These are the regular people Obama was hangin' with in SF

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Wed Apr-16-08 02:59 PM
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These are the regular people Obama was hangin' with in SF

I keep reading here about how the MSM is using the term SF liberal as a dog whistle (to use the term of the month)

and that the people of SF are just like everybody else. That's true, but if you haven't seen where he was when he deemed small town folk

of being those stupid Bible-thumpin', shotgun-pumpin', outhouse-dumpin', sibling-humpin , immigrant-trumpin', backwoods mumblin' , genital-itching,

inbred racists, this might interest you.

If you have google earth here is a link- http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/download.php?Number=85476
Attached are placemarks for the huge and amazingly expensive ($25M and up) San Francisco mansions belonging to:

Fred Pavlow, Add-a-Garage, 2776 Broadway
Trevor Traina, stepson of Danielle Steele, 2780 Broadway
Norman Stone, heir to insurance tycoon W. Clement Stone, 2790 Broadway
Peter Haus, Levi Strauss heir, 2800 Broadway
James Klingbeil, of Am. Apt. Communites, 2808 Broadway
Peter Sperling, U. of Phoenix heir, 2845 Broadway St.
Larry Ellison, Oracle founder, 2850 Broadway
Gordon Getty, Getty Oil heir, 2870-2880 Broadway St.
George Jewett, Weyerhaeuser heir, 2990 Broadway

In the Haight, stencils of Barack Obama's smiling face are decorating the sidewalk. But in real life, he is turning up in more lucrative venues: The candidate will be around here on April 6, at a series of events that includes three $2,300-a-head maximum-strength fundraisers: Sara and Sohaib Abbasi are throwing a luncheon in Atherton; he'll zip up to Nancy and Bob Farese's house in Kentfield in mid-afternoon; and proceed from there to Ann and Gordon Getty's in San Francisco. (There's also a mere $1,000-a-person do at the home of Carolyn Davis and Alex Mehran that night.)

Your trusty party-animal-by-proxy has tried to infiltrate these events, but transparency seems to be fogged up. No media eyes allowed on the collection kettles; when the gifts are big, the press is barred.

On April 6, 2008, Barack Obama visited the San Francisco region, zipping from event to event all day long, from one end of the Bay Area to the other.

What? you might ask. How did I miss that? If only I had known, I would have gone to see him.

Well, there's a reason you didn't know about it. Obama didn't want you to know about it. Because the events he was attending weren't for people like you.

P.S.: Christina Orth, who attended an open San Francisco Symphony rehearsal Thursday, left Davies Hall promoting "Obama for President, Dudamel for Vice President." http://www.sfisonline.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2008/03/26/DDMKVPJT1.DTL

Obama's campaign slogan is "Change" -- declaring that he alone will change the way things are done in politics.

But what kind of "change" is this? The single most insidious aspect of American politics is that candidates often must pander to and do the bidding of the wealthiest Americans, who have the funds to get the candidate elected. It's so commonplace, we no longer think of it as "corruption," but that's basically what it is. So when Obama spends all day doing nothing but going to a series of private fundraisers populated exclusively by the wealthy, the only "change" I feel are the coins jangling at the bottom of my pocket.

And I don't like hypocrisy.

According to this article (and many others), Obama's campaign is claiming he raises his money from small donors:..

Wait just a minute there. If you do the math, on just this one day in the Bay Area, Obama went to four events, three of which had $2,300 minimum donations per ticket, and the other $1,000 minimum per ticket. Each of the events, from the various descriptions, held as many as 400 people (the Getty mansion has a ballroom that reportedly seats at least 300). 400 x $2,300 = $920,000 per event, times three events = $2.76 million, plus the other event, which undoubtedly puts him over $3 million in contributions for this one day alone. And who knows how many other similar days he schedules in other parts of the country. http://www.zombietime.com/obama_visits_billionaires_row/

Here are the real regular people, running their asses off parking all the limos

Norman Stone, heir to insurance tycoon W. Clement Stone, 27xx Broadway.
Peter Haus, Levi Strauss heir, 28xx Broadway. In 1996, Haas' Levi holdings were valued in a news report at $2.2 billion.
Peter Sperling, U. of Phoenix heir, 28xx Broadway. In 2003 he had about $1.5 billion.
Larry Ellison, Oracle founder, 28xx Broadway. In 2003 Forbes set his worth at $18 billion.
Gordon Getty, Getty Oil heir, 28xx Broadway. In 2003 Forbes Magazine estimated his fortune at $2.1 billion.
George Jewett, Weyerhaeuser heir, 29xx Broadway.

These aren't apts

The awful view from the homes to remind these people how bad they have it

Notice the weight of the ring on the right hand of one the common folk causes her to lean to one side, back problems in this area are epidemic

Obama enters through servants entrance to observe clingy behavior

Notice the diverse crowd, but only from a distance.

This is where Obama had hoped to have a private conversation to say this about small town people-

You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, a lot of them -- like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them. And they've gone through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. So it's not surprising then that they get bitter, and they cling to guns, or religion, or antipathy toward people who aren't like them, or anti-immigrant sentiment, or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.