When pandering goes wrong
I was at the Purple Onion this Friday and Saturday. The first show Friday was a benefit for a citizens’ environmental justice group, and also the first time I’ve heard a San Francisco audience boo at a mention of Obama’s name.
At first I thought, was this audience replaced by one from Fresno, or Alabama. Then I realized, they were booing Obama from the left. Take notice: six months in, hippies from Berkeley are officially sick of our first black president. Maybe once that organic garden actually goes into the White House, and Alice Waters receives a cabinet-level appointment, and Pennsylvania Avenue is devoted exclusively to bike traffic, and he pardons Mumia,maybe they’ll rethink their position. Until then, they’re over it.
