Posted on 11/11/2008 6:19:25 PM PST by The Big Feed
I reckon this is safe to print. It was on the internet. I would have gone with Remus for Obama. It seems like a natural fit. Remus was a black man who was always spinning the obvious.
The Secret Service code names for the First Family-elect are another odd assortment of seemingly random words, all starting with the letter R.
John McCain may have been a self styled Maverick, but Barack Obama's Secret Service code name is Renegade. Michelle Obama, a woman of wide interests, is Renaissance (which sounds like the beginning of a perfume campaign). Malia Obama did not get named after one of the Jonas Brothers (no fair -- wasn't Clinton named after Elvis?). Instead, the 10 year old is Radiance, which sounds like a little New Agey. The littlest daughter Sasha has a name that was once the last utterance of newspaper mogul turned politician Charles Foster Kane: Rosebud.
Why R names? Well, that's the tradition - the President gets one name and everyone in his family gets one with the same letter.
Joe Biden, I should tell you, is Celtic (do they pronounce it like the Boston team or the original Irishmen?); his wife Jill is Capri. Together the two are kind of perfect: "Celtic n' Capri." Sounds like a sitcom team. Or new suburban clothing outlet.
Anyway, the Secret Service must have had a whole list of R words to distribute among the Obamas. We can only assume these were passed over. (But only assume, because their workings are by definition Secret):
* Ramen * Regular * Rhapsody * Rooster * Reet-Petite * Rendezvous * Redeemer * Romulus * Remus * Rimsky Korsakov * Rockin' * Recompense * Rudolph the Red Nosed
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Why don’t they just call them by their names? What’s the point of a code name if everybody knows it? Seems stupid to me, and hardly clandestine.
Can I buy a vowel?
If the VP family had R names, also, Biden’s would be “Rimshot”.
Broad range of interests my eye........
* Rockin’ *
Good thing they did’t use “Rockin’”. I’d have had to disassociate myself with myself.
Foreign Usurper
Renaissance got back :)
I guess they stopped short at Rose-red (and went with rosebud, finally, the clandestiny)... Red-1, Red-2, and Red-rover.
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