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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: tombogan03884 on December 15, 2009, 09:01:02 PM
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Apparently the Secret Service has looked at Obama's appointee's and friends like Bill "the mad bomber" Ayers and said f-ck it, we might as well let EVERY ONE wander in since the BAD GUY'S all seem to have credentials.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091216/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_white_house_accidental_tourists
WASHINGTON – It wasn't a state dinner, and they didn't crash it on purpose.
Still, a Georgia couple who showed up at the White House a day early for a tour somehow wound up at an invitation-only breakfast with President Barack Obama and the first lady. It left the White House once again explaining how people who were not on an event guest list wound up being ushered into the presidential mansion anyway.
The improbable adventure of Harvey and Paula Darden, Obama supporters from Hogansville, Ga., took place on Veterans Day, two weeks before Virginia socialites Tareq and Michaele Salahi infamously crashed the Obamas' state dinner for the prime minister of India.
The Dardens mistakenly showed up a day early for a tour scheduled through their congressman.
The White House and Secret Service both said the Dardens went through the appropriate security screenings and were allowed into the breakfast as a courtesy because there were no public tours the day they arrived.
That explanation was news to Harvey Darden, 67, a retired pharmacist, who said he and his wife never were told about the breakfast. They thought they were simply starting their tour until they were ushered into the East Room, offered a buffet spread and told they'd be meeting the president.
"The further we got into the White House, the more surprised we were," Darden told The Associated Press in a telephone interview. "My wife looked at me and I looked at her, and I said, 'You know, I don't know if we're in the right place.'"
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I hate to speculate, but maybe Barry is an even bigger jerk than we give him ample credit for being. Could be the SS just lets anyone in hoping someone will, eventually, take a crack at him. Heck, if the man and his wife had been dressed in torn jeans and sleeveless, rebel flag tees, they'd probably have taken him to the Obama's private residence to "relieve" himself.
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