{"id":1261,"date":"2008-10-22T23:09:39","date_gmt":"2008-10-23T04:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=1261"},"modified":"2008-10-22T23:09:39","modified_gmt":"2008-10-23T04:09:39","slug":"palins-wardobe-expenses-should-we-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2008\/10\/22\/palins-wardobe-expenses-should-we-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Palin&#8217;s Wardobe Expenses: Should We Care?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='http:\/\/images.politico.com\/global\/081022_palin_cummings.jpg' alt='Palin' class='left' \/>It was revealed this week that McCain&#8217;s campaign spent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/10\/23\/us\/politics\/23palin.html?hp\">$150,000 to outfit Sarah Palin<\/a> for the campaign. Given the fury of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.now.org\/issues\/media\/070315hillary_media.html\">feminists<\/a> over the attention paid to Hillary&#8217;s outfit, and that little hint of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/07\/19\/AR2007071902668.html\">cleavage<\/a> she once showed, should any attention be focused on how much Palin&#8217;s wardrobe has cost? <\/p>\n<p>You could say that the price tag doesn&#8217;t matter&#8211;that campaigns are all about image, that Obama spends millions on TV commercials, so what&#8217;s the difference? I would say that the wardrobe expenditures are significant because they reveal the bankruptcy with which the campaign approached Palin from the get go: All image, no substance. TV commercials may be all gloss, but they purport to represent larger ideas in a campaign, which are then backed up in interviews, speeches, and debates. With one debate, very few interviews, and speeches meant to rally rather than inform, it&#8217;s hard to understand how Palin&#8217;s wardrobe might connect to a larger vision. Except it does tell us one thing: For all the cries (sometimes deserved) about <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.abcnews.com\/politicalradar\/2008\/09\/sexism-sexism-p.html\">sexism against Palin<\/a>, her own campaign was treating her like a dress-up doll from the beginning.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/images.politico.com\/global\/081022_palin_cummings.jpg\">Image Credit<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was revealed this week that McCain&#8217;s campaign spent $150,000 to outfit Sarah Palin for the campaign. Given the fury of feminists over the attention paid to Hillary&#8217;s outfit, and that little hint of cleavage she once showed, should any attention be focused on how much Palin&#8217;s wardrobe has cost? You could say that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1901,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10745,85],"class_list":["post-1261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-political-campaigns","tag-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1901"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}