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Obama reaped big bucks in San Francisco -- in just three hours he raised
$7.8 million! Wealthy donors dined on heirloom tomato salad and lavender
salt-crusted beef tenderloin, and they were treated to pandering from
Obama:

"The only way we're going to move forward is to look to the future,
and to recognize that you are the future," said Obama. "The future
of America is built on the strength of immigrant communities who
are going to come here and invest and learn and teach and create
new businesses and new technologies and create linkages with these
enormous emerging markets all around the world."

Obama's disdain for home-grown American workers and promises of increased
levels of immigration can possibly be explained by his statements during
the fund raiser -- he told the generous Indians in attendance that: "Not
only do I think I'm a desi, but I'm a desi."

For those of you that aren't familiar with the term "desi"; it's a slang
term that many Asians use to describe themselves. Depending on who is using
it, desi refers to immigrants who are natives of the Indian subcontinent
from countries such as India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal,
Bhutan, the Maldives, and corporate business elites from Fiji.

If Obama was truly a desi, he would be barred from running for president.
That's because article two of the United States Constitution says: "No
person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at
the time of the Adoption of this Constitution shall be eligible to the
Office of President."

Obama's self proclaimed status of "desi" is a brazen form of identity
politics. He says he is an African American in front of crowds of blacks
and young white liberals, while using an entirely different tribal identity
when pandering to wealthy Asian businessmen and Silicon Valley robber
barons. All of this raises the question of just who Obama is, and where his
loyalties lie.

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This video would actually be funny in a different context:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sA-451XMsuY
Barack OBollywood

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Materials Included
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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/World/USA/Obama_calls_himself_a_desi/...
Obama calls himself a desi

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/08/17/MNCI12CVH8.D...
Obama reaps big bucks at S.F. fundraisers

http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2008/08/san_francisco_fund_raiser.html
Obama one day record haul: $7.8 million at San Francisco big donor fund
raisers

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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/World/USA/Obama_calls_himself_a_desi/...

Obama calls himself a desi

19 Aug 2008, 0047 hrs IST, Chidanand Rajghatta,TNN

WASHINGTON: Desis, say hello to Bharat Obama. Democratic presidential
candidate Barack Obama tickled his South Asian supporters at a fundraiser
in San Francisco on Sunday using the colloquial Indian term to describe a
native to claim that he too is a " desi ".

Obama told the group -- many of them Indian and Pakistani immigrants,
including San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris -- that he is not
only familiar with their cultures, but also proud of his lifelong
associations with them.

"Not only do I think I'm a desi , but I'm a desi ," the San Francisco
Chronicle quoted Obama as telling a mirthful crowd. "I'm a homeboy." Obama
then went on to recall how when he first went to Occidental College, his
first roommate was Pakistani. And in his dorm, he said with a laugh,
"Indians and Pakistanis came together under one roof ... to cause havoc in
the university." To applause, he said he became an expert at cooking dal
and other ethnic dishes, though "somebody else made the naan."

"Those are friendships which have lasted me for years, and continue until
this day. I have an enormous personal affection for the people of South
Asia," Obama said, adding, "I've also had an orientation toward Asia and a
recognition ... that over time we are going to see ... more economic
growth," and an economic partnership with the US that is strategic.

The mirthful aspect of Obama's desi claim aside, his plural, multi-ethnic
identity has surfaced increasingly as the presidential campaign has
progressed, with commentators noting that he is the most unusual candidate
ever to run for the White House in terms of background. In particular,
analysts are discovering his strong African and Asian identity, rather than
merely dubbing him an African-American or Black candidate.

"In fact, reading Obama's absorbing 1995 memoir Dreams from My Father, it
strikes me that the tropes that surround and define Obama can just as
easily be read as those of another community entirely. Which raises the
question: Could it be that our true first black president might also be our
first Asian American president?" Chronicle columnist Jeff Yang asked
recently.

Yang pointed out that Obama was born and raised in Hawaii, the only
majority-Asian state in the union; he spent four years in Jakarta, the home
of his Indonesian stepfather Lolo Soetoro, where he attended local schools
and learned passable Bahasa Indonesia.

