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DEL.ICIO.USBlogging from the Cheney bash. Three hours early.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Vice President Dick Cheney shows up here at the Atlanta Hilton somewhere in the six o’clock hour, just in time for rush hour.
Which is why members of the press — and everyone else — were required to be here, and patted down, three hours early.
That’s a longer lead time for security than President Bush required on his last trip through here.
The event is the annual Presidents’ Day fund-raiser for the state Republican party.
Ran into one GOP strategist downstairs, who wondered whether anyone other than the retired or the very rich could afford to spend 180 minutes cooling his heels in security limbo.
That’s his thought. We in the press corps are more worried about the health of diners. Waiters are putting out pads of butter and the dessert. And dinner’s not for a long, long time.
Added at 4 p.m.: Security just announced that reporters with bathroom needs need to be escorted from their pen now, or hold it until after 7 p.m. These are the details that make a career in journalism so glamorous.
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