Thanks have to go out to the Secret Service in these primaries.....

ShaneGR

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Fri May-09-08 07:16 PM
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Thanks have to go out to the Secret Service in these primaries.....

They knew what they were doing, and still do. Look at these two pictures and then read the article:

From May of 2007 when he broke the record for earliest Presidential candidate to ever get Secret Service detail.

Yesterday

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18474444/

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Narkos

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Fri May-09-08 07:22 PM
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1. Well, looks like even the Secret Service know who their next

Big Customer is going to be!

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PoliticalAmazon

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Fri May-09-08 07:24 PM
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2. He wan't under their protection before? WTF? With all the bile Hillary is spewing?....

Well, as my Mom often said, "Butter my buns and call me a biscuit."

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NorthernSpy

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Fri May-09-08 07:56 PM
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11. May 2007 -- ie, one year ago...

Before the campaign bile erupted.

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KSinTX

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Fri May-09-08 07:24 PM
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3. In the 'timing is everything' category

Edited on Fri May-09-08 07:26 PM by KSinTX

The guys on this campaign have been remarkable but, right before you posted this, RamboLiberal just put up this in Late Breaking News:

E-Mails Show Derogatory Banter at Secret Service

Secret Service supervisors engaged in crude sexual jokes and racially derogatory banter about blacks, and passed around an anecdote about a possible assassination of the Rev. Jesse Jackson, according to internal e-mails disclosed in a federal court filing on Friday by lawyers for black Secret Service agents.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/10/washington/10inquire.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

Edit: wrong poster

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ShaneGR

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Fri May-09-08 07:28 PM
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6. Ok, I read that and it is from 2003

Edited on Fri May-09-08 07:28 PM by ShaneGR

And has nothing to do with the Secret Service's protect of Senator Obama. BUT, actually it does. They clearly got burned at the right time, and cleaned up their act.

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KSinTX

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Fri May-09-08 07:35 PM
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8. Ongoing case though, with the following insight

"The government�s delay follows a pattern of the Secret Service stonewalling plaintiffs and ignoring court orders, depriving African-American agents of the fundamental evidence of race discrimination that is key to their claims.�

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redstate_democrat

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Fri May-09-08 08:28 PM
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14. No, it's a current case. A noose was found in a training room last month

the culture within the agency is racist. Our entire government needs to be cleaned out. We have sociopaths managing the country. It is really scary.

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charlie

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Fri May-09-08 07:27 PM
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4. That idiot McCain is still shrugging them off

He'll probably have another think about his Man of the People posturing when some yahoo punches him in the head.

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SoonerPride

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Fri May-09-08 07:28 PM
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5. Well, there have been times when their protection seemed, um, lacking

really

http://thedailyvoice.com/voice/2008/04/did-the-secret-service-fail-to-000424.php

http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2008/02/22/secret-service-responds-to-charges-of-lax-screening-at-dallas-obama-rally/

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/2/22/103940/712/875/461870

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Pirate Smile

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Fri May-09-08 07:36 PM
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9. I noticed yesterday that he literally has four around him most of the time.

He is in the middle of the "box". Security looked tight which is a relief. I wonder how many people on the rope lines say things to the secret service guys like "keep him safe". I bet it isn't that unusual.

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tbyg52

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Fri May-09-08 07:48 PM
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10. Good. I worry. A lot.

But I'm also happy a lot. I am so thrilled to have a candidate who doesn't appear to think we're all stupid.

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Beregond2

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Fri May-09-08 08:20 PM
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12. I think about them

every time I see a picture of a candidate. It takes some kind of guts to do that job. And imagine if you got assigned to someone you hated? Being able to put yourself in harms way even in that case...

These people are heroes.

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applegrove

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Fri May-09-08 08:24 PM
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13. I'm sure the SS is doing a great job.

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