Secret Service is with McCain

Posted: Monday, April 21, 2008 10:18 AM by Mark Murray

From NBC's Adam Aigner-Treworgy
For the first time as a presidential candidate this cycle, McCain is traveling with Secret Service. He is not covered by a full detail on his "Time for Action" tour through the Black Belt and Appalacia, but there are a few members of the senator's eventual detail who will be traveling with him for an indefinite amount of time before the full detail begins.

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What's the "Black Belt"?

Patrick (Sent Monday, April 21, 2008 10:26 AM)

Of course, he didn't feel safe going into "those" neighborhoods by himself.

rita forte (Sent Monday, April 21, 2008 10:27 AM)

Maybe I'm just paranoid, but something about posting the level of Secret Service Detail for a Presidential Candidate just makes me nervous. I don't think that the public at large needs to know this - too many unstable folks about in my humble opinion.

Obama '08

Nashville_fan (Sent Monday, April 21, 2008 10:28 AM)

I wonder, is the Secret Service trained at changing McCain's Depends Adult Diapers? This man is too old to be president. He's Bush III. He's got a few loose screws from his POW days. He wants to stay in Iraq for 100 years. He has no idea how to fix the economy because as he said, he doesn't know a lot about economics. He's a neocon wolf in a maverick senator's sheep clothing.

Pat Huntington NY (Sent Monday, April 21, 2008 10:31 AM)

If HIllary were a man she would be winning this by a landslide.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ionFwC1UUUw

max o, pittsburgh, PA (Sent Monday, April 21, 2008 10:32 AM)

Good. We don't want him harmed. Which is the antithesis of his attitude toward the youth of this country, whose lives he had no problem sacrificing in a sham of a WMD witch hunt, which was the propaganda used to cover our immoral invasion of Iraq, and it's people.

Bush, Hillary, and McCain have blood on their hands. That is the issue this election cycle.

Obama '08

west jefferson hills, pa. (Sent Monday, April 21, 2008 10:36 AM)

What, are they "secretly" carrying extra oxygen tanks with them?

HeisOld (Sent Monday, April 21, 2008 10:36 AM)

Maybe McCain will do an event at a grocery store. He can explain to us that the rising milk prices are just an illusion, and that those who can read the pricetags have mental disorders.

Jimmy Jay (Sent Monday, April 21, 2008 10:39 AM)

You can't use popular vote! Hillary and the pundits keep talking about the possibility of winning the popular vote. You can't count popular vote when many of the states are caucuses. If you translate the size of the caucus states to primaries Obama's popular vote lead is almost 1.5 million. When will this be included in the "popular vote" charade? I am sure the Obama side will bring this up if it gets close.

Larry Ce Holmesville OH (Sent Monday, April 21, 2008 10:42 AM)

Oh good grief...now this one cracks me up.

I can just picture a "muppet mad scientist" monitoring all the nervous tortured beekers.

Knock it off!

The last time I checked you people get your paychecks from tax payers dollars.....

YOU KNOW SOME JUST DO NOT WANT TO KEEP THE RESPECT!!!

Where is ARETHA?!!...seesh probably drooling sensesly over obama AND I MEAN SENSELY!Geeze I hope I spelled that right..dang public schools OOPS( no really, humanist/utopian schools really...)!!DR. Seuss wasn't enough!

Jennifer Hunt, Spokane, WA (Sent Monday, April 21, 2008 10:45 AM)

I don't get it...a big bad war zero like john mcsame needs portection paid for by hardworking taxpayers?

Rick, NC (Sent Monday, April 21, 2008 10:49 AM)

Oh! Now he wants Secret Service since he going around Black Belt, which means Black People.

OBAMA 08

Keyon (Sent Monday, April 21, 2008 10:50 AM)

There is another one of those government waste programs that mcshame can cut, secret service protection for a man who gets 100% of his income from the taxpayers...does the welfare never end for this man?

Mitt in MA (Sent Monday, April 21, 2008 10:50 AM)

Dang it!!
WHO THE HECK came up with the idea to sell spywear to children?
They can hear into ther parents rooms!
A parent cannot even have ther proper constitutional privacy rights in the privacy of their own home anymore!
ok geniouses what about that?:P

Jennifer Hunt, Spokane, WA (Sent Monday, April 21, 2008 10:50 AM)

[[If HIllary were a man she would be winning this by a landslide.]]

Hillary's not a man?

Max E. Padd, Tamponn FL (Sent Monday, April 21, 2008 10:51 AM)

Secret Service code name, "dinosaur?"

Jon Manchester, NH (Sent Monday, April 21, 2008 10:51 AM)

John Mccain deserves our gratitude and protection.

He is a war hero like George Bush.

He will keep us safe by attacking Iran.

He is the man.

