Barack and Michelle Obama like to claim they raise their money from small donors. So his recent visit with plutocrats in the Bay Area to raise millions of dollars in one day was not something about which publicity was wanted. The sight of Barack serially attending gatherings of the ultra-rich, figuratively filling his money bags, doesn't do much to advance the narrative. So his friends in the media yawned. If you weren't watching the local TV news on certain SF station s, you probably missed the whole thing.