The country seems to be going to hell in a handbasket and the main topic this morning on the news is the candidates wardrobe.   The thing is, at first I was like why and I was really upset that they felt this was an important issue, then I sat down here to gripe about it, then I started thinking.    They were talking about Palin’s wardrobe and how it costed like $50,000, they criticized her for it.   Which with the economy the way it is and people losing their homes, it’s rather shameful to spend that much on clothing.   So what does Palin do?   She caves in and stands up and tells everyone that the clothes weren’t hers and she has gone back to wearing her own clothes, which came from her favorite thrift store.   Right, does she think we have stupid tattooed to our foreheads?    That so called thrift store jacket looks amazingly like the jackets she was wearing before she went back to her own clothes.   She expects us to believe that a governor is going to run into a local salvation army or st vincent depaul and buy clothes??    What worries me is that you know she’s lying about something so insignificant.   If she’ll lie about that, she’ll lie about other stuff.   Secondly, she caved in to pressure.  What happened to her backbone?   Seems to me that a vice president should have one of those, don’t you think?   Now for McCain, they noticed that he was wearing $500 designer shoes.   That much for shoes???   I know shoes that expensive are out there and I know there are people who buy them, but I’d like to know somebody smarter then that is running my country.    He spoke of greed and how to end it, the man should start at home and end his own greed.   Now Obama, I’m not sure about him.   He comes out looking down home, like a regular joe, says he only has 5 suits and patches them together and only owns 4 pair of shoes.    Well, maybe, I’ll believe it when a news reporter does an actual surprise visit to his closet.    The thing though that I appreciate most about Obama, is that he hasn’t tried to change along the way.

Obama started out focusing on the working class and he’s still focused on that.    I’ve noticed on the news that the anchors are making comments about McCain and stating the he is now trying to reach the working class.   His campaign seems to be running to catch up with Obama and they are trying to pretend they care about the same things.   I don’t know that Obama is the right choice, but I do know I want somebody who will at least start out and finish the same way.    I don’t want someone who will hide their fancy shoes and clothes and try to pretend to slum it just to get my vote.   I don’t want someone who’s wife owns 11 houses, buys $500 shoes and tells me we need to stop being greedy.   I don’t want someone who has voted with Bush as much as McCain as.    Eight years of that moron Bush is enough, we don’t need is clone.