Hooray For Hollywood!

   Updating yesterday's post, "Aboard McCain's Sinking Ship...":

    From the AP:

    Barack Obama partied with Hollywood celebrities Tuesday night and with the help of Oscar-winning singer and actress Barbra Streisand raised an eye-popping $9 million for his presidential campaign and the Democratic Party.

    The night was split into two glitzy events, a reception and dinner costing $28,500 each at the Greystone Mansion, followed by entertainment by Streisand at the nearby Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel. About 250-300 people were expected at the dinner and about 800 at the entertainment, which cost $2,500 a ticket.

    Dinner guests seen by reporters, or noted by waiters, included Will Ferrell, Jodie Foster, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jamie Lee Curtis and DreamWorks founders Steven Spielberg, David Geffen and Jeffrey Katzenberg. 

    The AP account also noted that McCain groused about Obama mixing it up with celebrities. He told a rally in Vienna, Ohio on Tuesday that Obama "talks about siding with the people, siding with the people just before he flies off to Hollywood for a fundraiser with Barbra Streisand and his celebrity friends. Let me tell you my friends, there's no place I'd rather be than here with the working men and women of Ohio."

     A night earlier, McCain was with deep-pocketed donors in Florida and raised $5 million, a fact noted by Obama's campaign.

     "DoubleTalk" must also forget that he attended a fundraiser at the Beverly Hills Hilton on August 25, with Hollywood Republicans--or, as I call them, the "Z-List"--raising $4.7 million over two days.

     The suddenly anti-celebrity pseudo-maverick was also on the "Tonight Show" during that West Coast swing.

     Yet he attacks Barack Obama for the Illinois senator's fame.

     “I just came from taping the Jay Leno show so those of you that are up late tonight and don’t wish to watch any re-runs of the Democratic convention,” McCain told the nearly 1,200 donors in the hotel ballroom. “So naturally we had to have a few age jokes and I told him that my Social Security number is 8. I am that old.”

     It's not that you are old, Senator, it's that your ideas are.

     But, hey! What about his Z-List supporters?:

     Stephen Baldwin, Pat Boone, Wilford Brimley, Dean Cain, Jon Cryer, Robert Duvall, Angie Harmon, Patricia Heaton, Lorenzo Lamas, Craig T. Nelson, Gail O’Grady, Jason Sehorn, Gary Sinise, and Jon Voight.

     Other than (maybe) Duvall, even fanny-packed tourists from Omaha would yawn at that collection of somnambulist Summer Stockers in search of new agents.  

  But then again, I'm just a Blue State coastal elitist...