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Protesters damage Obama Oakland office
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | August 4, 2012 | Demian Bulwa

Posted on 08/04/2012 7:01:09 PM PDT by artichokegrower

Protesters smashed a large window at President Obama's re-election campaign office in downtown Oakland late Friday night, tore down a nearby fence and vandalized cars, according to police, witnesses and video footage.

Staffers and volunteers were inside the Organizing for America office at 1714 Telegraph Ave. when it was vandalized after 9 p.m., but no one was hurt, said a staffer who declined to be identified. The office is a joint effort of the Obama campaign and the Democratic National Committee.

When the window was broken, well over 100 people had joined what began as a rally against the city's handling of growing crowds at the first-Friday-of-the-month event called Art Murmur, a gallery crawl centered in the Uptown arts district from 6 to 9 p.m.

Protesters - who included Occupy Oakland activists - said the city was cracking down on vendors and performers who came into the neighborhood during the gallery crawl without permits. Until June, the galleries had closed down a block of 23rd Street, but the approach got too expensive and hectic.

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: California; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: oakland; occupy; occupyoakland; occupywallstreet
Even the Bay Area lefties are getting tired of Obama. He is losing his base.
1 posted on 08/04/2012 7:01:16 PM PDT by artichokegrower
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To: artichokegrower

Hope the picture of Che wasn’t harmed.


2 posted on 08/04/2012 7:05:23 PM PDT by Cold Heart
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To: artichokegrower

probably the work of the tea party or an angry white loner.


3 posted on 08/04/2012 7:06:15 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (Woe to them...)
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That’s the thing when you base your campaign on whipped up mob frenzy. Mobs are uncontrollable things, and sometimes they turn on their creators.


4 posted on 08/04/2012 7:14:33 PM PDT by YankeeReb
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To: artichokegrower
Ewe! They eat their wounded.


5 posted on 08/04/2012 7:17:12 PM PDT by FreeAtlanta (Liberty and Justice for ALL)
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To: artichokegrower
Protesters - who included Occupy Oakland activists

Heh heh heh. You go, girls!

6 posted on 08/04/2012 7:26:16 PM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: YankeeReb
Mobs are uncontrollable things, and sometimes they turn on their creators.

Yep. Gotta love it. Let them reap what they've sown.

7 posted on 08/04/2012 7:29:58 PM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: artichokegrower

any chance the culprits last name is “Norris” or Reid”?


8 posted on 08/04/2012 7:31:21 PM PDT by Reality_News
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To: artichokegrower

interesting development


9 posted on 08/04/2012 7:43:53 PM PDT by Taggart_D
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To: artichokegrower

Those damn Amish are at it again!!


10 posted on 08/04/2012 8:24:08 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: artichokegrower

I think they were just wilding... doubt it had anything to do with Obama. Liberals marauding the streets scaring people. You know, thugs...


11 posted on 08/04/2012 8:31:08 PM PDT by GOPJ (Political correctness is simply George Orwell's Newspeak by a non-threatening name. FR- Bernard Marx)
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To: artichokegrower

I agree. He’s losing the evangelical black base and the ultra liberal base. (which is his main base).

He should be at least 20 points down.


12 posted on 08/04/2012 8:33:31 PM PDT by Just4awe
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Obviously organized vandalism by members of the Tea Party ... CBS has documents faxed from a Kinko’s in Texas to back up their claim. /s


13 posted on 08/04/2012 8:54:46 PM PDT by ThE_RiPpEr.
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Whaaaaaaat? Their boy Bam has made a hard left turn of late. What more do they want? Tough crowd to please those wascally leftists.


14 posted on 08/04/2012 9:02:29 PM PDT by tflabo (Truth or Tyranny)
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“... doubt it had anything to do with Obama. Liberals marauding the streets scaring people. You know, thugs...”

What’s that old saying? Oh yeah, LIKES ATTRACT.


15 posted on 08/04/2012 9:55:54 PM PDT by Rembrandt (Part of the 51% who pay Federal taxes)
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Without doubt, it was a bunch of Tea Party racists pretending to be occupy idiots...

I'm sure Chik Filet was somehow involved in this as well...

16 posted on 08/04/2012 9:58:58 PM PDT by FunkyZero (... I've got a Grand Piano to prop up my mortal remains)
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As soon as I saw the heading of this article, I assumed (correctly) that it was radical lefties, and not Republicans, who had damaged Obama's office.

Thousand of Occupiers have been arrested, compared to, perhaps, zero Tea Partiers. There's a reasons for that.

17 posted on 08/04/2012 10:13:15 PM PDT by grundle
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To: artichokegrower

Uh, oh-—somebody missed getting their free stuff last week.


18 posted on 08/05/2012 4:04:38 AM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
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Uh, oh-—somebody missed getting their free stuff last week.

Bingo! You nailed it.

19 posted on 08/05/2012 4:23:25 AM PDT by trebb ("If a man will not work, he should not eat" From 2 Thes 3)
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To: artichokegrower

Revanchist Trotskyite wreckers and saboteurs!


20 posted on 08/05/2012 6:32:59 AM PDT by Psalm 144 (Voodoo Republicans. Don't read their lips. Watch their hands.)
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