The family with whom he's closest -- half-sister Maya Soetoro-Ng and her
Chinese Canadian husband, Konrad Ng -- are Asian American. So, too, are the
most senior members of his congressional team -- his Senate chief of staff
Pete Rouse, whose mother is Japanese American, and his legislative director
Chris Lu, whose parents hail from China.

Obama also roomed with Pakistan and Indian collegemates, one of whom, Vinai
Thummapally, now a mid-west tech entrepreneur, is a major political
contributor. His advisory team has several South Asians, including Preeta
Bansal, a legal luminary, and Parag Khanna, who is part of his foreign
policy coterie.

Obama has also spoken recently about the insights he gained into the region
from a three-week visit to Pakistan in 1980s when Zia-ul Haq took the
country down the path to radical Islamisation.

Elsewhere, Obama also talks about his liberal white mother's association
with NGOs in India, including the time she spent in Delhi. One indication
of his South Asian sensitivities his supporters point to: Obama was quick
to send a message condoling the death of Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw.

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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/08/17/MNCI12CVH8.D...

Obama reaps big bucks at S.F. fundraisers

Carla Marinucci, Chronicle Political Writer

Monday, August 18, 2008

(08-17) 20:39 PDT -- Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama used
his own name and heritage to make a point about change at a fundraiser that
raised a record $7.8 million for his campaign in San Francisco Sunday.

The Illinois senator said it is "a testament to the American spirit that
I'm even standing here before you" as the Democratic Party's presumed
nominee, because some Americans are "still getting past" his name, which he
said some consider funny.

"Change is always tough, and electing me is change ... and it means that
people are going to hesitate a little bit," Obama told a crowd of about 200
deep-pocketed supporters at a VIP reception for South Asian and Pacific
Islander supporters at the Fairmont Hotel.

Later, speaking to a dinner crowd of about 350, Obama sought to reassure
Democrats, whom he said typically "get nervous and skittish right around
this time" and worry that attacks and mudslinging will begin in the final
weeks of the presidential race.

"They say, 'Oh no, here the Republicans come,' " he said, adding that some
think "it's hard enough - Obama, it's a funny name, and who knows what
they're (the Republicans) going to do?"

The Hawaii-born Obama's references to his mixed heritage - he is the son of
a black man from Kenya and a white woman from Kansas - comes just a week
before the Democrats open their national nominating convention in Denver
and after weeks of increasingly tough attacks from the campaign of
Republican John McCain. Just weeks ago, McCain's campaign accused Obama of
playing the race card for mentioning his race at a campaign event.

Obama's appearance Sunday drew about 1,800 people. He ended the evening
with an address to a crowd in the hotel ballroom. Fresh from a forum with
McCain at the Saddleback Church in Orange County on Saturday night, Obama
hit San Francisco in the late afternoon for the fundraisers before heading
off to New Mexico on Sunday evening for more campaign events. Obama
campaign workers said the $7.8 million raised in San Francisco was a record
for a political fundraiser.

Among those at the Fairmont were House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Reps. Barbara
Lee, Anna Eshoo and Mike Honda, as well as San Francisco District Attorney
Kamala Harris, Craigslist founder Craig Newmark, real estate mogul Walter
Shorenstein and former California state Controller Steve Westly.

"This will be a historic fundraiser, one of the largest in San Francisco
ever - if not California," said Westly, a key Obama fundraiser in
California. "We're very proud of what Sen. Obama's doing tonight. ... This
month, we've gotten 65,000 new donors ... and now, we're going to take it
to a whole new level."

Sunday's eager donors included those who paid $2,300 for dinner - heirloom
tomato salad, lavender salt-crusted beef tenderloin and carrot cake cream
cheese mousse - as well as a group photo with the candidate.

Others wrote checks for as much as $14,000 for the special Asian-Pacific
Islander VIP reception filled with CEOs, executives and spouses - a few in
elegant saris - that included a meeting and individual picture with Obama.

Harris, the nation's first Indian American district attorney, said Obama's
meeting was a landmark for the Asian-Pacific Islander community, which she
said is increasingly involved in presidential politics.

Obama told the group - which included many Indian and Pakistani immigrants
- that he is not only familiar with their cultures - but also proud of his
lifelong association with them.

"Not only do I think I'm a desi, but I'm a desi," he said, using a
colloquial term that describes South Asian immigrants. The remark was
greeted with laughs. "I'm a homeboy."

