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In reply to the discussion: NRA's New Ad Calls Obama "Elitist Hypocrite" For Having Secret Service Protection For His Children [View all]Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)81. His logic should be that we should all have secret service then, since the Pres does
Last edited Wed Jan 16, 2013, 11:50 AM - Edit history (1)
in fact the secret service agents should have secret service agent!!!!
Adding for the humor impaired: This was said tongue in cheek
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NRA's New Ad Calls Obama "Elitist Hypocrite" For Having Secret Service Protection For His Children [View all]
BVictor1
Jan 2013
OP
agree, the NRA try to rile-up their whackiest armed nutters. probably spammed millions of emails.
Sunlei
Jan 2013
#36
to put there idiotic question bluntly. uh Yes they are more important. They are targets.
PatrynXX
Jan 2013
#7
Really all the kids from government families have some form of security. That's why
okaawhatever
Jan 2013
#43
Not true. I WAS a kid from a high-level government family and didn't have special security
tpsbmam
Jan 2013
#126
get real - the President's children need protection as he is fighting terrorists
samsingh
Jan 2013
#54
No one has implied that the President's children don't need protection. That does not
humblebum
Jan 2013
#84
And who said they were. But as a vulnerable, generally undefended location and advertised as such,
humblebum
Jan 2013
#107
so i guess you're saying we should expand the secret service to include all children
samsingh
Jan 2013
#121
"Sometimes the targets of family friends or family members or of other kids" - then yes, other
humblebum
Jan 2013
#70
anyone outside of their home is a vulnerable target to an unknown assailant
SemperEadem
Jan 2013
#73
Others are more likely to be targeted, although children seem to be targeted for the rare mass
JDPriestly
Jan 2013
#147
The President's children are *not* any more important than any other child.
Llewlladdwr
Jan 2013
#14
Exactly. The children of anyone who controls nuclear missiles are very important to all of us (nt)
Recursion
Jan 2013
#108
To put it even more bluntly, it is terrorists like the NRA who are making them targets. (nt)
ehrenfeucht games
Jan 2013
#138
Would refer to the NRA as traitorous bastards if I could find a way to express that
indepat
Jan 2013
#19
Then why was the "press conference" at which Wayne Barkingmad spoke swept for guns?
hatrack
Jan 2013
#12
crazy wayne lives in a phantasy land world populated and supported by other lunatics
samsingh
Jan 2013
#56
On top of that, police and guards at the Holocaust Museum and even the U.S. Capitol...
CBHagman
Jan 2013
#29
You're talking about the same SS that got busted whoring and scamming in Colombia?
Psephos
Jan 2013
#51
His children are no more important then mine, but they are more at risk than mine. . .
Journeyman
Jan 2013
#22
Journeyman, this is very astute take on the issue that I've not seen articulated
truth2power
Jan 2013
#124
Amazing that in the 8 years Bush was President, I never saw a single derogatory...
BlueJazz
Jan 2013
#23
I was watching MSNBC tonight and they announced that it had been removed from the NRA website.
truthisfreedom
Jan 2013
#28
NRA promotes their new 'school guards' for profit business to rape your state and federal money
Sunlei
Jan 2013
#34
Yes. Keeping things small and insular doesn't allow for outside information.
okaawhatever
Jan 2013
#123
Just when you thought the NRA couldnt sink any lower they find a way to do so. nt
cstanleytech
Jan 2013
#57
Maybe if we had better gun regulations, our President would not need armed Secret Service
JDPriestly
Jan 2013
#61
On top of the appalling message. They called him "Mr." Obama. He is President
okaawhatever
Jan 2013
#69
Boy talk about reaching. This ad is the worst ad I ever saw. Desperation that is what this
southernyankeebelle
Jan 2013
#77
His logic should be that we should all have secret service then, since the Pres does
Marrah_G
Jan 2013
#81
If I were a member or supporter of the NRA, I'd be highly offended by this ad because
truth2power
Jan 2013
#91
By doing this they basically upped the need for even more security for Sasha and Malia
Jennicut
Jan 2013
#92
Other kids aren't known worldwide because the media shows their pictures hundreds of times a year.
4lbs
Jan 2013
#95
Think it's time to put the NRA on the official terrorist group watch list. And,
sinkingfeeling
Jan 2013
#101
The president cannot, by law, refuse Secret Service protection for himself
NYC Liberal
Jan 2013
#135
I'm going to break down the ad a little, more for my sake than anyone else's.
ZombieHorde
Jan 2013
#141