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Obama reaps big bucks at S.F. fundraisers

Christine Pelosi, daughter of Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and Kim Clark lead an S.F. crowd in a cheer. (Lacy Atkins / The Chronicle)

Obama was here for a fundraiser at the Fairmont Hotel… pulled in 7.8 million. Apparently a record amt for a SF fundraising event and possibly a record for anywhere. So they say… The main event, a dinner, was the usual 2,300/4,600 cash entry … the VIP after event was 14K for the DNC. Not reported in the TV news but reported in print, the VIP event was for South Asian and Pacific Islander supporters. Someone named Pigeon (no, really) from Ob Finance made sure to get in front of cameras to tell us that they raise “80%” of their COH from the little people, ”under 100USD per donation”. To be frank, I just stopped believing that sometime ago. They are too desperado to tell me that..

Craig Newmark of Craigslist was stopped going in, his comment some mumble (I am not kidding, he was close to incoherent), that we need to “get away from the darkness”. LOL, he would only admit that he paid in the “low thousands” to attend.

I did see that as Ob left, he waved, rather evocative of QEII, to the assembled multitude.

I laughed pretty damned hard at this, from a guy still struggling (so they say) to be perceived as an American, or, not “The Other”… :

Obama told the group – which included many Indian and Pakistani immigrants – that he is not only familiar with their cultures – but also proud of his lifelong association with them.

“Not only do I think I’m a desi, but I’m a desi,” he said, using a colloquial term that describes South Asian immigrants. The remark was greeted with laughs. “I’m a homeboy.”

He said that when he went to Occidental College, his first roommate was Pakistani. And in his dorm, he said with a laugh, “Indians and Pakistanis came together under one roof … to cause havoc in the university.”

To applause, he said he became an expert at cooking dal and other ethnic dishes, though “somebody else made the naan,” the trademark Indian bread.

“Those are friendships which have lasted … for years, and continue until this day,” he said. “I have an enormous personal affection for the people of South Asia.”

“I’ve also had an orientation toward Asia and a recognition … that over time we are going to see … more economic growth” and an economic partnership with the United States that is strategic.

I realise it is pro forma to burble happily to the specific audience (drip honey on their pocketbooks, in fact drip that honey anywhere it works), but that is not really the situation with Obama.

From playing patty cake with Rick Warren, to fronting apologies for T Boone, to assuring the S Asian and Pacific Islanders, millionaires and multi-millionaires, that things will go on, just as they have.

We are so blessed. No, we really are. La Nan says so:

He was warmly received by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who called him “a leader that God has blessed us with at this time.”

Got that? God sent him. To us.

You cannot make this shit up, nor do we have to: They serve it to us in Dixie Cups.

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Tapper has a different take on the fundraiser, different number$ and what event (of three) was for who. Life is tough.

Last, please god let it end. I cannot take any more public displays of the American Man Hug. No mas!

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Impeach them all!

[I snitched this from a diary of buddydrama (sp?) at PFF, better than the one I had used before, of Impeach day at San Francisco’s Ocean Beach.]