NEW YORK, May 12 (Reuters) - At George Clooney's
celebrity-studded fundraiser for President Barack Obama's
re-election campaign, the joke of the night was that the Secret
Service was backed up by Batman, Spider-Man and the Iron Man -
or at least the actors who played them.
Karen Blutcher, who won a lottery to attend the fundraiser
after contributing $14, described the dinner on Thursday night
as the opportunity of a lifetime.
She also confessed to being star-struck by the presence of
Hollywood royalty including Tobey Maguire, who played
Spider-Man, and Iron Man's Robert Downey Jr. Clooney played
Batman in the 1997 film "Batman and Robin."
"I think amazing probably isn't a strong enough word, but it
was an amazing opportunity to meet George Clooney and Barack
Obama on the same night," said Blutcher, 45, who lives in St.
Augustine, Florida, and works for a public utility company.
Blutcher, who wore a gold strapless dress for the occasion,
described Clooney's California mansion as "warm and cozy" and
said the actor bantered with the president about basketball. It
was Clooney who made the superheroes joke, as he and Obama
gathered around Blutcher and her husband for a photo, she said.
Asked about Mitt Romney, the Republican who will face Obama
in the November election, Blutcher declined to give her opinion,
but described herself as an enthusiastic Obama supporter.
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