While out in San Francisco Thursday collecting cash from donors to his campaign, President Obama stopped for takeout dim sum at one of the few places left in the city serving shark’s fin soup, prompting outrage.
Just last month, Obama signed into law the The Shark Conservation Act, which prevents harvesting of most sharks for their fins and bans cutting off fins at sea.
Obama had no idea idea the delicacy was on the menu, according to the White House, and certainly didn’t order any.
Shark fin is banned by state law in California, but restaurants can still sell fins that have already been sliced off their previous owners. But most have stopped serving the soup.
So the restaurant, Great Eastern, can legally sell shark fin soup, as long as it’s not fresh. I doubt, however, that anybody is carbon testing the fins Great Eastern sells to determine their age.
One local news outlet, SFweekly, asserts that the only crime definitively committed here is that Obama got second rate dim sum, apparently passing up better places for a name restaurant.
So the advance people who researched Obama’s trip failed him twice. Heads most roll.
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I haven’t seen any video of the dim one at the Chinese restaurant, but I was amused to see him prancing down the Boeing plane stairs inside the building like he does on AF1. I bet the photographers are secretly laughing at him.
http://news.daylife.com/photo/0g7l5ge1mScPK?__site=daylife&q=barack+obama
He sure does think he’s something special. Always think of a prancing chipmunk when he does the runway thing. Saw another photo of some restaurant patron touching his butt, and was surprised she didn’t get tackled by the SS.
They sure must worship him in SF. Read one report where everyone in the restaurant was chanting his name.
Read one report where everyone in the restaurant was chanting his name.
Maybe they were ordering Sum Dumb Guy ; )
Good one Sadie!
He just acts the part:
http://news.daylife.com/photo/01Zg90E6fR7kd?__site=daylife&q=barack+obama
Yes, he does.
Ummmm…no. The photographers are secretly building shrines to him in their closets.
It seems like that and it’s true of the print media, but the photags know BHO the best and are not always portraying him in a positive light. There has been a gradual change, They see all his phoniess, the phony grin, the nose touching, his limp wrist. They are paid to be observant and yes, they are laughing at him. They were caught doing just that while he hit golfballs in Hawaii in 2008, The sound was left on and the photogs were making fun of him calling him a wuss. Photographers are professionals not as political as journolists .
Remember him throwing the first pitch in 2009 ?
Throws like a girl.
Dim sum dumb sum beaches them Obammy people.
Dem. Susie Tompkins Buell said she’s not donating to O reelection bit then the butt grabbing deal and the shark’s soup … you know, the flower child’s city wink, wink. Maybe that’s why he needed the shark’s soup after all.
If you’re going to San Francisco,
be sure to wear some flowers in your hair…
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2012/02/16/MND61N71MS.DTL
http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/San-Francisco-Women-Get-Cheeky-With-Barack-Obama-139541473.html
love that song!
AP. While collecting cash from donors, His Majesty accidently eats unapproved food.
( I’ll bet Lady M orders sharksfin soup in the White House just for the hell of it.)
The juxtaposition of lady m and sharkfins should be ignored.
Yeah–that bootleg fish cartilage is not to be underrated.
LMAO
That is so Choice
NEW GUINEA (AP) — President Obama mistakenly eats human organs in one of the last Cannibal Restuarants on the planet.
We are subjected to this fool every day. No other president in history has ingratiated himself into everything. I was thrilled to watch the re-opening show at the Grand Old Opry after the 2010 floods until it was ruined by playing a video of him. He ruins everything.
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