Mr. Obama and his White House entourage will arrive in SF, Tuesday and have a fundraiser dinner, (for $27 grand no less) at the Getty mansion for Sen. Barbara Boxer. He will also visit Fremont and a tech center, (there's a joke in there somewhere)
All the local TV outlets have promised expanded "team coverage" and all the radio newsies, (KCBS, KGO, KQED-FM) will also bring out all their biggies, (whatever that amounts to these days)
One things for sure: whenever the President visits the Bay Area, (this is Obama's second visit,) there is a controlled mass chaos because not only does the local media contingent follow the POTUS, but add in the full WH press corps and you have well over a hundred or so reporters looking mightily for a story. Good luck there. Fundraiser trips don't necessarily mean a good sound bite from the chief exec, particularly when he's faced with mounting criticism over the handling of the gulf spill disaster.
Quick side note: Don't be surprised if Mr. Obama tries to get in an inning or so during the Giants-Wash. game, (SF plays host to the Nationals Tuesday night); You may recall during the 2000 maiden season at AT&T Park, Bill Clinton made a visit to the ballpark and hob-knobbed with Larry Baer and Peter Macgowan.
I'm told a few Giants higher-ups have notified the Obama people that they'd love for him to try to catch a part of the game Tuesday. (Can Obama hit?)
I use to live in downtown San Jose in the late 90s. When President Clinton would come to town and stay at the Fairmont, security would lock down the whole block around the hotel. I was more inconvenienced by SJPD's traffic crackdowns on Friday and Saturday nights.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure President Obama will get a warmer reception that Condi Rice did at a Giants game a few years back. She got boo'd heavily and the local broadcasters were upset by the lack of warm response from the fans for the former Stanford alum. But then being one for the architects of a war against a country that didn't have any WMD will do that to ya.