Yeah, the most popular area of the park -- Hey, please note that I am not opposed to presidential security, be that person black or white, male or female, or whatever (I wouldn't want to be shot). HOWEVER, that presidential person ought to be able to recognize the inconvenience. After all, he didn't have to run for president. He could have shown Yellowstone to his kids as a senator. Ah, well. I haven't been much of a curmudgeon lately, so..... Scott Bryan In a message dated 8/19/2009 5:00:01 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time, browport at classicnet.net writes: I'm grateful to have a President who is interested enough in our national treasures to make a visit and I'm sorry that security and scheduling issues made his visit so short. The potential for policy influence seems to me to be a good trade for a few hours, or even days, of inconvenience. After all, the President's visit was restricted to one small area of the park. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: </geyser-list/attachments/20090819/96238227/attachment.html>