It is seriously pissing me off to see how bad security is for the presidential candidates today. Enough is enough. After the terrible security lapse at Obama's rally in Dallas, to see this video is shocking and very worrying.
Enough with the politeness, enough with the PC, let's avoid a youtube-moment protection. No person exhibiting this type of behavior should come within a mile of a major candidate for president, let alone grabbing, touching and harassing. This guy was an ebay seller looking for a photo, but he could have easily been much worse.
I'm going to say this because someone needs to: It appears that the Secret Service wants Barack Obama dead, and it's time to stop screwing around and call for an urgent and immediate change.
Obama should go nowhere and be put in no situation unless the area and people have been checked and secured. In seven years have you ever seen Bush in a situation like this? No, of course not. In seven years have you seen Bush hold rallies where people weren't checked for weapons? Of course not. Obama's protection should be equal to if not greater than Bush's. And it's not, and that's unacceptable.
Enough is enough. The Bush Administration is corrupt and incompetent, and if they can't do their job protecting the candiates, then the candidates need to do it themselves.
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Keith,
Watching this video brought tears to my eyes. It is so obvious that Mr. Obama's security is lacking and incompetent. I have a bad feeling in my gut after seeing this. Barack was essentially defending himself out there in the street. You have to take a close look to even realize who the security personel is. And after the Dallas incident you can't help but wonder.
God Bless Mr.Obama, and you too Kieth
Thanks,
RayNLA
Why would they protect Obama when they want him dead?
This guy's arms should have been promptly tied behind him and he should have been ushered off forcefully and quickly.
Better yet, he shouldn't have been allowed anywhere near the candidate.
I fault the Secret Service, but even more so I fault the Obama campaign and Obama himself. They need to think of his security first and trust nobody, including the Secret Service and Hank Paulson.
Hillary said "He can't win", so you know why she hasn't dropped out, there will be a "accident" I'm sure.
If he was Dick Cheney, it would be a federal case of battery.
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The DailyKook brigade gets nuttier and nuttier every day. So now it is Hank Paulson's fault that Obama has been exposed as an elitist prick too good to have his pic taken with one of the little people. Obama will pose with Revernd "Fuck You America" Wright 24/7/365. But a lowlife, white man dares as for the MESSIAH OBAMA's picture? No way Jose.
You also forgot to mention that Haliburton was involved as was China, Walmart, Fox News and The Trilateral Commission....you know the same people that did 9/11.
You're making a big deal out of nothing. If you watched the video carefully, you'll notice the Secret Service agents were carefully observing the man's hands. They were watching to see if he'd pull out a weapon and they were a foot away from him. If the man had pulled a weapon, the Secret Service would have pounced. The moral of this story is, if you want to get a picture with Obama, you gotta "wear the man down." LOL
It's not the people who come up to Obama you must worry about. It's the sniper, as with Martin Luther King, Jr. I doubt anyone would have the guts to just walk up to Obama, pull out a pistol, and shoot him.
BTW, ever since the Reverend Wright incident, Obama has not been doing well in the polls. He is far behind McCain in electoral votes:
http://tinyurl.com/2r242q
Even Hillary Clinton is doing slightly better than Obama against McCain:
http://tinyurl.com/35tcjr
Unfortunately, with the above links, you'll see both Democratic candidates are losing against McCain in the state by state polls.
If I was Obama, I would've punched this dude on the face. No questions asked. What the hell is wrong with this guy.
It's funny how the young kid was roughed up in Florida for doing nothing during Kerry's presidential run and this guys gets away with this.
Dny
Obama is not going to save Amurica anymore than that old fossil McCain or that bimbo Hillary. I suppose you could elect Ron Paul but he isn't even a real GOPer anyways.
Obama reminds me of the Rock, BTW. Maybe if Obama gets elected to office he can lay the smackdown on America's rooty poo candyass!
Arnold S (too early to even try to spell the last name) got hit with an egg while running the first time.
Part of the democratic process I guess, for some of the loones.
Didn't hear about anyone who had tears in their eyes over that event. Looser.
