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Old 10-02-2012, 02:45 PM
 
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Why would the President of the United States let “Renegade” be his secret service code name unless he thought it was a good fit? Synonyms are traitor, deserter, betrayer, dissenter, defector, outlaw, and rebel. Michelle Obama’s code name is “Renaissance.” Synonyms are resurgence, rebirth, and reawakening.

The article below says a computer chooses the code names, but if they don't like the chosen name they can change it. So, obviously "Renegade" was just fine with him. It goes along with his promise to “fundamentally change America,” and his remark that the Constitution was not a static document, but rather a living one, that must be read in the context of an ever-changing world, and that it "reflected the fundamental flaw of this country that continues to this day.”

Some people will probably post remarks that this means nothing. If you do, please clarify whether or not YOU would want to be known by this name if you were the president. Please don't say you would just because you plan to vote for Obama.

Secret Service code names: From Bowhunter and Buttercup to Smurfette and Zorro - Chicago Tribune
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Old 10-02-2012, 02:57 PM
 
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Styx - Tommy Shaw "Renegade" !983 - YouTube
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Old 10-02-2012, 02:59 PM
 
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Why would the President of the United States let “Renegade” be his secret service code name unless he thought it was a good fit? Synonyms are traitor, deserter, betrayer, dissenter, defector, outlaw, and rebel. Michelle Obama’s code name is “Renaissance.” Synonyms are resurgence, rebirth, and reawakening.

The article below says a computer chooses the code names, but if they don't like the chosen name they can change it. So, obviously "Renegade" was just fine with him. It goes along with his promise to “fundamentally change America,” and his remark that the Constitution was not a static document, but rather a living one, that must be read in the context of an ever-changing world, and that it "reflected the fundamental flaw of this country that continues to this day.”

Some people will probably post remarks that this means nothing. If you do, please clarify whether or not YOU would want to be known by this name if you were the president. Please don't say you would just because you plan to vote for Obama.

Secret Service code names: From Bowhunter and Buttercup to Smurfette and Zorro - Chicago Tribune
Probably because, after being conceived 50 years ago in a test tube in Kenya, via an Indonesian sperm donor and the egg from a cryogenically preserved Himalayan yeti-woman, he was programmed via a computer chip being placed in his brain and also in the brains of 53% of the population to take over the United States in 2008 and the Socialist, Communist, Muslim, Black Panther people who programmed him like the name.

I really can't think of any other reason.
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Old 10-02-2012, 03:00 PM
 
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Is it bothering you that the name calling of the last 4 years isn't having the desired effect?
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Old 10-02-2012, 03:03 PM
 
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one synonym you missed.......... "maverick".
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Old 10-02-2012, 03:05 PM
 
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if i was President of the United States, I wouldn't give a damn what the Secret Service chose as my code name.
And, most probably, that code name changes frequently. Next week, the code name will be a different word.

This is so trivial it's not worth of discussion, even here.
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Old 10-02-2012, 03:55 PM
 
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I WAY overestimated the Obama crowd. You can't even give rational answers much less follow instructions of the OP. It makes no sense for a president to be nicknamed a traitor and be ok with it, and anyone with sufficient common sense knows this. And maverick is not a synonym for renegade. Good try.
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Old 10-02-2012, 04:02 PM
 
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Crazy thread indeed if one thinks that the Secret Service code name has any meaning at all.

Jimmy Carter's was Dasher, Deacon, Lock Master
Reagan's was Rawhide.
Johnson's was Volunteer.
John F. Kennedy was Lancer.

They have no significance. Oh, and Renegade does not mean traitor.
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Old 10-02-2012, 04:05 PM
 
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Can't forget the legendary "deep throat"
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Old 10-02-2012, 04:05 PM
 
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I WAY overestimated the Obama crowd. You can't even give rational answers much less follow instructions of the OP. It makes no sense for a president to be nicknamed a traitor and be ok with it, and anyone with sufficient common sense knows this. And maverick is not a synonym for renegade. Good try.
Come up with a rational OP and maybe you'll get rational answers.

It is way too long of a stretch to connect a Secret Service codename to the president being labeled a traitor.
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