Brooklyn Paper:
Organizers of the big-ticket house party - believed to be Obama's first in Brooklyn - tried to keep the event hush-hush. But it was clear that something unusual was afoot at Nina Collins's Columbia Heights mansion.
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By 7 pm, Town Cars began pulling up to the three-story brownstone, spilling out expensive-looking men and women - a surprisingly high number of them alone and enamored of Obama.
"He's my TV boyfriend," said a Brooklyn Heights resident, who gave only the name Daphne.
"You know that movie, `Jerry McGuire,' when Renee Zellweger's character says, `You had me at hello?'" asked Daphne. "Well, he had me at the 2004 convention. … I think he is the best chance this country has had to pull itself out of this hell it has fallen into. This is the first time in my adult life I thought there was a chance to be proud of being American again."
There were also some entertainment moguls, like Deborah Pointer, the co-founder of HBO's Def Poetry Jam, who joined about 50 paying customers at the fundraiser.
"I like his honesty and his vision for change," she said.
