Dine With President Obama: Last Call To Enter 'Dinner with Barack IV' Contest

And new videos from the "Dinner with Barack and Michelle" fundraiser...
Citizens hoping to dine with President Obama at the fourth culinary fundraiser offered by Obama for America, "Dinner with Barack IV," have until midnight Saturday to enter, when this financial quarter for donations closes. There's a countdown clock on the OFA website for the event, and for this contest things were done a little differently: The four winners have been selected on a rolling basis, to inspire those who didn't win the first time to be repeat entrants, and drop more cash in the President's war chest. There's now one seat left at the Presidential table. (Above: The OFA graphic features the President at the most recent fundraising dinner)



OFA has released two new videos filmed during the third dinner contest, "Dinner with Barack and Michelle," when President Obama and First Lady Obama dined with six supporters at DC's Boundary Road restaurant on March 8, 2012.

"I'm going to order steak," the President says as the video begins, and indeed he did.

Both the President and Mrs. Obama ordered the Grilled Hanger Steak as their entrees, made with chestnut puree, and served over spicy kale, with a "sauce charon," similar to a Bernaise ($22). The President started with Quark and Black Pepper Pierogi ($10), which is more like a savory ravioli than a Pierogi, while Mrs. Obama started with the Rapini Salad, chilled rappini with pickled shallots, avocado oil, and Firefly Farms Mountain Top Bleu ($6).

The President and Mrs. Obama's guests were three winners, each of whom were allowed to bring a guest. Winner ReGina Newkirk, a nonprofit executive from Nashville, TN, brought her father, Robert Newkirk Sr., a professor at Tennessee State University; Winner Cathleen Loringer, a former social worker from Wauwatosa, WI, brought her husband, John Loringer, a Wauwatosa attorney; and winner Judy Glassman, a retired school administrator from Cambridge, MA, brought her husband Mitch Glassman, a Cambridge artist.

In Video 2, the Loringers talk about themselves:



The other dinner contests...
The President ate dinner with the four winners of the first "Dinner with Barack" contest in October of 2011, at The Liberty Tavern in Arlington, VA. The second dinner contest was fulfilled with a luncheon; the President took his four winners to DC's Scion restaurant on January 6, 2012. For a behind-the-scenes account, read French Fries With The Leader Of The Free World.

OFA raised $68 million in the fourth quarter of fundraising in 2011, when the Dinner with Barack and Michelle contest was being run. OFA claims that 98% of supporters in 2011 donated $250 or less, but did not release figures on how many people donated multiple times, theoretically exceeding what is identified as a "small donor" figure.