>>I know I should not be amused, but I am.
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>>http://www.keyc.com/node/30663
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>Initially the Secret Service insisted Obama was never in any danger. But the wife, at least, got right to the front of the line:
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>http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/091127/world/us_state_dinner_uninvited_guests_5
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>"Obama and Michaele Salahi, a candidate for Bravo's "The Real Housewives of D.C.," are smiling as she grasps his right hand with both of hers and her husband looks on. Singh is standing to Obama's left."
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>Thousands of assorted scumbags know ways to take advantage of a situation like that, and would do literally ANYTHING to be in her place.
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>Heads will roll at the Secret Service.

You bet. In a way it's too bad because the officer or officers responsible for this security lapse probably had exemplary careers until then. But you just can't let unauthorized people get that close to the President. Especially this one. Since his campaign started rolling, I have never lost the feeling that someone will at least take a shot at him.

Someone in his position must have to put that thought out of their mind. You know there are those who would gladly do it, so the possibility always exists.

Years ago I was meeting a guy who reported to me for breakfast at a hotel near O'Hare. He had flown in from Denver late the night before. I was a few minutes late so just walked in and started looking for John. And walked right past a booth where Jesse Jackson and some others were sitting. (It turned out Operation PUSH was having its annual convention at the hotel). I have no doubt some of the guys there were security. I have little doubt, either, that if I had been so inclined I could have gotten a shot off before they could stop me. I was dressed like an ordinary businessman at the time -- suit, raincoat, briefcase. (No, Dragan, I wasn't wearing the briefcase, LOL). Gun inside the coat, whip it out, blam. People like him have to live with that possibility every day unless they want to be recluses, which they really can't.