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The Superbowl closed downtown Detroit for 3 days last year, including the corporate headquarters of Ford.
For a football game. That the President wasn't going to attend.
The point is that things happen and sometimes you're inconvienced. Sorry about that, but in the post-9/11 world security is taken very seriously by most world leaders. I expect that if the Pope were to visit again, security would be a little tighter, as would a visit by any other major world leader.
It sounds like the Secret Service may have had a credible threat against the President. They don't make the kind of effort you've described lightly.
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