All About McCain

[Gn2Dlnd]

Re: Palin's eBay story:

From Sam Stein on Huffington Post

Twenty days after putting the jet online, the Palin administration had to reissue the listing. The minimum bid had not been met. By April, the jet still had not sold despite three additional attempts. Eventually, Palin signed a contract with an Anchorage aircraft broker to help succeed where eBay couldn't. In August 2007, eight months after it was first put on sale, the jet was sold to an Alaskan businessman for $2.1 million -- $600,000 shy of the purchasing price.

"The eBay thing didn't work out very well," Dan Spencer, director of administrative services for the Department of Public Safety (the individual charged with trying to get rid of the plane) told the Anchorage Daily News in April 2007. "I am [tired of dealing with it]," he added. "I don't know about anyone else."

Palin's stories of high ethics and virtue are melting away faster than the polar ice caps.

[Moonliner]

Originally Posted by Gn2Dlnd

Re: Palin's eBay story:



Palin's stories of high ethics and virtue are melting away faster than the polar ice caps.

I thought the point was that she sold the jet rather than using it. I don't see how the mechanics of the sale matter that much. She said she put it up on ebay and she did.

[Tenigma]

Originally Posted by Gn2Dlnd

Palin's stories of high ethics and virtue are melting away faster than the polar ice caps.

To give her credit I believe she said she "put it up on eBay" but she never said she actually managed to sell the thing, or at a profit. McCain said that (because I don't know, someone fed him incorrect information, he just assumed it, or he's, oh I don't know, addle-minded).