{"id":1538,"date":"2010-05-27T16:16:49","date_gmt":"2010-05-28T00:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zombietime.com\/zomblog\/?p=1538"},"modified":"2010-05-27T16:16:49","modified_gmt":"2010-05-28T00:16:49","slug":"the-stench-of-elitism-hung-heavy-in-the-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zombietime.com\/zomblog\/?p=1538","title":{"rendered":"The Stench of Elitism Hung Heavy in the Air"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My latest report from the front lines:<\/p>\n<p><big><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/pajamasmedia.com\/zombie\/2010\/05\/27\/the-stench-of-elitism-hung-heavy-in-the-air\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Stench of Elitism Hung Heavy in the Air<\/a><\/strong><\/big><\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"border: thin solid; border-color: silver; padding: 1em\"><p>Barack Obama returned triumphant to San Francisco on Tuesday and was welcomed by throngs of cheering supporters.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Not.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;d <em>think<\/em> he&#8217;d receive a hero&#8217;s homecoming, considering that San Francisco is the most liberal big city in the nation and its residents voted for him in overwhelming numbers. But in stark reality, here&#8217;s the full extent of the cheering section that awaited him: <\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.zombietime.com\/zomblog\/wp-content\/images2010\/IMG_3885.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nA grand total of two people.<\/p>\n<p>Incredible as it may seem, these were the only two identifiably pro-Obama demonstrators I saw all day. On the other hand, there were hundreds upon hundreds of fiercely <em>anti<\/em>-Obama protesters, attacking him from&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.zombietime.com\/zomblog\/wp-content\/images2010\/\/IMG_3796.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n..the left, and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.zombietime.com\/zomblog\/wp-content\/images2010\/IMG_3807.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n&#8230;the right.<\/p>\n<p>How did we get here? Let&#8217;s go back to the beginning of the day and tell the story chronologically.<br \/>\n&#8230;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And another photo from later in the report to whet your appetite:<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.zombietime.com\/zomblog\/wp-content\/images2010\/IMG_3857.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Read the rest <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/pajamasmedia.com\/zombie\/2010\/05\/27\/the-stench-of-elitism-hung-heavy-in-the-air\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/strong>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My latest report from the front lines: The Stench of Elitism Hung Heavy in the Air Barack Obama returned triumphant to San Francisco on Tuesday and was welcomed by throngs of cheering supporters. &#8230; Not. You&#8217;d think he&#8217;d receive a hero&#8217;s homecoming, considering that San Francisco is the most liberal big city in the nation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zombietime.com\/zomblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zombietime.com\/zomblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zombietime.com\/zomblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zombietime.com\/zomblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zombietime.com\/zomblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1538"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.zombietime.com\/zomblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1543,"href":"http:\/\/www.zombietime.com\/zomblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538\/revisions\/1543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zombietime.com\/zomblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zombietime.com\/zomblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zombietime.com\/zomblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}