Chicago to re-elect Obama
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E-mail China Daily, November 6, 2012
Tholazia Handy and some relatives and friends stopped their van on the south side of Chicago's East Hyde Park Boulevard, trying to locate the most famous abode on the street.
Handy tried to cross the street toward a man who clearly belonged to the US Secret Service. The agent, sitting in a black van, quickly gestured for Handy to walk no farther.
Visitors can now see only a small part of Barack and Michelle Obama's red-brick Georgian revival-style home tucked behind thick, tall trees. The street outside is blocked and guarded around the clock by the Secret Service.
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Noel Hurtado, a cook at Chicago's Valois restaurant, where Barack Obama was a regular customer before becoming US president, works in the kitchen on Sunday afternoon. Hurtado said he would be voting to re-elect Obama. [Photo: China Daily] |
Handy was a bit flustered. She had driven five hours from Michigan, but the Sunday afternoon setback wouldn't keep her from voting to re-elect President Obama on Tuesday, she said.
"I think he did the best he could" over the past four years "and deserves another four years and have another try," the would-be visitor told China Daily.
As for Obama's rival Mitt Romney, Handy said he favors the rich.
"I don't think he is for the poor -- black or white," she said.
The same feeling was expressed by Wayne Davis, who has worked at the Hyde Park Hair Salon for five years.
"He did well in the last four years, but there were things he couldn't do because Republicans got in the way and wouldn't let him," Davis said.
He added that he used to see Obama often before his January 2009 inauguration. As a US senator from Illinois, Obama would come to the salon every two weeks for a $21 haircut, Davis recalled.
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