Tuesday Evening
I worked the subway crowd on 14th and 8th. I realized only in the aftermath that it had been a GLBT event.
Wednesday Evening
Sylvan threw a salsa party not far from the event the evening before at Plumm. I like the buffet dinner part, then watched people dance. After a few hours, I left. I was in a mood for a movie. I walked towards Union Square to catch a flick, but instead ended up buying one, a De Niro flick for $10.
Thursday Evening
Time: Thursday, January 31 at 6:00 PM
Host: Generation Obama
Location: The Grand (New York, NY)
41 East 58th Street
New York, NY 10018
That was the bomb. Jeremy's Generation Barack Obama threw a lavish debate watch party on the 58th, The Grand. He threw in some good news at the very beginning. We were now only three points behind in California, and we were running neck and neck in New York City. After South Carolina and the Kennedy endorsements, what do you expect?
The crowd was more than 700 strong. Met some interesting people.
Met a law professor at Brooklyn Law who I might be able to make use of for my startup. Met two EKU grads, Eastern Kentucky University. They threw a few Berea names at me. Do you know such and such? Met some other men and women. Met a guy who teaches and is also a screenwriter. A movie of his is about to hit the theaters. Big league stuff.
"You don't go to random bars," he said. "If you want to meet alert women, you come to these political events."
I think I spotted Lewis Cohen. He was with a stunning woman. Looks like the dude is going places. Once in a while Lewis Cohen will do the right thing, like show up for an Obama event.
Obama 2008 Is Working For Me
I met Anna Lewis at the event. She had a big Women For Obama sticker on her chest.
"Are you a mover shaker with Women for Obama?" I teased her.
"Yes, I am," she said.
I followed up with her a little later.
"In this town if this guy Jeremy knows you, that is like a status symbol," I said.
She said she was a movie producer. I said, put me in one of your movies for five seconds, you don't have to pay me.
"So you want to be an extra?"
"Well, that is not how I would put it. I don't have the time to be a movie star."
You can put me in as a terrorist, or something, I said.
"You want to be a terrorist?"
"No. I just thought that might be an easy role to get hold of."
She gave me her email address. Looks like I might end up in some movie. This Obama thing is so totally working out for me.
Jesse
Jesse Jackson is a great American, but Barack is greater. Why is Bill Clinton trying to confuse people?
Bill Perkins
Bill Perkins is the next Mayor of New York City. Anthony Weiner is a good guy, but he should continue as Congressman. Jewish Governor, Black Mayor, brown friend to the Mayor, fair enough.
It is time to put a Democrat in that office. Bill will get a solid reaction in Harlem and Brooklyn. He needs to really start reaching out to the white crowds in the city. That is the Obama way. He has been the mascot for Obama 2008 in this city.
He is a well-educated man - Cornell grad - who could offer sound management, racially inclusive policies, and a meritocratic team.
