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Some Blacks See Secret Service as Flawed Shield for the President
The New York Times ^ | October 2, 2014 | Peter Baker

Posted on 10/04/2014 1:00:59 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Representative Elijah E. Cummings of Maryland was at the grocery store the other day when he ran into an elderly black woman who expressed growing concern about President Obama’s safety. Why, she asked, wasn’t he being better protected by his Secret Service agents?

The furor that led to this week’s resignation of the director of the Secret Service resonated deeply among blacks, outraged that those supposed to be guarding the first black president were somehow falling down on the job — and suspicious even without evidence that it may be deliberate.

“It is something that is widespread in black circles,” said Representative Emanuel Cleaver II of Missouri, who like Mr. Cummings is an African-American Democrat who has been approached repeatedly by voters expressing such a concern....

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Maryland; US: Missouri; US: New York
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To: SkyDancer

Ditto, young lady


61 posted on 10/04/2014 3:22:37 PM PDT by tomkat (:^)
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To: RWGinger

And lots of them are freepers


62 posted on 10/04/2014 3:44:35 PM PDT by al baby (Hi MomÂ…)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
“It is something that is widespread in black circles,”

Yeah, just like racism, institutional racism, subtle racism, blueberry flavored racism... ad nauseum

I'm so F'ing TIRED of all their damned whining. They, as a race, get more benefits for less effort than anyone else yet they always complain, bitch, and moan....

GET OVER IT!

Man up, take responsibility for yourself and your offspring and STFU!

63 posted on 10/04/2014 3:48:49 PM PDT by Feckless (I was trained by the US << This Tagline Censored by FR >> ain't that irOnic?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hey Black People — the same government you and your kind vote for as a 95% conformist collective can’t do anything right, in case you haven’t noticed. From borders to education to disease control to foreign policy.

It has nothing to do with Obama’s skin color and everything to do with unionized federal workers whose job performance has nothing to do with whether they keep their cushy, high-paying jobs.


64 posted on 10/04/2014 3:54:01 PM PDT by spodefly (This is my tag line. There are many like it, but this one is mine.)
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To: al baby

Yes I remember many freepers saying they could not vote for Mitt
even when they knew obozo would be re elected
I didn’t understand it then
and I still don’t
I wish one of the freepers who wouldn’t vote for Romney would come back and explain
and say how they feel now


65 posted on 10/04/2014 4:19:26 PM PDT by RWGinger
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Don’t these clowns realize that muslims sold them into slavery?


66 posted on 10/04/2014 4:46:35 PM PDT by Molon Labbie (Prep. Now. Live Healthy, take your Shooting Iron daily.)
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To: hoagy62

Cue the alien guy with “Is such a thing even possible?”


67 posted on 10/04/2014 4:47:58 PM PDT by Molon Labbie (Prep. Now. Live Healthy, take your Shooting Iron daily.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Do these dumb Democrats not realize that Obama was nowhere near the White House when this happened? If he were, his entire Secret Service contingent would have been there and this likely wouldn’t happen.

There’s no racial bias in protecting the leader of the free world. The professionals in the Secret Service would still take a bullet for Obama, whether he selected an incompetent to run the department or not and whether they voted for him or not.


68 posted on 10/04/2014 4:57:27 PM PDT by NYRepublican72
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

this premise is BS , if the SS gave less attention to the POTUS because he was black he’d have been gone a long time ago .
I think the problem is in the screwed up leadership this administration has allowed to rise to the top in this and almost all of its other agencies . Including the military . This Admin has single-handedly messed up every aspect of Federal government and military leadership by favoring leftist sycophants as organization leadership . Virtually every single one should be pulled out of office and replaced .


69 posted on 10/04/2014 4:59:18 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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To: LeoWindhorse

Unfortunately our national broom only sweeps every four years and it misses lots of spots when it does. Sometimes it is a housecleaning, other times things get swept into corners and under rugs.