My bad - the secret service was moved out of treasury and into homeland in 2004 - cleaned it up. So I'll put this one on bush and homeland secretary Chertoff and not paulson
Seriously, though, regardless of your politics you have to be a bit weirded out by how bad the protection is. I don't care if it's McCain or Clinton or Bush or Obama or even Cheney, our leaders need protection or this country is going 1968 again. An agitated nut like this needs to be grabbed and moved away, not just 'watched'
It's disgusting that you would demean such professionals as the secret service. To think that they would let a man with a weapon in the area shows how ignorant you are of their procedures. In fact it shows how ignorant you are of the fact that Obama has more Secret Service protection than (and had it earlier) than any presidential candidate ever. I commend the Secret Service for their dedication to this country and willing to give their lives for the people they protect.
SS defender - tell me why people were allowed in to see him in Dallas with no gun checks. Tell me why this nut was allowed to molest him yesterday.
Incompetence has found its way to places where competence once lived.
Trust nobody.
And I hope Obama hires competent private protection soon.
I have been to a lot of political events and candidate appearances, and have never seen anything this appalling. The SS guys, who were obviously present, were relaxed and not at alert. This guy could have hurt Obama before the sunglasses and ear piece boys could have reacted.
http://tpzoo.wordpress.com/2008/02/24/secret-service-defends-obama-security-in-dallas/
By Jack Douglas, Jr., Star-Telegram.com
Naturally, the Secret Service is defending their security for a Barack Obama event recently in Dallas. A previous post by TheZoo is here.
Apparently the Secret Service had a super-duper “comprehensive and layered security plan,” which means those who wait the longest get the least scrutiny.
[People] said they had recently attended large political events, many for Obama, where security screening was halted. Jeremy Dibbell of Boston said in an e-mail that he attended an Obama event in Boston at which “the same thing happened there. We waited for hours in line as people were screened, and then suddenly everyone was just allowed in without going through any inspection at all.”
The spokesman for the Secret Service hastened to defend his paycheck the Secret Service:
“There were no security lapses at that venue,” said Eric Zahren, a spokesman for the Secret Service in Washington. He added there was “no deviation” from the “comprehensive and layered” security plan, implemented in “very close cooperation with our law enforcement partners.”
It was such a secret plan, that the Secret Service couldn’t even tell the Dallas Police about it. Your government at work…
“It was never a part of the plan at this particular venue to have each and every person in the crowd pass through the Magnetometer,” said Zahren, referring to the device used to detect metal in clothing and bags.
Since EVERY member of the public had to pass through a doorway to get into the venue, how troublesome is it to walk through a metal detector? C’mon, you’ve got to do better than that, Mr Zahren…
Keefer you are being ridiculous!
Obama has super tight security..if he is surrounded by an iron cordon a la Israeli prime minister in public will look bad..he could have lost his temper with the guy but kept his cool, bet you out of view secret service had beads on the guy one move and he would've been whacked
I was a Police Officer for a long time in Philly. I viewed this with trepidation. Security was loose, no doubt about it.
Some nut is going to get too close to this guy. I don't like what I see. The guy was a nag and should have been relocated from the Italian Market area. I know Philly police would have made sure he was prevented from returning and if he had done so again, he would have been arrested for a summary offense immediately.
We used to tell people directly, if you come back again we are going to lock you up. There was always some nut that did not get the message and would return.
People have to understand that in today's world, a lot of people are on medications and when they go off them, especially those for treating split personality disorders, they go bonkers and are unreliable. They seem as ordinary as the next fellow, but they can suddenly get angry and bolt at someone quickly.
I once witnessed a large "baby huey" looking guy use his head to bash his way out of a sheriff's van. When he broke through the doors he was uninjured and we had to fight him after he had initially been arrested for assaulting two sheriff deputies and two detectives were already in the hospital due to the prior encounter. Other prisoners in the van were pleading with us, fearing for their lives as the guy was bashing his way out. What would you have done? Treat him nicely? I doubt it.
These Secret Service personnel have to get a little tougher.
The guy is a nut and I am sure they all get them. Its a dangerous job campaining for everyone. They can't get rough with him because then the press would jump on it. Its a no win, I wouldn't want to be running for anything. Total loss of freedom.