Jerry, Corpus Christi Texas (Sent Monday, April 21, 2008 10:52 AM)

A little known fact is that John McCain is a trained Ninja.

Hso Takari (Sent Monday, April 21, 2008 10:52 AM)

No NO please...let me
That is "DRY" humor

Jennifer Hunt, Spokane, WA (Sent Monday, April 21, 2008 10:53 AM)

Obama is a deceitful. He can talk but he has no history. The people he's associated with are terrorists, did Osama infect Obama. The truth will come out. A vote for Obama is a vote for Al-Qaida.

Sil Monee, CR, IA (Sent Monday, April 21, 2008 10:55 AM)

The Black Belt refers to slave states such as Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi.

Tina (Sent Monday, April 21, 2008 10:55 AM)

Since when has there ever been anything called the "black belt"? Break out your 1960's news templates. He's old, he's mean, he's got a loose screws, he's a racist. There is nothing new with Liberals.

Dave, Tn (Sent Monday, April 21, 2008 10:59 AM)

Hey Rick, There is secret service accompanying all the candidates, why don't you say something about them. Lets not be biased.

Sil Dolla Cr, IA (Sent Monday, April 21, 2008 10:59 AM)

Is his protection being provided by Blackwater?

It seems that if they would want to protect anybody, it would be the one candidate who will promise to make them a fortune.

CitizenJ (Sent Monday, April 21, 2008 11:00 AM)

Mitchell Feldman,

Your posts are always lucid, logical, and extremely well written. Keep 'em coming.

Obama '08

west jefferson hills, pa. (Sent Monday, April 21, 2008 11:00 AM)

OHIO SUPERDELEGATE ENDORSES BARACK OBAMA
DNC Member Enid Goubeaux cites Obama’s ability to end “politics as usual”

Her statement is below:

“I am endorsing Sen. Obama because his message, ‘yes we can’ has inspired so many voters, especially younger voters, to take part in shaping our country’s future.

Grace (Sent Monday, April 21, 2008 11:02 AM)

Um, it's "Appalachia".

K, Austin, Texas (Sent Monday, April 21, 2008 11:02 AM)

I heard a rumor that McCain has a metal plate in his head.

NoMcCain (Sent Monday, April 21, 2008 11:04 AM)

All front runners of each political party are protected by the secret service because someone might think to harm them to influence the election.

This has been the case for a long while. Stop the mindless jabbering. Say something worthwhile or nothing.

James (Sent Monday, April 21, 2008 11:06 AM)

Jennifer Hunt.............What the hell are you taking about? Please, if you are going to post a comment try to make some sense of it.

Are you trying to be racist.....I kind of sense it!

Pulling for Obama 08

Stacey, NY (Sent Monday, April 21, 2008 11:08 AM)

I wonder, is the Secret Service trained at changing McCain's Depends Adult Diapers?
Pat Huntington NY (Sent Monday, April 21, 2008 10:31 AM)

probably no different then picking up Bill Clinton's girlfriends at the airport.....

jerry/corpus christi texas (Sent Monday, April 21, 2008 11:12 AM)

Depends? Oxygen tanks?

I thought this was "new politics" you BO supporters?

Wonder what the response here would be if somebody made some stereotypical reference to BO's color?

Double standard liberals (Sent Monday, April 21, 2008 11:17 AM)

I can't understand why Obama doesn't receive extra Secret Service protection. He is Black and there are a lot of people out there and I mean a lot that would love to see Obama dead. It scares the hell out of me. I'm voting for Obama but I fear the worst.

John Mayer, Los Angeles, California (Sent Monday, April 21, 2008 11:21 AM)

Oh my goodness! There are some really funny comments above! Many thanks for laughs!

harry (Sent Monday, April 21, 2008 11:26 AM)

What, are they "secretly" carrying extra oxygen tanks with them?
HeisOld (Sent Monday, April 21, 2008 10:36 AM)

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LOL YES! and helping him up the stairs!!!

HP Boston (Sent Monday, April 21, 2008 11:29 AM)

The "Black Belt" is much of the south http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Belt_(U.S._region)

No, if Hillary were a man she wouldn't be winning this by a landslide. If anything being the former first lady to a very powerful and influential man is what put her in the situation she's in now. Had she been the first lady to nearly any other president she wouldn't have had a chance either. Similarly and off topic, GWB wouldn't have had a chance had he been the son of Carter, Ford, Nixon, or LBJ.

McCain's not getting my vote, but he shouldn't be attacked. He refused SS protection but it was kind of forced on him.

wrongnow (Sent Monday, April 21, 2008 11:31 AM)

Are they there to protect him or to restrain him when he loses his temper?

Jim N., Los Angeles, CA (Sent Monday, April 21, 2008 11:34 AM)

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