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If you ask me (and a lot of others who inhabit a world that is arguably more real that that inhabited by Madden and his handful of readers), what this article attempts to hype as scandal is merely another reason to vote for the McCain - Palin ticket: Vote for her, get him too.
When I last heard a version of that refrain, the unelected person walking the corridors of power in her spouse's administration was the pant-suited Hillary. I didn't hear much then by way of criticism of unelected spouses from Team Madden or his readers. On the contrary, the idea of the unelected Hillary acting as crypto-President was heralded by breathless liberals as a bonus: "it's a a "twofor", we were told. But now that the shoe is on the other foot and the arrangement doesn't serve Salon's ideology, it's open season on the Palins, complete with electro-microscopic scrutiny of their expense accounts. (Query: How would Madden and his readers view examination of State Senator Obama's expense records by reporters from the National Enquirer?)
I happen to regard examination taxpayer money by elected officials as a good use of a reporter's time, but let's not stop with the "First Dude". Let's go on to vet Junket Joe Biden's expense records, all 36 or so years of them; and then lets finish up with an examination of the expense records of all the rest of those phony Beltway Patriots who do so much to lay up burdens on the rest of us while shouldering none themselves.
