Subject: U.S. Presidential Inauguration

• Political Consultants Give Obama Speech High Marks -- But Wonder if You Can Be Memorable When No One Remembers Anything You Said

  It's hard to be nostalgic when you can't remember anything. And a handful of San Francisco's top political consultants are now pondering if it's possible for President Barack Obama to have delivered a "memorable" address when they had trouble recalling its specific lines even 15 minutes after he uttered it. Oh, they'll remember this day -- the unbridled joy of shedding George W. Bush once and for all, the hat Aretha Franklin borrowed from the Statue of Liberty, the perfection of a wheelchair-bou

  January 20, 2009

• Bay Area Lawmakers Among Obama's Worst Frenemies

  Bay Area residents rejoicing over the historic inauguration of Barack Obama might want to take heed of an assessment of their elected representatives featured yesterday on Politico, the political news Web site. Writer Glenn Thrush posted a top-ten list of Democrats who pose a threat to Obama's agenda. As it turns out, this elite group is stacked with legislators from the Golden State. Three Californians are on Obama's potential "White House Frenemies List," including Sen. Dianne Feinstein (No. 2

  January 22, 2009

• S.F. activist Suzi Chang seeks to give Bush pink slip

  January 14, 2009

• An Evening With Robert Pinsky

  December 31, 2008

• Red Road Trip

  Go ahead and protest the inauguration. But if you really want the Democrats to win next time, shouldn't you start to learn how the red half lives?

  November 24, 2004