PSA: Palin is a officially a grifter
Newsweek reports:
Palin also used low-level staffers to buy some of the clothes on their credit cards. The McCain campaign found out last week when the aides sought reimbursement. One aide estimated that she spent “tens of thousands” more than the reported $150,000, and that $20,000 to $40,000 went to buy clothes for her husband. Some articles of clothing have apparently been lost. An angry aide characterized the shopping spree as “Wasilla hillbillies looting Neiman Marcus from coast to coast,” and said the truth will eventually come out when the Republican Party audits its books.
Emphasis mine.
The most extraordinary thing . . .
The most extraordinary thing is the he has not let up. Now, as the world stops, he pushes us forward without a moment of self-congratulation. For how long has he planned this moment? For how long has he seen this destiny?
The depth of it
Obama has cast a stone into the lake of human history; its effects will ripple forward and back. For as long as we write, we will write about this day.
Rod Dreher writes:
he modern conservative movement began with the crushing defeat of Arizona Sen. Barry Goldwater in the 1964 presidential race. The modern conservative movement ends with the crushing defeat of Arizona Sen. John McCain — who took Goldwater’s Senate seat upon his retirement — in the 2008 presidential race.
2. Modern liberalism began its implosion with riots in Chicago’s Grant Park at the 1968 Democratic Convention. Tonight, modern liberalism is reborn at Chicago’s Grant Park, where a black Chicago Democrat will celebrate winning the presidency.
To which I would add: Lincoln, a renewed promise of unity, and shattered Southern hatred.
