Costs $35,800 per person to attend. Who's going?

Mr. President: Please stop it with the visits! You disrupt our traffic and make people less likely to vote for you. You act more like the 1% than the 99%.

Why not fly into Ontario Airport instead. It is 40 miles east of LA. Their economy is hurting and they could use the landing fees, lodging fees and dining fees your 200+ entourage will need to pay for while accompanying you on your fundraising visit.

You can have all of your well heeled friends drive or take their private jets out to meet you in Rancho Cucamonga or Ontario Mills. It would be an eye opener for the very important people attending your $35,000 a plate dinner some good to see how your recovery is working out.

The bottom line Mr. President, do us all a favor and just stay away from LA until the city can begin paying its bills in a timely manner. We can't afford to pay the police overtime.

Before Gary Miller pipes in, I would give the same advice to any president thinking of visiting LA, during a depression to do fund raising.

This is ALL that he does.. what is this, his 6th fundraiser in LA in a year that the taxpayers are footing? His # of fundraisers are triple what any other President has done.. and we are paying the bill...My question is this...If He is so great, why does he need to fundraise so often? We should all knoiw it if he is such a superstar...

Yes!!! Bush was great.... anything is better than this guy..

You mean like subsidizing the chevy volt with 10k / car of taxpayer dollars..(which only 600 sold last month). or solyndra, or having two unions with offices in the west wing?

Marie: Which tax payers do you think will pay for the local security during his trip? I resent my home town having to pay for cops and firemen to stop traffic and disrupt all our lives for the benefit of any out of town, fundraising politicians, especially when the city is broke. By the way, Texas doesn't have 11.1% unemployment.

Especially 6 times in a year.. This guy is so corrupt it is mind boggling...I live in beverly Hills...I cannot even cross the street when he is here..even walking..It is ridiculous...especially for an empty suit like him...

Anyone who thinks Bush was great is a moron.

All the crap people gave Obama in his first 2-3 years was for outcomes/situations spawned directly from Bush's work while in office...Everything is getting better (slowly) now, because Barack's policies are finally taking place of Bush's old, moronical doings.

You mean the same war that virtually every democrat voted for until things started to go south and then they bailed on him, just like the hypocrites that they are... and a moron..No , I am smart enough to know that the media is very corrupt and they carried the dems pom poms for years and they choose to report certain events a specific way and choose not to report certain events at all....They are doing it now..it is unbelievable what they are not reporting now to keep their annointed one in office..

One Person... Barney Frank..He did it all..Bush had Nothing to do with it.... and no, things are not better..They are cooking the books... 1.5 million left the job seeking group ..Unemployment will be stated at 8.5% and really 17% in 3 months....It is 16.8% now... They just pick and choose their criteria...

Yeah Jim, the media is a product of the liberal-propaganda machine...every watched Fox News. I love how Republicans act like the downtrodden and held-down and targeted when a democratic president is in office...like a republican would be the solution to all our problems when it was clearly 8 years of a idiot republican that lead us to where we stand now. Bush messed us up, Barack is trying to help, Republicans are holding us all back because it's not their guy doing the helping.

Of course they will..Hypocrites love to hang with other hypocrites..I am in entertainment.. I see it everyday...

It is a sadly ironic state of affairs where the in the old days, the President coming to visit you City was an exciting event and people felt pride in being chosen.

Today - with our digital lives mixing with out non-digital need to live with routine daily traffic, I think we have a 'new world of though' a Presidential Visit is no longer a rare opportunity and an event to look forward to, but rather an obligation and need to tolerate the President visiting the second largest metropolitan area in the United States.

Whatever is says about our priorities, every single Republican making issue of the disaster it will cause and the cost of the Presidents visit, only just announces their lack of any real issue they can assert about anything the Obama Administration did, does or will do.

Pick your fights. This is not a political issue. Any president of any party would visit Los Angeles several times during their administration.

The attempt to politicize the dynamics of travel requirements shows the irrational commitment of some republicans to ensure that Obama does get reelected, and with picking at non-issues like this, it shows how the Republican Platform is down to "they are racists and don't want a black president".

Find a rel issue, or else acknowledge anti-Presidential hatred is race based bigotry.

