| As with many of Senator Barak Obama's nationwide | | | | canceled while another one is urging fans to email the |
| events, those occurring in the New York area are | | | | candidate concerning his stance on FISA (Foreign |
| highly focused on raising money for the future | | | | Intelligence Surveillance Act). These events are |
| Democratic nominee to the presidency of the United | | | | interspersed with events that promote voter |
| States. Some of the New York events are online yard | | | | registration. For example, there are events in the East |
| sales (a bit of an oxymoron), concerts, drinking parties | | | | Village, Chelsea and on Christopher Street. But most |
| and much else. Of the many events, some caught my | | | | New York events are pushing to make money for the |
| attention as being self promotion instead of helpful to | | | | president in a variety of creative ways. |
| the candidate himself. | | | | An online yard sale, a ukulele concert, and a dj show in |
| One bar invites patrons to come to drink in the name | | | | Queens are just some of the New York Events |
| of Obama. This bar has posted the event, it appears | | | | planned in the coming weeks to financially support the |
| simply to bring in customers for an event that is not | | | | candidate. Obama's greatest tool is his young fan |
| really one. It is not clear where the money from the | | | | based combined with the means he has put in place to |
| drinking will go that night. It has little to do with anything | | | | create such events: his website and social media |
| that would help Obama become president. Some New | | | | groups. They have supplied his campaign with constant |
| York events also single out certain issues. | | | | feedback on the attitude of his supporters and a |
| One "event" calls for New Yorker subscriptions to be | | | | means by which to unite. |