Should Obama have had McCartney — and the host of other stars who also showed up to perform McCartneys songs — play a benefit concert for the Gulf oil disaster?
You could certainly argue that. Though that would also take the pressure off of BP, which is actually responsible for the mess. In the event, Obama honored McCartney at the White House, before an audience of 200 (many of whom were members of the McCartney family) in the East Room. The evening will be broadcast on PBS on July 28th. Former California state Controller Steve Westly was one of a few Californians on hand and described the evening. Westly, a clean tech venture capitalist and former top eBay executive who ran a near-miss campaign for the 2006 Democratic gubernatorial nomination, was Obama’s first California co-chair and a national finance co-chair. He’s also a co-chair of Jerry Brown’s gubernatorial campaign to replace term-limited Arnold Schwarzenegger. (So much for Westly’s old eBay colleague, Meg Whitman.) Westly, who might politely be described as a dyed-in-the-wool Beatlemaniac, complete with The Beatles: Rock Band game, says that the usual stuffiness one might associate
