JiJoMacLE45
07-27-2004, 12:51 PM
Alright, up until a few days ago I really had no ill will towards Senator Kerry. I didn't really like the guy, but I had no reason to flat out despise him. Well I just got one. Here's why: Whenever I watch the President on televison, I always make it a point to observe his USSS detail. Force of habit, checking out my brother LEO's I guess. I've have started doing the same w/ Senator Kerry when I catch him on the tube. Both of their details, the close protection agents anyway, are primarily white males in the mid-30's to early 40's. President Bush has a one black male agent on his team, Senator Kerry has one Filipino male agent, no blacks. So both Presidential candidates head to the Urban League on back to back days & Kerry does the NAACP gig, and I catch a bit of it on the tube and like usual, my eyes wander across their protection details. Bush has his same detail, Kerry on the other hand has substituted his white agents for three or four black Secret Service agents to help him work the rope line shaking hands. The next day, Senator Kerry is on the road again & surprise surprise, he has his white agents back on again.
Now this is in no way saying that he does not have black agents on his detail or that black USSS agents don't know how to do their job, but come on, you go to two events where the majority of the members are black and your agents are black, but when your back out on the road in rural 'white' America you switch back to your white guys.
I am not a member of the USSS so I have no idea how they do things, but I don't think it is in their charter to switch agents according to their race so that a candidate can look better infront of a certain audience.
I don't know, that just really pissed me off. Then I had to watch his ass every 6 seconds at the Sox/Yankees game and hear how he doesn't like the DH rule and then see him hanging out w/ Affleck. Just kill me now.
Now this is in no way saying that he does not have black agents on his detail or that black USSS agents don't know how to do their job, but come on, you go to two events where the majority of the members are black and your agents are black, but when your back out on the road in rural 'white' America you switch back to your white guys.
I am not a member of the USSS so I have no idea how they do things, but I don't think it is in their charter to switch agents according to their race so that a candidate can look better infront of a certain audience.
I don't know, that just really pissed me off. Then I had to watch his ass every 6 seconds at the Sox/Yankees game and hear how he doesn't like the DH rule and then see him hanging out w/ Affleck. Just kill me now.