After 16 grueling hours of stuffing campaign contributions into his pockets, President Obama left the Bay Area Thursday morning — again without doing any public events with members of the public who didn’t pay for the privilege to be in his light. Key point: Obama will be on the June 5 California primary ballot. But wait, we have footage of what is believed to be the only nonpaying public interaction during Obama’s latest presidential visit: The POTUS waving from the motorcade as it left the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose following at $40,000 per person fundraiser for 20 Asian-American biz types. Let’s go now to San Francisco Chronicle/SFGate.com’s Shaky Hand Productions for the video….and yes, if you squint you can see the leader of the ... Continue reading →

After 16 grueling hours of stuffing campaign contributions into his pockets, President Obama left the Bay Area Thursday morning — again without doing any public events with members of the public who didn’t pay for the privilege to be in his light. Key point: Obama will be on the June 5 California primary ballot. But wait, we have footage of what is believed to be the only nonpaying public interaction during Obama’s latest presidential visit: The POTUS waving from the motorcade as it left the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose following at $40,000 per person fundraiser for 20 Asian-American biz types. Let’s go now to San Francisco Chronicle/SFGate.com’s Shaky Hand Productions for the video….and yes, if you squint you can see the leader of the ... Continue reading →

I’m not saying I don’t see Obama bumper stickers on Bay Area roads. I just don’t see nearly as many as I remember seeing four years ago during the hotly contested 2008 primary. Remember when it seemed as if an Obama bumper sticker was every Prius’ must-have accessory? I also notice that many of the 2008 Obama stickers mysteriously have disappeared. Where, oh where, can they have gone? Be it noted, this year the president himself has criticized GOP energy proposals as “bumper sticker” policy. But I think the president would be happy to see them on California cars, even SUVs. One other factor: Do you want to put an Obama-Biden bumper sticker on your car when you’re not sure Biden will be the running ... Continue reading →

President Obama's 16-hour Bay Area fundraising whirlwind, which began Wednesday and is expected to net more than $4 million, confirms a sobering fact of the 2012 campaign: California voters with a checkbook in hand are much more likely to see the president in the flesh. Obama touched down at Moffett Field in Mountain View at about 6:30 p.m. before being whisked to Woodside for a $38,500-per-person fundraising dinner for 60 donors at the home of Doug Goldman, an heir to the Levi Strauss fortune and part of the environmentalist and philanthropic Goldman family. "The strides that we've made over the last 3 1/2 years have been extraordinary. But we've still got a long way to go," Obama told the diners, who included actor Don Cheadle, ... Continue reading →