The guy was impolite, agreed, but this is a free country. Relax. It's not that we don't have enough authority, it's that we have too much.
had the SS done anything to the guy, some ACLU lawyer would have sued the SS for police brutality. remember the outrage after the don't taze me bro incident? it's a no win situation for the secret service,
the police are damned if they do and damned if they don't. put a big police presence and people scream it's big brother. don't put enough police and people complain the streets aren't safe.
one more example of the bitch and whine fest that has become america.
Sounds like a cwazy conspiracy theory to me Keith. Better look out for those black helicopters Keith. I hope you're wearing your tinfoil hat!
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Considering that all of our domestic terrorists have been conservatives/republicans, not to mention that the most hard-core racists are on the ideological right, fearing that someone would harm Obama isn't nutty.
McVeigh, Eric Rudolph, the KKK, crossburners, gay bashers, abortion clinic bombers, all CONSERVATIVES.
The sooner we round the conservative sludge up and put them in work camps the better.
It's not exactly unprecedented in this country but then I know there are a lot of sheepies out there that think the government could do no wrong and that the media tells them everything.
In this video you can see JFK's secret service agents being told to stand down right before the fatal turn into Dealey Plaza:
JFK Secret Service Standdown
It's also becoming increasingly clear that RFK was killed by the CIA
BBC - New Evidence: CIA Played Role in RFK Assassination
Experts Say Sirhan Sirhan Did Not Shoot RFK
Oh, but it's all cwazy conspiracy theory because the corporate media didn't tell me about it. What a f*cking joke you sheepies are!
Yeah keef, they'll just clear a one-square mile area wherever Osama decides to go. Everyone will be patted down and searched for weapons. Nevermind that it was the Osama people who told the security to hurry up and let the people into the arena for that rally.
So you are saying that the dozen secret service agents assigned to Obama are complicit in allowing him to be assassinated? You should get with Oliver Stone. Maybe it's an FBI-CIA-military-KKK-Mafia-Cuban conspiracy.
If you don't think these people in power wouldn't murder in the blink of an eye, you haven't been to Baghdad.
RIP MLK.
Obama is the Messiah, how can the unclean masses be healed by touching his robes if they can't get closer to him?
Folks, Obama is running against the Military Industrial Complex, in addition to the REIC and other powerful interests.
If you think they're just going to LET him do that, you haven't followed American history.
These are dangerous times. Change agents are not well received by the establishment. His protection should be commensurate, and it is not.
Who cares. Obama is the next Bush. McCain is the next Clinton. When are you going to wake up and realize this man will not make a difference at all.
I thought HP was all about letting the market decide the Housing crisis. Obama is a bigger socialist than Hillary...electing him will not help any of us get what we want out of this collapsing market. We'll get screwed for being smart with our finances.
Foreclosed Families for Obama in '08!
Banks for Obama in '08!
HP should really think about not supporting ANY candidate in this election. That is what I am doing. Why support a candidate when it is clear that none of them give a rat F$%K about the American people.
Obama stands for "change"...not quite sure what that means, but I know that McCain and Hillary both stand for "change" too. Don't be a fool for buzzwords, or you just end up a sheep.
Seriously, though, regardless of your politics you have to be a bit weirded out by how bad the protection is.
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keith said...
SS defender - tell me why people were allowed in to see him in Dallas with no gun checks. Tell me why this nut was allowed to molest him yesterday.
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Keith et al, you people obviously don't know YOUR candidate. He is a dirty liberal pol form Chicago. That means he is a L.E. hater. I would bet Keith's left nut that he gave direct orders to his guards to not put their hands on ANY one.
And about Dallas, NO FRIGGIN WAY is the SS going to slow down the flow worshipers into his temple, by searching them. That would be violations of their constitutional rights, and no Chicago pol will stand for that!
Please put your glasses back on and look at YOUR GUY for who he is. With Michelle O's fear of BO getting jacked pumping gas, NO F-ING WAY will the SS let the first viable African candidate gets shanked up close. Have alittle faith in the men and women that surve this country. It's not like BO is advocating the dismantling of the Fed, like RP was...
The SS stand-down appearence is a direct order from BO. Get a clue.
the best insurance policy for Barrack Obama would be to have Hillary as VP. who would want to kill him then? (except for Hillary) they take him out and then have to deal w/ Hillary as POTUS? yeah right. they're evil, not stupid.
