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Home Front: Politix
Streisand to Sing for Obama
2008-09-09
Variety

Barbra Streisand will be among the headliners at a fund-raiser for Barack Obama on Sept. 16, where she will perform for the presidential candidate at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel. The plans for the event were outlined this morning and Streisand confirmed that she would take the stage. The hotel ballroom holds an estimated 700 people.

Obama's fund-raiser is expected to be his final visit to raise money here before the general election.

Obama will start the evening with a 5 p.m. dinner event for about 250 people at Greystone Mansion in Beverly Hills, the historic estate once owned by the legendary Doheny family. Tickets for the event are $28,500.
In other words, a dinner for two costs about as much as the median family income. But don't call us elitists!
In case you're curious, 28,500 x 250 = $7,125,000.
Later, he will attend a reception at the Beverly Wilshire, followed by Streisand's special performance. Tickets for the event are $2,500 per person.
2,500 x 700 = $1,750,000.
Co-hosts for event include the DreamWorks team of Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen . . . .
Proceeds will be used to run ads that answer the unfair allegation that Obama spends too much time with celebrities.
Posted by:Mike

#15  The "Party of Change" is beginning to look a little recycled, out of touch, threadbare, trite, worn, elitist, and er, er, socialistic except for the elite. Their message is that "it is OK to redistribute everyone else's wealth except for ours".
Posted by: JohnQC   2008-09-09 22:10  

#14  Sorry but I thought there was a law about campaign contributions. 28,500 dollars is well above what an, indiviadual is allowed to donate if my memories don't fail me
JFM, info here.
Posted by: tipper   2008-09-09 22:06  

#13  Looks like that nearly 20 year-old film footage of a younger Babs at the US OPEN did its job last week???
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2008-09-09 20:26  

#12  Just help all us Bible-totin', gun crazies remember our place. Way to go, Babs! Keep up the good work, at least until the election.
Posted by: Richard of Oregon   2008-09-09 14:52  

#11  Parker and Stone ahead of the curve; no wonder Putin is shittin kittens.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2008-09-09 12:45  

#10  Sorry but I thought there was a law about campaign contributions. 28,500 dollars is well above what an, indiviadual is allowed to donate if my memories don't fail me.

That's the problem with 'reforms'. Yes, individuals are limited on direct campaign contributions. However, various paper fronts and Hollyweird accounting* mechanisms are employed to launder the money around the limits.


*Hollyweird accounting is where you can have a blockbuster film bring in a record take at the box offices but on the accounting books after everyone gets their 'piece of the action', the movie somehow 'lost' money.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2008-09-09 11:23  

#9  "Bedbug" is right, baby.
Posted by: mojo   2008-09-09 11:06  

#8  From the very intro of Hussein in the Dummo party, the Hollywood crowd, including many Jews, some practicing, some not too much, have been ardent supporters and contributors. Why ? It turns out that they are bought and paid for. By whom ? In the recent past, say the last 15 years, as the money behind each production has risen exponentially, money from old conventional sources has dried up. The H'weird crowd then went more unconventional...pension funds, hedgefunds, etc. Some success, but not a reliable, steady supply. So....after the Japanese took a H'weird bath, they turned to A-raaabs. Money from Dubai, UAE, etc. They are bought off to support the Islamic candidate. Same reason you don't see any films supporting US like in WWII. Only anti-American propaganda films. Sickening, truly rotted scum and very sickening.
Posted by: Woozle Elmeter 2700   2008-09-09 10:44  

#7  $2500 to hear her sing, and $28 thousand to NOT hear her sing. Sounds about right.
Posted by: Perfesser   2008-09-09 10:41  

#6  Is this obama's fat lady singing?
Posted by: Everyday a Wildcat(KSU)   2008-09-09 10:31  

#5  Proceeds will be used to run ads that answer the unfair allegation that Obama spends too much time with celebrities.

LOL!
Posted by: JohnQC   2008-09-09 10:22  

#4  Her voice will drive Bambi's poll numbers lower.
Posted by: DarthVader   2008-09-09 10:19  

#3  Sorry but I thought there was a law about campaign contributions. 28,500 dollars is well above what an, indiviadual is allowed to donate if my memories don't fail me.
Posted by: JFM   2008-09-09 10:06  

#2  Go Babs!
From Reuters
Rarely performing in public, Streisand sang at fund-raisers for the last two Democratic presidential nominees — Sen. John Kerry in 2004 and then-Vice President Al Gore in 2000. They both lost to Republican George W. Bush
Posted by: tipper   2008-09-09 09:36  

#1  There goes Barry's street cred.
Posted by: tu3031   2008-09-09 09:24  

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