Posted on 05/27/2009 1:43:13 PM PDT by Baladas
CAIRO — The official word is that nothing has been decided about where President Obama will give his speech when he visits Cairo next Thursday to address the Muslim world.
It is supposed to be a secret.
There are, of course, matters of security for the president of the United States when he comes to visit this crowded, chaotic city on the Nile filled with quite a few people who hold a good deal of animosity for the United States.
But it is not a secret.
Right outside the gates of the university, vendors selling items from small kiosks said they had more pragmatic concerns than East-West relations. That is often the case in a country where about half the population struggles to survive on less than $2 a day.
“I am trying to get a birth certificate to get a job,” said Samia Abdel Hafiz, 52, as her 9-year-old daughter peddled tissues to students on the street. “Whenever I apply for a job they ask me for the birth certificate. Maybe Obama can help get my paperwork through.”
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He’s visiting the safe Cairo, not the one in Illinois.
I bet somebody at the Times copy desk let that line through deliberately to get the message out past the gatekeepers.
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