Birthday bashes for Obama’s big 5-0

Good thing that debt-ceiling tussling is over. Now begins President Obama's 50th-birthday week, with lots of fundraising fun and plenty of recruiting for the 2012 reelection campaign.

There is the gala fundraiser Wednesday night in Chicago at the Aragon Ballroom featuring stars from that city — maybe Jennifer Hudson , Herbie Hancock and others. There's also a dinner fundraiser planned for some high rollers for only $35,800 a person. (Must be serving some really good grub.)

And the reelect campaign is working to have volunteers nationwide host 50-person house parties that night to recruit supporters and listen to Obama in a live-streamed "special conversation" with attendees. Who knows? Maybe he'll give a little explanation as to why the market plunged after the great debt-ceiling compromise was reached.

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Lori Montgomery 03 Aug, 2011


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