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Obama held his first big NYC fundraiser last night, and its being feted as a blowout success-- more than a million dollars raised, and wild adoration from his legion of fans:
Barack Obama entered the heart of Hillary Clinton country Friday night and received a hero's welcome before 2,000 adoring fans. His first presidential fundraiser in the Big Apple couldn't have gone much better."This campaign is not about me, it's about you," Obama told the crowd at the Grand Hyatt Hotel on 42nd Street.
Apparently competition was so heated to stand in Obama's presence that tickets were being hotly traded on Craigslist. Maybe it was all the excitement over the Obama-Clinton rivalry-- which, apparently, got kicked up a notch last night:
Sen. Barack Obama hit Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's turf last night for a megabucks Midtown fund-raiser, where his wife made thinly veiled jabs at his rival's "in it to win it" campaign slogan and called her husband "the real deal.""I know that Barack is in this not just to win," Michelle Obama told the crowd of more than 1,500 people at a $100-per-head event at the Grand Hyatt Hotel on East 42nd Street.
"This race is not about winning, because winning isn't enough nowadays. Winning without dignity, winning it without honor, winning without authenticity and truth is not winning at all, and we're not in it for that."
And in totally silly and only partially-related news, WCBS thinks Obama is gay:
Did you go to the event last night? Was it really bigger than the Beatles?
Obama speaking last night in Midtown, Stephen Chernin/AP.
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Obama quoted saying that he's "bigger than Jesus".
//he didn't really say that
///nice that people gave so much money to Hillary's future running mate
do you really think they'll run together? that seems a little too radical for a party as cowardly as the democrats-- that is, fielding a ticket with no white men and no southerners. i'd love it, though.
Democrats need to take back their political party. Enough of Hillary, Lieberman, and the rest of the cowards that have been in-step with Bush throughout his "War on Terror".
I like how Obama says "race". Dude has no experience. he's the Ralph Nader of 2008
I like how Obama says "race". Dude has no experience. he's the Ralph Nader of 2008
[4] Posted by: jojo | March 10, 2007 10:04 AM
And look at all the experience Geo Bush has and where it's gotten us...
Politicians--from BOTH parties--aren't exactly known for their supreme intelligence.
And, really, none of the candidates thus far have been all that impressive. All they are, are personality figureheads.
Yeah. Cheney has TONS of experience. Rummy, too. Look where that's gotten us. The most experienced president we've had in the last 20 years was arguably George H.W. Bush and apparently the nation was ready to hand power over to an Arkansas governor.
I was there and it was great. Michelle Obama introduced her husband on stage. She is a wonderful speaker - geniune, insightful, smart.
Barack was smart, funny, humble and very handsome... He cares about average folk. People believe in him for a reason. He has what it takes to lead this country out of this horrible & misguided rut.
Michelle really stole the show. She gave Barack a great introduction--she was charming, funny, inspiring.
Barack was...tired. I love the guy, but the poor man looked exhausted. He was still solid, though. I hope he got a good night's sleep.
Vanessa doesn't sound too much like PR (wo)man, now does (s)he?
He's black and muslim? please tell me the democratic party is not serious? This is like when Al gore picked Jew joe Lieberman as vice president and lost by .02%. I guarantee if he had picked John Kerry he would have won by a landslide.
Hova,
He's black, yes, but he's Catholic, not Muslim.
p.s. He's also white, by the way. His mother was white.
The Edge,
I don't work for his campaign but, yes, I'm a huge supporter of Barack.
:) Vanessa
(oh, and yes, I'm a she)
I don't see why people vote for someone because of their race. Look at Massachusetts, most people voted for Deval Patrick because of the race card. In two months on the job he has been a complete disgrace. This is the problem with Yuppie Socialists, they never get to live like the rest of us so they pick stupid reasons to support candidates. We need a leader with guts, someone who is strong, someone like Elliot Spitzer.
we don't need a leader. We need a figurehead. I don't know how anybody could be in control of a nation of 300 million. We just need someone to tuck us in at night and tell us everything will be alright. That's what presidents are supposed to do.
Is that Karl Rove in the red sweater?
To the person posting as "YupYupYuppieSocialists" -- you know absolutely nothing about Massachusetts! People voted for Deval Patrick because of his vision, his integrity, his personal warmth and skill as a communicator, and his record of excellent and courageous performance at the highest levels in law, government, and business. And far from being a disgrace, his approval rating is comparable to that of Eliot Spitzer (47% vs 49%, with a Margin of Sampling Error: ± 4.1%, in the latest surveyusa.com poll).