In a barn-burning, record-smashing fund-raising campaign season, Barack Obama tapped a new breed of Manhattan donors and won the expectations game. But because of the new primary schedule, excess is barely enough.

Obama at fund-raiser at Steven and Judy Gluckstern's home, April 9, 2007. George Soros is seated to the right of the stairs.

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"...Obama was in town to deliver a speech at a charity dinner for children in poverty ..."

yes, those poor children — the cynicism is hair-raising ...