The whole Secret Service discussion is a distraction
I’m so sick of all of this discussion in the media about how the Secret Service is putting the President’s life in danger. It’s not that I wish harm to him or to the First Family – exactly the opposite, I wish them health and well-being. Truly. But, I also would hope that they wish the same for me and my family despite ample evidence to the contrary.
Yeah, some criminal fellow was armed and in an elevator with the president the other day and the Secret Service missed that. But, you know what? There are thousands of criminals crossing the border everyday who will probably end up in an elevator with me someday. There are jihadists living in our neighborhoods that the law enforcement agencies virtually ignore.
The entire country has become more dangerous in the last few years, in case no one noticed. The feds sting terrorists about once a week lately. One fellow gets into the White House and we have to hear about it for weeks afterwards.
During the Clinton Administration, I walked from my local smoke shop to the subway station with a box of La Gloria Cubanas under my arm – when I went past the White House, a Secret Service guard shadowed me on the other side of the fence because of my suspicious package, I assume – but then I fit the profile of a crazed vet who smokes cigars. So I don’t know how that guy got over the fence and across the lawn and inside the White House. I don’t think anyone could get across my lawn and into my house unscathed, but then, I pay attention.
Arguably, the White House grounds have more armed guards than any place else on the planet and if criminals can get past them, maybe the rest of us aren’t as safe as the government tells us. Mostly, that’s because prosecutors won’t prosecute criminals, like the fellow who is calling my wife’s friends and telling them that he’s going to kill them because they know me. You know, the fellow who we had dead-to-rights on death threats last year and the prosecutor wouldn’t prosecute.
But, yeah, the media sees a squirrel and would rather chase that than chase after real issues that have real consequences to the well-being of the entire nation.
Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden
Jonn, how do you know that the Secret Service wasn’t looking for replacements for Bill’s misused cigar stash?
Because he’s a Macanudo kind of guy.
Marinated Macanudo’s
These days, it’s more like Gurkha’s “His Majesty’s Reserve.” At $1000 each.
Seriously.
I love Gurkhas. Get me one of those please:)
For the cost of item plus 50% shipping and handling we might be able to arrange that. Cash in advance only, though. (smile)
I will say though, they best and most hilarious part of that committee meeting was when the representative pulled out the ADP sign and asked about it.
That is comedy gold right there.
I’d be much more happy and concerned for his safety if Barry and his family weren’t in the white house anymore and lived in Chicago. You know, where guns are illegal so no crimes are committed with them or anything of the sort…
Those who says Obama’s enemies wish him dead are just plain stupid. Nobody wants his incompetence covered up with martyrdom, like we got with Kennedy.
Or Drunkle Joe in the driver’s seat for the next two years!
This is what scares the shit out of me. I don’t want to type out the scenario I fear in its entirety because anyone could be reading but I’ll just say the Valerie Jarretts, Hillary Clintons, and George Soroses of the world owe their allegiance to the progressive agenda, not any one man (apart from themselves), and I do not think they would stop at anything if they felt it would advance their agenda and they could set up their domestic political opposition as the fall guys.
The Secret Service…not so secret and not so much service. Resulting from…poor leadership. As most Obama agency appointees.
The head of the Secret Service is an affirmative action hire. No real qualifications.
Most? But, hey, seriously, I have a question. No, not “How ya gonna get back down that hill?” but this: Why does anyone expect the Secret Service employees or its leadership to do an A-1 job? They are, after all, gov’t employees and deserve no higher a performance bar than the SEC or the IRS. I particularly liked Madam Director Pierson’s taking responsibility for the security lapses–w/o any consequence. She should have said “The responsibility is mine. I failed and, prior to this hearing, I tendered my resignation. I apologize the the President, his family, and the American people.”
Oh, I don’t want to see any of them dead, either. I much prefer that the marone go down in history as the most idiotic, clueless, empty-headed clodpole that ever sat in that chair.
If the SSguys aren’t paying attention, there must be a reason.
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Word.
The problem here is a systemic failure. The Secret service was once a tightly run sub agency of the Treasury Department. In 2003 it was swallowed by Homeland Security. The wonks started playing with it, and started cutting corners. Political hires started doing what they always do. Most of the blame falls on Janet Napolitano and her Lesbos Mafia. The presidential protection detail answers to the Whitehouse staff. A case in point, the intrusion alarms were turned OFF because the staff didn’t like them going off every time a bird landed on the lawn. If a terrorist kills the president it will be his own fault for surrounding himself with people like Janet and Jeh.
It’s testimony to their incompetence that they viewed those birds as annoyances instead of target practice. Lazy jackasses.
She resigned!
Got fired!
Lying to Congress?
Or being less than truthful?
Either way, hire a hot chick!
A competent hot chick please!
Yeah, she’s out. The Golfer in Mom Jeans accepted her resignation. I hear that why the Golfer accepted her resignation after days of bothering not to can her, he said, “It finally dawned on me that we were talking about my ass here.”
I have to laugh about the ‘guy with a gun close to the President’ – so what? News said he was armed as part of his job, so he was what – security? In which case I am sure the entire time in the supposed elevator he was with the Pres, the agents on the scene probably were giving him the hairy eyeball and he was moving very carefully. And it says something – everyone gets their knickers twisted by a “man with one of those horrible guns” – did he shoot anyone? Was there a problem? The only question I have is that supposedly he should not have been allowed to carry a gun due to a prior conviction – but that’s his company’s problem. Like almost everyone who has a gun in this country (with the exception of the gangbangers) – no one caused a scene, no one got hurt, and that nasty gun didn’t decide to shoot itself. (I won’t even go into the whole privileged class argument wherein if you shoot one type of citizen you get a stiffer sentence than shooting another type.
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This whole administration is a series of distractions. Smoke and mirrors, man. Smoke and mirrors.
Lack of leadership, manpower and money. It’s really that simple.
Give us General Mattis.
You know to be fair, the guy that made it over the fence should be able to live in the White House. And petition to have his family join him.