Wow-look what I missed! All these GOP posters. Well - bully for Barack. Just hope the City of WeHo does not decide to demolish another landmark using Barack's visit as cover. Particularly as he is not coming to WeHo. If I recall the Fickett Library bit the dust under cover of an Obama visit.

Oh and jon - your observation is spot on. White GOPs raise funds like crazy.

jon - kudos on all the posts!

Oh - right Barack is half black and half white. I always forget.

Los Angeles City Councilman Bill Rosendahl told City News Service tonight that the traffic delays "won't be terrible." We've updated the story with his comments.

The Ciy Council will be avaluating City Mgr., Paul Arevalo's performance during a Closed Session of City Council this Thursday, February 16, 2012, 6:30pm at City Hall. Here is the link for the agenda. http://weho.org/Modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentid=9944 There will be a Public Comment prior to their private discussion. Please people, keep it civil, but let the City Council know how you feel that the highest paid employee, over $300,000 (higher than the same job in LA wih millions of residents) We need a City Manager who will tell us the truth at all times and take our input and USE it in future planning of our parks, our facilities and our neighborhoods.

If the meeting is secret in the Star Chamber what is the public supposed to say?

You would think Obama would be in favor of the Canadian Pipeline. It would help take us offline from supporting Terrorist. Everytime we fill up at the pump we support a terrorist somewhere. Better to give it to the Canadians and get the work a pipeline would generate. The Alaskan pipeline turned out great and everyone made money.

Marie & Jim: There are a few things that you both need to realize (especially you Marie, as a P.S. Major). First, all of the politics in the U.S. has been orchestrated to create face offs between left and right. The more centrist you are, the more you become marginalized. This is evident as the spin from the media only focuses in on allegations against extremists from both sides. Both of you appear to be indulging on this artificially induced gerrymandering on the populace.

Second, ideologies aside, it is apparent that regardless of what party our president comes from, the same agenda of growing the federal powers and weakening the states have/will continue. Call me a conspiracy theorist, but I am convinced that special interest from external sources (Israeli Cultural Legions, etc), Multi National Corps, NGO's, and such have a greater impact on reducing our constitution to just a piece of paper. Our division through political differences have separated the country from its true virtues of liberty, freedom, and prosperity. Right vs. Left is NOT the central issue. It is a nationalists view that most of the country is being laid to waste by a larger agenda that is outside of our control.

A president is an excellent source of blame. Just remember that the presidency is NOT larger then any one man. Any sociologist can amass that groups of people respond to a populist favorably when the system is designed to channel info through brilliant media systems.

Whistlin'Pete

The Canadian pipeline is better than buying from Terrorist who want to cut off your head. It is also above ground. It turns out that Green Energy was a hoax. The world cannot run on windmills and volts. Green energy is not sustainable. Solyndra was a huge failure. We have to fight these Endless Mideast wars because people like you will not allow North America to drill their own oil.

Why are we on another Patch? Has anyone considered that the sun is still a major source of sustainable energy?

Thanks Marie!
Alex - I simply mentioned the sun. Oil seems to be very $$$ and tends to spill. I am not interested in verbal fisticuffs.

Mr. Daniels - it appears you are a Republican. Have fun with that.

No, but thanks for asking.

@Shaun Steele - valid points. Thanks for seeing it for what it is. Anyone remember the Ronald Reagan cortege a few years back. Do you think it too caused traffic problems?

Anyone who honestly believes that oil that comes from the Middle East, the U.S., Canada, Mexico, South America or anywhere else is not sold on the open market is just plain dumb (or a follower of Fox "News"). I for one would rather see the exploitation of land and the environment occur elsewhere.

Children, children this was merely an update on likely traffic issues. If you have a specific complaint please address Obama's staff,the Bells or Rosendahl instead of annoying the rest if us with supposition abount an "investigation of Aravalo", secret meetings and what not.
Opinions are just that....opinions but please get the facts straight

Mr. Daniels - keep guessing but don't feel the need to share - I know who I am.

If you drive a car, then you are complicit in the traffic problem, stop complaining about it. We could have better, faster, more timely transit service, safer bike routes, and thus more viable alternatives to driving for every trip, which in the end actually benefits drivers we well by shifting competition for finite street space to more space efficient modes. But the incessant whining of the motorist is in a league of it's own and thus the majority of our society's resources are devoted to catering to the wishes and whims of subsidizing driving.

