What The President Ate For Dinner Last Night

• Way to go Suzanne Goin, what an experience, and special opportunity!!!! Hello to all of family. Jeanie , Yvette's mom.

• Every sitting President holds these fund raising shin-digs during election season--hardly unique to Obama, and until we have true campaign finance reform, the cost of elections will be paid for by, in part, "the fat cats." As for "complaining that people who disagree with him are "bitter", that is NOT the point that Obama was trying to make, and it is a quote that is frequently propagandized out of context; Obama was attempting to explain why people in some of the most economically depressed areas in the country either vote against their self interest, or don't vote at all--his conclusion was that "the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not." He went on to explain, clumsily it is true, that it is the disenchantment with Government (both Dem and Repub) that explains why "they cling to guns or religion or antipathy toward people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations." To deny that disillusioned people scape-goat is to deny the facts Isaiah. At any rate, Obama's vow to save Social Security/Medicare will do more to help "workaday Americans" than what the other side has on offer.

• I might be interested in the food if our president had been here on the business of the nation. Instead, his primary purpose was to get Democrat fat-cats to hand over $35,800 each -- the legal limit. Presumably, he didn't insult workaday Americans (as he did with a similar fat-cat crowd in San Francisco in 2008) by complaining that people who disagree with him are "bitter" and "cling to guns or religion" for comfort -- i.e., are stupid and couldn't possibly have thoughtful reasons for disagreeing. As we sprint towards 2012, the president is visibly struggling not to mix bigotry with fundraising. It's bad for the cash, his handlers have told him, even worse for the vote.

• More importantly, what wine(s) did they drink??!

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