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Old Jan 30, 2015 | 8:04 am
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Originally Posted by LondonElite
Not wishing to stir up a hornets nest, but others manage on commercial (or chartered) flights, including the British PM for example, who recently flew back in Club World on BA from IAD to LHR after his chinwag with Obama.
Certainly, but Cameron also takes Sunday lunch with his kids at the Kings Head on Bledington Common and diners at adjoining tables pay them no mind. Obama can do nothing of the sort without the Secret Service commandeering the restaurant for two days in advance and setting up a command truck outside. It's less of a logistic task moving the British PM around, and frankly he is less of a target, with less of a security cordon.

Sadly, of the last ten US presidents we've had two shot, one fatally, one nearly so, plus one near-miss, so there is a near-neurotic protective instinct overshadowing his every move.
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