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To: $Mogul who wrote (24469)	10/24/2008 2:47:19 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25737

Watchdog group files complaint over clothing purchases for Palin family October 24, 2008 boston.com A watchdog group filed a complaint yesterday with the Federal Election Commission against Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin, the Republican National Committee, and several political operatives associated with the RNC, alleging that they improperly spent $150,000 on clothing for Palin and her family. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics cited news reports that clothing and accessories purchases for Palin and her family included $49,425 spent at Saks Fifth Avenue and $75,062 at Neiman Marcus. The group said the shopping excursions violate campaign finance law because the law specifically prohibits a candidate for federal office from converting campaign funds to personal use, including clothing. But the law has a loophole for money raised, not by individual candidates, but by political parties. Asked repeatedly yesterday about Palin's wardrobe, presidential candidate John McCain answered each question more or less the same way: "She needed clothes at the time. They'll be donated at end of this campaign. They'll be donated to charity," said McCain, who added that the RNC doesn't buy his clothes. Asked whether he was surprised at the amount spent, McCain replied, "Nothing surprises me." GLOBE STAFF AND ASSOCIATED PRESS McCain ticks off long list of grievances with Bush John McCain is really trying to distance himself from one of the most unpopular presidents in history. In an interview published yesterday in the Washington Times, the Republican presidential nominee gave his longest list yet of disagreements with President Bush. "Spending, the conduct of the war in Iraq for years, growth in the size of government, larger than any time since the Great Society, laying a $10 trillion debt on future generations of America, owing $500 billion to China, obviously, failure to both enforce and modernize the [financial] regulatory agencies that were designed for the 1930s and certainly not for the 21st century, failure to address the issue of climate change seriously," McCain said. "Those are just some of them," he added with a laugh. In the last debate, McCain pointedly told Democrat Barack Obama that he is not President Bush and that if Obama wanted to run against Bush, he should have run four years ago. Obama routinely tries to tie McCain to Bush, asserting that his rival has voted with the president 90 percent of the time. FOON RHEE ....

To: $Mogul who wrote (24469)	10/24/2008 3:19:17 PM
From: GROUND ZERO™	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25737

You have two problems with your argument... 1) The FactCheck group is a known liberal group, of course they'll say anything to defend obambo, and 2) There is a real case against him and he along with the DNC are fighting it... So, how come they won't produce the documents and end the issue? How come the hospital where he claims to have been born said they have no record of his birth there? How come his sister and his grandmother say he was born in Kenya? Why is he hiding his school records, except for the fact that he was registered in school as a foreign student? And so on...<g> GZ