Obama returns to New York for $35,800-per-plate dinner with Wall Street bankers

[somone]

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-06-23/obama-returns-to-new-york-to-raise-money-dine-with-bankers.html

Obama Returns to New York to Raise Money, Dine With Bankers
By Hans Nichols

June 23 (Bloomberg) -- The last time President Barack Obama flew to New York for a Broadway show, it was for a long-promised date with his wife.

Today’s New York trip was a less intimate affair: a $1,250- per-person fundraiser with gay and lesbian activists and a $35,800-per-plate dinner with Wall Street bankers. After dinner was a performance of the musical “Sister Act,” where he will be joined by the show’s producer, actress Whoopi Goldberg, and young Democratic donors.

The dinner at Daniel, a restaurant on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, drew some of Obama’s biggest donors to the 2008 campaign, as well as some who initially backed his rival for the party’s nomination, then-Senator Hillary Clinton.

“There’s a disquiet out there,” the president told the wealthy donors, because people “recognize that we haven’t yet broken through to the future that we want.”...

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Maybe he could break through...

If he started listening to us...

:shrug:

[emilyg]

5. +1

[Dept of Beer]

8. What would wealthy donors know about disquiet or breaking through?

I don't believe any politician or banker really feels our pain...especially at 35,800 per.

Now if President Obama had a $50 plate fundraiser with supporters who had give him that in the past then there might be a better understanding of what real pain, fear and desperation is.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

9. You're right. They don't know about our pain, nor do they care.

But Obama might learn something from us. If he would only listen...

[Tx4obama]

13. Obama Eats With $5 Donors

June 16th, 2011
Obama Eats With $5 Donors
http://www.frumforum.com/obama-eats-with-5-donors

[AlabamaLibrul]

15. A raffle. How cute! n/t

[Raine]

21. Wow how generious of him

and a raffle too to get the dinner ticket :eyes: Now I would be impressed if he had a dinner where the average guy paid $5.00-$50.00 and they had a raffle for ONE bankster to attend.

[Le Taz Hot]

29. Oh, well, that's different.

Otherwise, he might install only bankers responsible for the U.S.'s financial downfall into his cabinet so they can continue to guide fiscal policy in the exact same way they guided Bush . . . Nah, that $38,500 PER PLATE doesn't buy access or anything. :eyes:

[Erose999]

31. I've got the golden ticket! I've got the golden ticket! LOL nt

[Dept of Beer]

38. A total of four donors? Are we sure that President Obama will be

able to handle that amount all at once?

I knew about this contest. What I had stated was that he should have dinner with donors that had given him $50 during the last campaign and not just 4 of them. The number would be better at 400.

Or perhaps he should only have dinners with $50 and under contributors in small groups for a while to see fist-hand the real pain. Some of those who gave in the past may not have it in their budget this time around.

Do they still count?

[slay]

17. +1

someone should brief Obama on the top 20 DU news stories of the day - then we might actually get somewhere. seems he only gives a shit about us when he's up for election though - and even then i wonder...

[Orrex]

2. At those prices, I won't be able to afford more than five or six plates.

[DeSwiss]

3. K&R n/t

[ClarkUSA]

4. Good. As Mitch McConnell said just yesterday, "Citizens United gave us a level playing field."

The Citizens United decision's effect on campaign spending killed Democrats in 2010 and will sink Dem chances in 2012 unless Dems start raising money hand over fists from legitimate donors from all walks of life.

If I was a billionaire, I'd give the campaign as much money as the Koch Brothers promised to give in 2012 to support Republicans: $80M

[theaocp]

28. What will the donors want in return for their investment

in our President? I suspect governance will be tilted in their favor. Whether he needs the money to get reelected or not is irrelevant in the face of the sheer influence. We work for who pays us. Who's paying our Democrats?

[emulatorloo]

30. Somebody who is sane enough to raise the debt ceiling

so the country does not default on its loans and send us into an economic tailspin that will make 2008 look like happy time.

[Dover]

6. The Last Supper

My fantasy - with so many criminals gathered in one place, lock them all in and call it
the new white collar prison. And WE wouldn't even have to pay for it this time - they're all magicians creating wealth out of thin air, so surely they can create their own food and water...



Shhhh....don't wake me up!

Obama, are you really so hungry that you don't discriminate about WHO's hand your eating out of?

[PoliticAverse]

7. Elizabeth Warren chip still on the table... n/t

[KharmaTrain]

10. How Else Do You Raise 1 Billion Dollars...

That'll be the price tag for next year's election and the $10 and $50 donations just don't cut it.

[Erose999]

32. He had a chance to get a $10 or $50 donation from me (and I'm sure many others) who don't normally

donate to political campaigns. But instead I will be sending that money to someone like Dennis Kucinich.

[The_Casual_Observer]

11. "I feel your pain"

[blkmusclmachine]

12. LA-LA-LA-LA-LA !!!

I CAN'T HEAR YOU !!!

[RandomThoughts]

14. You sure you posting in the right thread?

And why are you screaming?

[Raine]

23. The poster is imitating how Obama is

doing us .... "I CAN'T HEAR YOU!"

[Obamanaut]

25. Are you? nt

[chill_wind]

16. $35,800 per plate.

I don't suppose they'll be wanting any special favors... like the best government Wall Street can continue to buy.

[Le Taz Hot]

27. Naaahhhhh!!! n/t

[Erose999]

33. Thats several years worth of groceries for a middle class family. 10k more than I make in a year

[justabob]

39. or about 2 1/2 years pay for me

or so. It makes me sick.

[Wilms]

18. Are there any leftovers?

I'm kind of hungry.

:shrug:

[PoliticAverse]

20. You don't want to know what the doggy-bag cost... n/t

[Scottybeamer70]

19. $35,800............

that's 3 times more than I get in ONE YEAR on SS. I do hope they had something good.
I know how concerned they must be about the little people.

[Erose999]

34. Heres an article with the menu. Those are tiny, tiny plates for such a tremendous amount of cash.

http://www.businessinsider.com/upper-east-side-restaurant-where-obama-is-meeting-wall-street-donors-this-month-2011-6

[onethatcares]

41. it's not what they ate,

it's what they bought.

Keep that in mind.

[Rex]

22. So he went to the source of our problems and yucked it up

with a celeb...big deal, I don't think a WS banker cares one bit about the average worker. But thanks anyway.

[DFW]

24. I wonder what kind of dessert they served?

At about $750 a calorie, it should have been worthy of the Tour d'Argent in Paris.

[unblock]

26. for $35,000, i would have gone. it's that last $800 that did it for me.

:sarcasm:

[Marblehead]

35. just think of the tip

the waiters made. Sad when Democrats have to raise money from the people who stole trillions from the very people they are supposed to represent.

[Downtown Hound]

36. Disgusting

This is why I no longer call myself a Democrat. A leftist? Sure. But not a Democrat. I want a president that fights these pieces of shit. Not kisses their butt.

[GeorgeGist]

37. So Obama's making WHOOPI

and other fools part with their money. Not Cool.

[Autumn]

40. After reading the article 50 cents would be too

much to pay to eat with him. He will eat and meet with 70 for 35,800 each and raffle off a ticket for the cheap seats for 4.:shrug: