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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: franksolich on January 10, 2013, 03:25:16 PM
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022168513
Oh my.
JaneyVee (2,013 posts) Thu Jan 10, 2013, 02:47 PM
Obama signs law giving himself, Bush, Others lifetime Secret Service guard.
Former presidents have to give up rides on Air Force One. But now they don't have to give up being shadowed by the armed-and-earpieced bodyguards of the Secret Service.
President Barack Obama on Thursday signed into a law a measure giving him, George W. Bush and future former presidents and their spouses lifetime Secret Service protection, the White House announced.
The legislation, crafted by Republican Rep. Trey Gowdy of South Carolina, rolls back a mid-1990s law that imposed a 10-year limit on Secret Service protection for former presidents. Bush would have been the first former commander in chief affected.
At the time, lawmakers who supported the measure said it would save the government millions of dollars. They also argued that former presidents could hire private security firms (as Richard Nixon did after he decided to forgo Secret Service protection in 1985).
The rest: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/obama-signs-law-giving-himself-bush-lifetime-secret-184305122--politics.html
gollygee (11,373 posts) Thu Jan 10, 2013, 02:49 PM
3. Good
Honestly, crazies might still go after W in a few years, and of course they might go after Obama 8 years after he's out of office. I think this is very wise. They still need to be protected, regardless of party.
Recursion (20,640 posts) Thu Jan 10, 2013, 02:57 PM
8. I thought they already had that?
It surprises me that this wasn't already the case.
jeff47 (5,875 posts) Thu Jan 10, 2013, 03:00 PM
10. They did, it got turned off during the Clinton administration, and now it's back on.
Since it passed during Clinton's time in office, W would have been the first one affected by the new law.
Crazy Combo (7 posts) Thu Jan 10, 2013, 02:59 PM
9. Obama should have signed for himself, and not for Chimp.
Taxpayers should not have to be paying for the Chimp to have Secret Service. Just dump him in a bar and 100,000 cash, and he'll be fine right there.
benld74 (4,133 posts) Thu Jan 10, 2013, 03:07 PM
13. Gawd, it would suck to be W's SS man wouldn't it?
Paladin (7,651 posts) Thu Jan 10, 2013, 03:17 PM
14. Obama's Secret Service Detail Will Be In Harms Way A Lot More Than W's.
If you're just talking about which ex-president will be better company, you have a point: the guy with a functioning brain is preferable.
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If guns are banned why would secret service protection still be required for any one? I thought banning guns would make everyone sit around and sing Kumbaya.
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If guns are banned why would secret service protection still be required for any one? I thought banning guns would make everyone sit around and sing Kumbaya.
Maybe we need to ask the preezy that question. What WAS he thinking????
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Paladin (7,651 posts) Thu Jan 10, 2013, 03:17 PM
14. Obama's Secret Service Detail Will Be In Harms Way A Lot More Than W's.
If you're just talking about which ex-president will be better company, you have a point: the guy with a functioning brain is preferable.
Once the strings are removed from Obama, he will sit there like a slack-jawed DUmmie. I'm willing to bet that Secret Service agents will gladly work for the Bush's, not so much the Obama's.
OTOH, some agents might like that cushy life in Hawaii when Obama retires.
Most of the crazy violent people are on the left, but their insanity allows them to target their own to martyr them, so Obama is likely to be in more danger.
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Maybe we need to ask the preezy that question. What WAS he thinking????
What was the person that is about to start the next revolution thinking? Well of himself and protecting his own ass of course.
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What was the person that is about to start the next revolution thinking? Well of himself and protecting his own ass of course.
That's the way I see it.
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I suppose that they might as well give the simpleton his teleprompter for life too--maybe then he won't embarrass us all as much after he's gone from office.
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So, the guy with the functioning brain would be preferable? So they'd take the Harvard and Yale grad who actually ran things effectively over the pretend professor?