$2,300 dinner with the $20 donor candidate

Good that the MSM is starting to look at the Obama campaign’s greedy fingers, even if liberal Democratic bloggers will complain about MSM bias:

Democratic fat cats also are meowing loudly of late. As Penny Pritzker — Obama’s campaign finance chairwoman — acknowledged recently, the main reason the campaign relied on small donors for so long is that it had not yet found the time to milk the big ones.

“We have not been able to have much of the senator’s time during the primaries so we had to rely more on the Internet,” she told The New York Times last week.

The Obama campaign is remedying that oversight. In Los Angeles 10 days ago, the campaign pulled in $5 million from a Hollywood fund-raiser.

And in Atlanta last night, Obama met first with 300 or so backers at a plush banquet hall near the Governor’s mansion, according to the Los Angeles Times reporter Louise Roug who was the press representative at the evening’s events (The Obama campaign, unlike many other campaigns, refuses to let all of the reporters traveling with the campaign attend its large and lucrative fund-raisers).

Obama spoke of economic struggle to folks who had paid $2,300 to walk in the door; some of them forked over another $10,000 for the pleasure of attending a VIP reception and standing on a photo line.

Ahh, the populist candidate.