Obama's in Town

It snowed all night. The mire and grunge has been freshly painted with a coat of pristine white just in time for Barrack Obama's first Presidential visit to Ottawa. All of the down town core is closed off to the general public, just as it was when Bush visited in 2004.

This visit is being met by the public with a much greater enthusiasm than last time, however there is a lot of commentary about whether our Prime Minister is as enthusiastic. The tides have changed and America now has the more liberal minded leader, while we have a bush era ideologue, mind you a largely neutered one, thanks to our Parliamentary system.

It's amazing the machinery that is involved in a Presidential visit. The flying in of a fleet of armoured limousines, the closing off of traffic, the removal of trash bins and mail boxes along the motorcade path, the gating off of the busiest part of the city and the positioning of tactical units atop the buildings, not to mention the helicopters that constantly sweep the air like overgrown prehistoric insects.

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WARNING: Plenty of sailor talk.