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The Secret Service detail assigned to the president on Dec. 25 has to report for duty on Christmas Day no matter where the president is. It is possible that some of those SS agents on duty at Camp David really wanted to go "home" to Chicago, or Omaha, or wherever, but had to go to CD instead!
Also, what she says is one page is actually most of a chapter.
One can only suppose that copying and pasting a sentence out of that chapter is too much like work.
Although, quoting a memoir as irrefutable truth is rather amusing.
If this was a Republican president wanting to go to Hawaii, you wouldnt be saying a word.
I assume you found the passage.
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Originally Posted by Katiana
The Secret Service detail assigned to the president on Dec. 25 has to report for duty on Christmas Day no matter where the president is. It is possible that some of those SS agents on duty at Camp David really wanted to go "home" to Chicago, or Omaha, or wherever, but had to go to CD instead!
I would assume those that work WH detail live in the AREA or close to it, wouldn't you? Working shifts is much easier an hour away than say, 5000 miles. See, I KNEW you'd be coming up with another deflection.
I suppose if sticking your head in the sand isn't considered dodging, I would suppose that you are right. But I don't like to suppose.
Haven't done either of those things.
Rene,
SANrene.
There are hundreds of thousands of people in the service of the nation who work on Christmas. There are millions of non Federal employees who do as well. The question that you insist on dodging is your assumption that every member of the president's detail works every Christmas as oppose to some working on Christmas, others drawing the detail on 2010 and still others in 2011! You also assume that every Secret Service Agent assigned to the President is a Christian, perhaps there are a few Jews, Muslims, and Buddhist who could give a rat's ass about Christmas.
Just a thought.
That thought is not the point. See, the point is NOT that millions of people have to work on Christmas Eve/day, that our military really never take a break, the point is OBAMA not considering those who work for and protect him, OBAMA, taking these people away from their families. I would have thought the point was obvious.
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Originally Posted by kshe95girl
Also, what she says is one page is actually most of a chapter. One can only suppose that copying and pasting a sentence out of that chapter is too much like work.
Although, quoting a memoir as irrefutable truth is rather amusing.
Gee, I only did it TWICE for you. I assume you've found a way to get to the bottom of the page so you can read the relevant text. Oh, just so you know, can't copy/paste out of the book.
I would assume those that work WH detail live in the AREA or close to it, wouldn't you? Working shifts is much easier an hour away than say, 5000 miles. See, I KNEW you'd be coming up with another deflection.
Yes, they probably live in the area, though some may actually be quite far from Camp David, especially if they live somewhere in NOVA. The point is, their extended family may live in Timbuktu, where they would like to go for Christmas. I know Chicago is a very provincial place, but surely you have a few transplants there? I know people who always go back to the little town in Illinois where they're from. I have some friends who go to both Atlanta (husband's home) and Connecticut (wife's home) every Christmas. DH and I have been known to go to Omaha (his) or Pittsburgh (mine) for Christmas. In fact, the DC area has a lot of transplants living there.
Yes, they probably live in the area, though some may actually be quite far from Camp David, especially if they live somewhere in NOVA. The point is, their extended family may live in Timbuktu, where they would like to go for Christmas. I know Chicago is a very provincial place, but surely you have a few transplants there? I know people who always go back to the little town in Illinois where they're from. I have some friends who go to both Atlanta (husband's home) and Connecticut (wife's home) every Christmas. DH and I have been known to go to Omaha (his) or Pittsburgh (mine) for Christmas. In fact, the DC area has a lot of transplants living there.
Ingenious! Now we must have SS agents whose families live far, far, far away from where they actually work......makes it a lot easier that way to think being away from their families is no big deal, right?
Ingenious! Now we must have SS agents whose families live far, far, far away from where they actually work......makes it a lot easier that way to think being away from their families is no big deal, right?
Don't many many people in the military work far, far, far away from their families? Makes your point mute doesn't it.
Yet another faux outraged hypocritical thread. Again, THOUSANDS of our Men and Women have spent numerous Christmas away from their families, losing life and limb and here we have a thread bytching about Secret Service men living it up in Hawaii during Christmas, with or without their families? And you ask how is this thread hypocritical? My goodness grow up.
This has to be the most petty and trivial thread I've read in a long long time. I can think of plenty of criticisms against Obama, this one is not one of them. Pretty pathetic and desperate if you ask me
I agree with you, there's nothing more annoying than right wingnut whiners & trolls.
Yet another faux outraged hypocritical thread. Again, THOUSANDS of our Men and Women have spent numerous Christmas away from their families, losing life and limb and here we have a thread bytching about Secret Service men living it up in Hawaii during Christmas, with or without their families? And you ask how is this thread hypocritical? My goodness grow up.
Living it up? That's what you think these people will be doing? Frolicking on the beach, tanning in the sun, taking their leisure around the island?
Please, they are not there to party down, but to protect and serve the man who has taken them away from their families for three years running.
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