[thouworm]

I’m happy to know that the conditions of the Fort Reno Park game fields are satisfactory, that games were played on said day, and that children can play their games out of the glaring eye the national press.

Thanks for your input.

[sphinx]

We've run this into the ground and I'm not going to pursue it beyond this post. My point here is pretty simple. Last year, the President went out to watch a few minutes of his daughter's soccer game and left the press behind. Because Sidwell wasn't playing, some folks drew the erroneous inference that there was no game and the whole story was a fabricated coverup. This has now acquired a life of its own. That this is taken seriously makes us look silly.

It's fair enough to look at unexplained loose ends, but when the simple explanation is presented, people should accept it. Instead, we now have a cottage industry insisting that ... well, maybe even if there was a real game (grudgingly admitted), because the president was out of sight of the press, there must be something sinister going on.

By that standard, unless there's a 24/7 surveillance camera on the president, with a live feed to the internet, people will see a dark pattern. This is paranoid thinking. In this instance, it all started with a breathless but entirely irrelevant report that there was no Sidwell game that morning (true), ergo no game at all (false). And we're off to the races.

A year has gone by. What dastardly deed do you think was done in that random, unsurveilled hour on the first day of soccer season?

Sometimes a cigar is only a cigar. This one is only a cigar. (Unless, of course, you can show me that he met with Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid in that missing hour, in which case I agree something dastardly was being planned.)