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From Washington Post's Dana Milbank...

They entered a capital that had become a military encampment, with camo-wearing military police in Humvees and enough Army vehicles to make it look like a May Day parade on New York Avenue, where a bicyclist was killed Monday by a National Guard truck.

In the middle of it all was Obama -- occupant of an office once informally known as "leader of the free world" -- putting on a clinic for some of the world's greatest dictators in how to circumvent a free press.
The only part of the summit, other than a post-meeting news conference, that was visible to the public was Obama's eight-minute opening statement, which ended with the words: "I'm going to ask that we take a few moments to allow the press to exit before our first session."

Reporters for foreign outlets, admitted for the first time to the White House press pool, got the impression that the vaunted American freedoms are not all they're cracked up to be.

There's your 'open and free dialogue' Obama promised during his lying election campaign ..."to be the most open and transparent ever."

I wonder how many instances of "Bush-like behavior" it's going to take to get the hard-core leftists to start squeaking? More Milbank...

Obama's official schedule for Tuesday would have pleased China's Central Committee. Excerpts: "The President will attend the Heads of Delegation working lunch. This lunch is closed press. . . . The President will meet with Prime Minster Erdogan of Turkey. This meeting is closed press. . . . The President will attend Plenary Session II of the Nuclear Security Summit. This session is closed press."

Reporters, even those on the White House beat for two decades, said these were the most restricted such meetings they had ever seen. They complained to both the administration and White House Correspondents' Association, which will discuss the matter Thursday with White House press secretary Robert Gibbs.

That will be a hoot. Robert Gibbs is a buffoon who represents a secretive president, one who's fooled a full 54% of the voting public. At least for awhile, he fooled that many people. He's lost a large swath of independent voters.  But since he can continue to provide handouts and 'free shit' to his core moochers people, they might be seeing the problems inherent in this administration, but won't say or do anything that might interfere with the candy. Good Americans, aren't they all?

More Milbank...

The restrictions have become a common practice for the Obama White House. When Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu came to the White House a couple of weeks ago, reporters were kept away. Soon after that, Obama signed an executive order on abortion, again without any coverage.

Over the weekend, Obama broke with years of protocol and slipped off to a soccer game without the "protective" pool that is always in the vicinity of the president in case the unthinkable occurs. Obama joked about it later to Pakistan's prime minister, saying reporters "were very upset."

The most open presidency, evah! "My administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in government." Oh, but when he speaks, he sounds almost believable, doesn't he?

"We are proud of these accomplishments, but our work is not done," Obama said. "We will continue to work toward an unmatched level of transparency, participation and accountability across the entire administration."

Those of you who are STILL Obama supporters, aren't you proud?