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This is why the RNC won’t let me pick out my own clothes
(Sarah Palin)
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her dressing style srsly…suks though
This was before the $150k makeover apparently.
The Hairspray certainly looks ’80’s… Are those Fish Earrings? Or Penguins?
I hope they’re fish. Penguins are from the wrong continent.
They look like orcas.
I’m waiting for the RNC to say they were just trying to help the economy by spending that $150k of campaign contribution money…
They’re donating it all to charity when they’re done, so I think it’ll mostly help the poor.
Alright, i can’t wait to see homeless people wearing prada or whatnot stuff in the back alley!
I didn’t Know Obama had A Plan, sounds like more same crap he been saying for months spread the wealth so he can pay for his socialist ideas.
Ummm… that’s traditional eskimo clothing. And as an eskimo…
don’t make me start on white people
Not first!
and WOW at that outfit…. pink, ruffles, glittery bits? EW
It’s called a kuspuk, a traditional outfit worn by Alaska Natives.
No matter what you call it, or who originated it, it still is ugly especially in pink.
Just becuase it is a traditional outfit doesn’t mean it cannot be ugly. sorry.
It is tradition to wear ugly dresses apparently. It is why I hate certain traditions.
I just googled kuspuk, and so far every image that has come up looks significantly better than that one. If we can’t trust her to pick a nice kuspuk, how can we trust her to run the country!?!
Until McCain died, she wouldn’t be running much of anything.. but the person who decided that she’d make a great VP WOULD be…
Ha-yup. Ever seen white chicks in the South West wear ‘native clothes’?
I don’t think Sequins and Ribbons were what the indigenous folks had in mind.
I wonder if Palin also has “Dream Catchers” hanging around her place… they’re pretty cool too! Aren’t Indians Cute?
Uh- does this mean you are racist against Native Americans ? O.O
I think she is poking fun at the people who co-opt a culture because they like the accessories and think the traditional styles and artwork is “cute”
I don’t think she herself feels this way.
My friends call this “cherahonkey”. This is term is usually applied to a pickup truck with a turquoise dream catcher hanging from the rearview and howling wolf decals on the back window.
ccccombo breaker
I like this. I like it a lot.
I like that there is no cultural history to dream-catchers. They were created as quick-to-make tourist crap.
It has a similar tradition as the Irish do drinking green beer.
Don’t cha know!
I can tell you are worried about the real issues in this election.
Wow, thanks for the link, I bet it was a gift. Nice of her to actually wear it in public!
Interesting. When I first saw the pic, I thought her dress looked like a costume for a school Thanksgiving play (no offense to the ethnic group[s] who traditionally wear this garment).
I think she’s just jealous of the Pope’s ruby slippers (I know *I* am!).
Yeah, that’s all well and good, but I really doubt it was tradition to make them pink and cover them in glitter.
I live in Fairbanks, Alaska; I’m Yup’ik; I own a blue kuspuk. Where I live they are so common. I even wear an Obama pin because it’s matches and it’s pretty awesome.
B^D
It’s Ethnic? Who knew… in civilisation it looked like something that Cyndi Lauper would wear in the 80s…
Good lord.
Am i the only one who believes the fashion police arrested her right after this picture was taken?
Might have been the case, but it was covered up once she got into office. Dat bad cop wuz OUTTA ther, WAY fast. Ya know?
My god…. *grabs his radio* Dispatch this is unit 69… Ive got 187 on the fashion code, send backup… this is gonna be a bad one.
Crap! Remind me! Whats a 187? Is that “abuse of rickrack” Or “all the wrong colors”? I think this one might be a new catigory all it’s own.
Ladies and gentlemen, that was a post from Lynn. Instead of me being an idiot with names. Now back to your regularly scheduled threads.
QOO! I’m really really me!!
Yeah!!! *waves at Lynn* Nice to meet you!
^_^ Nice to meet you too ^_^
Ewwww.
But it might have cost a fortune- ya never know.
I’ve seen really expensive, yet really fugly stuff!
She’s wearing a kuspuk – it’s a traditional Alaskan Yup’ik garment. It ties her to the people she’s supposedly governing. The woman with her is a local. It looks ridiculous anywhere else but in Alaska is not unusual at all. Obviously she can’t wear it on the campaign trail down here but certainly didn’t need $150,000 to replace it. They have nice stuff at Macy’s.
