So where's the outrage?

[LIPH]

I never heard of Dittos. And I think it's Jimmy Choo, like ahchoo.

[Tequila Revenge]

I never heard of Dittos. And I think it's Jimmy Choo, like ahchoo.

You're probably correct! Who the hell spells Choo like it sounds? WTF! Are we going to start using Hooked On Fonix for fashon brands

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[SchoolGirlHeart]

* A tired and cranky TR reaches for the gas can....*

Please help my memory...

ummmmmmm......

Wasn't it just about 7 months ago when we were all told how Michelle shoped at modest stores and wore the same clothes as other middle class Americans? Remember this was about the same time SARAH PALIN was being bashed because she wore clothes that were deemed out of touch and outlandishly expensive even though same clothes were bought for her?

I know I'm probably wrong.

That's how I remember it, too. But I'm old....

[SchoolGirlHeart]

Get over it, people... and be thankful you still have your jobs.

Since when did being thankful for having a job (and my job which will not exist 18 months from now) do away with the right to voice an opinion....

[Lightning Bolt]

Get over it, people... and be thankful you still have your jobs.

Since when did being thankful for having a job (and my job which will not exist 18 months from now) do away with the right to voice an opinion....

never did. ...and i will always listen to your opinion, Jen

but, that will not stop me from saying that this is not a little late, though still not inapropriate to start engaging the class warfare card.
Actually, it's about damn time. It's funny/sad how we as a society are just now really opening our eyes to this kind of excess.
(and how many of you here were really all down with "Sex In The City" shopping model anyway? c'mon admit it!)

[aeroparrot]

For ME? Because I'm more of a practical person. I think $500 for a tennis shoe is ridiculous, no matter who is wearing them.

And besides that you can get a damb nice fly rod for $500 too

Or a lot of wine?

$500 will get me at least 30 cases of beer. I say we all take our $500, each buy 30 cases of beer to stimulate the brewers, invite the Democrats and Republicans (and all other political people), have a party and get drunk.

[aeroparrot]

I never heard of Dittos. And I think it's Jimmy Choo, like ahchoo.

I remember Dittos, a lot of girls in my high school wore them back in the day...

[CrznDnUS1]

Wasn't it just about 7 months ago when we were all told how Michelle shoped at modest stores and wore the same clothes as other middle class Americans? Remember this was about the same time SARAH PALIN was being bashed because she wore clothes that were deemed out of touch and outlandishly expensive even though same clothes were bought for her?

That is what I was talking about. The entire media was all over Mrs. Palin and Mrs. McCain for wearing just such cloths (and not to a Food Bank) and now that Mrs. Obama is in the WH she is allowed to do the same thing with no one saying boo about it. If you read the article they just swoon over the fancy shoes and nothing is said about the extravagance of them. Tough times for everyone I guess except for hypocrites.

[SchoolGirlHeart]

(and how many of you here were really all down with "Sex In The City" shopping model anyway? c'mon admit it!)

Not me!

I was probably too busy out walking around in my ultra-extravagant (for me) $150 boots.

The ultra-extravagant thing has always bugged me, no matter who it is.

[Spider Johnson]

I have to agree it was insult. Telling people, everyone has to cutback and feel the pinch, tighten their belt, or however you want to say it. Then show up wearing a pair of shoes, that cost more money than the people there haven't probably ever seen at one time....

So why shouldn't the Obamas practice what they preach? It is just another repeat of, "Do as I say, and not as I do!"

How many people could she have fed and helped if she donated the money she paid for those shoes to the charity? I am glad she did show up and did provide help. However, was it simply for publicity, or for her really caring? If she really cared, could she have not thought better of wearing and flaunting such exspensive shoes,etc, and set a better and more fitting example?

It is certainly a double standard, when she is not called out for it. Why did she do it? Besides her, who really knows?

Really comfortable shoes do not have to cost $540.00, and can be purchased for much less.

For some, image and price are everything. This sounds like the case here.
"If you got it flaunt it! Poverty sucks." Is what I get out of this incident.

If you really "got it", you don't need to flaunt it, do you?

[CrznDnUS1]

I have to agree it was insult. Telling people, everyone has to cutback and feel the pinch, tighten their belt, or however you want to say it. Then show up wearing a pair of shoes, that cost more money than the people there haven't probably ever seen at one time....