In The News
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The Battle for the Latino Vote many like that "young boy, what's his name? Barack Obama?" .... Obama, who is half-white, half-black, pretty much transcended race, winning Iowa, which is 95% white, and placing a close second in New Hampshire, which is 96% white ..... the Obama campaign has made Latino outreach one if its top priorities ..... The campaign's extenstive Latino outreach program includes 6,000 precinct captains and 223 teams of 1,500 trained volunteers. They were the first up with Spanish language TV and radio ads, and have placed tens of thousands phone calls reaching out to Latino households. ....... Obama trails Clinton in polls of Latino voters 59% to 19% ..... Overall, Clinton leads Obama 39% to 27% ..... Her campaign has placed nearly 650,000 calls to Latino women — part of the nearly two million they've done total, twice as many as the Obama campaig ...... There should not be a woman in this state that we do not reach out to ..... Up to half of the four million likely California Democratic voters are expected to vote before primary day, as more than a million already have done .... Salazar said she might well have voted for Obama if she had waited until Election Day. .... home to two women U.S. Senators, as well as Nancy Pelosi, the first female Speaker of the House
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Bill Clinton, Get Out of the Way "There may be a better salesman than I am," Bill Clinton said, smiled, then paused as chuckles rippled through the audience. ...... The Bush Administration wanted to develop two new nuclear weapons, he said, while it was trying to persuade the Iranians to stop enriching uranium. "There may be a better salesman than I am," he said, "but that's a tough sale. We're telling the Iranians, �You can't have any of something we want two more of.'" ........ Unwilling to stop campaigning after his last event, he had gone to the cafeteria at the University of South Carolina. About 15 kids were there, and they started texting their friends. Pretty soon several hundred kids had gathered, and Clinton held forth for two hours, answering their questions. ....... for Bill Clinton, there is no more powerful jones than grabbing an audience ..... those unutterably decent, hardworking, middle-class, churchified African Americans. They had been shocked and hurt, and then enraged, by his foolish, two-week effort to diss Barack Obama. ...... He was the first President to talk easily with blacks, as equals, without condescension. He was the best white politician I have ever seen in a black church. ..... he thinks he won New Hampshire for Hillary Clinton. ..... He has made it a co-candidacy. He has cheapened it by using cheesy, misleading tactics against Obama. ..... His reappearance made her seem weak, unable to defend herself. ..... If she is elected, who exactly will be President? What happens when there is a real crisis? My guess is, she'd be able to handle almost anything ... except him. I could easily see him jumping the shark, sending mixed messages when a single voice of authority is crucial — especially if the crisis involves one of his specialties, like the Middle East.
The Year of the Youth Vote The Senator's daughter Maddie Esposito had seen the way her mother teared up whenever she heard Obama speak. ...... "You know you believe in him," Maddie admonished her damp-eyed mother. "It's time to step up." The next morning, Maddie, a college freshman home for the holidays, added a threat: "You have to do it, or I'm never talking to you again." ....... Kids like Maddie Esposito are the muscle of Obama's army. His campaign has become the first in decades — maybe in history — to be carried so far on the backs of the young. ...... Caroline Kennedy's three teenagers began working on her last year. ..... His opponents promise to fight, but Obama promises healing. His is the language of possibility, which is the native tongue of the young. ...... Combining with digital-age technologyold-fashioned shoe leather, the Illinois Senator first rallied Iowa students to cancel Clinton's cakewalk. ..... a youthquake that reverberates upward ..... Their interest in the election exceeds their interest in celebrity news or sports — 7 of 10 said they are paying attention to the race. .... his superior ground game. ..... To win those kids, Obama did something unusual in politics: he made them a genuine priority. After his rallies in towns across the state, he met backstage with student leaders from the area — a privilege most campaigns reserve for local VIPs and fund raisers. ........ 19th century politics using 21st century tools ..... voters are more likely to go to the polls if they are asked face-to-face by someone they trust ..... personal canvassing is more effective than direct mail or phone calls from strangers ........ know your voters and turn them out personally ..... A student-to-student phone bank dialed tens of thousands of dorm rooms and cell phones. ...... teasingly racy "Show Us Your O-Face" parties ...... "People feel more comfortable if they're part of a group." ..... Facebook, the largest of Internet social-networking sites, boasts a market share of more than 85% of four-year U.S. universities ...... young people are intensely connected online. ..... she is an eternal piece of their mental furniture. .... Obama, by contrast, radiates the new. He doesn't just talk about change; he looks like change. His person and his platform are virtually indistinguishable. Obama, like Tiger Woods and Angelina Jolie, has one of those faces that seem beamed from a postracial future, when everyone will have a permanent, noncarcinogenic tan. ...... We've yet to see Obama flustered or harried; instead, he gives off the enigmatic Zen confidence of the guy who is picked first for every game. ..... What concerns many of them is the nature of politics: the perceived gridlock of parties, conniving of special interests and shallow biases of the media.
Work Out and Drink Up
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