… if you know how to shop, there’s plenty of good stuff at Walmart…
… but the real rollback should have been McCain rolling back his decision for her as VP.
Why? You (like any other democrat) would find something wrong with anyone he chose as his VP candidate, unless he chose a democrat, and then you STILL might find something wrong with him/her.
How the hell do you know x-bert is a democrat? Jesus, assumptions make you look like a poopdick.
poopdick?!?! LOL! I can honestly say I’ve never heard that one before.. poopdeck, yes. poopdick, no.
Common condition in San Francisco……
I will be a jerk and snicker now. *snickers*
I always said ‘poopstick’ – ‘poopdick’ is better.
Thanks, mongoose…
And, yeah – I mostly consider myself an independent .. with Libertarian tendencies and a sprinkling of Anarchist.
Calling me names like that make you look even worse than making assumptions could ever make me.
But, then again, this is politics… It’s like a see-and-say.
The democrat says “Your candidate is stupid.”
The republican says “Your candidate is stupid.”
All other parties say “You’re all stupid.”
Immature people say “You’re a poopdick.”
Try to rise above it all you like – an assumption on that level aimed directly at me is blatant douchebaggery and you would have been called on it by me if mongoose hadn’t beat me to it.
Okay, I’m sorry. Is that what you want? I’ve been humiliated on the internet by people I don’t know, in front of people I don’t know, and I apologize for jumping to conclusions. Happy?
No, because his choice was blatant pandering. As a registered Republican, I thought his choice was completely idiotic. Considering the other viable candidates, Palin was the worst choice possible. I honestly feel he made this decision because he doesn’t want to win. In fact, I think the whole thing caught him by surprise.
You know, my boyfriend and I think the same thing. I think it caught him by surprise, too. Poor guy. He wouldn’t have done a horrible job, either.
Why not Libby Dole? Seriously, if McCain felt he had to pick a women Dole is much better option. She is not only conservative but far more experienced and qualified than Sarah.
I know many republicans who were shocked, and dissappointed that Palin was picked before other more qualified people in the party
There are many other Republican women in our country who have more experience in government than Palin. Here is a partial list of Senators, governors, and Congresswomen: Kay Bailey Hutchinson, Olympia Snowe, Susan Collins, Liddy Dole, Christine Todd Whitman (not in office), Nancy Hollister, Jane Swift, Lisa Murkowski, Deborah Pryce, Sue Myrick, Jo Ann Emerson, Kay Granger, Anne Northrup, Heather Wilson, Shelley Moore Capito, Marsha Blackburn, Thelma Drake, Virginia Foxx, Cathy Morris Rogers and then we get to Michele Bachman and Jean Schmidt and the pool starts getting a little murky….
Whitman has more experience as a governor, head of the EPA, business experience, and is something of a “mavrik” in her own right, having said “Thanks, but no thanks” to screwing the environment for the bush administration. She’s also more of an energy expert than Palin.
Picking Palin for political reasons rather than a moderate who might actually govern effectively is a huge failure on McCain’s part. Just one of many.
Yeah, I would have had some respect if he had picked Whitman or Dole. Sigh. Not so much with Jane Swift, though. We learned a little bit too much about her here in the wilds of Massachusetts!
Murky? I would compare it more to a cesspool. However, you’re list is awesome and would have loved to see almost anyone of those ladies given the nod instead of Palin. At least it would have made McCain’s campaign credible and not the joke it has become.
I do agree, and Ive stated it before, I was on the straight talk express
despite my differences on certain policies, until this laughing stock came on
board. And to think people are rumoring her running in 2012 as president?
I think someone else said it as well, n8… or Seth? I’d LOVE to see that
primary!
Not Dole, she has resorted to sleazier tactics than even McCain is stooping to.
Ad she put out calling her Sunday School teaching, church elder opponent “Godless” with a pic of the woman in question and a female voice over screaming “There is no God!” cited as my “proof”
The amount of sleaze is directly proportional to how far behind the candidate is in the polls.
It’s Woman. Singular , one woman. Plural, 2 women. Get it? Sorry, but I see this all over the internet and it irritates me almost as much and Sarah Palin and her winking!
I guess if you’re going to correct someone on grammar, you should proof your post before clicking Add comment, yes?
If McCain loses this election, and I am guessing he probably will, his choice of running mate will take some of the blame for that. So I doubt most Democrats mind his choice at all … but I would bet that some Republicans do/will.
Maybe.
