Obama’s World Cup Drama

May 7th, 2010 | by: chris | View Comments

The V.I.P. scene will be pandemonium at the World Cup, with security being such a prime concern for all involved. Security will become the primary concern when any number of the heads of state who are planning on attending enter into the equation.

And as security concerns go, Barack Obama’s a fairly big one, which is why the South African police are rooting against the US in the World Cup. Half-serious, but for serious.

It makes him – well, his crew – sound more Mariah Carey than politician. Think he’ll belt out a few bars of Butterfly for us?

“One challenge is the American president who is coming, not coming, coming, not coming,” Cele said.

“It is 50-50. Our famous prayer is that the Americans don’t make the second round,” he said to laughter from the MPs and police officials in the committee hearing.

“We are told that if it goes to the second or third stage, the US president may come.

“At the moment we have 43 head of state provisionally confirmed.

“That 43 will be equal to this one operation.”

It makes you wonder why he doesn’t just carpool with the Pope in the Popemobile with the Popeplane along with the Pope’s security team, headed by Jason Bourne and any of Arnold Scwarzenegger’s various gun-totin’, steroid-usin’ shirtless characters.

Actually, that sounds like a decent idea for World Cup security in general. Who needs police when you can go Hollywood?