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Some Blacks See Secret Service as Flawed Shield for the President
The New York Times ^ | October 2, 2014 | Peter Baker

Posted on 10/04/2014 1:00:59 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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....

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


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Alternatives exist.

1 posted on 10/04/2014 1:00:59 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Plugs Biden may not be so effective as assassination insurance after all.


2 posted on 10/04/2014 1:05:08 PM PDT by Impala64ssa (You call me an islamophobe like it's a bad thing.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

what about that social sect’y who let the two imposters walk into a WH dinner 7 months after ayatollah moved in...she was black- was she flawed as well???

obama’s incompetent so what makes people think he has anything other than incompetent people around him??


3 posted on 10/04/2014 1:07:17 PM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: Impala64ssa

... some folks see a Secret Service that has to shield a flawed president ....


4 posted on 10/04/2014 1:07:26 PM PDT by Ken522
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Encase him in lexan.
He can imitate Han Solo in carbonite, he’ll be protected, and his faithful can flock to worship his immobile form in the same fashion as Vladimier Ilych Lenin.


6 posted on 10/04/2014 1:09:33 PM PDT by Darksheare (People who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The Secret Service is less flawed than the Party they’re protecting.

That dirt-bag wouldn’t care if we all died.His actions to this day prove that.


7 posted on 10/04/2014 1:10:25 PM PDT by puppypusher ( The World is going to the dogs.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Racism again rears its ugly head. /S


8 posted on 10/04/2014 1:10:37 PM PDT by aquila48
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
So why is this a "black" thing? Aren't all civicly-minded citizens conerned about the Secret Service not being able to protect the President--whoever that person is?

Typical liberal crap--bringing in race when the problem is not racial at all.

9 posted on 10/04/2014 1:11:45 PM PDT by Lysandru
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To: God luvs America
obama’s incompetent so what makes people think he has anything other than incompetent people around him??

If Obama is incompetent and he has said that he is smarter than all of the people around him, how incompetent must they be?

10 posted on 10/04/2014 1:12:48 PM PDT by oldbrowser (We have a rogue government in Washington)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Dirty deeds...done dirt cheap.


11 posted on 10/04/2014 1:13:28 PM PDT by Huskrrrr
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Charles D. Ellison wrote on The Root, a black-oriented online news site, that the episodes raised questions. “There could be only two reasons that Secret Service protection for President Barack Obama is slipping these days,” he wrote. “Either agents missed the memo that he’s the first black president or they really are just that overwhelmed.”

There is a third possible reason...

Incompetence because of the former head of the Secret Service was placed there for her loyalty instead of competence ...

Maybe the agents thought since Obama didn't care how well the S.S. was run, why should they...?

12 posted on 10/04/2014 1:13:55 PM PDT by Popman (Jesus Christ Alone: My Cornerstone...)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Makes me wonder if some in the black community want to see that ‘national civilian security force’ that Obozo mentioned at the beginning of his term taking over his protection.

I can see it now: America finally wakes up and realizes what kind of fool Obozo is. We rally en masse in DC to take him out of the White House. He calls on his “brothers” to protect him, and suddenly the White House is surrounded with armed gang members in huge numbers. We’d have to fight through them to get to him, giving him time to escape and fly somewhere he’ll never be prosecuted.

Yes...I do have a vivid imagination.


13 posted on 10/04/2014 1:14:22 PM PDT by hoagy62 ("Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered..."-Thomas Paine. 1776)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I blame this crap on every white person who voted for that POS BO out of “ white guilt”
Everything isn’t about race
except to blacks.


14 posted on 10/04/2014 1:15:18 PM PDT by RWGinger
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Hogwash. After the reports of misbehavior by SS agents overseas, Obama & Co. decided to end the masculine ethos by appointing a woman as SS Director. Only problem was that political correctness gave them a woman who was an incompetent. Thus the failures at SS aren’t whitey’s fault, they are Obama’s.


15 posted on 10/04/2014 1:18:25 PM PDT by Robwin
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To: Popman
--it's still a lousy excuse for the members of an organization such as the Secret Service or any similar presumable "elite" group involved with national security-

-in the political world , bosses come and go but the aim of the organization should remain the same--

16 posted on 10/04/2014 1:19:42 PM PDT by rellimpank (--don't believe anything the media or government says about firearms or explosives--)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
outraged .. and suspicious even without evidence that it may be deliberate.

Comrade editor !
You've allowed a slice of truth into print !
Swine !  To the gulag with you !

17 posted on 10/04/2014 1:20:27 PM PDT by tomkat (tried being optimistic - it didn't work)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Kind of a dog bites man story, isn’t it?


18 posted on 10/04/2014 1:23:11 PM PDT by x
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To: hoagy62; Travis McGee

Not vivid enough.


19 posted on 10/04/2014 1:23:33 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Yes, the obvious solution is to let Crazy Joe run around the White House nekkid, with his double barrel 12 gauge at the ready.

I mean, who want to confront a entity like that?!


20 posted on 10/04/2014 1:24:13 PM PDT by Tigerized (Keep Calm, Carry On, but Never Give Up.)
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