It ties her to the people she refers to as “Arctic Arabs”?
That’s a rumor, right? If it’s true it will tip my scales to full blown hate for the woman.
According to the source in my name – it seems to be pretty biased, but it seems legitimate enough to make me worry.
I would take that article with a grain of salt. The way I read it, Charley James has his own agenda and obviously has a bias that should be questioned.
I was about to say exactly the same thing, KG.
Although, part of me would love to make some for my daughters and me just for bizarro factor out here in the desert…my younger one might actually even like one. lol
On the other hand, though, I have to admit you never saw, say, Rose Mofford in the velvet blouse and prairie skirt favored by the more traditional Navajo women in AZ.
Ya, that would be interesting…
Yeah, seriously. I don’t want to be ethnically insensitive to anyone, but what’s the deal with wearing a costume to the supermarket? I’ve never seen (for example) people in New England sporting Pilgrim outfits for everyday wear. The Native Americans, Asians, Samoans, etc., that I encounter around town wear ordinary Target-type clothes, not fringed buckskin or kimonos, even though that would be their “traditional’ wear. I don’t dress like a contadina (Italian peasant) to go food shopping — not even when I’m buying garlic. This pic is like the episode of “South Park” where Cartman was trying on various ethnicities.
No offense, but it’s not a “costume,” like some sort of Halloween fun. It’s an physical thing that displays the emotional connection to that state’s history. So instead of mocking their background, how about we remain respectful?
And she wears it to Walmart? Sorry I can’t respect her anywhere.
I think we’re basically in agreement. Or is it a particular person’s traditional dress if they belong to an ethnic group, but a “costume” when another ethnic group appropriates it? Like some words are OK within a person’s ethnic group (or family) but definitely *not* OK for an outsider to say?
I will remain respectful in saying that the other forms of that outfit Ive seen are
very nice, and worn very well… That particular one she’s wearing though….
Oh lord….
Actually… speaking as an Alaskan, a lot of Alaska natives, particularly the eskimo peoples, still wear variations of their traditional outfits as part of everyday life. In the rural parts of northern Alaska, a kuspuk is still a completely normal piece of clothing to wear at any time. Heck, I had one when I was little, and I grew up in a city. I agree that it’s weird she wears them, but in reality it isn’t actually a costume of any kind. It’s a widely worn piece of clothing. That particular pink one is beyond hideous, but many of them are really pretty.
Then you have never been to Alaska.
HA HA OH WOW.
I actually think it could be quite cute if you shortened the sleeves, and teamed it with skinny jeans, pretty colored bangles, and cowboy boots/flip flops depending on the time of year.
That said, I cant imagine a 42 year old governor in skinny jeans. Not that I ever imagined her in that to be honest…
And a bag.
42 year olds do NOT belong in skinny jeans.
No one over the age of 24 (and over 110 pounds) belongs in skinny jeans.
” Ski lifts and thongs should both require weight limits”
Robin Williams
You know, I’d like to believe that I could possibly still look attractive at 42… And I’d also love to think that people can look good over 110 pounds… You do know what a 110 pound looks like right?
Painfully skinny with nothing but bones to bump into. No thanks.
So a different outfit altogether.
Palin wears something people generally think isn’t attractive, that’s a crisis. She corrects the problem with clothes that she didn’t pay for, and that’s a crisis. Both of those apparently have something to do with being VP.
Obama spews socialist, anti-capitalist “spread the wealth” rhetoric to a hard working American, and that’s okay. Biden lies in a TV interview saying that Obama never said he wanted to “spread the wealth” and that’s okay. Neither one apparently mean anything about how they’ll run the country.
Liberal logic is without flaw, I tell you.
Holy hyperbole, lolz on PK do not constitute a crisis. Settle.
As to your first ‘paragraph’ – No, they don’t have anything to do with being VP – but a lot to do with poor judgment, on her part, and the RNC.
As to your second – I’ll wait for Seth, our resident “Blow the idiots calling Obama Sociallist out of the comments page with knowledge of socialism” guy.
So going back to the Taxes from the Clinton Era = Socialism?? I think NOT
Redistributing Oil Windfall Profits Tax to your Alaskan people = Socialism?? You Betcha!
Seems like shortbus really rides it, no wonder hes on the McCain Short Bus Express
Now its true that people like you are a small minority on this site, so I thought I would help you out.
