After President Obama's address about Trayvon Martin today, Susan Davis reposted this piece on The Washington Wire..
It is from Nov. 7, 2008,The original is by Katherine Rosman on WSJ.
Before He Was President, Mistaken for a Waiter: a 2003 Obama Meeting
Katherine Rosman reports on her encounter with President-elect Barack Obama.
On a warm weekday evening in 2003, a group that can fairly be described as representative of the media elite gathered at one if its favored venues: the garden behind the Manhattan apartment of journalists Tina Brown and Harold Evans.
The occasion was the publication of “The Clinton Wars,” by Sidney Blumenthal, a former aide to President Bill Clinton. Editors from the New Yorker and the New York Times were in attendance along with media figures like Steven Brill and Rolling Stone co-founder Jann Wenner. The guests mingled and sipped wine. Even Clinton showed up, instantly becoming the epicenter of attention.
I had not been invited but attended the event as the “plus one” of political columnist Eric Alterman, who wrote about the party in The Guardian on Thursday. At the time, I was a freelance journalist not yet employed by The Wall Street Journal. Eager for an opportunity to find a good story or meet an editor who might give me work, I accepted Alterman’s invitation to join him at an event littered with literati.
.... So you've got the set up. HERE's the REST OF THE STORY.
Yes, Susan and Katherine, what a country.
BUT....
[Note: Edited and cut for copyright violation. Read the story in full at the link, not reproduced in full here. Susan Gardner]