Is This What The Secret Service Is Intended For?
From the Washington Post:
[Cain spokesman JD Gordon] would not say how many Secret Service agents would be positioned with Cain, but the spokesman said the coverage began Thursday night in New York, where Cain taped an interview on the “Late Show with David Letterman.”On the campaign trail, Cain “draws anywhere from a dozen to 50 media at his events,” Gordon said. “When he gets out at a rally or a campaign stop, it has been increasingly common for media to be physically putting themselves and others in danger by trying to follow him with a lot of heavy equipment and cameras in close quarters like we saw yesterday.”
There are reasons why a candidate may need Secret Service protection, but keeping the press at bay isn’t one of them.
Tags: Herman Cain
It would be doing the Nation a great service to keep ALL press/media away from these nuts. Don’t let them near a Reporter or TV camera, and take away their internet accounts. They will not be losing access to news, they don’t listen to what is really going on anyhow; but it would prevent them from spreading their manure on our fields. Let’s pay for more Secret Service agents in order to keep these fruitcakes a secret. It gives a whole new meaning to the agency name.
Cain surprised female agents with this interview question,”Would it creep you out if I put my hand here? What about here?”
Cain also stipulated that he wanted at least one of the agents to speak Cuban.
Obama had SS protection prior to getting the nomination.
Sure, but not before a single vote had been cast.
Obama was running a serious campaign and not an extended book tour. He also wasn’t looking for the SS to keep the press at bay, which is what Pandora asks her question about.
edit: And while I’m at it, you’d think that these Prophets Of Austerity would be declining this bit of expansionary government, right?
I also said that “there are reasons why a candidate may need Secret Service protection.” Have there been death threats against Cain? If so, I have no problem with him having the protection, but that’s not the reason given by the Cain campaign.
just sayin. there IS precedent. bein my devils advocaty self again.
@socialistic ben,Obama had received several credible death threats prior to his being given Secret Service protection.