ShowBiz Minute: Obama, Lohan, Cavallari
Obama hangs with Steven Spielberg and Bruce Springsteen at benefit; Lindsay Lohan attends fundraiser in London; Kristin Cavallari and Jay Cutler welcome 2nd son. (May 8)
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BBC Silent - Obama wilfully ignoring own intels regarding Russia and Ukraine
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"What #39;s Wrong With Black People"! Defending Obama Is Pathetic
"What #39;s Wrong With Black People"! Defending Obama Is Pathetic, Stop Going To The Racist Baiting University, Al Sharpton Is A Clown, Jesse Jackson Is A Pimp, NAACP Is Racist, Stop Being Stupid...
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LOS ANGELES (AP) They come from different worlds the buttoned-down political culture of Washington and the entrepreneurial, socks-optional, let's-do-this-faster ethos of Silicon Valley.
But where those worlds overlap, that's where you find President Barack Obama and a wealthy segment of his Democratic donor base.
Obama was to attend two high-dollar Democratic Party fundraisers Thursday hosted by Silicon Valley executives, drawing attention to the complicated relationship between the president and the high-tech industry.
The revelations of National Security Agency data collection made public by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden have created an outcry from tech companies whose data have been gathered by the government. Obama has had to reassure Internet and tech executives that he is committed to protecting privacy.
Still, Obama remains a popular political figure in Silicon Valley, and the wealthy tech entrepreneurs appear willing to part with their money to support the party, especially if the president is making the pitch.
Obama was to attend a fundraiser hosted by Anne Wojcicki, a biotech entrepreneur who founded the personal-genomics startup 23andMe. The event is advertised as a tech round table, with 30 guests and tickets set at $32,400 a nearly $1 million potential haul for the Democratic National Committee.
He also was scheduled to be the featured guest at an event hosted by Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer and Sam Altman, the 29-year-old president of Y Combinator, a venture capital firm that seeds tech startups.
"One of the dynamics that people on the East Coast and particularly in Washington, D.C., may not fully appreciate is that these folks are in a space that is growing," said California-based Democratic consultant Chris Lehane, a former aide to President Bill Clinton. "That adds an entire pool of fresh donor blood into the mix."
Obama was spending two nights in California. On Wednesday he was the star attraction at a fundraiser for House and Senate Democrats at the Los Angeles home of Disney Studios Chairman Alan Horn. On Thursday he attended a Democratic National Committee fundraiser in Los Angeles that was closed to the media and was headed to another DNC event at the La Jolla home of billionaire and former Qualcomm Chairman Irwin Jacobs.
The role of the computer and Internet industry in politics has grown sharply over the past 10 years, increasing political contributions and expanding its lobbying presence. Executives and employees in the industry favor Democrats, yet the political action committees set up by individual tech firms tend to split their money more evenly.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) Saluting a Holocaust history foundation founded by Steven Spielberg, President Barack Obama said Wednesday that the purpose of memory is not simply to preserve the past but to protect the future.
Before a crowd of about 1,300, Obama offered a staunch defense of Israel.
"It's up to us to speak out against rhetoric that threatens the existence of a Jewish homeland and to sustain America's unshakable commitment to Israel's security," Obama said.
He spoke at 20th anniversary of Spielberg's USC Shoah Foundation, dedicated to gathering video testimony from survivors and other Holocaust witnesses. Obama received the foundation's Ambassador for Humanity Award at a gala event that featured a performance by Bruce Springsteen.
Obama said the devastation in Syria, murders and kidnappings in Nigeria, and tribal conflicts elsewhere in the world underscore that decades after the Holocaust, "we have not yet extinguished man's darkest impulses."
Springsteen performed two of his classics, "Promised Land" and "Dancing in the Dark," while Obama listened from a table he shared with Spielberg, host Conan O'Brien, Barbra Streisand and Liam Neeson, who played Oskar Schindler in Spielberg's Academy Award-winning "Schindler's List."
Obama's visit to Los Angeles was rewarded with a full Hollywood embrace. Earlier he attended a fundraiser hosted by Disney Studios Chairman Alan Horn. Guests at that event included Streisand and her husband, actor James Brolin, and studio executive Jeffrey Katzenberg.
Obama is on a three-day visit to California, most of it devoted to fundraising for the Democratic Party.
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