Watching this video brought tears to my eyes.
Pleazzz, get a life, sheep. Would you?
Drama queen.
I have never seen that clip about the security men for John F. Kennedy before being told to jump into the rear limo instead of being on the running boards as usual. No wonder the security man shrugged his shoulders, he could not understand the order!
If they had been where they were supposed to be (riding on the back bumper and holding on to the rails) He would never have been shot from behind. It would have killed a Secret Service man first!
I don't like what I saw in that clip!
Seriously, though, regardless of your politics you have to be a bit weirded out by how bad the protection is.
Hey Keith, who gives instructions to Secret Service is Obama's camp and Obama himself. If he doesn't want WHITE GUYS around him asking for autographs on his own book, all Obama has to do is tell Secret Service to keep them away. Simple.
Don't start blaming everyone else, like the Clintons, for Obama's disorganized security apparatus. It's Obama's camp that should take care of that.
Funny, now Obama is the new Jesus, the precious gem that should be in pedestal. Get a life, people. You all look stupid.
And I don't see Hillary treating ANYONE who approaches her for a photo or autograph like crap, as Obama did. She takes a picture with EVERYONE, being the person BLACK, WHITE, PURPLE, PINK, BLUE. Anyone! Obama is too cool for that. He's the Messiah, remember?
I bet if that guy was black, Obama would be ok with taking SEVERAL pictures with him. After all, it's in the 10 points of Wright's and Obama's church. What I saw was the typical racist and arrogant Obama ignoring and being rude to a slow white guy, probably a handicap.
Instead of creating 10 minutes of drama, Obama shoud just take the damn picture, sign the book, and send the guy away. What's the problem with that? Now American cuckoos are not people too who deserve the Messiah's time, but he takes his vote and the money for the book?
You irrational Clinton Haterz™ are craziest than that ooooo dangerous guy with a pen and Obama's book to be signed. Oooo, Danger Mr. Robinson Danger!!!
And the other idiot here posting that "brought tears to his eyes". Man, you people are dense. America is doomed with sheep like you!
An agitated nut like this needs to be grabbed and moved away, not just 'watched'
Suuurre. That works only if Obama does it. If Hillary pulls something like that, oh boy, all hell breaks loose. Keith, his other battalion of irrational Clinton Haterz, and the corrupt MSM would be playing her like the worst person in the world. As a matter of fact, these fools are all waiting for her to do something like that so they can jump on it. You turn the TV on these days and all you see in every channel is Hillary bashing, 24/7. Aren't you people a bit curious or suspicious of why that it's? I guess not. Don't be surprised when your Messiah loses to McCain.
Now that Obama treated a fan like crap on camera, the entire corrupt MSM and other biased idiots want to spin this into a security issue, instead of a rude and arrogant (and perhaps racist), issue from Obama. The same, "Don't look there sheep, look over here...Obama is the Messiah, he's allow to do anything he wants"
Do you see how that spin works, sheep? Obama has to be teflon at all costs according to the corrupt MSM that has been brainwashing you daily. I love it because you'll get screwed again coming election time.
Obama will lose to McCain, NO DOUBT ABOUT IT. Then you fools will look for a scapegoat to numb your pathetic and pre-announced deception. It's going to be Hillary's fault, right?
HP should really think about not supporting ANY candidate in this election. That is what I am doing.
I agree with your views. But I'm doing differently, as I'll vote for the candidate the corrupt MSM bashes most, which is Hillary. At least I'm fighting the corrupt MSM with my vote, since there's no difference between Obama and Hillary. As a matter of fact, Obama is more socialist than Hillary.
Don't let the corrupt mainstream media get away with their tricks of brainwashing the population. Fight back by voting against the candidates the MSM has been pushing down your throats 24/7, which is McCain and Obama! Be a contrarian to get your power back.
The only reason BO did not want to have his picture taken with this guy is because the guy was not a big dollar campaign donor. This guy seem like he is just a regular joe who wanted his picture taken with a big shot that was passing through town. He did not realise that the way you get your picture taken with candidates is to donate a few thousand dollars, go to a fund raising dinner, eat some rubber chicken, listen to a boring retread of a speech and stand in line with all the other donors to have your thousand dollars worth of reflected glory imortalized in Kodachrome.
Rather than reflecting badly on the Secret Service this clip shows BO to be the worst kind of elitist there is, the kind who positions himself as the savior of the common people but views the common people as an annoying expedient which he will use to secure the power he craves and believes he deserves by divine right or Rev. Wright.
This clip shows BO in a unguarded moment not in the sense that the SS dropped the ball but in the sense that he has shown his true colors as a petulant, narcissitic jerk. He eventually consents to have his picture taken but refuses to smile. What is he five years old?
As the pieces of hte puzzle that is Barack Obama come together I am starting to realize that an Obama presidency would be worse for this country than even a McCain presidency. And considering that I know that a McCain presidency would be a nightmare from which this country would not awaken that's is really saying alot.
The puzzle pieces have not yet fallen into place. How can they when BO does not actually say anything of substance in a 30 minute speech but make no mistake BO is a grave danger to this country should he get elected. If you think Reagan-Bush-Clinton-Bush screwed the middle class for the last 27 years wait til you get a load of President BO.
So what does that leave us President Hillary? We are so screwed.
The Secret Service agents should slap the cuffs on Obama and arrest him for treason for trying to impose a Marxist regime on America.
Have you even read his website and platform or are you going by what you hear on CNN?????
Folks, Obama is running against the Military Industrial Complex, in addition to the REIC and other powerful interests.
Sure he is, Keith. Obama said in a speech, so it must be true! Seriously, I would expect more skepticism from you, irrational Republican Clinton Hater.
Obama has been flip flopping (as usual) on his answers about getting out of Iraq.
Obama’s main overall image adviser and foreign policy adviser is no other than Zbigniew Brzezinski, the co-founder of David Rockefeller’s Trilateral Commission.
Let me enlighten you about Zbigniew Brzezinski:
1. In 1985, under the Reagan administration, Brzezinski served as a member of the President’s Chemical Warfare Commission. From 1987 to 1988, he worked on the NSC-Defense Department Commission on Integrated Long-Term Strategy. From 1987 to 1989 he also served on the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board.
2. In 1988, Brzezinski was co-chairman of the Bush National Security Advisory Task Force and endorsed Bush for president, breaking with the Democratic party.
3. In 1993, Brzezinski was prominently critical of the Clinton administration's hesitation to intervene against Serbia in the Yugoslavian civil war.
4. After 9/11 Brzezinski was criticized for his role in the formation of the Afghan mujaheddin network, some of which would later form the Taliban and would shelter Al Qaeda camps.
5. President Carter chose Zbigniew Brzezinski for the position of National Security Adviser (NSA) because he wanted an assertive intellectual at his side to provide him with day-to-day advice and guidance on foreign policy decisions. Brzezinski would preside over a reorganized National Security Council (NSC) structure, fashioned to ensure that the NSA would be only one of many players in the foreign policy process.
6. During the 1970s and 1980s, at the height of his political involvement, Brzezinski participated in the formation of the Trilateral Commission.
7. Initiated in 1979 a campaign supporting mujaheddin in Pakistan and Afghanistan, which were run by Pakistani security services with financial support from the CIA and Britain's MI6.
8. Brzezinski laid out his most significant contribution to post–Cold War geostrategy in his 1997 book The Grand Chessboard. He defined four regions of Eurasia (oil and gas) and in which ways the United States ought to design its policy toward each region in order to maintain its global primacy (global domination by force and trickery). The four regions are:
* Europe, the Democratic Bridgehead
* Russia, the Black Hole
* The Caucasuses and Central Asia, the Eurasian Balkans
* East Asia, the Far Eastern Anchor
9. Brzezinski is a past member of the board of directors of the Council on Foreign Relations.
10. He was formerly a director of the Trilateral Commission (see[1]), now serving only on the executive committee.
"This guy's arms should have been promptly tied behind him and he should have been ushered off forcefully and quickly.
Better yet, he shouldn't have been allowed anywhere near the candidate."
I agree, Obama needs his hands tied behind him and he should be ushered out of the race promptly.
You are really beginning to turn into a weirdo, Keith. Lay off of the secret service agents. You and the rest of your conspiracy theorists have no idea what you are talking about.
