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Larrry

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Newsmax.com
Obama's Hawaii Trips Cost More Than Palin's ClothesSunday, October 26, 2008 3:21 PM

By: Ronald Kessler
Barack Obama's trips to Hawaii on a chartered Boeing 757 each cost more than twice the price of Sarah Palin's new clothes.
Brad Blakeman, who was in charge of scheduling for President Bush, says a Boeing 757 costs about $20,000 an hour for fuel, crew, and maintenance. Since a trip to Hawaii entails 10 hours of flying time from Chicago, the total cost for each round-trip comes to about $400,000.
Obama used the Boeing 757 for trips to Hawaii over the summer for a vacation and again last week to see his failing grandmother. Admirable though that visit was, "By Obama using a private jet to go on a purely personal visit to see his grandma, he's wasting not only energy, but he's using the money that his supporters have given him for campaign purposes," Blakeman says. "It's a purely personal visit paid for with campaign funds."
On the other hand, the media are highlighting the Republican National Committee's purchase of $150,000 in clothes for Palin, even though the dresses will be donated to charities. The New York Times played the story on page one.
"They're picking on Palin, who was provided a wardrobe by the RNC strictly for political purposes, and it was always intended that these garments would be then given to charity," Blakeman says. "So there's a benefit that's going to charity, not a benefit that Palin will have after the election. There was a need for it because she's a modest person who didn't have an extensive wardrobe to do 24/7 campaigning."
To pick on Palin without going after Obama's plane trips is "an absolute journalistic abuse," Blakeman says. "This is the same plane that he took to Hawaii when he went on vacation. In the summertime, when gas was soaring and Americans were having to pinch their pennies, this guy gets on his campaign plane and goes to Hawaii on vacation. He did a couple campaign stops in a state that is not a swing state and is a guaranteed win for Obama. That was clearly to cover the tracks of this vacation."
Blakeman notes that at the height of the gasoline price surge, Obama suggested that Americans check their vehicle's tire pressure as a way of conserving fuel.
"I wonder if he checked the tires on his jumbo jet before taking off for a purely personal visit?" Blakeman says. "The way he spends campaign money is a direct reflection of how he will spend ours. He could have easily flown commercial or taken a much smaller corporate aircraft that would cost a fraction of a 757."
Ironically, it was Palin as governor who saved money for Alaskans by selling the state's jet and instead flying commercial.
Kellyanne Conway, one of the most respected Republican pollsters, says the media's attack on Palin's clothes is an example of elitist snobbery or "classism." Noting the media's treatment of her, "I can't believe her own family still approves of her, after the unprecedented, personal and relentless attacks that this woman has undergone," Conway says.
Besides attacks on Palin over her clothes, Conway cites snide remarks about "the way she speaks, her husband's lack of a college degree, the barefoot and pregnant 17-year-old daughter, you know who hunts moose anyway? The classism is so raw and unapologetic, so unconsidered and so undisguised."
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I'll gladly send another donation- so he can visit his grandmother- if that is what you want :wink: ....
This is nothing compared to Sister Sarah packing her tribe all over the country and charging the expenses to the Alaska taxpayers...
I wonder what it costs to fly from Alaska to NY and stay in a luxury Hotel for a 5 day vacation in NYC :???: To attend a 5 hour conference :???: All at the taxpayers expense- charged to the state of Alaska.....

More Republican "Fiscal Conservatism" :wink: :lol: :lol: :p

I wonder if any of that included some of all that Federal taxpayer pork Alaska got :???: All our taxpayer money :???:

AP INVESTIGATION: Alaska funded Palin kids' travel

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Gov. Sarah Palin charged the state for her children to travel with her, including to events where they were not invited, and later amended expense reports to specify that they were on official business.

The charges included costs for hotel and commercial flights for three daughters to join Palin to watch their father in a snowmobile race, and a trip to New York, where the governor attended a five-hour conference and stayed with 17-year-old Bristol for five days and four nights in a luxury hotel.

In all, Palin has charged the state $21,012 for her three daughters' 64 one-way and 12 round-trip commercial flights since she took office in December 2006. In some other cases, she has charged the state for hotel rooms for the girls.

Alaska law does not specifically address expenses for a governor's children. The law allows for payment of expenses for anyone conducting official state business.

As governor, Palin justified having the state pay for the travel of her daughters — Bristol, 17; Willow, 14; and Piper, 7 — by noting on travel forms that the girls had been invited to attend or participate in events on the governor's schedule.

