The first question I had to ask myself is why they did not get a helicopter to take Hu downtown.  You know, it is an old invention, maybe the Secret Service or the Chinese had heard of them?  H-e-l-i-c-o-p-t-e-r.  The second question is why they were doing this at the height of rush hour on a weekday.  Apparently our state “planners’ just were not sharp enough to come up with the thought “helicopter” or “maybe we shouldn’t close the Kennedy (I-90) at rush hour”.

This unfortunate event illustrates two disturbing things.  First, our elected leaders hold the peons they govern in such low regard that they think nothing of destroying the plans of a half million people so that they can actually drive the Communist Dictator Meat Sack from the airport to downtown.  Second they plan the transport in the most inconvenient way imaginable with maximum disruption for literally hundreds of thousands of people just trying to go about their ordinary business.  But they think they can plan the health care system for 300,000,000 people?  Whomever was responsible for this ought to be fired immediately, and that probably includes Maobama.

I will be prepared to forgive President Hu if he announces that China will purchase large quantities of US grains, as I am long lots of Corn, Soybeans, Soybean Oil and Wheat.  Barring that, however, I guess I am now firmly in the “screw China” camp.