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In Secret Service, Some Blacks See a Flawed Shield for the President
New York Times ^ | October 2, 2014 | PETER BAKER

Posted on 10/03/2014 4:57:51 AM PDT by reaganaut1

WASHINGTON — 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. “I’ve been hearing this for some time: ‘Well, the Secret Service, they’re trying to expose the president.’ You hear a lot of that from African-Americans in particular.”

Both Mr. Cummings and Mr. Cleaver said that they did not believe the Secret Service lapses reported recently had anything to do with Mr. Obama’s race and that they had tried to dispel the notion among their constituents. But the profound doubts they have encountered emphasize the nation’s persistent racial divide and reflect an abiding fear for Mr. Obama’s security that has unnerved blacks still mindful of the assassinations of Malcolm X and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Maryland; US: Missouri; US: New York
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To: reaganaut1

If the Secrete Service Director was “black”, would you have gotten a resignation?????


21 posted on 10/03/2014 5:17:01 AM PDT by Phil
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To: reaganaut1

They’re setting him up to be a martyr! They will not let the first Black President fail. This is all prelude, I’m thinking. Either that or the CIA sent in a runner to let Zero know it was time to back off.


22 posted on 10/03/2014 5:17:28 AM PDT by NonValueAdded ("Kerry, as Obama's plenipotentiary, is a paradox - the physical presence of a geopolitical absence")
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To: reaganaut1

This Secret Service problem is just more evidence that ‘Affirmative Action’ doesn’t work.


23 posted on 10/03/2014 5:18:06 AM PDT by airborne (My heroes don't wear capes - My heroes wear dog tags!)
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To: reaganaut1

Yes it is anti- white racism. Imagine if the roles were reversed, and black SS agents were accused of not protecting a white prez. The accusers would be painted as racists in a NY minute.


24 posted on 10/03/2014 5:19:21 AM PDT by matt1234 (Obama fled. People bled. Iraq 2014.)
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To: reaganaut1

“Blacks See a Flawed Shield for the President”

Frankly, I don’t mind listening to what *Americans* (of any color) have to say about most any subject, but I’m beyond tired of hearing the “black” viewpoint. Black SS agents, black teachers, black congressional caucus, black community organizers, black welfare mommas, black victims, black thugs, black Starbucks baristas, black pundits, black this, black that, yadda yadda yadda.

Put a sock in it, “blacks”.


25 posted on 10/03/2014 5:19:55 AM PDT by Nervous Tick (There is no "allah" but satan, and mohammed is his demon)
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To: reaganaut1

Well then Bammy should just fire his SS protection and hire the Black Panthers for his security. That should satisfy his sheeples.


26 posted on 10/03/2014 5:22:00 AM PDT by tflabo (Truth or tyranny)
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To: reaganaut1

things are so bad at the WH, Obama can’t even wear his hoodie!


27 posted on 10/03/2014 5:27:23 AM PDT by GotMojo
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To: Nervous Tick

A retired black marine works for my husband, a pretty great guy but liberal as they come. He stopped at our house the other night and told us he had left his CADILLAC car keys in Lowes and someone had turned them in to the front desk. When he went in to get them, the manager asked for his ID before giving them to him. He was ranting to us about it, he felt they were targeting him because he was black and couldn’t possibly be driving a new Cadillac. I said, “David, why does something always have to be about your color, maybe that was just their policy.” He said, it is always about being black, blah, blah, blah.


28 posted on 10/03/2014 5:29:16 AM PDT by Toespi
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To: GotMojo

‘Well, the Secret Service, they’re trying to expose the president.’ You hear a lot of that from African-Americans in particular.” .............

So far that hasn’t worked too well either. He’s still taking vacations on our dollar.


29 posted on 10/03/2014 5:31:04 AM PDT by DaveA37
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To: tflabo

You beat me to it! Except I was thinking Black Muslims rather than Black Panthers. Farrakhan could send over some big, bow-tie wearing brothers to protect Hussein from the dhimmis. Probably wouldn’t see them getting into any foreign-hooker problems, either.

On the other hand, who knows? Maybe George Soros has decided that the only way to save Bammy’s popularity and progressive legacy is to go the Kennedy route.


30 posted on 10/03/2014 5:31:07 AM PDT by thanatz
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To: reaganaut1

31 posted on 10/03/2014 5:33:58 AM PDT by Brother Cracker (You are more likely to find krugerrands in a Cracker Jack box than 22 ammo at Wal-Mart)
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To: ilovesarah2012

Exactly. They are paranoid little rabbits who see the fictional white boogeyman around every corner. Such superficial human beings who base EVERYTHING on the color of one’s skin. Yet WE are supposed to be totally color-blind.


32 posted on 10/03/2014 5:34:23 AM PDT by kelly4c (http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/post?id=2900389%2C41#help)
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To: NorthMountain
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Obama's Amerikan Reichstag Fire ...

coming soon to a national election near you ...


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33 posted on 10/03/2014 5:35:34 AM PDT by Patton@Bastogne (.)
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To: Turbo Pig
I think anyone who knows what is going on here would assert this clown gets about double the amount of protection provided any previous president, period. The point is, because he is “so hated by white wing extremists” they must provide all this security.

If anyone cared to look into the security flubs involving former presidents, I am sure, beyond those in which the sitting president was shot, they would find security lapses too. Besides, this clown goes to the extreme of avoiding any dangerous situations i.e. he would not go near the border which was probably not only a political risk but he knew he could be in personal danger from one of those poor wretches and their drug cartel assistors bringing them over the border.

34 posted on 10/03/2014 5:38:32 AM PDT by Mouton (The insurrection laws perpetuate what we have for a government now.)
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To: reaganaut1

Obola is perfectly protected, SS or not.

If anyone made an attempt on his life, the ****storm would be beyond belief.

We would see martial law, door-to-door gun confiscation, and race riots like we’ve never seen before.

Even crazy right wing “extremists” know better than to try something like that.


35 posted on 10/03/2014 5:39:43 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
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To: Fresh Wind

I might add, attacks from foreign sources are not going to happen either.

Our enemies in the world are very happy with having a weak and compliant fool in the White House.


36 posted on 10/03/2014 5:43:16 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
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To: Toespi

I wonder how many more generations it will be before the inferiority complex is bred out of them.


37 posted on 10/03/2014 5:43:42 AM PDT by kelly4c (http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/post?id=2900389%2C41#help)
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To: NorthMountain

I’m with you. I don’t think Elijah Cummings has set foot in a grocery store since the 1970’s. He’s got staff lackeys to do all that for him now.


38 posted on 10/03/2014 5:48:14 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: NonValueAdded

Obama is NOT “black”. He’s a mulatto.

I am sick of the media pushing the “ he’s black” lie (among other lies and half-truths).


39 posted on 10/03/2014 5:50:03 AM PDT by ex91B10 (We've tried the Soap Box,the Ballot Box and the Jury Box; ONE BOX LEFT!)
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To: reaganaut1
The New York Times has these "racism" stories in the can like MadLibs, then just wait for any story they can use to fill in the blanks.

______(noun) Secret Service agents
_______(adjective) suspicious

40 posted on 10/03/2014 5:51:02 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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