Obama’s New Courting of Hollywood Pays Off
ByADAM NAGOURNEYandJIM RUTENBERG
LOS ANGELES — For years,President Obamahas largely been absent in Hollywood, a point of unhappiness with a community accustomed to the constant doting of Bill Clinton. But over the last few months, Mr. Obama and his representatives have held a series of meetings and telephone calls with some of the region’s most influential donors and fund-raisers, reflecting Hollywood’s new importance in the president’s re-election campaign.The fruit of that effort became clear this week as Mr. Obama is scheduled to attend a fund-raiser on Thursday night at the Fryman Canyon home of the actorGeorge Clooney. At last count, organizers said, the event had raised well over $6 million, plus many millions more through an online raffle, record territory. They said they stopped selling $40,000-a-plate tickets last week because there was no room to squeeze in any more tables.Mr. Obama’s announcement on Wednesday that he now supportedsame-sex marriageshould assure him a warm reception at the Clooney residence. Organizers had expected the president to face tough questions from an audience that had grown increasingly uncomfortable with his tentativeness on an issue of great importance here.Norman Lear, the television producer, said moments after the announcement that he and his wife, Lyn, who had held back from giving money to Mr. Obama, would now contribute the maximum allowed, $80,000 between them. “This is the kind of leadership we support, and we are happy to max out today to his re-election campaign,” he said.Mr. Obama’s growing fund-raising prowess here, in a region of California packed mansion-to-mansion with wealthy liberal donors, is crucial for the campaign, as it confronts the likelihood that it cannot match Mitt Romney, the presumed Republican nominee, in drawing “super PAC” money, or draw the big-dollar support from Wall Street that was central to Mr. Obama’s 2008 victory.
Next up, GE and the AFL-CIO, SEIU, and Bernadine Dohrn
All of the problems this country has and Norman Lear thinks a stance on gay marriage is showing leadership? All I can say is:
ReplyDelete"Oh the way Glen Miller played,
songs that made the hit parade.
Guys like us we had it made,
those were the days.
And you knew who you were then,
girls were girls and men were men.
Mister we could use a man like Herbert Hoover again.
Didn't need no welfare state,
everybody pulled his weight.
Gee our old LaSalle ran great.
Those were the days!!!"
Why be shocked? Socialists and Communists typically divide the world into three classes:
ReplyDelete1. The Party ruling class
2. Those favored by the ruling class (for example, athletes in the former Soviet Union)and
3. Everyone else
Those in the third class toil for their daily allotment from the State and its Ruling Class. Everyone Else toils to satisfy the demands of the Ruling Class and those Favored by the Ruling Class who receive more equal treatment than Everyone Else.
As Claude Raines said in 'Casablanca', 'I'm shocked, SHOCKED' just before his gambling winnings were handed to him. Well, Howdy's timing just before his both hands-out Pilgrimage to La-La Land shows is same phony conversion.
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