But some organizers of these events said they were surprised when the Palin children showed up uninvited, or said they agreed to a request by the governor to allow the children to attend.

Several other organizers said the children merely accompanied their mother and did not participate. The trips enabled Palin, whose main state office is in the capital of Juneau, to spend more time with her children.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081021/ap_on_el_pr/palin_family_travel
 

loomixguy

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Oldtimer said:
I'll gladly send another donation- so he can visit his grandmother- if that is what you want :wink: ....
This is nothing compared to Sister Sarah packing her tribe all over the country and charging the expenses to the Alaska taxpayers...


Better send Boo Rock some dough now, voluntarily, cause you might get the chance to send him ALL your dough, soon enough, INVOLUNTARILY! :shock: :mad:

Since you are fixated over Sister Sarah and her use of taxpayer funds.....Did YOU ever use the county's patrol car, or burn any of the county's gas on PERSONAL BUSINESS? Stop at the grocery store, sale barn, bank, or a friend's? If so, did you ever reimburse the county for the mileage and/or fuel?

Send your dough to Boo Rock, Old Komrade....something tells me he's gonna need all of yours and everybody else's.

12% of the population is black, and let's figger another 12% are tards, and let's throw in another 12% being either gay or Hispanic.....that's only 36%. Actually, less, cause some voters will fit into two or more categories. Since the remaining white people are all racists, 64%.....Johnny Mac and Sister Sarah just might pull this off yet! :D :D :p
 

hopalong

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loomixguy said:
Oldtimer said:
I'll gladly send another donation- so he can visit his grandmother- if that is what you want :wink: ....
This is nothing compared to Sister Sarah packing her tribe all over the country and charging the expenses to the Alaska taxpayers...


Better send Boo Rock some dough now, voluntarily, cause you might get the chance to send him ALL your dough, soon enough, INVOLUNTARILY! :shock: :mad:

Since you are fixated over Sister Sarah and her use of taxpayer funds.....Did YOU ever use the county's patrol car, or burn any of the county's gas on PERSONAL BUSINESS? Stop at the grocery store, sale barn, bank, or a friend's? If so, did you ever reimburse the county for the mileage and/or fuel?
Send your dough to Boo Rock, Old Komrade....something tells me he's gonna need all of yours and everybody else's.

12% of the population is black, and let's figger another 12% are tards, and let's throw in another 12% being either gay or Hispanic.....that's only 36%. Actually, less, cause some voters will fit into two or more categories. Since the remaining white people are all racists, 64%.....Johnny Mac and Sister Sarah just might pull this off yet! :D :D :p

From the grapevine he wasted the counties money just by being sheriff!

He spent most of his time plastered in front of a TV in the local coffee shop watching Mayberry RFD, getting points from Barney on how to be a sheriff :D
 

jigs

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loomixguy said:
Oldtimer said:
I'll gladly send another donation- so he can visit his grandmother- if that is what you want :wink: ....
This is nothing compared to Sister Sarah packing her tribe all over the country and charging the expenses to the Alaska taxpayers...


Better send Boo Rock some dough now, voluntarily, cause you might get the chance to send him ALL your dough, soon enough, INVOLUNTARILY! :shock: :mad:

Since you are fixated over Sister Sarah and her use of taxpayer funds.....Did YOU ever use the county's patrol car, or burn any of the county's gas on PERSONAL BUSINESS? Stop at the grocery store, sale barn, bank, or a friend's? If so, did you ever reimburse the county for the mileage and/or fuel?

Send your dough to Boo Rock, Old Komrade....something tells me he's gonna need all of yours and everybody else's.

12% of the population is black, and let's figger another 12% are tards, and let's throw in another 12% being either gay or Hispanic.....that's only 36%. Actually, less, cause some voters will fit into two or more categories. Since the remaining white people are all racists, 64%.....Johnny Mac and Sister Sarah just might pull this off yet! :D :D :p


throw me into that 64% I am a proud racist. I am voting right down the colored lines this year. I have no clue what either candidate stands for, I am just a color biased voter



hell, at least I am honest...you wont hear a black say they are voting Obama just for that reason....and you KNOW they are.
 

fff

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News flash: Hawaii is a state. Residents will vote in the election next week. Obama made a campaign trip to the state of Hawaii and visted his grandma and relaxed a few days. So what? Not a swing state? So what? McCain is spending millions in IA where Obama has a double digit lead. Should someone outside the campaign tell him he's wasting his money?
 