As pointed out by others, it used to be a point of pride when a president came to visit. Now everything, all of life, and death, is reduced to the calculus of how it will impact traffic. Crash on the 405 kills 3, it's about the traffic delay, not the human lives impacted. It is unsurprising given that America values motorist travel time more than human life that our rates of traffic death per mile is unparalleled among our industrial democratic peers in the world. It's disgusting.

I think Obama has done a great job considering he has a congress that blocks everything constructive. His greatest weakness is that he sought consensus when he would have accomplished more if he had been a bully like the previous administration. The economy is bouncing back now that his policies are taking effect. If a little bit of traffic inconvenience results from efforts to keep him in office it is more than a fair trade off. I don't want tea-party tools in the White House to give more tax breaks to the CEOs making millions of dollars while laying off workers.

WHatever anyone's politic beliefs are, Obama visits LA more than any other President before him. He also comes to the same area every time he visits. For the one who said that people have to deal with traffic a few times out of the year has got to be some country bumpkin as Westwood traffic is horrible daily, so with Obama here its 10 times worse. So i'd like to see your reaction when it takes 6 to 8 hours to get home. When Obama does visit, he tends to pick 'rush hour' to appear. As for the one who says to plan ahead, some people have to work for a living. So if you work at UCLA, you will know that all the streets listed are the streets that surround UCLA. So that means you cant go home because Obama's visit has just shut down travel outside of UCLA. If you don't live or work in the area, you shouldnt comment on the type of traffic Obama causes as you have NO CLUE..... So get a CLUE!

I find all this pro Obama vs. pro Bush banter completely humorous. Anyone who thinks either of these middle level managers has done a great job in the Office of the President of the United States has sampled way too much Kool Aid. The medai has done their job getting all of you to gang up on one another. Both Obama and Bush play for the same team and Mitt Romney or Hillary Clinton would take us down the same road, just in a different manner. The only solution, in my humble opinion is to elect an individual who lknows monetary policy and speaks the truth...Ron Paul. Say what you will, that he is not electable, his policies are too radical, blah blah blah...he is the only one in Congress who follows the Constitution and the RULE OF LAW.

If gas goes up to $5 per gallon you can see a Republican in office in 2012. That's the bottom line. If gas goes to 5 and Obama still holds onto preventing the Canadian Pipeline the majority of voters are going to be pissed off.

No one used war to better his own standing as President than Bush. Anyone remember the "Mission Accomplished" hoopla on the carrier when we hadn't even accomplished anything?

Whistlin'Pete

What has Obama accomplished???????????????????????????

He passed this Obamacare where if I am 75 years old and need a new Heart or Liver I have to be passed over for an illegal alien who is 50 years old who needs the same organs.

Thank you, BRENTWOOD PATCH, for these updates. Between picking up children from school and shuttling them around to their various activities in the area, your updates are invaluable to me. Thank you.

I do wish President Obama's people would show mercy on us West-siders--these frequent visits around school dismissal and after school activities are aggravating, to say the least.

Wendy - You are right about Obamacare, but don't get sucked back into the argument with the other side. We as AMERICANS should realize what is going on in our country, but sadly, 90% of the people sleep in either cognitive dissonance or doublethink and dare not take a stand.

Rico99: I really wish there was a "LIKE" or "LOVE" button on here.

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Enjoy.

Great post Whistlin'Pete. I hope everyone clicks on your link.

Great post about health care. Why does it seem so ugly to folks. Civilized countries throughout the globe have it. And they laugh at us. I plan to go to India if I need a new liver.

Well - they laugh. Take it or leave it - but my friends in foreign countries are appalled at our healthcare (or lack thereof) system.
I have lived abroad and so does my sister and has for 20+.

I do not believe mule livers are used in India

TO WHISTLIN PETE RE: oil pipeline

Your suggestions for using that money (the cost of the pipleine) is carzy talk.

There is the immutable laws (like laws of physics - they just are, no room for alternative opinion) makling both your general idea of investmg in renewable solar, and you specific suggestion to use the pipeline money to accomplish you 'impossible' suggrstions.

it is physically impossible to power the united states from free renewable energy until the mega oil companies can no lomger make massive profits of the american dependence on oil and the Canada project being the only significant new oil reserves, which the oill companoes own.

nobody can power a country effiiently or with anything but crude oil with the law of rule in the country - MONEY CONTROLS GOVERNMENT. WHO CONTROLS MONEY, THE PEOPLE (corporations) WHO POSSESS THE TIGEST HOLD ON THE MOST NECESSARY BASE SOURCE OF A COUNTRYS FUNCTIONING INFRASTRUCTURE.

