I think you should complain if these fatcats aren’t contributing to charities, etc., but if they are giving and helping, sometimes a nice, well fitting piece of clothing is really sweet."

New Orleans is still in terrible shape, and they still refuse to lift a finger to help... That 8500 could have made one house livable again... Too bad, so sad. We pay them, and pay to rebuild one of our nations hot spots. Imagine that, cut the damn middle man already... This is just BS, and further rectifies my hate for my country.

my vicious streak duly exercised, I shall depart..

Except for Hillary Clinton, of course. She only showed up at parties in dresses that she sewed herself, or bought at the Goodwill store, because she's sensible, and not at all extravagant like the Evil Republicans.

Why, just the other day, she was spotted at a Wal-Mart, rummaging through the Clearance section. When she was discovered, she quickly hopped onto a local bus to avoid the publicity.

Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, she never has. Read my post. And her normal wardrobe is perfectly sensible, and sensibly priced.

Maybe that's why you hate her so much: she's a sensible woman!

Uhhhhh, no, but it would be nice if they spent, like most Americans, a decent amount on their clothes.

I understand how these things work: De La Renta gifted the dress to the White House (recall how Nancy Reagan had to give her dresses back when she left?), and Laura got to wear it.

BUt really...when most people in this country can't afford an $850 suit, what's the point in having her wear an $8500 gown? Wouldn't a $1,000 gown cover her just as well?

yes seems to have no problems with John Kerry being gigalo to a billionairess with 5 houses.

He has no problems with Teddy Kennedy's millions that his father earned the hard way-smuggling booze across the border.

He has no problems with John Edwards and his millions earned chasing ambulances.

He seems to have no problems with Nancy Pelosi and her millions, either. Millions earned in part by her making sure that her family got a BIG cut from the decomissioning of the Presidio. I am sure he has no problems with her hiring "undocumented sharecroppers" to work in her vinyards in Napa, either. I bet she doesn't pay them minimum wage.

Nor does he have any problems with Al Gore not only being in politics and the high priest of the "global warming" church owning over 20 million dollars of Occidental Petroleum stock, either. Nope-dey jus' some po' white boys.

ouch: Don't worry, you will get your wish.

Che is dead and the Iron Curtain fell a long time ago...give it up. Capitalisim won. And stop pretending like you cared about Humvee armor before you read the talking point on Kos and DU and stop worrying about successful people having a good time. You sound like a bunch of jealous Puritans.

I think you should complain if these fatcats aren't contributing to charities, etc., but if they are giving and helping, sometimes a nice, well fitting piece of clothing is really sweet.

And, it's not a Hummer, which every redneck seems to need. You want to complain, complain about a guy who spends $45,000 on a Hummer that is just wasting resources.

Not to be a downer on the sassy commentary, but why is the First Lady wearing $8500-worth of dress when the poverty level is where it is?

Maybe ask Hillary Clinton; I'm certain she'd know. Not that she'd deign to answer, but she would know.

I think the fact that so many people are so enthralled with who wears what and how much it cost is the saddest commentary of all. Are all elected officials, including the First Family supposed to take a vow of poverty when they take office?

How much Humvee armor could $8500 buy?

because Merkins keep electing rich people to be president?

How embarrassing!!!!!

Screw the "Stepford Wives" metaphor...can you say "Borg"?

You WILL be assimilated, and your individual distinctiveness will be harnessed to serve us...

Then again, two ladies in the same dress would be embarassing. Four brings the whole thing to a level of absurdity that would have to make the situation pretty funny even if you were one of the four bridewmaids" (hell, that getup is ugly enough to have been a bridesmaid dress -- at a wedding with a particularly sadistic bride.)

The **** people will buy and wear just because it's a designer label!