70 posted on 10/04/2014 5:18:59 PM PDT by billhilly (.Have you heard the latest Joe Biden whopper?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They ought to be glad that the door was not locked. That’s how Barry got in.
Lackadaisical people and their motor voter actions and inactions has ruint this country and I ain’t talk in about the secret survice .


71 posted on 10/04/2014 5:23:01 PM PDT by Recompennation (Constitutional protection for all not ju st selectively for Democrats.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Alternatives exist.”

Exactly my thoughts, 2ndDivisionVet.

Send the black pampers to protect that 50 IQ traitor Buckwhet.


72 posted on 10/04/2014 5:30:08 PM PDT by sergeantdave
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To: freeangel

I understand 0bama’s father was about 1/4 Caucasian, so he may not even be half Black, that would make him around 62.5% White.


73 posted on 10/04/2014 8:23:53 PM PDT by Impala64ssa (You call me an islamophobe like it's a bad thing.)
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To: Ken522
... some folks see a Secret Service that has to shield a flawed president ....

Exactly - they do a house cleaning and install some fat dumb broad as the head of the SDS, and now a long history of drunken orgies and unspoken, but obvious deterioration of morale. Who would want to have to put their life on the line for him?

74 posted on 10/05/2014 3:13:34 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Yo! You honkies ain’t protectin the bruther nuff!

Yo!


75 posted on 10/05/2014 3:18:44 AM PDT by djf (OK. Well, now, lemme try to make this clear: If you LIKE your lasagna, you can KEEP your lasagna!)
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To: puppypusher
It's a shame to see it that way, but I'll have to admit that I agree with you.

If we all converted to Islam, I'll bet he'd start caring a lot more.

Heck we could forcibly date single digit age children, force our wives to stay indoors or cover everything but their eyes when out, could rape our dauthers-in-law, could stone our wives if they were raped, could mame our wives so their enjoyment of sex would be deminished, could behead anyone we didn't like in the name of Allah, and commit henous acts of terrorism killing thousands of innocents just because...

Gosh Barry, what a humanitarian fella.  /s


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76 posted on 10/05/2014 10:40:11 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Obama and the Left are maggots feeding off the flesh of the United States.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It’s NOT that the individual Secret Service agents, in large part, are incompetent, but it’s the feckless “leadership”, up to and including the Golfer-In-Chief that allow these gaffs to take place. His vetting process must only take into account unspoken loyalty to him and his left-wing agenda over MERIT, PROFESSIONALISM, EXPERIENCE, and COMPETENCE in every selection he’s made for his cabinet and other important positions of leadership. From the FEMALE (affirmative action?) S.S. agent that was overpowered in the White House, to the incompetent FEMALE selected as the director of the S.S. (what IS it with him and his selection of hard-core leftist, apparently, butch lesbians (Kagan, Sotamayor, EPA twit, etc.) to positions of power? The same goes with his selection of black Socialists/Communists like Van Jones and, apparently,Jeh Johnson and Eric Holder. It’s all about advancing his Socialist/Communist ideology and agenda, and having blindly loyal cronies and sychophants to carry out his dirty work (Fast & Furious to generate more gun control, IRS to target & harass political dissidents, etc.) with little or no direction from him. If a woman, or a black man, or a black woman, or WHOMEVER is vetted to be the BEST, based on PROVEN MERIT, then, by all means, give them the job. Otherwise, STFU Congressman Cummings, and other whining bitches on the left.


77 posted on 10/05/2014 12:54:44 PM PDT by DocH (Official Right-Wing Extremist Veteran)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

BTW, the picture of the one guy with the clownish hat with “FOI” on it, LOOKS like the comedian that used to be on Mad TV. I’m sure he/they think it’s a cool look, but he actually looks like a railroad porter from the old days, hah! MOTEASAH.


78 posted on 10/05/2014 12:59:11 PM PDT by DocH (Official Right-Wing Extremist Veteran)
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To: Impala64ssa

I have seen that guy in top picture.

He is a train conductor in Chicago.


79 posted on 10/05/2014 7:16:11 PM PDT by School of Rational Thought
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