He said that when he went to Occidental College, his first roommate was
Pakistani. And in his dorm, he said with a laugh, "Indians and Pakistanis
came together under one roof ... to cause havoc in the university."

To applause, he said he became an expert at cooking dal and other ethnic
dishes, though "somebody else made the naan," the trademark Indian bread.

"Those are friendships which have lasted ... for years, and continue until
this day," he said. "I have an enormous personal affection for the people
of South Asia."

"I've also had an orientation toward Asia and a recognition ... that over
time we are going to see ... more economic growth" and an economic
partnership with the United States that is strategic.

Obama told his supporters that "we have an economy that, frankly, for the
last eight years, has been focused on the very few, and we have not seen
economic growth from the bottom up."

But "the only way we are going to move beyond these current challenges ...
is not to try to prevent further immigration and integration of our
communities," but "to recognize that you are the future."

At the dinner later, Obama assured donors he would run an aggressive
campaign, telling them, "We've got 79 days before we're going to change the
country."

"I don't need to convince this room of the nature of the changes that are
needed. ... We've got an economy that is not working," an energy policy
that is "killing the budgets of American families" and "a foreign policy
that has been based on bluster and bombast."

"We are going to go out there and run the best presidential campaign that
you have seen. ...We are going to win this election. We're going to change
the country and we're going to change the world ... so keep your stress to
a minimum."

Peter Shah, a certified public accountant from Salinas - and one of the
Asian Pacific Islanders who paid $14,000 to meet Obama - said he made the
investment because he is still undecided in the race.

"I want to look into his eyes, and make sure ... maybe God will give us a
president who will help the common man," he said.

E-mail Carla Marinucci at cmarinucci@sfchronicle.com.

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http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2008/08/san_francisco_fund_raiser.html

Obama one day record haul: $7.8 million at San Francisco big donor fund
raisers

By Lynn Sweeton August 18, 2008 1:17 AM | Permalink | Comments (1)

Sen. Barack Obama scooped up a stunning $7.8 million in just three hours of
very high end fund-raising Sunday in San Francisco. A VIP dinner was
$28,500-a-couple.

One $2,300-a-person event was targeting deep pockets of Asian-American
voters; Obama talked about the ethnic dishes he liked to cook.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was also among those present. This is
the first fund-raiser in San Francisco for Obama since April--when he got
in a jam at a house party for saying people in Pennsylvania were "bitter"
about their lives and that's why they turned to God and guns.

On Sunday, as San Francisco Chronicle ace political writer Carla Marinucci
reports, Obama told a group, "Change is always tough, and electing me is
change."

More Marinucci: "Obama campaign workers said the $7.8 million tally was a
record for a political fundraiser."

And more: Obama--who attended Occidental College in southern
California--said at the Asian American event that when he went to
Occidental, "his first roommate was Pakistani. And in his dorm, he said
with a laugh, "Indians and Pakistanis came together under one roof ... to
cause havoc in the university."

"To applause, he said he became an expert at cooking dal and other ethnic
dishes, though "somebody else made the naan," the trademark Indian bread."

Click below for pool reports.

Pool reports.......

POOL REPORT 1

The Fairmont Hotel was packed with Barack Obama donors Sunday night. The
candidate was scheduled to spend about three hours at the hotel greeting
folks, posing for photos, and giving pep talks as the campaign enters its
final phase.

Stop one was a small conference room with about 60 South Asian donors who
paid at least $2,300 apiece (some of the guests were presumably mega-donors
also attending the dinner - see below). Obama was introduced by eBay
cofounder and former state controller Steve Westly, and Kamil Hasan, a
Silicon Valley high-tech investor. Also spotted in the room: Rep. Mike
Honda (Calif.).

Obama recounted his days at Occidental College, where he had a Pakistani
roommate, along with several Indian friends. "Indians and Pakistanis had
come together under one room to cause havoc in the university. I won't go
into details of some of our activities," he joked. But he told the crowd
that he did learn to cook some local dishes, and he also traveled through
the region. "I have an enormous personal affection for the peoples of South
Asia," he said, seemingly nonplussed by all those Internet rumors about his
religion and Indonesian childhood.

