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She takes out loans in order to buy jewlery? And we're supposed to see her husband as someone who can teach an entire nation how to live within its means?
What does she use as collateral? Does she have her own income? How does she pay the loans back? Irony altert: Wikipedia defines her occupation as "philanthropist!"
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or a shopaholic wife he can't trust with an account of her own. Or maybe she's doing some kind of black ops money laundering or smuggling with those jewels -- they DO live in Miami, after all!
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I'd say mentioning BFEE for $2,000 Alex 
Tiffany's or something similar? My dim memory is that he used it to buy jewelry for his second or third wife.
Ah, yes - here is something about that:
Posted by Chris Cillizza at 07:18 PM ET, 06/21/2011
Former House speaker Newt Gingrich had a second line of credit at the high-end jewelry store Tiffany and Co. for as much as $1 million dollars, his presidential campaign acknowledged Tuesday.
Joe DeSantis, a spokesman for Gingrich, said that the candidate’s personal financial disclosure filing, which is due within 30 days of his formal entrance into the presidential race, will “show that the Gingriches had a $500,000 to $1 million line of credit at Tiffany’s, that it has a zero balance, and it has been closed.”
DeSantis added that all debts to Tiffany had been paid in full. He offered no details about when the second line of credit was taken out, what it was used for or when it was closed.
This revelation comes roughly a month after personal financial disclosure forms for Gingrich’s wife, Callista, showed that the family had carried a line of credit ranging between $250,000 and $500,000 at Tiffany’s during 2005 and 2006.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/post/newt-gingrich-had-second-line-of-credit-at-tiffanys/2011/06/21/AGP4U0eH_blog.html
I love the caption under the picture - "Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich’s presidential campaign has stumbled badly out of the starting gate." Déjà vu!
It's exactly what Jeb should have done for Columba -- why didn't he? Taking about a loan that he was going to pay back anyhow is such an unnecessary step, you have to wonder if there isn't something else going on.
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...However...(l)ess than a year later, she took out (the) loan to buy $42,311.70 worth of jewelry on a single day...Documentation available online, which does not include the details of two transactions made less than six weeks apart in 1995, shows that she spent a total of more than $90,000 at the store...
“Mrs. Bush bought jewelry from time to time from Mayors Jewelers over the years. Though not required to be reported, these purchases in 2000 were included as accounts payable on Governor Bush’s financial disclosure that year, and paid off the next,” (a) Bush spokeswoman...said by e-mail, (adding) that the governor was “aware she made purchases from time to time.” That kind of spending, though well within his means, may present a challenge for Jeb Bush as he prepares for a presidential run...
If the purchases are "well within" Jeb's means, then why does she need to take out loans? Does Mrs. Jeb have a shopping addiction problem, or is she fronting some kind of black ops money laundering operation?
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That's my guess. 
there was a curious behind-the-scenes moment we noticed. Here is Mitt Romney, using an iron, and doing it all wrong.
at the 99 cent store 
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that her husband clearly has -- AND if she didn't live in the money-laundering capital of the world. I think it would be remiss of us NOT to wonder why.
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Jeb obviously feels compelled to keep her on a very short financial leash. Aside from it not speaking very well of the state of their marriage, I don't want a first lady who could spend herself into something her husband can't afford to buy his way out of -- with or without private funds.
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