Who would have thought that pool reports of lavish fund raising dinners for presidential campaigns (which I imagine are themselves tedious in the extreme) could be so entertaining?

There are oaks and Chestnut trees and then there’s the house, with four
Ionic columns and a slate roof and 17 windows across the front and the
Rockefellers apparently suffer no critical shortage of guest bedrooms.
It is a useful reminder that before the Gates and Bloomberg and Warren
B., there was old man John D. Rockefeller, who bequeathed successive
generations of descendants a truly astonishing boodle of money.

But I digress. The fundraiser was standard issue, if it’s Tuesday night
aren’t we dropping $28,500 per to dine with Barack? Your faithful
scribes sat outside in an air-conditioned van whilst drinks were
sipped. Then a staffer led us to an ante-room, where we noticed “The
Reclining Bather” by Pablo Picasso. Just a thought, but I’d place a
mid-two figures wager it was not a print.

Read more of last night’s pool report from the Obama fundraiser at the Rockerfeller’s and enjoy.

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