I’ve been waiting until after the election to post this special little picture I took with my iPhone on May 2 in San Francisco’s Chinatown at a shop on Grant Avenue. The shop had the usual collection of Chinese vases, furniture, silks and artifacts, but I noticed in a corner of the store a whole little section devoted to Chairman Mao and the Chinese Communist party. Being a political junkie, I gravitated to the pile there of "Little Red Books" of Mao’s communist sayings, Mao pins, a couple of Mao statues, propaganda magazines, etc., and, low- and-behold, spotted two stacks of refrigerator magnets with U.S. President Barack Hussein Obama’s picture on them. You can see them in this picture, being marketed right next to the Chairman Mao pins. I wonder if the local Democrats in San Francisco pressured the store owners to give Obama equal time?
