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发帖数: 29846 | 1 posted at 5:56 pm on June 15, 2012 by Erika Johnsen
President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama visited the home of actors
Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick for a joint fundraising
appearance on Thursday night, during which the president offered the
gathered stars a rather frightening piece of flattery.
The intimate dinner banked about $2 million, with 50 people paying $40,
000 each. …
Speaking in a dimly lighted, art-filled room, Obama told supporters they
would play a critical role in an election that would determine a vision for
the nation’s future.
“You’re the tie-breaker,” he said. “You’re the ultimate arbiter of
which direction this country goes.”
Among the celebrities on hand to hear Obama’s remarks were Oscar winner
Meryl Streep, fashion designer Michael Kors and Vogue editor Anna Wintour…
The president and Mrs. Obama also headlined a second glitzy fundraiser
in Manhattan Thursday night that included a performance from singer Mariah
Carey and remarks by singer Alicia Keys. The 250-person dinner yielded the
Obama campaign at least $2.5 million.
Let me be clear.
ar·bi·ter
[ahr-bi-ter] noun
1. a person empowered to decide matters at issue; judge; umpire.
2. a person who has the sole or absolute power of judging or determining.
Who knows whether The One meant to merely butter up the glamorous group of
One Percenters assembled specifically to give him gobs of cash, or if he
actually believes what he just said — but either way, consider me
outrageously outraged. I don’t think I could come up with a group of people
less suited to the task of passing the “ultimate” judgment on the state
of our nation.
I’m not knocking what celebrities do for a living — I enjoy the artistry
of movies, music, and fashion as much as the next gal. But, if Mitt Romney
is ostensibly “out of touch” with the middle class and “removed” from
the issues concerning the common man because he was a movin’ and shakin’
businessman who earned a large fortune… I don’t even know what to say. The
hypocrisy confounds me.
These wealthy Hollywood types seem to dearly love their Occupy-solidarity
and their “war on women” and their extreme environmentalism, issues about
which most Americans don’t care at all. President Obama heeds their
opinions at his own peril, writes Michael Barone:
But there is one group of people Obama has to listen to: the people who
give him large sums of money. He recently attended his 150th fundraiser.
That’s more than the number attended by the last four presidents put
together.
Obama has seen enough Architectural Digest-type interiors in Park Avenue
triplexes and Beverly Hills mansions, and on the block in San Francisco’s
Pacific Heights, where every house is owned by a billionaire, to develop an
expertise in Louis XV walnut commodes and Brunschwig & Fils fabrics.
He’s also had plenty of chances to absorb the advice of the kind of
rich liberals who like to give money to Democratic presidents. And the
evidence that he has taken some of that advice is his initiatives on three
controversial issues…
If the same-sex marriage reversal seems somewhat risky politically and
the contraception mandate considerably riskier, the Keystone pipeline
decision seems downright foolish politically. Voters tend to favor it by 2-1
margins, and if they’re not aware of it, the Republicans (and maybe the
pro-pipeline unions) will make sure they are. |
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