Posted on 06/19/2007 9:41:05 PM PDT by Sleeping Beauty
WASHINGTON, June 17 (UPI) -- U.S. Secret Service agents have tagged Sen. Barack Obama with the code name "Renegade."
Obama, an Illinois Democrat and seeker of his party's 2008 presidential nomination, received the name in the time-honored tradition of giving "secret" code names to protected high-level dignitaries.
Obama's presidential rival, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., retains the code name "Evergreen" -- given to her when her husband, and former president, Bill Clinton became a protectee and was named "Eagle."
Sen. John F. Kerry of Massachusetts was named "Minuteman" after winning the 2004 Democratic nomination, while former vice president Al Gore started out as "Sawhorse" but became "Sundance," though the reason for the change was unclear, The Washington Post reported Sunday.
President George Bush, a protectee dating back to when his father was president, is "Tumbler" while former president Jimmy Carter is "Deacon." The president's father, former president George H.W. Bush, is "Timberwolf" and Ronald Reagan was "Rawhide."
The code names are chosen for the Secret Service by military officials, the Post reported.
Sen. John F. Kerry of Massachusetts was named “Minuteman”
Secret Service must have interviewed terayza when she was sloshed and REAL talkative, LOL.
I’d be Hallelujah. I’d like to have Sec Svc agts calling it out when I hid from them.
Who’da thought Jimmy Carter’s AKA is Deacon; I thought it was Dumbass all this time.
“Sen. John F. Kerry of Massachusetts was named “Minuteman””
Gee, and I thought that was Tarayza’s pet name for the gigolo.
Taxious Profoundo!!
algore should have remained “Sawhorse”. Fits the old stiff to a ‘T’.
Dammit, you beat me to it!
“So, what do you think your “Secret Service” name would be?”
Don’t know. However, given Obama’s muslim heritage and religious upbringing, his code word could well be “fifth columnist.”
what, you think she carries a pint around in her purse too?
After this immigration bill debacle, they should switch Jorge Bush’s name to Numbnuts.
I thought it was Dumbass all this time.
Jimma will never rise to the level of Dumbass
“So, what do you think your “Secret Service” name would be?”
Lucky Bastard.
No name, just a lot of confused looks from the agents.
Why does the Secret Service use “code” names that are publicly disclosed? Doesn’t that kind of defeat the purpose?
Mine would be "WHO?"
Renegade !
Now just a cotton pickin minute!......
My tag would probably be Redneck.
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