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...Obama has had a harder time cultivating a down-home image than his opponents. A few weeks ago, he skipped a candidate forum sponsored by aarp in Iowa--a state where 64% of those who attended the Democratic caucuses in 2004 are over 50--to appear at a fund raiser in Atlanta with R&B recording star Usher. Afterward, Des Moines Register columnist David Yepsen wrote: "There wasn't a big winner of Thursday night's debate among the Democratic presidential candidates, but there was a clear loser--Barack Obama." At a rural-issues forum on a farm outside Adel...
...fair in Des Moines. Journalists will describe the luscious pork chops and the cow sculpted from butter. Meanwhile, the Iowa GOP will pocket about $1 million for party-building expenses. The straw poll is Frank Capra only on the surface. At heart, it's the party's No.1 fund raiser...
Some women, of course, have learned from their own life. "At 28, I was terrified of the world," says Mary Lou Parsons, a Raleigh, N.C., professional fund raiser, recalling her 1980 divorce. "I'd been raised a Southern woman, sheltered and protected by my family, then by my husband." In the ensuing 20 years she learned to raise her kids on her own--and how to start her own business, buy a town house, move to Alaska and back and, most of all, relish life on her own. "I had to get beyond that thinking in a lot of women...
...scheduled to make an appearance at a Lampoon fund raiser in the upcoming weeks, rounding out a month that already saw an appearance by Ratatat...Some artsy types decided to forego Third Eye Blind (I know, we’re surprised too) and instead listened to poets, violinists, and New York Times editorial columnists, oh my! The party then moved back to Dunster, where the eccentric alums got to try their hands at wooing the hot young undergrads...Matherites, in addition to threatening to secede from the College or whatever they proposed, seem to have bought rash-inducing soap...
...different in their records on Iraq: though Obama opposed the Iraq invasion as a Senate candidate, the former President argues, Obama's voting on the war has been virtually identical to Hillary's in the Senate. Bill has "verged on feckless in this respect," grumbles a leading Democratic fund raiser who has defected from the Clinton camp to Obama's. Both Clintons have made the case to potential fund-raisers that the U.S. will probably suffer a terrorist attack on the scale of 9/11 after the next President is sworn in - and that Hillary is the only Democratic candidate capable...