As the nation’s most popular governor, Cuomo has the potential to be an especially productive surrogate for President Obama. He could appeal to white ethnics in swing states, or rally the social liberals who admire him for having been out ahead of his party (and his president) on same-sex marriage, or perhaps headline a few fund-raisers with the wealthy New York donors who have stocked his own campaign coffers and funded the super PAC-like group dedicated to running pro-Cuomo advertising.
Assuming he wants to do any of that.
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand predicted that Obama would eventually endorse same-sex marriage in an interview with the Advocate last year, saying “we could get a very strong public statement out of him.”
“Should the Supreme Court overturn this law, it would be so far out of the mainstream that the court would be the most activist in a century,” NY Sen. Chuck Schumer on “Meet the Press” yesterday.
“You have seen the picture. In it, Obama emerges from a sleek, black Town Car wearing dark sunglassses, a suit and a red tie. That is all, and yet, in this picture, Obama is indisputably cool. He is so, so cool I cannot turn away from the image. I want almost to eat the image, to ingest the cool, but what I really want to know is what makes him so cool in this picture. I want to know if that ineffable quality can be decoded, understood as the sum of its parts.” - Rebecca Walker on editing her new book, Black Cool: One Thousand Streams of Blackness.
Obama sings! He sings Al Green!
Yes! But he did more than just sing Al Green last night at the Apollo. Obama made Republicans a laugh line, promised to continue to “wake up every single day to fight for you.” And also, at times, “felt like the president was a star performer denying the crowd his hit songs.” Read Reid Pillifant’s report on what happened at the Apollo last night at Capital New York.
Obama goes to the Apollo, and Harlem will hear about the G.O.P. debate in North Charleston, too by Reid Pillifant
Spike Lee will host Barack Obama at a Jan. 19 fund-raiser in Manhattan.
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