This site frequently poses questions to McCain/Palin that we would love to hear them answer. Foxnews.com gave us the perfect companion discussion when they asked their listeners to post questions that they would like to hear Obama answer in his half hour show tonight.
Here are some gems: (source: gretawire.foxnews.com)
How many terrorist groups do you belong to?
HAS THIS ALL BEEN A SCHEME BY OBL TO LET YOU SLIDE INTO THE WHITE HOUSE???
Why do you want to destroy our country? Are you the Anti-Christ?
and my personal favorite:
MY QUESTION TO THE ARAB/MUSLIM BOY. Obama, DO YOU THINK THE MSULIM WORLD WILL HAVE AN AMERICAN, CHRISTIAN BORN NAMED JHON DOE SMITH AS A LEADER OF THEIR MUSLIM WORLD!. AN AMERICAN BORN WHOSE FRIENDS HATE YOUR MUSLIM WORLD??
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And this is a comedic website… Good luck with that moral high ground.
Fox News is the antichrist.
But they can see Russia from their moral high ground, dontcha know?
What on earth was that last question about?
That was a reference to Palin.
Really? How?
I’m confuss-ed
Palin claimed she could see Russia from Alaska, which qualifies her in foreign diplomacy.
Oh, I know that bit. I meant the fox news question about Muslims.
I’m guessing here because of the loose relationship that question has with the english language. I think its taking as a given that obama is the evil muslim here to take over the free world and its asking if he would mind if we sent someone from the Klan to take over the muslim world in return.
Freedom of speech is wonderful because you get to find out exactly where the crazies are.
Ahh. *things click* Is that who John Doe Smith is?
It is a reference to the most generic white boy name possible. I won’t explain it further because it requires way too much historical research.
Thanks. I must have sounded unbelievably stupid….
Yes you did but you are forgiven.
I think I’ve got whiplash from cringing too much.
Honestly, I have never heard of John Doe Smith.
*Cringes*
Ouch…whiplash again.
Well John Doe is what we call anonymous men. Smith is the most common last name. Nothing to be ashamed of, you know more about us than I know about your country.
Now I know why you ride the short bus, and it ain’t because of your height…
Jeez, relax:
a) Nobody on this site said that Palin wearing a goofy-looking outfit constituted a “crisis”. They said it was a goofy-looking outfit.
b) There’s a big difference between an outfit that people don’t think is attractive, and an outfit that the person didn’t pay for. Last time I checked, politicians weren’t supposed to use public funds to pay for their personal belongings.
c) “Hard working Americans” don’t have any wealth left to spread.
4% … Socialism is 4% now?
Palin is more of a Socialist than Obama with her dividend checks.
Here’s another view of the same outfit!
http://www.alaskastock.com/resultsframe.asp?txtkeys1=kuspuk
Scroll down and find the one of SP jumping on the walrus skin. Trust me, warm trumps stylish in Alaska.
Here’s a better view of that pink treat!
http: //www. alaskastock. com /resultsframe.asp?txtkeys1=kuspuk
Just omit the spaces!
I’m amazed by the incredible amount of public interest in Sarah Palin. Good or bad, she’s become somewhat of a pop icon. People are dressing like her to be and/or mock her all at the same time.
For instance, I found this video on dressing like Palin:
http://www.mindbites.com/lesson/668-how-to-dress-like-sarah-palin
God, people, get a clue. The shirt/dress is a traditional Alaska Native article of clothing worn by women.
Really?!?! And here I thought she just no fashion sense. Thanks for the heads up..
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So that disqualifies the pic as a lol?
I doubt that the Inuit women wear those in bright pink as a standard.
I’m more offended by the pink velour and the rick-rack than the cut of the outfit.
I…. I think it’s cute.
God, that just makes me want to bang Palin even more.
Who cares about her clothes! Can someone tell the woman how to hold a newborn so their head is supported!
who cares? It’s probably the ‘tarded child.
I’m going to pretend that you never said such thing about a kid with Down’s syndrome.
ahem. Down syndrome. not down’s syndrome
No.
“Down’s” after the doctor who discovered it. People tend to run the “s”s together when speaking about it.
I’m just sayin’ the ‘tard probably a) can’t tell it’s being held that way, and b) wouldn’t do any more damage than her freak genetics did to it.
DURRR!!!
I have absolutely no use for Sarah Palin, mock her and insult her all you want. But leave her son Trig out of it. Mocking the mentally handicapped is as bad as racism.
