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Watch out for the traffic around the Grand Hyatt tonight - Senator Barack Obama will be in town for a big fund raiser. As you may know via emails and news coverage, the response to a $100/ticket Obama fund-raiser "aimed at young people" was so overwhelming that the venue had to be changed from the Grand (former Au Bar) to the Grand Hyatt.
There's also a gala for $1,000+ donors, where there will be a more "intimate" atmosphere with the current golden boy of the Democratic party. But his campaign is trying to manage expectations - an adviser told the NY Sun, "If [the Manhattan event] is half the success of the Los Angeles event … that's a home run." And is success measured by a Maureen Dowd column that gets under the skin of rival Senator Hillary Clinton's campaign? At any rate, we can understand the interest in Barack - we've seen Clinton - as well as Giuliani and McCain - in this neck of the woods for a long time now.
Did you get an opportunity to attend tonight's fund-raiser? Are you going? And Lynn Sweet of the Chicago Sun-Times has an interesting post about Obama's "stealth fund-raising" : It seems that he's having more events than his handlers want the public to know about - and there's also an interesting observation about Obama's photo-op with Bill Clinton earlier this week.
Photograph of Obama at a Chicago union rally last week by Brian Kersey/AP
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Yep, I'm going. Can't wait. It's going to be fun. :)
this guy is totally built up on media hype... it's too bad we can't seem to choose between real leaders lately -- although I can't imagine its possible he could be worse at the job than our current man in charge.
How about being totally built up on being a great public speaker, a Senator, an opponent of the war from the start, and--like several Secretaries Of State and Supreme Court justices--a former head of the Harvard Law review. I'd like to see these "real leaders" of which you speak.
all that is meaningless. he has no experience where it counts. bullet points on a resume don't tell me anything of value and we've learned the hard way what inexperience leads to. he should get down to details and stop talking in broad generalities so we know where he stands, but without a track record i'm not sure he is viable in the end.
Well, the election *is* twenty months away from now, so maybe you are jumping the gun a bit. None of the candidates are being specific right now. But he is vague and exciting to listen to, which is better than most. For now.
would it be wrong for his campaign to use this as their slogan: "once you go barack, you can't go back!"
Maybe he's a little light on the experience at the federal level, but the electorate has proven that it doesn't generally like Washington insiders. With the exception of Bush the Elder, there hasn't been an insider president in my lifetime, but this is the first time in my life that I'm excited about a politician.
On the other hand, he does have experience at the grass roots level in Chicago, and he has spent a lot of his time since his election traveling globally, gaining foreign policy/diplomatic experience. He was out as being against the war in Iraq before it was the cool thing to do (translate as: all along).
And this might sound superficial, but he's not a baby boomer, and right now, in my book, that's a big plus. We spend a lot of time in this country using politics to settle debates that haven't been taking place in decades - fighting over who was where during Vietnam or what we think Reagans legacy should be as opposed to trying to figure out how to make life better, how to make opportunity equitable, how to do right by the generations that will either pay for our mistakes (with the budget, the deficit, the death of social security) or benefit from our prescience.
eveytime I hear his name I think Black Osama. This dude has no experience.
most people that read or comment this article are
ignorant! These are people in NY who are low IQ and low Income. Pretty sad. I'm going republican this time around. this is not America I was raised in...very sad. America gets who it elects!!
to the person who wrote post number 9: what exactly are you reacting to considering that the previous eight posts didn't really seem to all agree with one another
I was there last night and let me tell you, the man in Baracking awesome. The negative comments and press are a Barack of Shit.
His wife is smart, insightful and well spoken too! I most certainly will be Baracking the Vote come 2008.
Whatever. Just about anybody would be better than Bush. What a mess he's made. Billions of our tax dollars going to a problematic war (and more to follow). The Katrina debacle. The scandal associated with Cheney and his cronies, etc.
there is no "experience" requirement. the only qualifications are american citizenship, age, and having more votes than everyone else.
also, president bush had a lot of "experience" but that didn't mean squat once he became president.