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wOw Scenes: The Contents of Our Purses

Funniest goes to Joni. Baseball cap and heels. Love that top you have on, Joni. My purse contents used to look like Mary’s, good quality and a religious idol (St. Joan of Arc), contents matched to bag and shoes, ie aligator. Now since don’t go to an office or see clients have an inexpensive, nicely styled black quilted Marc Jacobs tiny zippered clutch for mobile, money, lipgloss, comb. I almost always fitted black lycra so feel like am in a perpetual Italian Job film, ready for action or fun. When travel sort everything according to how I use in clear vinyl pouches then don’t have to hunt, and always take favorite small gold framed pix of my son and I for bedside table. Try to get everything in tote and rollon so don’t have to check anything. The other option is Fed-Ex to self at first destination. I need a private plane and feel very deprived without. lol. When married at least we had a small plane and could zip up and down the coast without commercial, going through those xray machines and having dirty hands paw through your immaculate things, exp when I have the DNA strains of Felix Unger.

Who won Thursday night's debate?

Arianna Huffington—-watching from a Four Seasons Ballroom full of women, including Rupublican women who were not amused Ms Hee-Haw: “I watched the vice presidential debate in a ballroom at the Four Seasons hotel in Aviara, just north of San Diego, along with a couple of hundred women attending Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Summit — a receptive audience, you would think, for a debate featuring a woman who might become the most powerful in the land. It was an ideologically mixed crowd, including representatives of ExxonMobil, a major sponsor of the conference. If the reaction of the Republican women in the room is any indication, it was not a very good night for Sarah Palin. The only noises heard during the debate were groans when Palin turned her folksiness meter up to 11 (which was often), and applause when Joe Biden delivered his best moments of the night: making personal his understanding of the plight of single parents sitting around their kitchen tables, looking for help; and his impassioned pushback on Palin’s endless description of John McCain as “a maverick.” The loudest ovation of the night — at least in that ballroom (granted, not the most representative-of-America crowd) — came when Biden said that Dick Cheney was the most dangerous VP in history. After watching this debate, I am convinced that if the country somehow has a collective mental meltdown and elects Sarah Palin, she will be even more dangerous than Cheney. Not only does she want more power for herself than the Constitution grants — or than Cheney took for himself — but she is so obviously not equipped to be a heartbeat away from the presidency, it takes your breath away that McCain picked her. He claims to be putting his country first, but the debate proved beyond any doubt that he has actually chosen to put his country on the betting line and roll the dice. And they’ve come up snake eyes. Friday morning, Meg Whitman, the co-chair of McCain’s campaign, will be on a panel with Penny Pritzker, Obama’s national finance chair, discussing the campaign. After the debate, I asked Whitman what she thought of Palin’s performance. “Good enough,” she said. But good enough for what, exactly? After Thursday night, the only thing Palin proved herself good enough for is starring in her own reality show. Watching Biden and Palin on the same stage was like watching a tennis champion walk onto Centre Court at Wimbledon only to find himself facing an over-eager toddler holding a tennis racket on the other side of the net. Or as Pat Mitchell told me, “Biden was taking part in a vice presidential debate; Palin was taking part in a junior high debate.” Here’s how Esther Dyson put it: “It’s pretty clear that Biden spent decades getting ready for this debate, learning from experience; Palin spent a couple of weeks, learning from handlers and speech coaches.” The only subject on which Palin displayed superior knowledge was when she corrected Biden on the proper delivery of “Drill, baby, drill!” Christie Hefner thought Palin’s sex-tinged twist on the chant should be appropriated for a commercial. Perhaps for Viagra. Other than that, Palin’s grasp fluctuated between wafer thin and skin deep. The moment that most drove me to want to send her a book on Greek gods and heroes was her head-scratching response to the question about her Achilles heel. She apparently didn’t know what that meant since she spent her allotted time listing all of her attributes as opposed to her most glaring weakness. Ann Wojcicki, co-founder of 23andme, told me: “I was dying to hear something — anything! — from Palin that wasn’t pre-rehearsed.” Throughout the entire 90-minute debate, Palin came across as an over-wound windup doll, sporting a pasted-on-smile expression that never varied, except when she winked. Which she did repeatedly — and pathetically. It was the folksiest appearance since Hee-Haw went off the air. “The home-spun homilies have to go,” Martha Stewart told me. “And, oh my god, words do have ending consonants.” In the greatest disconnect of the evening, Palin repeatedly went to the Reagan well, offering up such Gipper classics as “there you go again” and that “shining city on the hill.” But, really, during a week in which John McCain hopped on board Bush’s $700 billion bailout, did Palin not see how incongruous it was to insist that government isn’t the solution, it’s the problem? And declare that all we need to get this country back on track is for the government to get out of our way? Isn’t that what got us where we are today? Or had she been so busy cramming for the debate she didn’t have time to read one of the so-many-she-can’t-name-one newspapers she reads? Joe Biden’s only insincere moment was when he told her: “Governor, it was a pleasure to meet you.” A better exit line would have been: “Governor, it’s a pleasure to think that, God willing, in 33 days, you’ll be back where you belong — shootin’ moose and takin’ on those big oil companies in Alaska.” My patience with Palin is waving the white flag of surrender.”

