What’s the big deal with the police escorts Downtown?

Yesterday I saw a lot of special task force police cars and Secret Service cars heading down Second toward the Civil Rights Museum, and this morning as I made my walk to Walgreens they had Madison blocked off in front of the Madison Hotel.

Here’s what’s going on: The president of Liberia is in town. Liberia’s president is a woman, by the way. Wow, a little country on the west coast of Africa is more progressive in that respect than the U.S. Hopefully we’ll catch up in 2009.