I’d adopt that little guy if I could, just to get him away from that wackjob family.
Why leave him out of it? He drools just as good as the republican masses which follow that ignorant slut. DDDURRRRRRR!!!!!
thank you!! the poor kid looks like he’s about to lose his head… and/or suffocate.
why does that baby look like it’s probably dead? ya know, with that limp arm and all?
palin does not know how to hold a baby
Sleeping? I hope?
It’s because it’s a ‘tard,
And you give all short bus riders hope for a future where they will one day be able to power on a computer and say smart things just like you said.
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*rolls eyes*
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As far as how she’s holding the baby, poor thing looks like he’s sacked completely out! My daughter does this when she’s sleeping. And those little onesies with the hoods make it easy to hold the baby without worrying so much about supporting the head.
Don’t feed the trolls! As sure as God made little green apples, they’ll be back to spew forth more garbage.
That kind of stupidity deserves a sharp whack with a large board. I can’t help myself sometimes!
What’s really funny is 1 minute after I posted that I almost fed another troll!
They are pretty thick around here nowadays, huh? It’s sorta like having a lot of ducks surround you in the park; you know you aren’t supposed to feed them but the quacking starts and it just gets into your head and the only way to stop it is to feed them feed them all
I am disgusted how people even are concerned with palin’s style. She buys her clothes from the same consignment shop in Anchorage Alaska. Her earings were given to her by her husband’s aleut grandmother. She wears a flag pin which is patriotic. I hear no one talking of how much Biden’s clothes cost. palin did not choose the costly clothes. they were for a purpose just for a time so she would look best for the camera as the other candidates. her clothes and whatever was bought will be given back to charity. sheesh.. people have no clue about the truth. Why be childish and look at the superficial and make light of it. why is this picture a joke? thats her own style. if you can’t say anything nice..
Would it make you feel better to know that Michelle Obama defended Sarah Palin’s clothing make-over when Leno brought it up? Mrs. Obama was remarkably gracious and classy. I don’t think I’d have been able to be that wonderful and kind toward someone who said horrible anti-American things about my husband. (but then, that’s why Mrs. Obama will be such a good First Lady, and me… well, I’d suck.)
If you cant say anything nice…. says the person who just made an entirely negative post… I mean cmon… You’re vapid, naive, hypocritical, overly serious, bitter…. but hey, nice shoes
See? Its easy to throw in something nice there.
Can you explain to me why the RNC’s money also went to TRIG’s clothes? Spending donations on fancy clothes for Palin is one ridiculous thing, but why did they have to deck out her infant too?
HAHA Michelle Obama defended Sarah Palin’s clothing makeover? That’s great! Sarah Palin didn’t dress down during her speech at the DNC now did she? In an attempt to make us feel all cozy and like she was one of us!
I think it says something when they are picking apart Sarah Palin’s clothes. I guess they have nothing better to pick at her about! As for people that comment on her “‘tard” baby. Boy, don’t you show class!
Actually, I think this is something native from alaska. In which case it’s not so bad, it’s just not our style…
What is wrong with you people? You google kuspuk and you think you understand everything about them because you saw some pictures of fancy ones? Maybe I’m crazy but I wouldn’t be wearing my best kuspuk to the grocery store.
Aside from that, the outfit was probably given to her as a gift from the people she was visiting. I would have worn it too. Do they not have manners in the Lower 48?
To be so high and mighty, you dems sure are culturally challenged. That outfit is called a Kuspuk. A traditional native dress worn by the Alaska Native people. You claim to be sensitive to minorities? Give me a break. That’s an insult. If I didn’t know any better, I’d swear you were a bunch of republicans. Until you live in Alaska, especially the bush, don’t make fun of our people. A sense of humor is great, but you’re implying that just because you’re all in the lower 48 that you have a better sense of fashion. Native people give these as gifts to non-native people as well as natives. I aree with BB. Apparantly manners are lacking in the lower 48. And all this picture and caption makes you look like are a bunch of ignorant half-wits.
Democrat or not, I have never before seen a Kuspuk, let along heard of one… Is *that* what makes me culturally challenged?
And GOD forbid, Sarah be culturally sensitive. That would make you all look bad.
It’s nice to know that the dems are interested in real issues…like fashion.
Thaks for showing the world the number of morons that support Obama.
it looks terrible on her. I understand it’s an Alaskan Native outfit but I don’t think other people look that ridiculous wearing it o_O maybe in a different color?