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To: epicure who wrote (90598)	10/18/2008 11:03:42 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541861

Tell yer black kids an old white hippie thinks the same thing.

To: epicure who wrote (90598)	10/18/2008 11:20:58 AM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541861

Having worked with the Secret Service a few times, it's amazing what they can do when they decide to seal off an area completely and make it almost impossible for anyone with a weapon or a bomb to get physically close to their protectee. I suspect Obama's next two weeks will be limited to carefully controlled rallies and no spontaneous walks down the street to drop in on the breakfast crowd at a diner. Since the SS is likely protecting their next president, I would expect maximum precautions to be in place. Clearly that wasn't the case with King and Bobby Kennedy, or even when Reagan was shot by a bystander on the sidewalk just feet away from him. No one will get near Obama without having been swept and closely watched by the SS guys. So I am not too worried on that account. It will be amazing to see a black man sworn in as president. I still remember watching Mandela's inauguration on TV and marveling at how far South Africa had come in just a few short years since I first went there, and the whole apartheid state was still in place in 1988.