Cindy McCain's Monday Night Outfit Cost $300,000

Vanity Fair:

One of the persistent memes in the Republican line of attack against Barack Obama is the notion that he is an elitist, whereas the G.O.P. represent real working Americans like Levi "F-in' Redneck" Johnston.

It caught our attention, then, when First Lady Laura Bush and would-be First Lady Cindy McCain took the stage Tuesday night wearing some rather fancy designer clothes. So we asked our fashion department to price out their outfits.

Read the whole story: Vanity Fair

Comments

[AlphaDoc]

Wow. That's 50k more than I paid for my house.

[notepad2]

Wow. About half the cost of a John (Breck Girl) Edwards haircut.

[chriss0114]

No, about TEN times the cost of a breck girl haircut - go grow a brain

[SlippingInTheDip]

wonders if she had copper rings placed around her neck while young?

[AdultFilmLegend]

I read that Hillary's pantsuits only cost $5 each because she buys in bulk. Is that true?

[RoveRoveRoveYourBoat]

...she buys bulky, not "in bulk."

[alphax]

The FACT she was standing there dressed in $300,000 worth of clothing asking for donations to help those affected by Gustav is INCREDIBLE!!

[allwrite]

The Vanity Fair piece attributed $280K to her diamond earrings. That makes it all justifiable because diamonds never wear out . Plus they're a girl's best friend.

[cuzkate]

alphax, thank you for noticing and commenting on the truly
"they don't get it" begathon formal!

[chriss0114]

I wonder how much SHE pledged to that fund?

[roninfbn]

300 grand to look like a banana?

[postman606]

50 something Barbie, Stepford Wife and The Bad Seed, Cloned.

[FZliveson]

How many cervical vertebrae does C. McBush have?
What a long neck!
Stupid comment / great observation

[bobo5]

That's just half her monthly VISA bill. Her aids pay it off for her and she and John get lunar miles on the space shuttle. Nice 300K yellow spacesuit.

[McMary]

Why would anyone wear a $300,000 dress on the very night people were being driven from their homes along the Gulf Coast? Is that the GOP's idea of a scaling back ? Pardon me but hypocritcal doesn't cover such blatant disregard for others. How many hot meals, blankets, baby supplies and comfort could that dress have bought for fellow Americans in need?

Yes it is her money and she can spend it anyway she wants. Sure she can. And yes we don't have to buy any phony proganda that McCain and company give a diddle about the average American Joe and his problems either.

300,000 reasons to vote for Obama!

[JeanPaulSatire]

What she has on her ears is worth more than the ONE home the average American owns.

Yet Mc Ancient and his Rethuglican boot-licking, Kool Ade-drinking Conbots have the temerity to call Obama 'elitist'?

[ArmchairPatriot]

Yeah, I know right?

I'm past trying to look for logic in anything Republicans do or say anymore.

[CaptainVideo]

If there were ever any doubt about who the real elitists are in this election, this is the smoking gun.

[11Xray]

The funniest thing about this, is this: Cindy McCain could come out dressed in a garbage bag, and she'd still have more class in one of her fingers than the jingle-writer that produced this. You're talking about a wealthy woman that used a good part of that wealth to engage in helping less fortunate folks in ravaged areas. She didn't have to do so.

[DG3]

You can dress up a scarecrow all you want, but it's still a scarecrow.

[sunnycal]

Are you kidding me? You waste your time on this site by making fun of Cindy McCain? What happened to debating the issues and making intelligent comments on the future of this country? Please don't tell me that you are actually old enough to vote!! You sound like a 14 year old girl who is jealous of the pretty cheerleaders.

[ShawnMichel]

Cruella DeVille--a shrivelled suburbanite raisin shrew in de-signer duds? No!

[NTO08]

Let's see...how would you like that "shrew in designer duds" used against Michelle...because she DOES dress in designer duds, too...

I don't care how much Cindy's dress cost...she has the bucks, WHATEVER! I do care when people continue the endless sexist BS that is a staple of Huffpo...

[rosal]

Michelle with a 300,000 dress? Hahahahaha. I wouldn't have paid 10.00 for that ugly space-like dress. Maybe is her inside uglyness that made the dress look bad.