Two days before President Barack Obama touched ground in San Francisco, an indictment was issued against John Gimbel, 59, of Crescent City, accused of threatening to kill the President in an electronic message sent to an unidentified recipient.
Brittney Gilbert over at Eye On Blogs stumbled across this gem: delicious chicken snacks named "Obama Fingers," made in Deutschland and featuring the Golden Gate Bridge on the package.
While this shouldn't be news, it is. President Barack Obama mentions San Francisco in his most recent blog post honoring Chinese New Year. Eeee! See, it's been, let's see, about eight years since anybody in the Oval Office mentioned Baghdad by the Bay without fire-and-brimstone condemnation.
Geoff Kors, Executive Director of Equality California, has decided not to an invitation to attend Obama's inauguration. Why? Because of the Obama administration's decision to have evangelical pastor Rick Warren deliver the invocation. Warren, you see, worked to get prop 8 passed, which allowed discrimination into the California state constitution. An odd choice, indeed.
Billed by some as "Obama’s first big mistake," gay activists are livid with President-elect Barack Obama over choosing Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at his inauguration in January. Warren, senior pastor of Saddleback Church in Orange County, is a conservative evangelical minister who backed prop 8, the same-sex marriage ban. (Warren defended himself in a recent interview, saying, "I have many gay friends. I’ve eaten dinner in gay homes. No church has probably done more for people with AIDS than Saddleback Church.") Noted gay rights leaders like Human Rights Campaign president Joe Solomonese and Courage Campaign chair Rick Jacobs have voiced their extreme disappointment in Obama. The choice, however, is also being called "a conciliatory gesture toward social conservatives who opposed [Obama] in November."
"We need a big stimulus package," said President-elect Barack Obama today. You're preaching to the choir, Big O. But seriously folks, today Obama announced his starting lineup for his economic team. This groups of "assertive, bold personalities" will, hopefully, pull us out of this recession. (Though, as Barack points out, things will get worse before they get better. Joy.) Anyway, the team consists of Peter Orszag, director of the Office of Management and Budget; Timothy Geithner, treasury secretary; Lawrence Summers, head of the National Economic Council (NEC); and Christina Romer, Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) chairman. Romer, a handsome woman, is an economics professor at UC/Berkeley and the sole female voice on the team.
Proving a fan of neither the Republicans nor the Democrats, Al-Qaida's second in command, Ayman Zawahri, slammed President-elect Barack Obama tpoday. In an audio tape posted on several jihadi forums, Zawahri chided Obama as "the direct opposite of honorable black Americans," pointing to Malcolm X as a better example. Zawahri went on to criticize Obama's plan to shift troops to Afghanistan saying, "Be aware that the dogs of Afghanistan have found the flesh of your soldiers to be delicious, so send thousands after thousands to them." So...yeah.
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When the clouds above the swing state of Nevada formed a giant Obama logo... that was pretty cool.
Look at what someone gone and did during last Sunday's Folsom Street Fair. Pretty sneaky, kids.
According to the Associated Press, "Barack Obama effectively clinched the Democratic presidential nomination Tuesday." Is it done.
Good grief. During a speech/swipe at Barack Obama to Israel's Knesset (i.e., Israel's legislature), President Bush quipped:
Unless you're a major wonk, there's no need to watch the above footage in its entirety. (It's Obama prattling on endlessly about losing to Clinton in Pennsylvania, how he'll win, how some of his best friends are white trash, "yes we can," health care, change, lobbyists, unicorns, apple pony princesses, etc.) Just check out the three pieces of tail standing in the background. They're all sporting noticeable Abercrombie & Fitch designs. Barf.
Speaking of backlash, the Mayhill Fowler assault is percolating at a gentle boil. You paranoid wheels-within-wheels political fans out there will be happy to know that, apparently, stellar journalist and master of the MP3 recorder Mayhill Fowler is totally out to get Obama. How so? Well, because she's wealthy, her husband's lawfirm knows a guy who knows someone who met someone who likes McCain, and she's the devil reincarnated. Or something like that.
The backlash has started. A few are livid over Barack Obama's surreptitious statements about the poor, armed, and God-fearing that he made over at the Getty manse; others are going into hysterics over ABC's treatment of Barack Obama during the this week's debate. (Actually, some of it was inanely amusing, which, most important of all, made for fantastic television. Check out Ms. Nash McCabe of Pennsylvania [at 1:46] asking Obama if he "believes in the American flag." Because: what?)
You know how political fetishists are losing their minds this week over Barack Obama's kind of awesome but kind of classist statement at the Getty manse? You know, this:
Bumper sticker found on a vehicle in Oakland on Broadway and 20th Street.
During this week's Tibet rally and Olympic flame frustration, the possible future leader of the free world, Barack Obama, sneaked into San Francisco on Sunday, hitting Billionaires Row for a pricey, Getty-hosted fundraiser.
Well, frankly, neither had we. That is, until we read this crazy -- yet, not so crazy -- article on Republicans in Ohio switching party alliances and voting Democratic. 16,000 Republicans, to be exact.
Ralph Nader announced yesterday that he will take yet another tireless stab at the Oval Office, this time running as an Independent in the 2008 presidential election. Oh joy. Prattling on endlessly about how the Democratic and Republican candidates aren't addressing the issues, and blah blah, who cares, this will be his fifth attempt at snatching the title President of the United States of American.
Nancy Pelosi dedicates a campus and opines on the presidential race.
href="http://torontoist.com/2008/02/phototo_snowbal.php">photographing a big, organized snowball fight.
turned 50 last year, and Leonard Bernstein would have turned 90 next August. Classical music is giving Hallmark a run for its money as an anniversary-driven industry.
Well, you'll probably all be as relieved as we were that the proposal to adopt an SF policy to buy back Alcatraz Island from the feds for a billion dollars in order to build a peace center was thoroughly trounced in the polls, losing at a rate of almost 3:1 (72% no). You can continue telling your friends back home that you'll take them on the ferry ride to the prison if they'd ever come out and visit you out here!
Those goddamn, dirty, lovable hippies known as the Grateful Dead -- i.e., Bob Weir, Mickey Hart, and Phil Lesh -- reunite tonight in honor of (our future president) Barack Obama. Looking to snare to what Joe Garofoli refers to as, "California's gray-haired ponytail vote," the Dead is backing Obama. Minus, Jerry Garcia, of course, since he is now most literally a dead head.
Image credit: Nature abhors a vacuum
Image credit: Percy & Cecil
Sure, it was taken awhile back, just after Barack Obama was kicking it with the dames at the Girlie Building. But since his momentum is (thankfully) building, we thought we'd throw up another image of the candidate. That, and to wash the taste of yesterday's tubgirl cake out of our mouth. (Ebb and flow, folks. Ebb and flow.)
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