You can see my disappointment when we found President Obama represented at the celebrity wax museum in Hollywood
On Monday night (August 16), I was in the Los Angeles area on my way to a local comedy club with some friends. We started down Hollywood Boulevard and didn’t get far before traffic seemed to be slightly more congested than it should be for a Monday night. After it took 20 minutes to get between two stop lights, and seeing the LAPD scattered like field mice, we knew something was up.
It didn’t take long before we found out President Obama was in town and his presence created the epic congestion that even had the locals who are accustomed to LA traffic pissed off. While on the surface, any complaint over this feels trivial. However, when looking further we can see that Obama’s trip through LA shows us a great deal about a serious disconnect between everyday folks and the Hollywood “limousine liberals” he was going to rub elbows with.
Los Angeles Times senior film writer Patrick Goldstein, a usually fair liberal, expressed his disappointment about how Obama took over LA for personal gain:
So is there a lesson here? What I found most striking about the president’s PR disaster was that his wealthy Hollywood supporters seem to be just as out of touch with reality as the president’s own staff.
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