BTW...

Further information came out today about this $150K. It wasn't all for Palin herself, and it wasn't all for clothing. It also went to clothing for her family members, and paid for haircuts/makeup/etc.

Mind you, it's still a lot of cash, but I don't blame Palin for it in the least.

Why? I doubt she saw a price tag. Some personal assistant and tailor are surely in charge of outfitting the candidates and those who appear with them when they go out for public consumption. I'm sure *those* people see the price tags, but I really doubt that Palin herself does. She was plucked out of Alaska with pretty much the clothes off her back and hasn't returned home since, I assume. Probably every single item of clothing she wears is new. She's probably got five or six of the same suit so she can get on and off the bus and look fresh as a daisy, despite the fact that a baby spit up on her back in Toledo an hour before.

I assume she has spent her time getting up to speed on the issues and McCain's stands on them. I assume she's been memorizing daily talking points and being interviewed. Something tells me that she was told early on, "These people are your staff, they are professionals, they'll make you as mediagenic-looking as they possibly can, and you just need to worry about the ISSUES and let these people take care of how you look." I'll bet she has no clue how much anything costs - I'd assume nothing had price tags dangling from the armpits by the time she saw it. And I *really* doubt they had time to pull over at Kohls for her to use a 15% off scratch-off discount mailer to buy shoes.

For what it's worth, I'll bet that over the course of their adult lives Michele Obama has spent more on clothing than Sarah Palin.

Did ya'll know that Barak Obama has spent $21.6M on POLLING so far?

How many starving inner-city children could he have fed with that money?