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Secret Service Code Names for the Obamas
courant.com ^ | 11/11/08 | The Big Feed

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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To: The Big Feed

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.


21 posted on 11/11/2008 7:16:38 PM PST by exhaustedmomma (Way to go BARNEY!! Barney for White House Press Secretary.)
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To: lilycicero

Can I buy a vowel?

If the VP family had R names, also, Biden’s would be “Rimshot”.


22 posted on 11/11/2008 7:19:12 PM PST by Girlene (Rimshot/Biden -- It's a Rush Limbaugh thing)
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To: The Big Feed
Renaissance....Oh yeh....Look at a few art works from the time and you'll know how she got the name...

Broad range of interests my eye........

23 posted on 11/11/2008 7:23:34 PM PST by Sacajaweau (I'm planting corn...Have to feed my car...)
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To: The Big Feed

* Rockin’ *

Good thing they did’t use “Rockin’”. I’d have had to disassociate myself with myself.


24 posted on 11/11/2008 7:35:51 PM PST by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists, Call 'em what you will, they ALL have Fairies livin' in their Trees.)
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To: The Big Feed

Foreign Usurper


25 posted on 11/11/2008 7:36:08 PM PST by IYAS9YAS (Ever notice that Obama supporters chant "O-Bahm-AH" while McCain/Palin supporters chant "U-S-A".)
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To: Sacajaweau

Renaissance got back :)


26 posted on 11/11/2008 7:41:12 PM PST by txhurl (obama elected president?)
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To: The Big Feed
MoFoBro

Esther

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Woulda been my choices. Nothing good happens when there are two lawyers in the White House....oops, that name is gonna cause some trouble also...
27 posted on 11/11/2008 8:59:51 PM PST by Tainan (Talk is cheap. Silence is golden. All I got is brass...lotsa brass.)
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Rosebud

I guess they stopped short at Rose-red (and went with rosebud, finally, the clandestiny)... Red-1, Red-2, and Red-rover.

28 posted on 11/11/2008 9:26:55 PM PST by exhaustedmomma (Way to go BARNEY!! Barney for White House Press Secretary.)
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