Donations, Nominations, Complications and Frustrations

Tomorrow night Barack Obama is speaking in San Francisco at 6:30 at the Bill Graham Civic Center. It may be my only opportunity to see him this election cycle, so I decided to take advantage of it and buy a ticket to the event. Yes, the ticket is the equivalent of a $15 donation to a Obama, and yes, I am now officially a donor of the Democratic party. However, I quickly counteracted the donation with a larger donation of $25 (out of pocket) to Republican front-runner Rudy Giuliani.

Perhaps I will post later in more depth about my reasons for supporting Giuliani. I will admit that one of the largest factors is the unofficial sponsorship of George Will, who said, "His 8 years as mayor of New York City were the most successful episode of Conservative governance in this country in the last 50 years." Giuliani's official website displays the quote prominently on its donation page. This has to be one of the best individual campaigning devices I have ever seen. Any conservative with a familiarity and respect for columnist George Will will automatically be more inclined to support Giuliani after reading the quote. It certainly worked on me.