"Going Green" sounds nice but does not address the corporate control over our ability to even try to add (not even chang to, just to add in addition) any alternate that would make our enegry needs solved by a choice other than oil.

Nobody can overcome the power of the oil industry, let alone anyone running for a position of power in the united states.

TO A NEW PAUL RE: CONGRESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY

For all the haters of Obama for no good reason, for un true reason, or even good reason .... To boldly proclaim 'anyone is better than Obama' means one person, the Republican Nominee.

if 'anyone but Obama would be better' is truly the only reason so many have claimed, the one sure thing is there is one person, no question, that would be worse for the ecomomy ....The Republicans in general, any of the nominess being specific, based on what?
- The republicans spent 8 years to ruin the country
- "crybaby" Boener has done nothing to help improve the Republican led Destruction, and has repeatedly acted to make the economic situation worse and derail any attempt Obama has made to fix our depression.

The Congress past and the current ongoing Republucan control is proof to anyone with the slightest ability to reson and think, that A Republican President is the one sure thing 'worse than Obama' for our economy, for our country and most of the wallets of the die hard Republican Posters on this blog. Not one articulated rational reason has been proffered

If the world went to Solar Engergy it would go into mass starvation within a week. There is not a converter available to feed and power 7 billion people. Until there is a converter(s) for wind and solar the world needs oil.

The people will not tolerate living in the stone age. Just throwing money at green energy firms will not make it happen. They will just emerge to suck up all the research money. It's currently a waste of time to talk about saving the earth in small green incriments when you have countries like India breedling like rabbits. You have to fix the rabbits first. They are making the world's water supply filthy. What good is green energy anyway when the world is on a collision course because of overpopulation. Instead of Invading Arab nations we should invade 3rd world breeder nations and force them to not breed like rabbits. The Catholic Church is in on this too. They promote the mass breeding so they can get their numbers higher.

Take a look at Africa. I have been watching the same donate to Africa commercials 40 years. They always show starving pregnant women with flies landing on them. Where are the men? The more you feed these starving nations the more they breed. We just grow pain and suffering.

Wendy - you need to get out more.

Alex,

Well Said. She really does need a life. Too much time at home sitting in front of the computer. She seems to have bully tendencies and Queen Bee asspirations. Her blogs are laughable. The last one had every international theater hall she could find on the web. She generally finds time to squeeze in the letters LGBT on every lengthy rant. She seems to try to turn every blog into a masterpiece of creative writing. She makes fun of the way other people write when her own writings would get a fail. She needs to learn to get her story on 1 page and less ramble.

Wendy, you advocate invading a nation like India and forcing sterilization? Is that what I am reading? And letting the people in starving nations die of starvation instead of feeding them?

Boy, I thought you were just racist, now I see you are heartless too.

Alex, I was not talking to you. As for me, I give as much as my income dictates I can.
Wendy has made a habit of making racist and insensitive comments on these boards. A statement advocating invading a country just to force sterilization upon its' women is beyond the pale. It go against the human rights of the women in that country, the nation's sovereignty, and it is beyond this country's mandate. And letting people starve when we are in the position to help is just inhumane.

@Ali- The Gandhi clan did enforced sterilization in the emergency that began in 1971 when Indira and her sons suspended civil rights and lured men to the vasectomy booth for a snip in return for a transistor radio. The Gandhis thought it was brilliant.

And yes - letting people starve when we can help is inhumane and ugly. I also do what my income allows. People of humility and conscience tends to think this way.

I can spellcheck my posts on my computer - use the edit function.

@Ali - you are quite correct on that. And a good point.

Just what are those corporate tax loopholes? They're part of financing the government's boondoggles that Obama keeps pushing. GE made $14 Billion but paid no corporate tax.. why? Because GE agreed to buy 50,000 Chevy Volts, which the government insisted GM make but that nobody would buy. Why do the oil companies have loopholes? Once again, they get the tax breaks for investing in alternative energy resources, none of which are economically feasible, so they put their money into these useless energy sources that nobody wants to further the President's ill conceived policies.