The crowd loved the pro-immigrant remarks that followed: "The only way
we're going to move forward is to look to the future, and to recognize that
you are the future," said Obama. "The future of America is built on the
strength of immigrant communities who are going to come here and invest and
learn and teach and create new businesses and new technologies and create
linkages with these enormous emerging markets all around the world."

"The source of America's strength is there's nobody who looks like a
typical American," he continued. "All of us, if we abide by our
Constitution and our ideals and our values, all of us can have a piece of
the American dream."

But he warned of turbulence ahead, as he battles over the next 79 days with
Sen. John McCain.

"It's going to be difficult," said Obama. "Change is always tough. And
electing me is change. It means that people are going to hesitate a little
bit. Ba-rack O-bama. They're still getting past that name. But it's a
testament to the American spirit that I'm even standing before you as the
Democratic nominee."

Next Obama moved to the main ballroom, where about 350 "VIPs" had paid
$28,500 per couple. He was introduced by Thomas M. Steyer, founder of
Farillon Capital Management and a former Hillary Rodham Clinton donor.
Reps. Barbara Lee and Anna Eshoo were present, along with Andrew Rice,
Democratic Senate candidate from Oklahoma. And Clinton backer Walter
Shorenstein was recognized.

Obama's remarks for the fat cats were more boilerplate, hitting the usual
economic, health care, education and foreign policy themes. He mainly
sought to reassure that he knew what was coming from the McCain camp - and
wouldn't respond meekly, like some of his Democratic predecessors.

"We know the change that has to come. And we also know that the American
people are desperate for change. They understand the disaster of these last
eight years. But we also know that change is always tough. Even when people
are having a tough time, sometimes the devil you know may be preferable to
the unknown. We're going to have to work really hard over the next 79
days," Obama said.

"Democrats because we've burned in the last few elections, get nervous and
skittish right around this time. They say, oh no, here the Republicans come
- they're so mean and they're going to be doing all these things. Obama is
a funny name and who knows what they're going to do," he said, to nervous
laughter around the room.

"So keep your stress to a minimum," he instructed them.

POOL REPORT 2
So in three hours, Obama raised a whopping $7.8 million.

At the third and final event of the blockbuster evening, Obama again vowed
to break the Democratic losing streak by answering Republican charges
aggressively and enlisting the American people in his cause.

"I will win. Don't worry about that," he said to the crowd of about 1,300.

The candidate was particularly fired up in this speech, confident and
assertive, having finally shaken off the vacation dust. He was warmly
received by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the hometown gal was neutral during
the primary, but wasn't shy about her Obama affection tonight, calling him
"a leader that God has blessed us with at this time."

Obama spoke at length about the difficulties that many Americans were
facing (beyond these four walls at least), hitting similar points from his
"bitter" speech, but without the guns and God landmines.

"Now, you want to win. And saying it doesn't make it so," he told the
crowd. "It would be nice to think that after eight years of economic
disaster, after eight years of bungled foreign policy, of being engaged in
a war that should never have been authorized and should never have been
waged, that cost us a trillion dollars and thousands of lives, that people
would say, let's toss the bums out. Toss the bums out, we're starting from
scratch, we're starting over. This is not working."

"So I understand why a lot of folks are saying, this should just happen.
Why are we having to run all these television commercials? Why do we have
to raise all this money? Just read the papers. These are the knuckleheads
who have been in charge. Throw 'em out. But American politics aren't that
simple."

"The fact of the matter is, at a certain point, when government has not
been serving the people for this long, people get cynical. They tune out.
And they start saying to themselves, a plague on both your houses. They are
willing to consume negative information more frequently than positive
information, for good reason. They've seen how promises haven't been kept."

Things could get ugly in the coming weeks, he warned.

"They've got a whole machinery that they're cranking out," Obama continued.
"They've got a book about me, that just kind of sprung full bore out of
this guy's head."

"John McCain, all he wants to do is talk about me. They know they can't win
on the issues. So what they'll do is they'll try to scare people. He's
risky. He's risky. We're not sure."

It's an old playbook, he continued, but Obama said, it's not going to work
this time. "Not only do you have a candidate who doesn't take any guff. Not
only do you have a candidate who will hit back swiftly and forcefully and
truthfully.But you've also got American people who are rising up all over
the country and saying, enough is enough."

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