Obama "Do not rely too much on innocence"
If there is one place in the United States that evokes the image of white, rich and traditional, it is
Martha's Vineyard
.
The island located in
Cape Cod
is the definition of "old money", or, as they say in English, "old money".
For having, it even has a town for whites,
Edgartown
, and another for blacks,
Oak Bluffs
.
Edgartown is where Barack Obama has his summer home. He bought it two years ago, for $ 11.75 million (€ 10 million). It has two floors, with seven bedrooms, eight bathrooms, and a toilet, and its plant is 640 square meters. That's where Obama held his party to celebrate his 60th birthday on Saturday. A party that has been the
subject of various criticism
because, in times of coronavirus, it is not the best to transmit a signal about the importance of social distance, at a time when the United States is experiencing a bitter debate about economic inequality - the Biggest in a hundred years - it was a waste, and with the
Democratic Party
, to which the former president belongs, raising all the alarms about climate change, the celebration was a private jet bacchanalia.
Paradoxically, the one who went by ferry was one of the richest of all: Obama's special envoy against climate change and former secretary of state,
John Kerry
, who is from
Boston
and has a collection of mansions in the area (Kerry, a Even though his wife has more than a billion dollars thanks to
Heinz ketchup
, he rides around Washington in the taxi companies
Uber and Lyft
, which shows that sometimes those who have the most are not the ones who show off the most.)
And it is that Martha's Vineyard (literally, "Marta's vineyard") is reached mainly by ferry, since there are very few flights. And no one is going to think that
Béyoncé, Jay-Z, Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks, George Clooney, Alicia Keys, John Legend or Chrissy Teigen are
going to go to Martah's Vineyard on a commercial flight, sitting on one of the humble benches of the ferry, or in the planes that connect the island with Boston and that move like a cocktail shaker (I say this from my own experience). They all gathered in a huge tent on the Obama farm, which has an area of almost 12 hectares, that is, about 20 soccer fields. There they were, among others, former basketball player
Dwyane Wade
, actors
Don Cheade and Gabrielle Union
, television star
Stephen Cobert
, and even reality TV star and singer
Kim Fields
. Obama, we are told, is an intellectual, cold, and methodical politician, but the people he invited to his birthday have not become famous for his treatises on epistemology. No one seems to have remembered the tremendous number of undocumented Brazilian immigrants who live on Martha'S Vineyard, and whom you meet as soon as you leave Edgartown. The island where Tashtego was born, one of the three harpooners of the 'Pequod',
Moby Dick's
ship
, witnessed on Saturday another party of the rich and famous. The "yes we can" and the "change we can believe in" with which Obama came to the White House had been engulfed by the glitter of Hollwood and television.
The dimensions of the celebration had been reduced after the Republican opposition launched their artillery against the show, held just as the politicization of the fight against Covid-19 reaches new levels, with several Republican governors - such as that of Texas,
Greg Abbot
, and Florida's
Ron DeSantis
, the latter a clear contender for the presidency in 2024 - rejecting the imposition of masks even though their states are experiencing an explosion of cases, and with more and more companies requiring their employees to be vaccinated. if they do not want to lose their job (with the aggravating circumstance that, if you are fired for not getting vaccinated, you lose the right to collect unemployment benefits).
This is how the Obamas cut the guest list. If at first they were going to go 475, it seems that the final figure was closer to 300. Outside were their electoral strategist,
David Axelrod
and the comedian
Larry David
(screenwriter of 'Seinfeld' and, later, star of his own show, 'Curb your enthusiasm', on HBO). Others had already politely declined the invitation for fear of catching it, such as
Oprah Winfrey
and film director
Ava DuVernay
, for fear of the Delta variant of Covid-19, according to the 'New York Times'.
Attendees received a treatment typical of the celebration. The organization had created protective masks, with a symbol in gold letters,
44x60 (Obama is the 44th president of the United States, and he is turning 60)
. The alcohol ran, apparently generously. And at the end of the party, at dawn, the press, which was not invited, heard the policemen of Martha's Vineyard speak on the radio commenting that the traffic jam that was mounting was "a carajal" (in fact, the term used was "shitshow", that is to say "show-of-shit", so it is up to the reader to find the right Spanish word). Much of that information we have thanks to two disc jockeys,
TJ Chapman and Trap Beckham
, who posted photos on Instagram in violation of the event's rules. Before Chapman and Beckham - who, apparently, were loaded with hashish joints - were forced by the Obama team to remove the photos, the British tabloid 'Daily Mail' had already distributed them on the internet all over planet Earth.
Obama, dressed in a white shirt with gray motifs, white pants and white shoes - the classic uniform of the American who goes to a good resort. Nothing 'waspie', that is, the posh-white-of-family-good that is the most characteristic species of Martha's Vineyard with the exception of white sharks, seals and humpback whales - was unleashed dancing in the verbena, which It lasted until the early hours of the morning, according to a short video posted by singer
Erikah Baidu
, who was also invited. Curious thing, in those images neither the president nor any of his companions - all women - wears a mask. At the party
Alicia Keys and John Legend
They dedicated versions of 'Happy Birthday' to him, presumably with less sensuality than
Marilyn Monroe's
famous portrayal of
John F. Kennedy in 1962.
It is not known if there was any Kennedy, despite the fact that Obama owes part of his presidency to that family - to whom he owes it to Kerry - and that the 'tribe' is well established in the region. In neighboring
Cape Cod
(literally, "Cape Cod", because English names lose a lot when translated), the clan has their family mansion, and, precisely so that they do not spoil their view from it, they have tried to block by all means a wind energy generation park project in which the Spanish company Iberdrola participates. And, a half-hour walk from Edgartown, is the Chappaquidick Bridge, where
Ted Kennedy's
presidential race ended in 1969
when his flirtation that night
Mary Jo Kopechne
, drowned in the senator's car while he was on the run.
The glamor of the Kennedys came to an end on that tragic night of drinks on the way to a romp on the beach.
The one with the Obamas was over before this party.
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