So I'm #1 now???

No. Star Jones is number 1, 2, and partly in number 3 too.

-Rudey
--I'm sorry

Alright.
if you like payless...

TheEpitome please clean some of your PM box out.

Thanks:)

If anyone is interested his bday party is at theeeee Holiday Inn.

-Rudey
--Just go and say what's up!

While looking for the new Steview Wonder CD on Barnes Noble ran across this book review for a book by Barack Obama.



Elected the first black president of the Harvard Law Review, Obama was offered a book contract, but the intellectual journey he planned to recount became instead this poignant, probing memoir of an unusual life. Born in 1961 to a white American woman and a black Kenyan student, Obama was reared in Hawaii by his mother and her parents, his father having left for further study and a return home to Africa. So Obama's not-unhappy youth is nevertheless a lonely voyage to racial identity, tensions in school, struggling with black literature-with one month-long visit when he was 10 from his commanding father. After college, Obama became a community organizer in Chicago. He slowly found place and purpose among folks of similar hue but different memory, winning enough small victories to commit himself to the work-he's now a civil rights lawyer there. Before going to law school, he finally visited Kenya; with his father dead, he still confronted obligation and loss, and found wellsprings of love and attachment. Obama leaves some lingering questions-his mother is virtually absent-but still has written a resonant book.

I just got an email about that. $50 to party with Obama....?

Yeah I doubt the 50 is gonna get you anything. The 250 probably might get you to see him. Who the heck throws a bday party at the Holiday Inn - especially after getting all this attention??

-Rudey

Most candidates try to minimize costs... unless you're Bush or Lieberman hosting $2,000 plate dinners.

1) It's a birthday party. Nobody said anything about a fundraiser although it might be.

2) $2000 plate dinners has nothing to do with minimizing costs. That's called maximizing profits. That's like simple math and reading sonny.

3) Stop making these ridiculous claims. Bush is known for having the cheapest fund raisers of all where he serves hot dogs and tries to get as many donations as possible that night.

-Rudey

Have you worked campaigns? The costs such as $50 attendance is covered as misc income (if less than $200 the donor info does not have to be recorded) and the VIP $250 is recorded as a donation.

Bush is known for 100-guest fundraisers where he makes $200,000. a hotdog for $2,000 may be cheap for you but is expensive for most of us Americans.

You are not getting it!

It is his birthday party. The invitiation said nothing about being a fund raiser.

And I didn't say anything about how much they can raise in funds. You made a comment that candidates try and minimize costs but Bush has $2,000 dinners. I don't care if he charges the GDP of China for a plate at the dinner, if he serves hot dogs, the costs are minimized. Learn to read stud...and do some thinking.

-Rudey
--And yes I lost 4 times that amount in my telecom portfolio today alone.

Ok, major American sociological question
 

Why is it that every time someone talks about Obama they have to mention that he was the child of a white mother and black father? Why are the races of his parents important? I mean, if they're just going to call him black anyway, why even mention it? I get ticked off every time I see/hear that.

Re: Ok, major American sociological question
 

First, he's pretty impressive.

The black/white parents piece is a part of his story, and I suspect it's one of the things that he and his organization play up to some extent.

When a candidate (or other notable person) chooses to lay those facts out, why shouldn't they be used. To not mention them would be to not tell the entire story.

Re: Ok, major American sociological question
 

It's not like I do it all the time. I think race is important. People identify with a common experience and if race is one of them, so be it. But to constantly go around talking about how he's black is no different than going and saying his mother was white.

-Rudey