$300,000 outfit, private jets but no elitism

Vanity Fair does the numbers on the "banana look" so you don't have to :
Cindy McCain
Oscar de la Renta dress: $3,000
Chanel J12 White Ceramic Watch: $4,500
Three-carat diamond earrings: $280,000
Four-strand pearl necklace: $11,000–$25,000
Shoes, designer unknown: $600
Total: Between $299,100 and $313,100
Elitism | Fashion | Politics | Rhetoric
I wonder how much she forked
I wonder how much she forked over for that ugly barf/baby pooh green dress she wore yesterday. That was terrible.
It also looks like she's been taking hair out of her weave since it has been looking much thinner these days.
Wow
Cindy McCain was wearing pretty much what my apartment cost when I first bought it. One single outfit cost almost what my living space cost. Sorry, Repubs, but that is just fucked up to me.
Maybe you should get a better paying job?
Maybe if you worked harder or got a better paying job you wouldn't be bitching about what other people make. You should worry about your own wallet instead of trying to steal the money out of other people's wallets.
You are so funny!
Chances are I work a hell of a lot harder than you. I am a research scientist. That tends to be very hard work, and rewarding too, though you are right. It doesn't pay much. I guess scientific research is not valued much in American society. But I love it.
As to stealing money from other people's wallet, what are you talking about? Nobody said anything about stealing. People were complaining of Republican elitism and hypocricy. Maybe you misread what was being said.
But From a Policy POV
. . .it's so handy for public education!
Now Obama-Biden, in explaining how their economic and tax changes will benefit almost all Americans, can simply refer to "rich" as any family who makes more in one year than McCain's wife wears in one night!
It seems sexists to focus on
It seems sexists to focus on her clothing. No one ever seems to care about John McCain's Suits or Obama's ties, but because she is a woman you have to talk about her clothing. That is really ridicules and besides if she has money it is up to her how she spends it. This isn't some commie state where her earnings are the property of the government. If she chooses to spend her money on expensive clothing then that is her affair and no business of anyone else. That is called living in a free society. If you don't like it then go back to Venezuela and stand in a bread line.
Obama Said
leave the children out of it, not the couture!
BWAHAHAHAHA!
leave the children out of it, not the couture!
OMG! that was pure gold.
HA!
Loved Your RNC Interview Video
And it was cool for me down here in a swing state far from the madding crowds, to finally see and hear you talk.
But c'mon, dish: How much did that outfit set you back??
Why isn't the story about diamonds?
Why isn't the crux of this story the fact that those little three carats dangling from her ears are more than 90% of the value of the outfit? What rational marketplace would value those tiny bits of decorative rock at $280,000?
(answer: the diamond market isn't rational. DeBeers makes sure of this)
Without the diamonds, Mrs. McCain's outfit isn't insanely out of the league of other womens' outfits worn at the conventions. (expensive, yes, but not OMFG insane)
Because the story is about economic inequality and elitism
the fact her earrings could pay up the home mortgage of anybody caught in the mortgage and credit crisis while she and her husband call the Obamas elitist is outright obscene.































Hypocrisy -- Even when it's Fashionable!
Does everyone at the GOP forget there are such things as cameras, video, and youtube? Before they cast the "uppity" and "elite" words around they should look at their ponies in the race.
Elite: $300,000 outfit for a convention
Uppity in AK: $500,000K House
Elite: Can't remember how many houses you own
Uppity in AK: Strutting family in front of cameras for photo op that is "off limits" to your opponent.
Hypocritical at every word...Priceless!