It’s not a return to Camelot, it’s a return to clinton, who kept a constant stream of cocktail parties and entertainments going, sometimes to raise funds, and sometimes to ingratiate himself with people, especially the press.
There were parties for the press almost every day while clinton was in office, with stars and starlets circulating among the guests. Obama has been kind of clueless about keeping the press happy, but he’ll soon figure that out, too.
Of course, constant parties may not go over too big in a country mired in a great depression, but no doubt he’ll find ways to deal with that. FDR did it very well, living high off the hog while feigning sympathy for the downtrodden and oppressed.
Oh yes .. and all those ‘coffees’ where envelopes of cash mysteriously appeared from foreigners and criminals.