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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: atc23

Isn’t like Obama himself a Secret Service Agent of a different sort?


61 posted on 10/03/2014 7:35:25 AM PDT by tflabo (Truth or tyranny)
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To: ontap

In answer to your question, David is not necessarily a good friend, he works for my husband and has been a very loyal employee in many ways. There is much that bothers me about him, mostly his black extremism, his undying support of Obama and the race baiters, but I do not hesitate to call him on out on it.


62 posted on 10/03/2014 8:11:46 AM PDT by Toespi
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To: Patton@Bastogne

The President is now a victim? Give me a break.


63 posted on 10/03/2014 8:15:53 AM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: WayneS

Not to mention ask yourself how drunk you would have to be to take a bullet for that POS. :-)


64 posted on 10/03/2014 8:45:53 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Toespi
I'm not being judgmental everyone has their limits...I reached mine a couple of years ago when I realized how much I dreaded seeing them. My wife and I decided life was too short to spend it with such miserable people and sat about rid ourselves of their company. We quit inviting them to our house and started avoiding them when possible. The relationships just withered on the vine!!!
65 posted on 10/03/2014 8:56:41 AM PDT by ontap
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To: reaganaut1

Maybe get the muslim brotherhood to protect him. After all he supports them.


66 posted on 10/03/2014 9:03:31 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

I agree- but no reporter would dare ask him for details that could be checked

Like Joe Biden talking about having a conversation with a woman at a corner deli that had been closed for over 20 years...


67 posted on 10/03/2014 9:20:42 AM PDT by Mr. K (Palin/Cruz 2016)
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To: reaganaut1; Abundy; Albion Wilde; AlwaysFree; AnnaSASsyFR; bayliving; BFM; Bigg Red; ...

Maryland “Freak State” PING!


68 posted on 10/04/2014 9:12:08 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (The mods stole my tagline.)
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To: reaganaut1

Yeah, just keep stirring that racial hatred pot.

This stupid article even starts with a lie in the first sentence:

Representative Elijah E. Cummings of Maryland was at the grocery store....

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Like this race-baiting elitist ever goes to the grocery store.


69 posted on 10/05/2014 7:16:08 AM PDT by Bigg Red (31 May 2014: Obamugabe officially declares the USA a vanquished subject of the Global Caliphate.)
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To: relictele

The Secret Service’s problems of their own making. But IF they had help, it came from those already hostile to law enforcement i.e. race hustlers from Chicago.

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And I would be willing to bet that the woman who just resigned as head of the USSS was an affirmative action hire.

My tin foil is tingling a lot lately, so I can’t help thinking that these stories about Obola’s security problems are all part of a plan to make some huge change that will help to consolidate even more power to the emperor.


70 posted on 10/05/2014 7:20:00 AM PDT by Bigg Red (31 May 2014: Obamugabe officially declares the USA a vanquished subject of the Global Caliphate.)
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To: winner3000

I wouldn’t put it past Cummings to be one of the people who are fomenting the false narrative in the black community to get them angry and voting during the midterm election.

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Bingo!

And, of course, we all believe that Cummings does his own grocery shopping. Probably went in there with Pelosi and Hillary.


71 posted on 10/05/2014 7:22:12 AM PDT by Bigg Red (31 May 2014: Obamugabe officially declares the USA a vanquished subject of the Global Caliphate.)
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To: reaganaut1
yeah, that is why he is protected by this expensive shielding and he has the most expensive chicago thug mobile on the planet

Honestly, I imagine the moral is crappy and we lost some good men after that questionable hooker scandal in South America (was it real or was it to get rid of more patriotic and competent SS?). I imagine it is difficult to put your life on the line for an anti-american pathetic crap head.

72 posted on 10/05/2014 1:34:45 PM PDT by FreeAtlanta (Liberty or Big Government - you can't have both.)
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