Former Mayor, esteemed Chronicle reporter and food blogger Willie Brown went on Hardball with Chris Matthews this afternoon to discuss the President's dire poll numbers in California (He's at 46% approval rating). Matthews, drawing on inspiration from Democratic strategist James Carville, asks Da Mayor what he thinks Obama has to do to turn this campaign around, in California and elsewhere. To which Da Mayor, apparently reporting from a newsroom in the sky, responds: "he has to demonstrate that he is very, very tough... seldom, if ever, have you had a president who has waited so long to show truly his nature in terms of a fight." We're not entirely sure that sentence makes any sense, and he might actually be talking about some local bistro's poor bread service, but there it is. Video embedded below for the rest of Willie's analysis on how Obama can get back to his base. more ›

San Francisco's very own Phil Bronstein, former editor at SF Chronicle and Sharon Stone survivor, appeared on Hardball last night. Around the 8 minute mark, he gets appropriately bitchy at Chris Matthews and Lawrence O‘Donnell who are talking about NY Attorney General Andrew Cuomo and East Coast politics, and then Matthews points out that DC is on the East Coast and NY is on the East Coast, and makes a snide remark about SF and a mood ring. See for yourself. more ›