Ah, the irony of pitching green jobs while tying up an entire city into gridlock…
Reporting from Los Angeles —
With a quick visit to Los Angeles at rush hour, President Obama raised $1 million Monday for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.He also alienated some Angelenos, at least temporarily, as his motorcade mangled evening traffic en route from the Beverly Hilton to the Hancock Park home of producer John Wells, whose credits include “West Wing,” “ER” and “Southland.”
The glitterati paid through the nose,
The entry fee was $2,500, but co-hosts — including Abrams, Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey and Marilyn Katzenberg, and Barbra Streisand — paid $30,400 a couple. They didn’t all attend, however.
The ones who didn’t attend were probably stuck in traffic, along with the hoi polloi.
It takes little effort to cause a traffic jam at rush hour in LA, but the mark of real talent is causing gridlock for cars while blocking pedestrians:
Although it was a friendly crowd, the street closures snared not just vehicles but pedestrians — if calls, e-mails and posts to The Times’ website were any guide.
Angelenos are mad, and demand an investigation.
Things are getting tough for Obama – tough enough that Critics say Obama’s message is becoming ‘incoherent’. That link doesn’t come from Fox News, the Weekly Standard or National Review. It doesn’t even come from Jennifer Rubin, who like me, believes the line
“This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal.”
was rhetoric gibberish.
It comes from CNN.
Here’s a flashback to the “rising oceans” moment,
But fret not, Michelle Obama to enter campaign fray.
What could possibly go wrong?
UPDATE
Stacy says the President caused traffic jams in the morning, too.
The Presidents keeps this up, there’ll be millions of Republican votes saved or created.
Oh goody!!
Seattle’s next!
