Posted on 10/25/2007 5:27:29 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
Fundraiser At Beacon Theater To Feature Billy Crystal, Elvis Costello
NEW YORK (CBS/AP) ―
What's a presidential candidate to do on the eve of an important birthday? Hold a big fundraiser, of course.
Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton planned to celebrate her 60th birthday at a star-studded gala Thursday night at New York's historic Beacon Theater. Her husband, former President Bill Clinton, was to host the celebration, with comedian Billy Crystal serving as master of ceremonies. Musical guests Elvis Costello and the Wallflowers were set to round out the program.
The party was expected to rake in over $1 million for the New York senator's presidential bid. Her birthday is Friday, Oct. 26.
It's the second major birthday fundraiser for Clinton's campaign this week. Movie director Rob Reiner threw a party for her at his Los Angeles home Sunday night, with several Hollywood celebrities on hand.
The campaign has also used her birthday as an organizing tool, posting a video message on her campaign Web site from former President Clinton urging supporters to send birthday greetings.
It's a milestone birthday for the former first lady, who made her debut on the national stage in her husband's 1992 presidential race. Then, the Clintons were portrayed as a youthful power couple who would bring new energy and a generational shift to the White House -- a message Democrat Barack Obama has tried to capture this time.
Clinton has joked publicly about her age in several recent campaign appearances.
"I have been reminded by some of my friends that when you get to be my age having so many men pay attention to you is kind of flattering," Clinton said in Iowa this week, referring to her political rivals.
do the Clinton’s have a private life? seems to me this is the sort of birthday you want to spend with your family and close friends - not oodles of donors. what a pathetic, empty way to live.
Photograph Her Thighness below the waist and you will be taken down, good and hard.
Another Peter Paul type of rip off?
Are they going to serve Chinese Food?
Maybe she will receive a new broom to fly around on.
please don’t post the piaps in the dress showing those cankles.....it is not good for the digestion!!!
Did she start the fires?
Oh Hillary, tell us again how you were named for the famous Sir Edmund.
( Six years prior to his epoch climb of Mt. Everest)
Congressman Billybob
Latest article, "Hillary is a Criminal: Here's Proof"
My announcement of running for Congress in 2008 appears here.
I grave Hirrary $2.4 mirrion dorrars. What so weird about dat? Yea, I make $2.50 an ourer. So what?
"We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good."
"We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society.”
"It's time for a new beginning, for an end to government of the few, by the few, for the few, and to replace it with shared responsibility for shared prosperity."
"We can't just let business as usual go on, and that means something has to be taken away from some people.""
"We have to build a political consensus and that requires people to give up a little bit of their own turf in order to create this common ground."
"I certainly think the free market has failed."
"I think it's time to send a clear message to what has become the most profitable sector [oil] in the entire economy, that they are being watched."
"What I want to do is take those profits and apply them to alternative energy."
"I have a million ideas. The country can't afford them all."
Karl Marx or Frederick Engels said none of these things; Hillary Clinton said them all.
See here for more gems from Hillary:
http://www.nohillaryclinton.com/info/movies/quotes/index.htm
I’ll quote online readers...
“She can spend $1 million on a friggin birthday party… but wants Americans to throw $1 million towards a hippie museum??
I guess that’s the Clinton way.”
“What a cheap excuse to fundraise. It’s pretty pathetic when you have to make your birthday the reason people give you money!”
Are those REALLY HER LEGS.....or is this a photo shopped picture.....really, I want to know.
another party while california burns.
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