SacBee: Capitol Alert ^ | 4/20/11 | David Siders
Posted on Wednesday, April 20, 2011 5:41:13 PM by SmithL
President Barack Obama could hardly find friendlier ground as he starts a fund-raising swing through California today, but there were signs of discontent outside Facebook headquarters, where he is hosting a town hall.
It wasn't that the crowd was large - it wasn't - but that many of the people hoisting signs were young, liberal voters who cast their first ballots for Obama, even volunteered for him, in 2008.
Chelsea Byers, a Code Pink intern who was studying abroad in 2008, helped organize an effort that year encouraging students to return absentee ballots for Obama. But she said she is upset with his actions in Libya.
"We just had hopes of seeing this great new Democratic base against wars," she said.
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