Gee, Barack Obama and huge gobs of money. That's something we hadn't thought about for two or three minutes.

Word just in that with still almost two weeks to go before the historic Jan. 20 inauguration, the private fundraising for the Obamas' mega-party has already passed $27 million, or better than a million bucks an hour for that day.

Nowhere near the $640 ga-million he raised for the recent campaign. But still not bad dough for an ex-community organizer in a few post-elect