SF News Obama Arrives in California, Dedicates Cesar Chavez Home a National Monument Today President Obama lands in California for a couple of fundraisers up here in SF, and he's currently attending a ceremony in Keene, California at the onetime home of labor and civil rights
SF News Obama Welcomed To East Bay With 'I Hella [Heart] Oakland' T-Shirt President Obama swung through the Bay Area on another one of his fundraising campaign stops yesterday. While he was met with medical marijuana demonstrations on the streets of Oakland yesterday afternoon, the President
SF News Rich Local Democrat Pissed at Obama Amongst the estimated 1,000 people who showed up outside the W yesterday to protest/holler at President Obama was prominent local Democratic fundraiser Susie Tompkins Buell. A good friend and major campaign
SF News Here's Willie Brown Telling Pres. Obama to Toughen Up 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,
SF News Obama Fave Solar Company Solyndra Declares Bankruptcy, Gets Visit From FBI Remember Solyndra, the Fremont-based solar panel manufacturer who got a $535 million low-interest loan guarantee from the Obama administration in 2009, and whom Obama visited on one of his last trips to the
SF News An Immodest Proposal: Make California an Early Primary State Two political economists, writing in the Journal of Political Economy, have concluded that being a voter in the primaries in New Hampshire or Iowa makes you essentially as powerful as five voters on
SF News Osama Bin Laden Is Dead, Body ID'd By DNA Nearly ten years after the September 11th attacks, Osama bin Laden has been killed. An anonymous government or military official who is familiar with the circumstances of bin Laden's death and the capture
SF News Rich Oakland Lady Pays $76,000 So She and Several Activist Friends Could Sing a Protest Song to Obama Oakland activist Naomi Pitcairn and a gaggle of friends attended a fundraising lunch with President Obama at the St. Regis today, paying a total of $76,000 (funded by Pitcairn) for their seats
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Double Rainbow Song This little bit of wonderful comes from the brilliant minds behind Auto-Tune the News (remember them?), who also received some accolades recently for this Obama Kickass Song, featuring President Obama, Matt Lauer, Tinky-Winky,
SF News Obama Visits Solar Panel Firm in Fremont The Obamas are only in town for another hour or so, taking off from SFO at about noon. The President spent this morning at Fremont solar panel manufacturer Solyndra, which the San Jose
SF News Zennie Reacts to Sen. Harry Reid's Racist Comments Our old pal Zennie editorializes today on his City Brights blog about the "negro" comments made by Democratic Majority Leader Harry Reid in regard to Obama's candidacy back in '08. Zennie says that
SF News E.P.A. Finally To Enact Smog Protections Bush Wouldn't Allow The Environmental Protection Agency today announced that they would be enacting tougher smog restrictions nationwide, which are expected to cost industries tens of billions of dollars to comply with. You may recall that
SF News Schwarzenegger Expected to Keep Begging Obama For Money In the NYT today, California is once again front and center in a piece about cash-strapped states entering the new year with nothing but swaths of red on the books. The Governator is
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Upright Citizens Brigade's "Obamacare" Ad We know we're preaching to the converted here (for the most part), and we probably should have caught this semi-gruesome spoof ad by NYC's Upright Citizens Brigade (which once gave birth to Amy
SF News Obama Reverses 22-Year-Old HIV Travel Ban In 1987, at the height of the AIDS epidemic, the Department of Health and Human Services added HIV to the list of communicable diseases that barred tourists and travelers from entry into the
SF News Surprise! Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize They sure do love our fine President up in Norway! Despite having only been in office 12 days when the nomination deadline passed, the Nobel committee went ahead and awarded Barack Obama the
SF News Samoa Disaster Declared Major, CA Unscathed Apart from a few new sand dunes, the CA coast remained unscathed by yesterday's tsunami in the Pacific. The tsunami struck the islands of Samoa and American Samoa, killing over 100 people with
SF News Obama to School Kids: "Be Careful What You Post on Facebook" In that *super controversial* address to school children that had conservatives nationwide saying he would turn our kids into an army of health-care-reform-endorsing zombies, President Barack Obama today advised kids to "be careful
SF News DiFi Among Those Putting Breaks On Obama Health Plan Call it what you will, but hometown gal Nancy Pelosi's push to get the President's health care initiative through Congress before their August recess appears to be failing, and among those stalling it
misc Really Bad Wax Figure Likenesses We're not sure there is such a thing as a *good* wax figure, but we're sure the people at the Fisherman's Wharf Wax Museum would like us to think so. In any event,
SF News Pics from Last Night's Iranian Election Protest in Union Square Thanks to loyal SFist contributing photog Steve Rhodes, we have these pictures of the sizable protest that went down in Union Square last night, in which activists, Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi and local Iranian-Americans
SF News Osama Bin Laden Not Dead After All? We suppose not everyone really subscribes to the theory that Osama Bin Laden hasn't been alive and kicking for years, but in case you did, his Al Qaeda puppet-masters have released a new
SF News A National Sales Tax? A new piece today in the Washington Post suggests that Obama administration officials and members of Congress alike are considering the possibility of a VAT, or value-added tax, which would impose a levy
SF News Obama Picks Sonia Sotomayor For Souter's Supreme Court Seat Judge Sonia Sotomayor, a self-described Newyorican who grew up in a housing project in the Bronx after her parents moved from Puerto Rico, has been tapped by President Obama to be the next
SF News Wax Obama to Arrive At Wax Museum Today A wax statue of President Barack Obama will arrive, via the F Market, at the Fisherman's Wharf wax museum today around 3PM. The first 100 patrons at the museum after Wax Obama's arrival