Who won Thursday night's debate?

From Robert Schrum: “Sarah Palin has experience being a runner-up — which will come in handy in November. Tonight she barely kept up. In advance, the commenteriat almost unanimously agreed on a false measure of this debate. Judging by “expectation” meant that pundits could conceivably award a faux victory if she was half-coherent and modestly informed after a cram session in Arizona. But voters apply an absolute standard, not a low water mark of expectations: With America facing two wars and economic disaster, Americans ask if a candidate is up to the job. By any rational assessment, Palin wasn’t tonight — and hasn’t been any time she’s not reading a teleprompter. President Palin— the nuclear button, recession, the health care crisis, global warming (which she doesn’t believe in, as she believes in creationism) — well, it simply doesn’t compute. A part in Fargo, yes — that office in the West Wing, no. Everybody wondered how Palin would do. At least as important, or more, was that Joe Biden did a superb job. He deftly stopped Palin from distorting Obama’s views. He won the tax cut argument— Democrats usually don’t. He won the health care argument; Palin just gave up. She wouldn’t — couldn’t — answer the questions; she wanted to talk about energy, which she’s supposed to know something about, but she even lost on that . Often she didn’t know or couldn’t say what McCain’s policy is. And on foreign policy, she must have been staring out the window when she sat down with Henry Kissinger. She “loves” Israel but can’t discuss mideast realities in one inch depth. She can’t even articulate basic conditions for the use of nuclear weapons. Palin relied on topline phrases and had little command of facts. Why, she even memorized the name of the President of Iran. But it was mostly blah, blah, blah. At the end, the Obama-Biden ticket is far ahead on the big issues — and Palin’s a parrot repeating memorized phrases, not a plausible vice-president. Biden called her on it every time. The last two Democratic VP nominees fell short in their debates; Lieberman was routed and never even fought back. Biden did the job for Democrats while Palin sounded like Kozinski’s Chance the Gardener mouthing empty phrases. In successive sentences she said “there you go again” and “doggone.” She talked about ordinary people; Biden eloquently showed he actually cares about the middle class. She was essentially phony and tin-eared after Biden spoke emotionally about his family — and about raising his sons as a single father after their mother was killed and they almost died in an auto accident — she spouted pol-talk cliches. He has a real emotional IQ; she sounds like an Ozzie and Harriett script (a reference which shows my age — and a phony folksiness that reveals her inauthentic authenticity). Today McCain pulled out of Michigan; the economic news worsened. The electoral map is smaller; the economy is smaller; and the odds on McCain are longer and longer. The press probably will give Palin credit for not falling down on stage. She couldn’t deal with many of the questions directly or most of the facts, so she bloviated according to plan. She winked at us; the voters won’t wink back at her. Pat Buchanan thinks she won. I think people still have a bullshit factor— and that means she survived even as she met the low expectations she’s created. McCain gained nothing; he was the loser — in the first presidential debate, and the vice-presidential one.”

Who won Thursday night's debate?

Sarahgeddon needs to pack up the tacky road-show, quit dragging that poor 5-month old baby around like a Circus Barker with a prop, and head back to the the igloo. She’s an overreaching phony with a 80s bank-teller hair-do who mangles English, doesn’t answer direct questions, spews what was memorized, acts like a hooker with all the winking, wants expanded VP powers, the tattoo lip-liner and bangs in the eyes is very distracting, and what the hell are Bosniacs? The majority of reactions are that she didn’t hemorrage as with Couric, but she didin’t pick up any Independants either, and that Biden won. Both Obama and Biden need to get much tougher. She seems like the lingerie model that pulled cash out of her bra to bribe the Portland cop out of giving her a ticket while stating she was rushing home to her child when in actuality she was on her way to work at strip joint. That’s Mooselini’s type to me. Completely common and a total sham. If this country doesn’t send Ms Kill and Drill back to Hicksville the US is over, not to mention more of a laughing stock.