In Clinton’s Backyard, It’s Open Season as an Obama Fund-Raiser Lines Up Donors

[Ethelk2044]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/24/us/politics/24bundler.html?_r=1&ref=politics&oref=slogin




Twenty-eight stories above Sixth Avenue in Manhattan, Jeh
Johnson was dialing away. 

The race was on for New York’s prized political donors, and
Mr. Johnson, one of Senator Barack Obama’s leading
fund-raisers in the city, was trying to poach in the heart of
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s financial territory. 

Before the day was up, Mr. Johnson got about a dozen people on
the phone with the pitch that Mr. Obama represented “a
generational shift” away from the partisan chokehold gripping
Washington. A few told him they were not ready to give, but
more than half said they were willing to sign checks and come
to a March 9 fund-raiser at the Grand Hyatt New York.

He called Joyce Johnson, a family friend (she was once his
baby sitter) who lives on the Upper West Side and who has run
unsuccessfully for State Assembly and the City Council over
the past few years. She said she was on board with Mr. Obama’s
campaign, with some trepidation.

“A lot of the women who supported me are supporting Hillary,”
Ms. Johnson said. She named a West Side activist who has, in
the past, raised money for Gov. Eliot Spitzer and
Representative Charles B. Rangel, Democrat of New York.

“Ricki Lieberman is like my godmother,” Ms. Johnson said, “And
she’s going with Hillary and I’m going the other way. Keep
talking to me, Jeh. Give me some sea legs. Tell me what to
say.”

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3. Obama does represent a "generational shift," this century's New Frontier

An analogy is to compare Obama to a young Jack Kennedy and his New Frontier, while Hillary represents the old guard, like Hubert Humphrey. Not a fair analogy in one sense, Humphrey was a true liberal through and through (this was long before Vietnam War).

I wish Jeh Johnson the best of luck and all success. Anything that chips away at this irrational lock step support for Hillary from women. I see the same thing here in Indiana. While my straight women friends have Hillary pretty much figured out, my lesbian friends think she walks on water (they also have no clue what Hillary's stand on the issues are, which gives me an opportunity to enlighten them).