So why shouldn't the Obamas practice what they preach? It is just another repeat of, "Do as I say, and not as I do!"

How many people could she have fed and helped if she donated the money she paid for those shoes to the charity? I am glad she did show up and did provide help. However, was it simply for publicity, or for her really caring? If she really cared, could she have not thought better of wearing and flaunting such expensive shoes,etc, and set a better and more fitting example?

It is certainly a double standard, when she is not called out for it. Why did she do it? Besides her, who really knows?

Really comfortable shoes do not have to cost $540.00, and can be purchased for much less.

For some, image and price are everything. This sounds like the case here.
"If you got it flaunt it! Poverty sucks." Is what I get out of this incident.

If you really "got it", you don't need to flaunt it, do you?

Thank You! some one finally got it. Although the title of this thread was really directed to our no biased media who didn't lash out at the first lady all they could do was swoon at the shoes. It seems like nothing these people (first family) do can be wrong. It's about time their free ride ended and they start getting judged as normal people do. Well as normal as out of touch millionaires can. This just reaffirms my feeling that there is not one honest politician out there.

[Lightning Bolt]

I have to agree it was insult. Telling people, everyone has to cutback and feel the pinch, tighten their belt, or however you want to say it. Then show up wearing a pair of shoes, that cost more money than the people there haven't probably ever seen at one time....

So why shouldn't the Obamas practice what they preach? It is just another repeat of, "Do as I say, and not as I do!"

How many people could she have fed and helped if she donated the money she paid for those shoes to the charity? I am glad she did show up and did provide help. However, was it simply for publicity, or for her really caring? If she really cared, could she have not thought better of wearing and flaunting such expensive shoes,etc, and set a better and more fitting example?

It is certainly a double standard, when she is not called out for it. Why did she do it? Besides her, who really knows?

Really comfortable shoes do not have to cost $540.00, and can be purchased for much less.

For some, image and price are everything. This sounds like the case here.
"If you got it flaunt it! Poverty sucks." Is what I get out of this incident.

If you really "got it", you don't need to flaunt it, do you?

Thank You! some one finally got it. Although the title of this thread was really directed to our no biased media who didn't lash out at the first lady all they could do was swoon at the shoes. It seems like nothing these people (first family) do can be wrong. It's about time their free ride ended and they start getting judged as normal people do. Well as normal as out of touch millionaires can. This just reaffirms my feeling that there is not one honest politician out there.

So is it the bitterness over losing in the elections the last two cycles, or
is it the sheer racist overtones of your speel here that are really bothering you more about this otherwise trivial matter?

Where were your brilliant insights years ago as our last elected head of state ignored international calls for restraint
when he flat-out lied to us, and sent thousands of our troops into a foreign country to be killed or injured???

Where was that outrage, huh???


oh, but hey, ....good catch with those shoes.... whewww

[JustDucky]

Ha ha

I'll be outraged by these high priced sneakers that you've brought to light as soon as parrotheads confront Jimmy Buffett and tell him to stop playing and recording so many covers and get back to being an original artist. Where's the outrage about him phoning it all in?

[sonofabeach]

Personally I don't give two flying monkey poops what someone spends THEIR money on, republican, democrat or whatever.

[CrznDnUS1]

I have to agree it was insult. Telling people, everyone has to cutback and feel the pinch, tighten their belt, or however you want to say it. Then show up wearing a pair of shoes, that cost more money than the people there haven't probably ever seen at one time....

So why shouldn't the Obamas practice what they preach? It is just another repeat of, "Do as I say, and not as I do!"

How many people could she have fed and helped if she donated the money she paid for those shoes to the charity? I am glad she did show up and did provide help. However, was it simply for publicity, or for her really caring? If she really cared, could she have not thought better of wearing and flaunting such expensive shoes,etc, and set a better and more fitting example?

It is certainly a double standard, when she is not called out for it. Why did she do it? Besides her, who really knows?

Really comfortable shoes do not have to cost $540.00, and can be purchased for much less.

For some, image and price are everything. This sounds like the case here.
"If you got it flaunt it! Poverty sucks." Is what I get out of this incident.

If you really "got it", you don't need to flaunt it, do you?

Thank You! some one finally got it. Although the title of this thread was really directed to our no biased media who didn't lash out at the first lady all they could do was swoon at the shoes. It seems like nothing these people (first family) do can be wrong. It's about time their free ride ended and they start getting judged as normal people do. Well as normal as out of touch millionaires can. This just reaffirms my feeling that there is not one honest politician out there.

So is it the bitterness over losing in the elections the last two cycles, or
is it the sheer racist overtones of your speel here that are really bothering you more about this otherwise trivial matter?

Where were your brilliant insights years ago as our last elected head of state ignored international calls for restraint
when he flat-out lied to us, and sent thousands of our troops into a foreign country to be killed or injured???

Where was that outrage, huh???


oh, but hey, ....good catch with those shoes.... whewww

There was also no outrage at spending 80 million every few months or so to support an idiotic war either, or gas going to $4 a gallon when the president was an oil man. Maybe the media is biased to any political machine which pays the most to their support. As far as the racist overtones, is it going to be that no one can criticize Obama for fear of being called a racist? Now that's freedom we can believe in. I never called him black white blue or red, you are the one who brought it up. But good catch!
Oh wait i get it. Since I commented on buying Jordan's that makes me racist? Maybe it just due to the fact that in my 15 yr olds high school everyone is wearing Jordan's that it came to mind or maybe that it's because they are an American Sneaker manufacturer. So thanks for spewing your PC views and enlightening ever one.

[TheSecretsInTheCrust]

This group of rich politicians and their families (I seem to remember reading the President's tax return showed upwards of $2 million) is no different from the last group of rich politicians and their families. Totally out of touch with us, Middle America.

I hear ya Jen. Its time to send a complete message as to who honestly has the final say. The next General Election, we the people, need to vote out every incumbent up for re-election. Yes we'll lose some good ones. But the message that would be sent would clearly out-weigh the loss. Only then will those in office begin to notice.

[ph4ever]

This group of rich politicians and their families (I seem to remember reading the President's tax return showed upwards of $2 million) is no different from the last group of rich politicians and their families. Totally out of touch with us, Middle America.

I hear ya Jen. Its time to send a complete message as to who honestly has the final say. The next General Election, we the people, need to vote out every incumbent up for re-election. Yes we'll lose some good ones. But the message that would be sent would clearly out-weigh the loss. Only then will those in office begin to notice.

Yeah but we could get people who are actually worse. I'm actually quite satisfied with some of my incumbents.

[SchoolGirlHeart]

This group of rich politicians and their families (I seem to remember reading the President's tax return showed upwards of $2 million) is no different from the last group of rich politicians and their families. Totally out of touch with us, Middle America.

I hear ya Jen. Its time to send a complete message as to who honestly has the final say. The next General Election, we the people, need to vote out every incumbent up for re-election. Yes we'll lose some good ones. But the message that would be sent would clearly out-weigh the loss. Only then will those in office begin to notice.

I want term limits. Now. And no more pension-for-life crap.

[TheSecretsInTheCrust]

This group of rich politicians and their families (I seem to remember reading the President's tax return showed upwards of $2 million) is no different from the last group of rich politicians and their families. Totally out of touch with us, Middle America.

I hear ya Jen. Its time to send a complete message as to who honestly has the final say. The next General Election, we the people, need to vote out every incumbent up for re-election. Yes we'll lose some good ones. But the message that would be sent would clearly out-weigh the loss. Only then will those in office begin to notice.

I want term limits. Now. And no more pension-for-life crap.

AND SOME ACCOUTABILITY ON FRIVILOUS SPENDING

[SchoolGirlHeart]

This group of rich politicians and their families (I seem to remember reading the President's tax return showed upwards of $2 million) is no different from the last group of rich politicians and their families. Totally out of touch with us, Middle America.

I hear ya Jen. Its time to send a complete message as to who honestly has the final say. The next General Election, we the people, need to vote out every incumbent up for re-election. Yes we'll lose some good ones. But the message that would be sent would clearly out-weigh the loss. Only then will those in office begin to notice.

I want term limits. Now. And no more pension-for-life crap.

AND SOME ACCOUTABILITY ON FRIVILOUS SPENDING

ABSO-FLIPPIN-LUTELY