I imagine that'll be a new plaque on the West Portico.

Uptown Athens is NUTS right now.

College Green is fenced off with a bunch of porta potties, trash cans and pallets of bottled water sitting around. The buildings bordering the green were all closed to the public and employees had to be out at 11:00 this morning so the Secret Service could come in and do sweeps and secure the buildings.

The lines to get onto the green began forming before 10:00 this morning. They started letting people in at 3:00 (you have to go through something like airport security to get on the green) and the lines are moving surprisingly fast. Took a walk outside a few minutes ago and saw vendors set up on W. Union selling everything from t-shirts to buttons to Obama action figures. (I kid you not.) A couple of enterprising students are selling hula hoops and are hula hooping in the street to advertise... lol. It's like a circus.

I would assume the helicopters were also booted.

Funny stuff.  Now, tell me which pseudonym he'll be using at that time.  

Any visit by a sitting President is a huge logistical nightmare for a lot of innocent people.  Having involuntarily experienced that inconvenience up close and personal I have mixed feelings about it.  I understand the need for security (I'm in that business), I just wonder how much security is enough vs. too much.

I lived within a stone's throw of Port Columbus over several national election cycles.  If I had a dollar for every minute I was forced to sit in my car stock still on some major Columbus artery while Air Force 1, 2 or 23 took off or landed on a campaign stop- not to mention the opponent du jour - I'd have enough money to move away from the airport, which I eventually did anyway.

Circus is a good word for it, but it's a kinder term than I would use.  Goat- ^%$# comes to mind. 

Its not as good a visual as the West Portico. 
Back in '04 the Bush campaign rented out Nationwide Arena for a rally up there. There was talk of renting out The Convo for either the President or Vice President, but it (obviously) never came about.