No forkin' way: Secret Service bans utensils at Obama speech

Now.MSN.com ^ | June 22, 2012 | AnaNavaro

[LucyT]

"...providing security for the president is one of the toughest, most stressful jobs around. But we're not quite certain the threat forks present. Today at a meeting in Orlando, Fla., of the National Association of Latino Elected Officials, where President Obama was scheduled to give a speech, the Secret Service wasn't taking the chance..." announcing they would collect all forks being used for lunch.

[snip]

Diners were also told that knives were not made available for "a reason."

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[dinodino]

I would have stood up and walked out. What kind of paranoid nutcase do we have in the White House, anyway!?

[Ann Archy]

OMG!! Do they think they are going to kill their GOLDEN GOOSE???? Oh PLEASE!!

[Ann Archy]

The Latinos should be OUTRAGED....but they won’t be.....they don’t even care that hundreds of their countrymen got killed by Fast and Furious guns!! IDIOTS....STUPID IDIOTS and PAWNS.

[PowderMonkey]

"I would have stood up and walked out."

Yep. And, I would have told others at my table to do likewise. Everyone in that room had to be vetted and cleared by SS in advance. That's just the way it is anytime any president puts in an appearance. Nobody gets to be in the same room with POTUS unless SS clears them. Confiscating the tableware is an election year publicity stunt. "PRES. UNDER THREAT FROM TEA PARTY ASSASSINS WITH FORKS!"

[chainsaw]

Who would want to harm the president, when the voters will be taking care of the matter shortly.

[GailA]

So true, there are few things I treasure beyond measure.

GOD
JESUS
My Bible
My Husband
My sons
My grands and great grands
My Country
MY Tauraus ultra lite 38, perfect for small hands with arthritis in them. I can at least clean it, where as the Bersa .38 automatic I traded in, I could no longer rack or clean. And at 5' bringing it to center mass and aiming body I usually hit what I aim at. Compensates for not having glasses on in an emergency. And per former LEO instructors unload the entire chamber. You will be sued any way.

[GailA]

And if that isn’t enough there is the pistol grip 12 gauge, bought from the same instructors shooting school. LOL

[dinodino]

...and this was a group of LATINO ELECTED OFFICIALS!

Can you imagine if it had been, say, a group of farmers coop leaders, or a hunting and fishing group? The SS would have banned any and all utensils and pointy or crunchy foods. They would have served nothing but Jello and served it in those little paper medicine cups.

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

This beauty has very little recoil and fits the hand and conceals really nicely... .357...

[chainsaw]

I love your dress code. (Post #12) LOL

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

Like this?

[chainsaw]

I love your dress code. (Correction: post #42)

[GailA]

Looks great, but to big for my hand, they are really small, my skinny as a rail12 year old grand daughter has bigger hands than I do. My instructors really worked hard with me to find one that would fit and be usable and have enough power. I loved my Bersa, but when old ‘arthur’ hits your hands you have additional problems to deal with. And my shooting hand got 2 of them, it effects fine motor skills.

[sten]

i’m guessing they didn’t want anyone to stick a fork in 0failure....

because everyone knows he’s done

[Walkingfeather]

I believe romney spoke to that group the day before... curious if he spoke during a meal, if forks were collected for him?

[PowderMonkey]

Marinated lamb kabob, served the traditional way would definitely be off the menu...this thread is making me hungry.

[Lionheartusa1]

0bama has become as paranoid as Madonna ,,,, she’s afraid someone will steal her DNA and clone her . One Madonna is one to many for me already .

[philman_36]

Sometimes a theory is a correct representation of reality, no matter how much conspiracy is involved, nor how outlandish it seems.
And speaking out on such theories just might very well stop such 'actual' events from transpiring.

The more people hear the theory that an attempt might me made 'for looks' the less likely it is to happen.
Cut off at the pass, as it were.

[GailA]

Not quite, regular length barrel with a pistol grip and a regular stock, you can use either one. We use the pistol grip. Hubby is Ret. Senior Chief, and he thought it the better weapon over the 9mm, LOL I can shoot the 9mm but can't clean or rack it. It is always racked and ready, has special rounds that won't go through the house to the neighbors. And yes we own a gun safe, we have to many grands and great grands not to, plus we live in Memphis, high crime city.

It's a Mossburg.

[jocon307]

“Why is Obama doing this with Latino audiences?”

And this is just any audience, these folks are “Elected and Appointed” office holders. They’re members of our various governments. I don’t think any one of them would attack our president with the implements as my dad always called them.

I think this is just disgraceful. I agree with the other poster, I think I’d walk out.

The secret service seems to be suffering from severe brain drain.