Daily Obama: Barack does Manhattan.

btw: if there are any articles you'd like to see included in the Daily Obama, holler at a playa.

anyway...Obama is in Hilary's territory now...she betta watch out...

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117960894.html?categoryid=18&cs=1
Obama takes Manhattan
Presidential hopeful stumps in NYC

ObamaSen. Hillary Clinton may have a presumed edge toward bagging the lion's share of high-profile Democratic donors in New York, but Sen. Barack Obama raised about $1 million during a week of fund-raising in Gotham.

Obama, Clinton and other candidates have been working at a breakneck pace to raise money before the end of the quarter.

One of Obama's first stops in Gotham last week was a $2,300-per-person fund-raiser hosted by Island Def Jam chairman L.A. Reid and attended by singer Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds, Beyonce, Island Urban president Jermaine Dupri, Universal Music president Doug Morris and record executives Steve Bartels, Sylvia Rhone and Andre Harrell.

On Friday night, Obama held two fund-raisers at the Grand Hyatt Hotel, including one where he earned the endorsement of speechwriter Ted Sorenson, one of the last surviving top aides to John F. Kennedy. Among the 400 donors at the event were Jeh Johnson, a top Air Force official during the Clinton administration, as well as financier Orin Kramer.

At a much larger fete later in the evening, aimed at young professionals, some 1,500 people paid $100 each to hear Obama.

Like his speech before Hollywood donors last month, much of what Obama said was meant to carry an inspirational tone.

Stalking back and forth onstage in front of a massive American flag, Obama again preached the politics of unity, telling the SRO crowd, "We are in one of those moments where we can't afford timidity, and we can't afford smallness, and we can't afford division, and we can't afford nastiness. If we focus on what we have in common, what binds us together as a people, there's no challenge that we can't meet. And that is the spirit we are seeing in this campaign across the country."

Obama's wife, Michelle, introduced him, contrasting her husband's superstar status on the campaign trail vs. the guy at home who can't do laundry.

Watching her husband on TV, she joked, is like watching some other Barack Obama. "If I'm lucky, one day I might have a chance to meet him."

All candidates are required to file reports of their fund-raising activity by April 15, in what will be an indicator of their campaign's strength and viability.

But as in Hollywood, some donors have yet to declare their endorsement. Rapper Jay-Z attended an Obama event after having dined with Bill Clinton only nights earlier.

Hov!