My husband is a security agent, and I can tell you that he and all of his collegues take their responsibility more seriously than you can ever imagine. They are truly willing to put their life on the line for the VIP protectee. However, it is ALWAYS the VIP and their possee who undermine and even thwart the VIP's security protection. They want to jeopordize the appearance of being cordial and one with the people, (i.e., don't want a bad photo op or upset the press).
I used to follow your blog and respect your opinions, but now you're really sounding like an ignorant flake.
I think they should erect Free Speech Zones at Obama rallies, so the stupid Bushites can see how it feels.
Keith buddy you are seriously starting to go mad. Obama is running against the military industrial complex? Holy shit dude, it's 2008 not 1968.
And yeah I'm sure Bush and Paulson have nothing else to worry about these days than how to off Obama. Don't you know they are planning a super secret war with Iran, the devaluation of the dollar, the AMERO, etc. For an incompetent bafoon George Bush sure can multi-task eh?
Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) may be the presumptive GOP nominee for president, but, by his own wishes, he is not being protected by the Secret Service.
“He has not requested protection,” Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan told a congressional subcommittee this morning. “We have no involvement at this point.”
In opting not to take the protection, McCain is following through on plans he outlined to reporters late last year on his Straight Talk Express campaign bus.
Members of the House Appropriations Homeland Security subcommittee were surprised by Sullivan’s revelation. Sullivan said his agency had been in contact with McCain’s staff. But a candidate has no legal requirement to take protection.
By contrast, Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) on May 3, 2007, became the earliest presidential candidate to receive protection outside of his chief rival for the Democratic nomination, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.), who already received protection by virtue of being a former first lady.
Why should Obama have to interact with everyday people!
The Storm Troopers are not protecting him from excessive contact with the riff-raff! Who do they think they are, citizens?!?!?
keith said...
Folks, Obama is running against the Military Industrial Complex, in addition to the REIC and other powerful interests.
Keith!! GROW UP! You can't be serious. He's just another pol. My God....
Could any of you imagine if HILLARY yelled at a BLACK guy that wanted a pic w/ her????
Why is ok for a BLACK man to get mad at a WHITE man?? Here, I was believing all of Obama's move along racial buzz. He lost my Penn. vote.
Seems he absorbed enough of what "Rev" Wright was ozzzzing...
9. Brzezinski is a past member of the board of directors of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Michelle O is on the board of the CFR! BIG time revolutionaries, huh Keith....
http://www.thechicagocouncil.org/
chicago_council_board_directors.php
Seems like Obama was trying to pull the old. “Im just an every day Joe …walking down the street …. going to the corner store … hanging with the common people publicity stunt..
Seems like the SS were probably told to lay low a little.. If they would have took the guy down it would have the opposite effect of the “common man” image Obama was trying to portray to the media and the public..
don’t know why he didn’t just take the damn pic though .. that would have been easy..
How much Obama's campaign paying you for sucking his dick ? I doubt if you will paid like what Spitzer paid. You sound like a cheap hooker.
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Watching this video brought tears to my eyes.
Pleazzz, get a life, sheep. Would you?
Drama queen.
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It really did!
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I think keith should be in charge of Obamas security
WTF is up with the Clintonistas around here?
Demanding a moratorium on foreclosures, a highly questionable "self-financing" government bailout of imprudent borrowers and a five-year freeze on the initial "teaser" rates for adjustable-rate subprime mortgage, Hillary Clinton evidently believes there never was a housing bubble.
BTW, I love the way McCain says he won't waste taxpayer money on Secret Service, because he's such a good sport and "maverick" and such...Yeah, right, it is of course because his Budweiser heiress WIFE is WORTH MILLIONS and can afford better security for him.
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If da brotha iz gunna be prezident he gots to be accessible to da constituents !
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Yeah, ok, scary, but...
I remember back when Bill Clinton was a candidate, and further along too, I think it was late July or August. He was giving a speech at a hotel I was staying at and my buddy and I could just walk right up to him. He had SS guys, but they didn't try to push us away or even really notice us (I'm sure they didn't see white geeks as much of a threat).
I just don't think the candidates get the first string, y'know? Now if/when Obama wins the primary, yeah, sure, can a brutha get a popemobile?
So how much did Clinton's campaign pay this guy to harass Obama?
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