Heads up, Mr. Obama.

tikitatas · Post by **tikitatas** » August 26, 2008 8:35 am

http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/08/26 ... ible-plot/

Tiki Bar · Post by **Tiki Bar** » August 26, 2008 8:50 am

“It could also turn out that these were nothing but a bunch of knuckleheads, meth heads,” a U.S. government official said.

knuckleheads...

SchoolGirlHeart · Post by **SchoolGirlHeart** » August 26, 2008 8:51 am

The head Secret Service agent on his detail is gonna need a case of Maalox before November gets here.

Nutcases everywhere.....

Phin power and prayers for the safety of the candidates and the law enforcement officers charged with protecting them.

LIPH · Post by **LIPH** » August 26, 2008 8:51 am

The sad thing is, I'm surprised it took so long for something like this.

krusin1 · Post by **krusin1** » August 26, 2008 9:01 am

SchoolGirlHeart wrote:The head Secret Service agent on his detail is gonna need a case of Maalox before November gets here.

Nutcases everywhere.....

Phin power and prayers for the safety of the candidates and the law enforcement officers charged with protecting them.

Well said, SGH. Prayers for all involved.

C-Dawg · Post by **C-Dawg** » August 26, 2008 9:04 am

LIPH wrote:The sad thing is, I'm surprised it took so long for something like this.

me too...I've ssaid for the past year, whether it was Hillary or Obama that got the nomination, some idiot was going to take a shot at them.

pbans · Post by **pbans** » August 26, 2008 9:07 am

I don't know what's more sad....that it happened, or that I'm not surprised.

GumboPirate · Post by **GumboPirate** » August 26, 2008 9:17 am

SchoolGirlHeart · Post by **SchoolGirlHeart** » August 26, 2008 9:23 am

LIPH wrote:The sad thing is, I'm surprised it took so long for something like this.

It probably didn't. This is just the first one we heard about.... Kinda like cockroaches; for every one you see there are 10 you don't..... I'm sure the Secret Service is a busy place these days.

Skibo · Post by **Skibo** » August 26, 2008 9:28 am

There are enough random anarchists that every candidate is at risk. There have been attempts or plans documented against every president since Nixon. I would love to see the govt offer free transit to the country of choice to the people that hate this country so much. We have a pretty cool system of government and for the most part it works really, really well. Nothing so bad that it is worth killing someone over.

buffettbride · Post by **buffettbride** » August 26, 2008 10:02 am

It was really sorta creepy walking toward downtown this morning. I'm pretty sure I saw a secret service person talking to his watch. Lots of hustle and bustle. Oooohhh, and I saw a whole bunch of ICE cops this morning. Those are some sturdy men, I'm tellin' ya. There's probably an entire perimeter of police around the Federal Reserve Bank.

Salukulady · Post by **Salukulady** » August 26, 2008 10:07 am

buffettbride wrote:It was really sorta creepy walking toward downtown this morning. I'm pretty sure I saw a secret service person talking to his watch. Lots of hustle and bustle. Oooohhh, and I saw a whole bunch of ICE cops this morning. Those are some sturdy men, I'm tellin' ya. There's probably an entire perimeter of police around the Federal Reserve Bank.

Hows the traffic and services in the city going? Has it really clogged things up or is it running smoothly?

buffettbride · Post by **buffettbride** » August 26, 2008 10:11 am

Salukulady wrote:
buffettbride wrote:It was really sorta creepy walking toward downtown this morning. I'm pretty sure I saw a secret service person talking to his watch. Lots of hustle and bustle. Oooohhh, and I saw a whole bunch of ICE cops this morning. Those are some sturdy men, I'm tellin' ya. There's probably an entire perimeter of police around the Federal Reserve Bank.
Hows the traffic and services in the city going? Has it really clogged things up or is it running smoothly?

The route I take into downtown doesn't have any closures, but the highway traffic was very, very heavy. It doesn't help that I come from west to east, so sun glare is a huge factor. There was just gobs of traffic. Thankfully, I know a "super secret" way that got me off the highway and I'm sure it was much faster taking the side streets in.

There are definitely a lot more people downtown. A lot more people in the crosswalks and just constant activity it seems.

The real test will be this afternoon when I leave, because my normal route out of downtown will be closed (I come into downtown in the morning one way because of where I take my daughter to school and leave another way since I don't have to pick her up after school).

I'll probably just s*ck it up and drive crosstown to the road that I took in this morning. Or I'll just leave early.

buffettbride · Post by **buffettbride** » August 26, 2008 10:13 am

oh yeah, i stopped for a cup of coffee this morning (not at Starbucks but just a small local shop) and didn't even have to wait. they said the rush times are so weird. that pretty much from 11am to 3pm they are slammed, but pretty much dead before and after that (they close at 5pm).

rednekkPH · Post by **rednekkPH** » August 26, 2008 10:40 am

buffettbride wrote:I'm pretty sure I saw a secret service person talking to his watch.

Maybe he's friends with the guy here near my office that talks into the mailbox everytime somebody drops a letter into it?

SchoolGirlHeart · Post by **SchoolGirlHeart** » August 26, 2008 10:40 am

buffettbride wrote:It was really sorta creepy walking toward downtown this morning. I'm pretty sure I saw a secret service person talking to his watch. Lots of hustle and bustle. Oooohhh, and I saw a whole bunch of ICE cops this morning. Those are some sturdy men, I'm tellin' ya. There's probably an entire perimeter of police around the Federal Reserve Bank.

or the mic taped beside his watch.

and did he have a funny earplug attached to a wire?

if the wanna blend they have to go to bluetooth headsets.

the outer perimeter is probably somewhere near Colorado Springs...

ph4ever · Post by **ph4ever** » August 26, 2008 10:42 am

rednekkPH wrote:
buffettbride wrote:I'm pretty sure I saw a secret service person talking to his watch.
Maybe he's friends with the guy here near my office that talks into the mailbox everytime somebody drops a letter into it?

thank you

Frank4 · Post by **Frank4** » August 26, 2008 10:42 am

I just heard about this on the car ride in this morning. I think Barack's secret service detail has to be bigger then the President's right about now.

I can only imagine what security is going to be like when he gives his acceptance speech in Denver

Phin Power (and lots of it) going out to the Secret Service

buffettbride · Post by **buffettbride** » August 26, 2008 4:00 pm

it was found more people than originally thought are involved...
http://www.9news.com/news/article.aspx? ... &catid=188

ConchRepublican · Post by **ConchRepublican** » August 26, 2008 4:04 pm

I'm not surprised they are possibly linked to a supremist group. They do look like such wonderful Hitler Youth candidates . . .