Movie tickets: $12.50. Train ticket from DC to NYC: $220. Seeing yourself on the big screen: priceless.
Several Obama aides traveled to New York City for the weekend to watch themselves play themselves in the documentary “By The People: The Election of Barack Obama.”
Although it is set to premiere on HBO this November, speechwriter Jon Favreau and assistant White House press secretary Tommy Vietor were a couple of the aides to make a trip up to the Big Apple – which, along with Los Angeles, is showing the film for a one-week preview- to see how they looked 10 feet tall. Filmmakers Amy Rice and Alicia Sams’ feature the young staffers while working on President Obama’s campaign.
Also spotted around New York: James Carville and Mary Matalin en route home from Athens, Greece at the Newark Airport Sunday.
