Video clip of the day

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This is Team O's answer to trying to win back disaffected working class voters that voted for them back in '08?: Dinner with the President, the First Lady and ... Sarah Jessica Parker...?

Friend --

It's my honor to invite you to take part in an event I'm hosting at my home with the President and First Lady on June 14th.

If you can make a donation of any amount today, you'll be automatically entered to win two tickets to New York to join us.

Just before Election Day in 2008, I went to an Obama campaign office in New York and called some undecided voters.

I believed then, as I do now, that if we all chipped in and did our part, we would not only make history, but create meaningful change that so many Americans needed.

For me, this election is even more important than 2008.

As a woman, a mother, and an entrepreneur, I need to believe our country can be a place where everyone has a fair shot at success.

This November's election will determine whether we get to keep moving forward, or if we're forced to go back to policies that ask people like my middle-class family in Ohio to carry the burden -- while people like me, who don't need tax breaks, get extra help.

I'm hosting this event on June 14th because there is so much at stake this year, and I want to keep doing what I can.

I hope you'll help me welcome President Obama and the First Lady to New York.

It should be fabulous.

Donate $3 or whatever you can to be automatically entered to win:

https://donate.barackobama.com/Night-in-New-York

Hope to see you there,

Sarah Jessica

And just in case a coastal elite cultural icon of a now-defunct cable television program* wasn't enough to grab you, how about this lady as the closer?:




For those of you who don't have the time, money nor desire to stay up with high fashion, Debbie Wintour is the Vogue editor-in-chief and real-life inspiration for the lead character in Devil Wears Prada.

Doubling down on electoral demographic detachment, are we?



Mind you, this salute material and cultural excess was released this past Friday, the same day that miserable jobs report came out, stating that the economy only added 69,000 jobs.

Add the "Thingamajig" and "Polish Death Camps" gaffes to what could've very easily passed for a Romney parody ad, and one wants to wonder if Team O is simply setting some sort of complacency trap for Romney such has been the complete incompetence of the Obama campaign the last 7 days or so.

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* We overheard a recent British immigrant co-worker of ours comment on Sex in the City, "Isn't that the show about those transvestites living in New York City?"

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Quote of the day

"It was a beautiful thing," said Brentwood resident Myles Berkowitz, commiserating with his neighbors on Montana Avenue. "Young, old, black, white — everyone was pissed off."

At long last, the President fulfills his campaign promise to be a uniter - just ask the citizens of Los Angeles who, in solidarity, sat idle on freeways and roads while the President was fundraising there Monday evening.

"We've got to stop where?"

Fund raising can be kind of a drag, especially when you are more or less forced to go to Nevada... and you don't even make it to Vegas.

But sandwiched between political appearances, Obama squeezed in some quick public remarks on energy, ironically before burning fuel to Los Angeles, at Nevada's Nellis Air Force Base. It was a key stop, because it gives the entire trip an air of official legitimacy and allows the White House to write off part of the trip under rules governing travel, said Pete Sepp, vice president for policy and communications at the National Taxpayers Union.

We're wondering though, if the case above is kinda like those loopholes the Prez wants to close on all those rich people so they can better, you know, pay their fair share? Just askin'...

Is it Really, "All about the Benjamins"?

“Oh jeez….. another post about Democrats. C’mon. When are you guys going to talk about the Republican candidates….?”

Yeah, we’ll get around to those guys here soon. Its just that they’re so… so boring. So boring and so… white. B-Daddy had his assessment here, but its so much more fun writing about the minority rock stars on the Democrat side, Barack Hussein Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton. Hey, don’t look at us that way, Elizabeth Edwards agrees with us.

Besides, outside of Mike Huckabee perhaps (Mike who…?), none of those turkeys on the Republican side have really distinguished themselves from the others.

But hey… for another post.

Wouldya just look at all the money H-Rod and O-Back are rolling in right now? But rather than sounding the McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Reform alarms of “money corrupting the political process” or “money unduly influencing the process…”, the press appears downright giddy in reporting out the millions that are now in the coffers of the two leading Democrats.

According to the article here, Clinton raised $22 million in the 3rd quarter for the primaries vs. $20 mil for Obama, although Obama still holds the overall edge in primary fundraising $74.9 mil to $72.6. The article doesn’t say whether Clinton’s totals include the millions raised by “disgraced Democratic fundraiser”, Norman Hsu, which she promised to give back or anyone else in Clinton Inc.’s “Asian Connection”.

We’re going to keep banging the drum on this but you will never remove money from politics by any degree until you remove power from politics by that same degree. Campaign donations are simply an effort to purchase influence or power in a certain candidate should that person win that election.

And to be honest, don’t know if we have a real problem with all that money Clinton and Obama are collecting. George Soros and Norman Hsu aside, isn’t that money a barometer of sorts for how much they and their ideas appeal to members of their Party? And conversely, doesn’t the relatively paltry amount of money raised thus far by the Republican candidates reflect how little the Party faithful are excited by their guys?

Certainly seems that way to us. We welcome opinions to the contrary.