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OK, here is my personal experience watching Bush get to a fundraiser since it happened by my office and I was suppose to walk home.
1) Roads blocked for hours near where the helicoptors landed. Bush came by air while his vehicles were driven 100 miles from DC. (He could not have driven?)
2) Main street in City closed the entire visit.
3) Parallel streets closed.
4) Cross streets closed.
Now since this was Bush it was OK. Now that it is Obama it is not? Get real and drop the double standard and petty whining.
Sorry but this is not limited to Obama. It has always been a general practice to shut down streets whenever a President has been in a town - for whatever reason. As someone who grew up in DC and Baltimore, I've seen this happen numerous times, for Presidents of both parties.
Heck, in the last four years I have endured significant flight delays on three occasions (once in the terminal, once sitting on a plane at the gate waiting to leave, and once circling an airport) because all air traffic has been stopped for Air Force One to either take off or land - twice for Bush II and once for Obama.
NOT usually in residential neighborhoods, which is where this fund raiser was held.
Okay I have to be honest, this ranks up there with the "who really cares", kinda like where Michelle takes her vacations...*shrugs*
I imagine you would care if you were out running errands, 2 miles from your house, and it took you three hours to get home.
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