[High Praise! to iOwnTheWorld]
I read this interview with Obama, and I couldn’t help thinking that every Palestinian with explosives strapped to his chest has these exact same thoughts – wishing he could move like a ghost amongst his vulnerable targets:
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“Sometimes I have this fantasy that I can put on a disguise, wear a fake mustache and I can wander through Tel Aviv and go to a bar and have a conversation,” he said in an interview taped at the White House earlier this week.
Obama said he misses the “spontaneous interactions” he used to have when he traveled.
“I’d love to sit at a cafe and just hang out,” he said.
“The last time I was there as a senator, I still had the option of wandering through the Old City of Jerusalem. That option becomes much trickier once you’re actually president,” he said, noting the tight security around him when he travels.
“You can’t just slip out and interact with people without having a bunch of guys with machine guns with you,” he added.
Obama told the interviewer he plans to find as many opportunities as he can to interact directly with the Israeli people, but admitted, “You’ve tapped into something that chafes at me.”
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