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Face-Off at Demo in front of St. Francis: Obama in SF
Health care was the main topic of the day when the President came to San Francisco to attend a fundraising event for the Democratic National Convention. Single payer proponents overwhelmingly outnumbered public option fans. Ultra-conservative and confused, the right wing seems to have responded to a call to stand together, while various left wing seasoned San Francisco demonstrators showed up with little prompting. Besides health care, other themes at the demo were the war in Afghanistan, global warming warming, and (for the right-wingers) government control.
Top Photo: *Actually On the Same Side* by R. Robertson.
A single payer activist held up a hastily made "Insurance Profits Make Us Sick" sign in front of a printed placard from the Billionaires for Wealthcare satire group. It reads "ObamaCare Will Kill Executive Profits".
People with views representing diametric opposite positions rubbed shoulders in the huge crowd outside the Westin St. Francis when President Obama spoke inside on October 15. It may have been hard to be heard in the crowd estimated to be over a thousand, but that didn't stop many people from staying for well over two hours.
The right wingers appeared to mostly come from outside the immediate Bay Area. They banded together to face the St. Francis en masse. Napa Valley Tea Party Patriots organized a caravan, others came from Pleasanton and even Carmel. They were identifiable by their identical unhappy "happy face" stickers, some also sporting on their lapels the location from which they came. Their cries included "No More Taxes" and "USA USA".
On the left, demonstrators rocked to the beat of the Brass Liberation Orchestra.
A single payer activist held up a hastily made "Insurance Profits Make Us Sick" sign in front of a printed placard from the Billionaires for Wealthcare satire group. It reads "ObamaCare Will Kill Executive Profits".
People with views representing diametric opposite positions rubbed shoulders in the huge crowd outside the Westin St. Francis when President Obama spoke inside on October 15. It may have been hard to be heard in the crowd estimated to be over a thousand, but that didn't stop many people from staying for well over two hours.
The right wingers appeared to mostly come from outside the immediate Bay Area. They banded together to face the St. Francis en masse. Napa Valley Tea Party Patriots organized a caravan, others came from Pleasanton and even Carmel. They were identifiable by their identical unhappy "happy face" stickers, some also sporting on their lapels the location from which they came. Their cries included "No More Taxes" and "USA USA".
On the left, demonstrators rocked to the beat of the Brass Liberation Orchestra.
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