"Keep Them Safe": Washington Post calls for early Secret Service protection for candidates

[DeepModem Mom]

Editorial: Keep Them Safe
Presidential candidates may need Secret Service protection.
Monday, March 19, 2007; Page A14

EVERYTHING ABOUT the 2008 presidential election has been fast-forwarded. States are moving up their primaries and caucuses. And the candidates -- all 18 of them and counting -- are adjusting accordingly, making this one of the earliest election cycles in history. As a result, serious thought must be given to adjusting another aspect of the campaign: protection for presidential candidates.

Such security was mandated after the 1968 assassination of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy in California (D-N.Y.) as he campaigned for the Democratic Party nomination. The decision on who gets protection and when rests with Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff, in consultation with congressional leaders. Usually this happens in the first two months of the election year. Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and then-Sen. John Edwards (D-N.C.) were given Secret Service details in February 2004. But it has been given earlier. The Rev. Jesse Jackson had protection during both of his campaigns for the White House. A similar departure from custom, if not a new law rooted in a new reality, is in order now....

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/18/AR2007031801020.html?nav=hcmodule

[jaysunb]

1. Sounds like they're planting seeds

to me...:evilfrown:

Why give some nut(s) an idea or is the " Manchurian Candidate " being activated ?

I can think of lot's of things these folks should literally, be screaming about, and this ain't one of them.

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. I hope tehy do

for the sake of Obama, among others, but he is at the top of my list

[melody]

3. The Bush crime family is and has always been the prime danger to candidates

At this point (unless someone is lower profile like Paul Wellstone), they don't dare assassinate them. They
character assassinate them.