What is Obama going to do in Sweden?

What is Obama going to do in Sweden?

Obama is arriving in Arlanda with his entourage on Wednesday morning sometime. His total entourage is 500 to 700 people, all of which pay well to stay at first class accommodations like Grand Hotel.

After that there is a 26 mile trip in his limousine, “the beast” to Stockholm. The Swedes did not want any airport noise close to Stockholm, so they built the airport at a safe distance even from the exurbs.

He will visit (in no particular order)

The Swedish “moderate” Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt and talk trade.

The Royal Technical Institute library and be shown some green energy initiatives.

The Grand Synagogue and honor the Swede Raoul Wallenberg, credited for saving over 10000 Jews in Hungary during WWII, was arrested and pined away in a Russian prison.

A dinner with the Prime Minister, maybe joined with his counterparts from Finland, Norway, Denmark and Iceland.

On Thursday morning he will pay homage to the King and Queen of Sweden at the Royal Castle before going to Russia. This is different from 4 years ago when he snubbed the King and Queen of Norway after receiving the Nobel Peace Prize.

Other than that I do not know why he has to go to Sweden instead of meeting with Putin and try to talk him out of providing more support for the Assad regime. After all he promised he would meet and negotiate with our enemies without preconditions.

After that, it is back to Arlanda and off to Russia and the G20 meeting.

He will not meet with Putin, but will meet with some gay activists in Russia. Priorities, priorities.

Here is the Obama entourage