Texan

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Sandman said:
HERE'S ONE MORE FOR YOU WHY DID YOU NOT AS THE HIGH SHERIFF DEMAND ACCOUNTABILATY ON THE VINCE FOSTER DEATH?
Yeah, Oldtimer. It's time for you to quit stonewalling. Time for you to end the cover-up. Time for you to come clean. Why didn't you vigorously pursue the investigation in the Vince Foster case? :lol:
 

TexasBred

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fff said:
News flash: Hawaii is a state. Residents will vote in the election next week. Obama made a campaign trip to the state of Hawaii and visted his grandma and relaxed a few days. So what? Not a swing state? So what? McCain is spending millions in IA where Obama has a double digit lead. Should someone outside the campaign tell him he's wasting his money?

Since we dont' know where most of obama's donations come from I don't guess it really matters how they're spent either.
 

loomixguy

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fff said:
McCain is spending millions in IA where Obama has a double digit lead.

Having lived in South Sioux City during the IBP strike debacle that began in the hot summer of 1982, I can attest that Iowa has it's share and then some of tards and feebs. Last time I was there, I didn't notice too many brothas and sistahs. :shock: The only lead that counts is the lead at the end of the day on November 4th. :wink: :p

WASSAMATTER, Old Komrade.......don't want to tell us about your use of county vehicles and fuel for personal business?
 

backhoeboogie

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fff said:
News flash: Hawaii is a state. Residents will vote in the election next week. Obama made a campaign trip to the state of Hawaii and visted his grandma and relaxed a few days. So what? Not a swing state? So what? McCain is spending millions in IA where Obama has a double digit lead. Should someone outside the campaign tell him he's wasting his money?

So you rationalize the millions Obama spent as if it was nothing. But you are so burned with jealousy over Sarah's clothes that you start a complete new thread on it again...."About those clothes......."

I'm telling you, she looks like a million and it only cost $150K. Since it turns you green with envy perhaps it is priceless.
 

TexasBred

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Oldtimer said:
I'll gladly send another donation- so he can visit his grandmother- if that is what you want :wink: ....
This is nothing compared to Sister Sarah packing her tribe all over the country and charging the expenses to the Alaska taxpayers...
I wonder what it costs to fly from Alaska to NY and stay in a luxury Hotel for a 5 day vacation in NYC :???: To attend a 5 hour conference :???: All at the taxpayers expense- charged to the state of Alaska.....

More Republican "Fiscal Conservatism" :wink: :lol: :lol: :p

I wonder if any of that included some of all that Federal taxpayer pork Alaska got :???: All our taxpayer money :???:

AP INVESTIGATION: Alaska funded Palin kids' travel

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Gov. Sarah Palin charged the state for her children to travel with her, including to events where they were not invited, and later amended expense reports to specify that they were on official business.

The charges included costs for hotel and commercial flights for three daughters to join Palin to watch their father in a snowmobile race, and a trip to New York, where the governor attended a five-hour conference and stayed with 17-year-old Bristol for five days and four nights in a luxury hotel.

In all, Palin has charged the state $21,012 for her three daughters' 64 one-way and 12 round-trip commercial flights since she took office in December 2006. In some other cases, she has charged the state for hotel rooms for the girls.

Alaska law does not specifically address expenses for a governor's children. The law allows for payment of expenses for anyone conducting official state business.

As governor, Palin justified having the state pay for the travel of her daughters — Bristol, 17; Willow, 14; and Piper, 7 — by noting on travel forms that the girls had been invited to attend or participate in events on the governor's schedule.

But some organizers of these events said they were surprised when the Palin children showed up uninvited, or said they agreed to a request by the governor to allow the children to attend.

Several other organizers said the children merely accompanied their mother and did not participate. The trips enabled Palin, whose main state office is in the capital of Juneau, to spend more time with her children.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081021/ap_on_el_pr/palin_family_travel

Yet in spite of "travel for the tribe" she's cut the travel expense by over $400,000 and sold the gov't jet.
 

TexasBred

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fff said:
News flash: Hawaii is a state. Residents will vote in the election next week. Obama made a campaign trip to the state of Hawaii and visted his grandma and relaxed a few days. So what? Not a swing state? So what? McCain is spending millions in IA where Obama has a double digit lead. Should someone outside the campaign tell him he's wasting his money?

OH I forgot.....that's where Obama was born. He was actually in Hawaii on official busines...."trying to find his REAL birth certificate". Just happened to drop by and see grandma.
 
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