A potential President from Chicago? Where else would you hold the rally?

Chilly November temps? have you checked the Weather Channel (or walked out your downtown front door) lately?

Cost concerns? Are you suggesting one of America’s Presidential contenders not hold a rally? That’s just silly, and I think everyone deserves a party after the past eight years of Bushdom.

You’ve also obviously never been to Times Square on New Year’s Eve. Speaking as a native New Yorker, let me fill you in on that particular Gotham experience: arriving 12 hours early; nowhere to sit; nowhere to eat (storefronts boarded up); nowhere to pee (if you can’t aim into a bottle, once you leave your holding pen to empty your bladder you’re not allowed back in); and 15 degrees Fahrenheit.

I’m also absolutely certain you received a “thank you” for all the wonderful work you did on the Obama campaign, considering the number of warm and fuzzy emails I’ve received for simply downloading the campaign’s iPhone app.

If you have a point here, I can’t find it. My take on your comment however is this:

Your favored candidate, for whom you did alot of politicking, is having a party which you had an opportunity to attend through a friend with a ticket but turned down because you were irked that after all your work you didn’t get thanked by being sent a rally ticket, and now you’re pissy.

Considering the 70,000 of us equally Obama-supporting ticketholders who listened to the news, followed directions, and registered in a timely fashion on the campaign website in order to get those tickets, that’s quite a sense of entitlement you’ve got there.

My friend Paul received a “golden ticket,” though unlike Charlie, he didn’t have to eat a chocolate bar. Nor did he give Obama’s campaign $300 like I did back in January when I had a job and could easily afford it. Nor did he sign-up on barackobama.com, blog a few entries on their website, join a couple of special interest groups (including Jews for Obama…oy!), make a few phone calls, risk violating his apartment lease by putting Obama signs in his windows, travel to Indianapolis and volunteer in Indiana campaign headquarters for six hours before their Primary Election, leave dozens of Spanish language campaign brochures in his Indianapolis hotel room for the housekeeping staff to read, nor did he buy $50 worth of Obama stuff from the campaign website. Sadly, I received no golden ticket. Democracy is a wonderful thing. Receiving some kind of a simple “thank you” is too.

So everyone enjoy the rally. Paul decided that inviting me, his “ticketless” best friend over to enjoy a scrumptious buffet of food in warm comfort and watch the returns in a Lakeview highrise will be the best party in town.