Waiting for Obama to arrive for a fundraiser at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, Michael McGinnis sells Obama coin banks that he made for the event on Monday Oct. 10, 2012 in San Francisco, Calif. Photo: Mike Kepka, The Chronicle / SF
Posted on 10/09/2012 6:24:32 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
On a visit to pick up California votes and cash, President Obama said in San Francisco on Monday night that "I very much intend to win this election" and implored supporters to redouble their efforts because "we're only going to do it if everybody is almost obsessive for the next 29 days."
.....Obama turned to his fiercest supporters on the day when the first major national poll since his presidential debate with GOP nominee Mitt Romney appeared. A national survey of likely voters by the nonpartisan Pew Research Center found Romney leading Obama 49 to 45 percent....It was the first national poll in some time to put Romney in front.
.....The president was met by an ideological rainbow of about 75 protesters outside the Civic Auditorium, including Code Pink antiwar activists protesting the use of drones in Pakistan, cannabis advocates upset about the federal crackdown on medicinal marijuana and Tea Party conservatives who countered supporters' chants of "four more years" with yells of "four more weeks."
..... Obama earned support from Latino leaders like California Assembly Speaker John Pérez (D-Los Angeles) and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa as he designated Chavez's former home and headquarters as a national monument on the property known as Nuestra Señora Reina de la Paz (Our Lady Queen of Peace), or La Paz.
Taking the stage, Obama shouted "Si, se puede" - the motto of the United Farm Workers, which translates to "Yes, it can be done" - and the crowd responded with the same refrain, along with a chant of "four more years!"
"Today, La Paz joins a long line of national monuments - stretching from the Statue of Liberty to the Grand Canyon - monuments that tell the story of who we are as Americans," Obama told them.....
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
Somehow, that’s probably “racist”...
President Barack Obama and Helen Chavez place a rose at the gravesite of Cesar Chavez before the dedication ceremony for the Cesar E. Chavez National Monument in Keene, Calif., Oct. 8, 2012. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
More like stealing -- FROM US! Imagine his supporters putting OUR MONEY into a bank shaped like Obama's head? How perfectly descriptive is that?
Redistribution!!!!
California is still the land of fruits and nuts, I see..............I love the TEA party’s chant-—”FOUR MORE WEEKS!’
I’d carve a “666” in it.
That’s raaaaaacist! (The coin banks, that is.)
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