Well, It Would Help If He’d Stop Being So … I Dunno, Socialist With a Target On His Back
Politico Magazine has done crossed the great divide between us and the people who are a’waitin’ for the Jesus Train so they can watch you burn in hell for electing that Obama guy.
Politico figures that the only thing that will reform the Secret Service is for President Obama to get shot. And killed.
Oh hell, there’s no figuring to it. They shout that damn stuff.
Agents tell me it’s a miracle an assassination has not already occurred. Sadly, given Obama’s colossal lack of management judgment, that calamity may be the only catalyst that will reform the Secret Service.
So, if President Obama gets shot, it’s his fault? Well hell, that ought to extinguish the flame on John Kennedy’s grave. And Lincoln should have known better than that Emancipating crap.
The article was written by the same guy who wrote that so-called Secret Service gossip book about the presidents – where all Republican presidents are the nicest people ever and never do anything wrong and all Democratic presidents are first cousins to Satan. It’s called “First Family Detail” and it’s silly, silly, silly.
Politico has learned that they get more clicky from the mouthbreathers of Jesustan (is that one or 2 s’s? or should it be hyphenated…damn this clever shit is complicated) than they get from the mildly interested but not all-in liberal crowd aka the 10% who care. I like to judge a site by the commentariat and Politico commenters got way too much drool on my monitor going way back.
1But thanks for reading so we don’t have to. I do find it ironic that the haters of the POTUS are griping about his security detail being incompetant.
A friend of a friend is a Secret Service agent with experience on the Presidential Protection Detail and while there is little doubt of the party-hearty attitude displayed in the previous scandal, the agents of the PPD take their jobs very seriously. The White House Police — the visible ones — have a different job and this most recent incident reflects poorly on their policies and procedures with regard to enforcing the security perimeter. I am quite sure that one of the people on a roof with rifles could have dropped this person and had that happened the pool-pah would have been just as stinky and partisan as the current one is.
2A little background on Kessler’s latest book.
http://theweek.com/article/index/265890/the-weird-inaccuracies-in-ronald-kesslers-new-book-on-the-secret-service
3Isn’t it the responsibility of Congress to provide oversight for the entrenched bureaucracies such as the CIA and Secret Service? Apparently Issa is too busy chasing his tail to fulfill his role as watchdog, while DiFi is too busy lining her husband’s MIC pockets.
Yeah, it’s all President Obama’s fault that he can’t force these criminals and blue dogs to do their jobs.
4If it takes a President getting shot to reform the Secret Service (which I don’t think is true, first thing out of the bag), then go on and reform it first…don’t make the nation go through teh trauma of another Presidential murder.
And OF COURSE it’s not the President’s fault–any President’s fault–if assassinated. Even if Obama were guilty of “colossal lack of management judgement.” (Tell me, what is “management judgement” as opposed to plain old “judgment” spelled correctly? And he’s not.
5The President should not have to micro-manage the performance of the Secret Service. Anyone who thinks that is the President’s responsibility doesn’t understand job delegation. Or time.
6There are few things that leave me speechless these days, but to say if President Obama were to be assassinated “it would be his own fault” just did it for me.
The stupid truly hurts.
7Don A in Pennsyltucky has pretty much the point on this. Executive protection, as best I can tell, is still the best in the world and they constantly evaluate to get better.
Property protection is a different story. Although they would like to they cant build an 8′ chain link fence topped with concertina wire around the WH and its parks and out buildings. Maybe their threat analysis didn’t give enough credibility to one intruder on the ground. Who knows? Of course everyone will gripe if you have to walk east 150 yards in a chain link tunnel to get to a greeter that says “Welcome to the White House, may I see your ID and invitation?”
8Ok, Micr, I agree. Gotta add this, though. Our embassies around the world are guarded by Marines. Salt enough Marines through the Secret Service and watch things improve overnight.
9And, of course, we will never get around to the real issue here, and that is how we have fostered a culture in this country where people act out first instead of thinking about the consequences of their actions beforehand. Throw guns into that mind set and you have the perfect recipe for tragedy.
But, hey, it’s all about finding somebody to blame. Sigh.
10@Maggie: Those Marines Embassy Security Guards earn their pay minute to minute. And they are way up the food chain from the ordinary grunt. AJ Squaredaway would have major challenges snagging an Embassy position today.
11What happened when Reagan got shot?
12What happened when Reagan got shot?
13Every time they run the picture of the guy running across the lawn and into the White House, I see the person on the left, holding a dog on a leash, and not reacting at all. What’s going on?
14Corinne: Congressional Democrats had been interfering with the Service’s management. Duh!
15I’m not one for shooting people. But as Pogo (14) pointed out, it will not bother me at all to see a guard dog take a bite out of a fence jumper’s butt, or leg. The “off-duty” Secret Service man who finally took down the intruder just before he got to the Oval Office, looked to be the only man on the “detail” that was actually on duty.
The woman who was put in charge of the Secret Service, in the hope that she could change not only the lousy image they had at the time, but maybe change the culture a bit, failed miserably in her job to do either, and she also failed to impress upon the people who work on the grounds of the White House, and on the PPD, that they work a NO FAIL MISSION.
When it was revealed that The President had been riding on an elevator with a convicted felon, who was armed with a gun, and taking video of the President, with his camera phone, that was the last straw.
Heads needed to roll. But not just one…. a lot of heads need to roll. JMHO.
16@micr
Interestingly enough…. this is what you HAVE to go through to see your Congressperson:
http://www.visitthecapitol.gov/plan-visit/prohibited-items#.VC1B8WddVIE
Before 9/11 happened I took my grand daughter to visit family in the D.C. area. On a Saturday, we went sight-seeing, did the Smithsonians, The Monument, and we walked up the steps of the Capitol building, inside to the Rotunda, and into both galleries… the House gallery, and the Senate gallery. Nobody bothered us. Those days are gone….. sadly.
17@Miemaw: If those folks are that terrified of the light – cameras and “Video recorders or any type of recording device” – they probably should be. But then most criminals are. Sad really.
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