Obama: Inconsiderate behavior or acceptable executive priviledge?

Apparently Mr. Obama was in my fair city yesterday evening for a couple of fund raisers.

It is important to understand that like most major cities that suffered explosive growth, our traffic infrastructure was unable to keep pace with that growth and consequently we have some major issues during rush hour. In spite of this, however, Mr. Obama landed in Austin around 5(ish) and then proceeds to use ground transportation, which required several of our main traffic arteries to be closed down (presumably for security reasons).

This is a man who can pretty much set his own schedule and can choose any form of transportation known to man yet he chooses ground transportation during rush hour, apparently without regard for the citizenry of this city. Couldn’t he have used a helicopter instead, or at least picked a time when people weren’t trying to get home from work?