Sunday, June 27, 2010

What's This All About?

From this source, dated June 26, 2010:
Holed up with seven other global leaders in the woods of Muskoka, Canada, President Barack Obama gave the White House press corps the slip last night.

[...]

The president is attending the G-8 and G-20 summits with his global counterparts this weekend. The G-8 began yesterday in Muskoka in Huntsville, Ont., and ends today. The G-20 is in Toronto, about 150 miles away, and starts this afternoon.

Last night, the White House sent the press corps — which by agreement stays close to the president in order to report on any incident — back to Toronto, leaving the president 150 miles behind. In the wee hours of this morning, the crew of a dozen or so reporters and photographers in the press corps got back on a bus and returned to Muskoka for the day’s events.

It is highly unusual for the president to shun his permanent media detail that way, particularly at a high-profile event in a remote location....Obama, who’s been quite vocal in his disdain for the press at times, has blown off his press corps in the past.
Transparency, right? **snerk**

And what is BHO doing when he goes "AWOL"?

2 comments:

revereridesagain said...

He may be doing it to piss off the press corps because he can. He may be meeting people, which raises interesting questions about the Secret Service and any other security he may employ.

christian soldier said...

we know what john kennedy and bill clinton were doing--
michelle obama-are you curious!?
C-CS