Yes! The Barbra Streisand Kiss of Death
She will sing for her savior. And we should cheer. Because it has done wonders for all the other political candidates she has supported. When Barbra croons for you, you can kiss your chances of winning goodbye.
Barbra Streisand will be among the headliners at a fund-raiser for Barack Obama on Sept. 16, where she will perform for the presidential candidate at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel.
The plans for the event were outlined this morning and Streisand confirmed that she would take the stage. The hotel ballroom holds an estimated 700 people.
Obama’s fund-raiser is expected to be his final visit to raise money here before the general election.
Obama will start the evening with a 5 p.m. dinner event for about 250 people at Greystone Mansion in Beverly Hills, the historic estate once owned by the legendary Doheny family. Tickets for the event are $28,500.
Later, he will attend a reception at the Beverly Wilshire, followed by Streisand’s special performance. Tickets for the event are $2,500 per person.
Co-hosts for event include the DreamWorks team of Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen, as well as political consultant Andy Spahn. It’s also being organized with Obama’s Southern California finance team.
Streisand endorsed Obama after he secured the nomination in June. She had endorsed Hillary Clinton in the primary, and appeared and spoke at a fund-raiser for her in January. She also sang at a concert for John Kerry in 2004 and Al Gore in 2000.
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Vinyl? Try a pistol at 10 yards. Any calibre will do, but the bigger the better.
Well, I was going to say Ebay it and send the money to the McCain/Palin campaign. But then I took a quick peek at Ebay, and so far as I can tell, no one’s bidding on vintage BS albums.
I always liked the line:
People Who Need People are Co-defendants
But that is just me.
Remember Spooky Vision?
Lucky you. McCain is coming here on Monday for a pancake breakfast, but I’m working. Sarah will not be here, but if she was coming, I might of had to cancel my job.
Talking of Hollywood. There is a new movie spoofing Michael Moore. It’s called “An American Carol”. Go see it and send a small message and have a good chuckle at the same time.
On September 9th, 2008 at 10:19 am, CJ said:
SKEET!!
Donate it to the Smithsonian Institution as proof of a missing link.
“Shut up and don’t sing!
It’s Killin em and
I Love it!!!
McCain/Palin 08′
Image: I wonder if they will have a dumbotron TV at the
“dinner“crapfest”Play it backwards and see if you can hear the voice of Satan.
lol Guit.
Fixed
$25,000 to hear Barbara? I’m feeling verklemt! Talk amongst yourselves…I’ll give you a topic: Rhode Island is neither a road nor an island; discuss.
LOL!
Thanks, Soap.
I think we should go easy on the “elitist” comments. If you take BHO’s Harvard Law degree and average it with Barbra’s 9th grade dropout status, you come out with a high school education.
Well, sort of.
The only response I can ever think of, when I see or hear or read about Striesand, is a comment from Andrew Dice Clay: ‘Babs? Shut up you babblin’ f#%@*in’ idiot’.
On September 9th, 2008 at 10:34 am, On-my-soap-box said:
Rev. Wright does the back-up vocals on that one, Soap
In BASEBALL, BABS would be an 0-fer. Way to go BABS. Keep up the good work…
In footbal terms she’d be a “Sack”
I am thinking “bomb”
I’m not into BS’ music but she has a beautiful voice. She’s been a joke for a long time now. Why don’t the Hollywood agents demand of their clients to stay away from political discourse? While I’m still dreaming….Ya think Ari Gold, Entourage would tell her to shut the _______ up?
Did you see those comments at the end of the LA article? Obviously there are more than four people voting for McCain out in Lala Land. Yeah, I know anyone from anywhere can post, but how many people subscribe to this rag across the country?
I suggest Flinchy and Mike retreat to the slimy RED rock from whence they crawled out.
How come The (inevitable) One has to throw a big-money, rubber chicken throwdown at this late date? Does that mean even George Soros recognizes a losing proposition when he sees one?
MagnumOpus, chickpeas are neither chicks nor peas. Discuss!
Like butta.
Why would anyone want to go look at this for an hour?
Why does it have an H in it? I mean, you never hear it. What’s it for?
Now if we could only get Obama and Biden on the cover of Sports Illustrated, we could double on the curse/jinx mojo!
I hope she sings and sings and sings some more Babs.Your the gift that gives like no other sorta like fruit cake.
Since we’re tossing SNL skit references around (for those who don’t know, Babs was a centerpiece of “Coffee Talk“), my favorite was Emily Litella talking about “Eagle Rights”.
I can just picture Hillary Clinton saying to Barack Obama
…and Barack says…
“Eagle Rights”…
Vero Possumus.
Why is the candidate of CHANGE pulling up the tired old supporters of former losers? The more he talks about CHANGE the more he stays the same. He’s in a tailspin and I’m enjoying the show.
Ms Streisand is an incredibly talented woman with an ethereal voice. Sadly, she also appears to have a brain the size of a walnut.
A good topic GOPGin. Here’s another for the non-verklemt:
The Holy Roman Empire wasn’t holy or Roman or an empire; discuss.
No big whoop.
I hope she will babble on about how they’re in touch with regular people and the Republicans are the party of the rich.
Well I am glad to see he is doing all he can to dispel that horrible rumor that he thinks he is a Rock Star and is completely out of touch with the common person.
It really does wonders to show people just how he is a regular Joe, a guy of the people.
With any luck, he can spark up a spliff backstage with some of the bands and they can all sit around and comment on how everyone should smoke pot and then the world will be a better place.
It would be just ike college, smoking with the “brothers”.
Hey, maybe Babs will pass out copies of her latest diatribe telling all of what an ignorant moron President Bush is…complete with spelling and grammar errors, just like her…well…I guess you can call it a blog.
Hmmm… With BS’ penchant for loose-fitting mumuus, she can be the Fat Lady singing!
What an appropriate end to the big O’s aspirations.
In dating terms, you would NEED a sack.
jencab:
Thanks for the link of McCain doing Streisand. I laughed so hard I almost spit out my coffee!
I can’t wait to show that to everyone!
We’re talking Democrats here. Don’t be too sure they won’t try once they run out of dead people, felons, and illegal aliens.
That topic is like buttah.
Let’s discuss how the Thighmaster is neither a thigh nor a master.
Give a call, we’ll talk, no big whoop. 555-4444.
And if you average her singing with Obama’s you get “Uuuuummmm, no, you are woman, I am man…”
Babs, Brittney, Madonna…millions of dollars in wealth and property…support Obama…a candidate who has promised to raise their taxes…why? Do they think he will extend to them tax exemptions?
Why do the rich members of the Democrat Party support an increase on taxes on themselves? If it is guilt that drives them, domestic charities would welcome their generous contributions. Why in the world would they want to be forced in to paying bureaucratic overhead (taxes?)
Babs was for Hillary before she was against her. Ahhh, familiarity.
OH-FER.
OH-FER 5?
Way to go Babs.
12-31-1999/ Y2K / 01-01-2000
I was in Vegas at the turn of the century( a crazy, amazing and wonderful time) …anyway I had the choice of Babs or another performer, Bette Midler.
I chose Bette because I knew she wouldn’t politicize the night, which Babs might do …and unbelievably Babs did, even tho people spent a fortune on entertainment tix.
Babs did NOT, could NOT sell out a 2500 person theater on the biggest night of the century, she is a has-been.
OH-FER 6!