Posted on 04/14/2010 3:56:01 AM PDT by Bulldawg Fan
World leaders arriving in Washington for President Obama's Nuclear Security Summit must have felt for a moment that they had instead been transported to Soviet-era Moscow.
They entered a capital that had become a military encampment, with camo-wearing military police in Humvees and enough Army vehicles to make it look like a May Day parade on New York Avenue, where a bicyclist was killed Monday by a National Guard truck.
In the middle of it all was Obama -- occupant of an office once informally known as "leader of the free world" -- putting on a clinic for some of the world's greatest dictators in how to circumvent a free press.
The only part of the summit, other than a post-meeting news conference, that was visible to the public was Obama's eight-minute opening statement, which ended with the words: "I'm going to ask that we take a few moments to allow the press to exit before our first session."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Oooh. The plot thickens.
But don’t you think he could just send some thugs to do that? Or call the Kenyans over secretly? Or even officially? He seems fine shirking the press, so I don’t see why that would beed to be so secretive.
Maybe I just want to think everything he does is nefarious. Oh wait. It is.
an Iranian nuke was “at least a year away”.
He meant a year in dogs years!
Good.
Yeah, I agree with you. But everytime I try and post something that was posted hours before I get stomped by the Admin Moderator. So, I bring it up.
At least you can go looking for the extended comments on the other threads!
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