bid as the Republican vice presidential candidate.
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Who cares?
>>Who cares?<<
Not me.
I know, this keeps being reported with headlines that make it look sketchy. I don’t get what the big deal is. Am I missing something?
I can't wait to hear Palin's CPAC speech, she should unleash with both barrels.
Not sure why this is news, but it sounds like this person didnt waste any money. Any word on Biden’s staff expenditures?
Oh wait now I get it. Rachel D’Obama wrote this. Figures.
You're not missing anything. That's exactly how they want it to sound.
Big deal. The Obamas spent at least $9 million on their Christmas vacation in HI.
Sorry, I just thought it was intersting and I didn’t see it posted. I guess I posted it wrong. I think it’s just another sign of media bias, and something they might to use against her. I
I agree. Why are they after her even after the election is over. She is like showing a cross to a vampire. The msm is going nuts, as well as libs.
/blushes
Yeah I guess I should have read over it better.
Yawn. Put this in context with other campaigns and then I MIGHT be concerned.
BFD this is so routine. Why is it a story>>>>
$13K?? THis is supposed be a big number or something? Am I supposed to be dumbstruck that this is a big deal in a presidential campaign where the opposition spent $600 million? Nevertheless, we’ll unquestionably be hearing alllllll about this huge, astoundingly extravagent number from the GMA crowd as if it’s a crime against humanity.
How much did Obama’s 2-3 trips to HI cost?
>>Sorry, I just thought it was intersting and I didn’t see it posted. I guess I posted it wrong. I think it’s just another sign of media bias, and something they might to use against her. I<<
I was agreeing with you.
I would assume this would be a drop in the hole for Obama, McCain, maybe not Biden.
I’m sorry I couldn’t tell or not. :D
> I’m sorry I couldn’t tell or not. :D
Relax... you correctly identified and posted a piece of bias which the media expects everyone to be scandalized by. As you can see, everybody here is suitably scandalized that the media would expect them to be scandalized...
Good post, lots of fun!
$7 million of that were gym fees.
I mean the woman is against every thing they like, you know abortion, gays, lying media and dirty politics.
Hey, they did such a good job and got Obama elect now they're working to keep Palin out.
Hey all, just as an aside... once again this week, there has been a lot of Palin chatter in the news about this Ziegler interview (which I thought was great BTW). I keep wondering if the everyday MSM news about Palin is ever going to die down a bit. Conservatives who are following her actual progress in AK, never, but I am really starting to feel like it is shaping up to be an all out 4 year WAR w/ the MSM regarding Sarah. Even w/ Messiah’s coronation week after next, they still can’t stop talking about and smearing her. In some ways it’s kind of funny to watch idiots like Shuster, but on the other hand I just wish Sarah would be covered when there is REAL news to report on... She seems to be minding her own business and governing, but there has always been something seemingly everyday. This Zeigler interview was no big deal to me, yet it has completely blown up the last few days.
I guess it’s good to keep the irons hot, but 4 years is a long time. I can’t wait to hear her at CPAC and to start throwing gobs of $$ at her PAC when it starts, but hopefully, post inauguration will be the start of the “die down” period. Obama is going to make such a mess of things, but MSM will give him a pass as long as possible, which means as I heard John Gibson put it on Fri, the GW Palin smears will never stop... Sigh...
So, who paid for McCain to travel back to Washington to vote for the bail out? Did the money come from their senate expenses or from their campaign expenses?
The media will do anything to disparage her and will do everything to cover up the real corruption of the Left, it’s pretty plain to see.
Has Hillary paid those vendors yet? Has any reporter looked into those foreign donations to Obama? This is nothing compared to what the rats got away with.
That's an understatement. The media is like a young predator that got it's first taste of blood. They have become ravenous with regard to conservative personalities and conservative issues.
Where they were once content with just fabricating biased news stories, they are now actively engaging in the character assassination business. I believe it is growing from their fear of a strong conservative emerging who will tell the truth openly and often. They were afraid of George Allen so they went after him relentlessly on the fabricated racial pejorative of "macaca", which I'll bet none of them ever heard before it became the most important story of the campaign to them.
They went after Kurt Weldon for speaking openly about the twisting of facts to keep Lt. Col. Shaffer of the Able Danger Data Mining Team from testifying before the 9/11 commission sham.
They were afraid of Mitt Romney's candor, intelligence and economic background so they made an issue of his religion that no one understood and having been successful in taking those people out of the game they are focused on Sarah Palin. She is bright, attractive, candid and they are scared to death that she might come back to haunt them.
Not a fair comparison with Sarah Palin. Both George W. Bush and Bill Clinton were running for President, and were on the campaign trail a LONG time. Sarah Palin was only announced in late August, so was on the campaign trail for no more than 2-1/2 months. Sounds like she handled things well, regardless.
They are really scraping the bottom of the barrel here. Maybe their other reporters are out tracking down the latest scoop, Todd and Sarah Palin are really Gypsies, and they stole all those kids.
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