Pool Report of Obama En Route to the FBIThursday Obama protective pool -- off to the FBIA note of clarification for the previous pool note: The president-elect
left the gym wearing a black zip-up jacket, a gray t-shirt, black gym
pants, white/striped tennis shoes, a black Sox (go Sox!) baseball cap,
and sunglasses. He was carrying a cell phone, a blackberry, a folded
newspaper.
...
Obama left his house at 11:27 am, and heading to a security briefing at
the FBI building (Chicago division). The motorcade drove along Lakeshore
Drive, and past Grant Park (where there were scores of construction
workers still tearing down the scaffolding and staging from Tuesday
night's rally.
Some of the drivers here in Chicago do not seem to understand that a)
the Chicago police car at the end of the president-elect's motorcade is
serious about having traffic pull over when the officers flash their
lights and hit their sirens, and b) it's not a great idea to jump ahead
of traffic by trying to cut around the black SUV filled with five
heavily-armed secret service CAT members. When the motorcade pulled onto
Van Buren, an African-American couple driving a tan sedan tried to drive
around the motorcade. The SUV cut the car off immediately, and the
security team aimed their weapons at the car. The driver and passenger
in the sedan stopped, and looked stunned -- until the male driver
appeared to understand what was happening (your pool reporter could see
him mouth "Obama"). The motorcade continued on. The sedan remained
stopped, near the side of the road.The president-elect arrived at the FBI building at 11:48 am.
http://thepage.time.com/pool-report-of-obama-en-route-to-the-fbi/ 
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