Based on conservative reactions, I'm bummed to have missed that Obama fundraiser. As luck would have it, I myself attended Columbia University in 1981. My parents never knew that I spent most of that year hanging out in a now-defunct basement annex arguing the finer points of Marxism with a young Barack Obama. We would spend hours arguing about whether Ira Magaziner applied the insights of Leon Trotsky to health reform.
Friends would stop by. Sinbad would torment us with trivia questions from Marx's Critique of the Gotha Program. Relations between Barack and Hillary were cordial. Yet even then, we could see the strain. Between spiels about Kibbutz crop yields, Hillary regaled us with stories about storming the ramparts in Catalonia with Orwell and attending bullfights with Hemingway in Madrid. One day, James Carville stopped by. Emitting a gaseous belly laugh, he said, "Hill -- that Lincoln Brigade tale is the biggest bunch of horsecrap since the cleanup after the Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte." Barack flashed Carville a light-hearted smile. Hillary glared at both of them. "I'm not bitter," she told me. "Anyway, he says I'm crazy."
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