so anything involving those is new.  Up until this year, everyone sat at tables for dinner.

It has been very common in the past for state/local candidates to buy tables, and for supporters of a given presidential candidate to sit together. I don't remember a national campaign itself buying blocks of seats, though.

si si pueda!

obama

susan eisenhower endorses him

See here for the endorsement:

It is in this great tradition of crossover voters that I support Barack Obama's candidacy for president. If the Democratic Party chooses Obama as its candidate, this lifelong Republican will work to get him elected and encourage him to seek strategic solutions to meet America's greatest challenges. To be successful, our president will need bipartisan help.

Given Obama's support among young people, I believe that he will be most invested in defending the interests of these rising generations and, therefore, the long-term interests of this nation as a whole. Without his leadership, our children and grandchildren are at risk of growing older in a marginalized country that is left to its anger and divisions. Such an outcome would be an unacceptable legacy for any great nation.

So, let's see, that makes the daughter and brother of JFK, plus the granddaughter of "I Like Ike."  Have any Roosevelts or Trumans endorsed Obama yet? :)

But does a grandchild's endorsement really mean anything?  I mean come on, what's next?  "Hey, I heard LBJ's second cousin's godson's brother-in-law just endorsed Lou Dobbs!"  Also, ExMo caught this too - pretty funny.  

Anybody doing this for Obama?? As a former CheerDad I'd be Fired Up and Ready to Cheer!!  .... Help me out if you can!!??!!

on Sat., Feb. 8th.  JJ is on Sat., Feb. 9th.  

on the day BEFORE day one.

35$ seats. Any restaurants in richmond close to the facility?

Im sure more Obama supporters will be there than Clinton sup.

We will just have to see.

But, doesn't "Rent-a-JJ-Cheering Section" imply that the Clinton supporters are being paid for their attendance? The story doesn't seem to bear that out. They're getting free tickets, but they're not getting paid.

I just point this out in support of the National Truth in Headlines Act. I do agree that the project is "kind of lame".

One person just buys a table, and then each additional person pays the first person for the tickets.  Actually, come to think of it I may have sat down next to you very briefly in 2006 at a table put together by either Draft Jim Webb or Jim Webb for Senate (I may be misremembering because I swung by a lot of different tables, but I do remember Lee was there, as well as Susan Mariner).

So anyway, unless they're totally changing the mechanics of who is buying what, sitting supporters together is neither lame nor unheard of.  The alternative is sticking on Hillary supporter at a table full of Obama supporters, or one Obama supporter at a table full of Hillary supporters, at which point you get to sit and eat your rubbery chicken while seven other people tell you why you're wrong.

And trust me, THAT is lame.

Do your homework and get it right.  Obama's campaign started buying up JJ tickets first, prompting the Clinton camp to do the same.

Just read NLS.  He notes that Obama's campaign started the rent-a-JJ-cheering section program.

and noted that I think it's kinda ridiculous no matter who does it.  Is this how we choose the next president of the United States?  Alrighty, then...

It seems that you only railed against the practice of purchasing tickets for supporters at JJ when you thought the only campaign doing it was HRC. If you really think this pratice is so bad why haven't you rewritten your post to rail against both campaigns?? hell you don't even have the word Obama in your update but you still have an excerpt from an HRC email. It seems that that your shock and outrage has gone away knowing that BHO is doing it too. BTW at the Iowa JJ, BHO's campaign bused in hundreds upon hundreds of supporters from Chicago to attend. I spoke with a friend who was on Dodds campaign, who told me by the time that Obama came on to the stage, 1/3 of the whole crowd had already left. But BHO had the deck stacked, so it didn't matter.

This brings me to a larger point.
Lowell- You've endorsed Obama, and I think it's great that you are supporting his candidacy. But you also serve as editor and reporter of this blog. It's easy for one to see that the posts on this site are all pro-obama. Where was the post on obama's Harry and Louise ad?  What ever happened to the idea of separating your editorial views from your reporting? I know this is part of a ever changing debate on blogs; are you part of the media?? or are you just just an extension of the campaign??  

I imagine you will reply back to this saying you can support whomever you choose and have the right to post whatever you want on your blog. I don't disagree with you. But when you use that argument your claim to being a part of the press goes right out the window.  

I'm just a citizen of this country, writing what inspires me, interests me, engages me, or enrages me.  That's why I started a blog.  If you have something to say, you can post comments or diaries on RK, on other blogs, in letters to the editor, or on your own blog (do you have one?  if not, why not?).  

Come on, Lowell. Either blogs are a part of the press or their aren't. If you are claiming that you're not, then why do you request press passes?

that way. In my opinion, blogs are a hybrid, neither fish nor fowl so to speak.  I think everyone's still trying to figure out how to treat blogs -- activists, supporters, reporters, all of the above? (my view:  all of the above, but definitely different than corporate media)

And then show up with Obama T-Shirts? One can always claim that we change our mind in the last minute. :)

I should have made that clear :)