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Old 01-11-2013, 09:23 AM
 
Location: Florida
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Did you read your article? It says if is an re-instatement of a 1965 law....... Did you expect him to veto it and thrown it back in the face of the GOP Congress?
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Old 01-11-2013, 09:23 AM
 
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Arms for me but not for thee. The battle cry of tyrants.
Says who? Nobody said you can`t have a gun.
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Old 01-11-2013, 09:28 AM
 
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Did you read your article? It says if is an re-instatement of a 1965 law....... Did you expect him to veto it and thrown it back in the face of the GOP Congress?
Too bad it wasn't a line item veto bill, he could have excluded all former US presidents excepting himself when he retires, now that would have been news, but since my scenario didn't happen, all I have to say is <yawn>
please wake me when the OP isn't denigrating liberals or democrats.
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Old 01-11-2013, 09:29 AM
 
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The United States provided life-long protection for Presidents and their spouses because of a law passed in 1965. The law doesn't require the Presidents to accept that protection. Richard Nixon for instance made the decision to dismiss his Secret Service protection and employ private security. The fact that such lifelong protection was provided was the entire basis for the movie Guarding Tess. In the 1990's a law was passed limiting the protection to 10 years, however that law only applied to presidents elected after 1997--namely George W Bush. It seems ironic that if a new law had not been passed that George Bush's protection would be pulled in 2019, while his mother Barbara would continue to receive such protection for life. George W Bush is arguably one of the least popular presidents, and possibly still receives threats on life. The law that Obama signed doesn't just offer protection to President Obama and his family when he leaves office in 2017, it also affords George W Bush and his family the same level of protection that Jimmy Carter and his wife, that Mrs Reagan, that George HW Bush and his wife, that Bill and Hillary Clinton all receive.
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Old 01-11-2013, 09:43 AM
 
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The United States provided life-long protection for Presidents and their spouses because of a law passed in 1965. The law doesn't require the Presidents to accept that protection. Richard Nixon for instance made the decision to dismiss his Secret Service protection and employ private security. The fact that such lifelong protection was provided was the entire basis for the movie Guarding Tess. In the 1990's a law was passed limiting the protection to 10 years, however that law only applied to presidents elected after 1997--namely George W Bush. It seems ironic that if a new law had not been passed that George Bush's protection would be pulled in 2019, while his mother Barbara would continue to receive such protection for life. George W Bush is arguably one of the least popular presidents, and possibly still receives threats on life. The law that Obama signed doesn't just offer protection to President Obama and his family when he leaves office in 2017, it also affords George W Bush and his family the same level of protection that Jimmy Carter and his wife, that Mrs Reagan, that George HW Bush and his wife, that Bill and Hillary Clinton all receive.
Very nice explanation. I tried to rep but this will have to do.
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Old 01-11-2013, 09:56 AM
 
Location: Barrington
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The bill was initiated by Republican, Gowdy /Texas in November. It passed both houses.
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Old 01-11-2013, 09:56 AM
 
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Omg, there aren't using assault weapons are they?
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Old 01-11-2013, 10:07 AM
 
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Ex presidents always get armed security for life. Secret service agents in fact.

Not true.
Obama is the one who changed it to security for life. Before that, it was only ten years.
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Quote: Obama signed legislation into law to indefinitely extend protection from 10 years to lifelong for former presidents who served after 1997.
Before the change, former President George W. Bush had been scheduled to lose U.S. Secret Service protection 10 years after leaving office or in 2019.
Obama would have lost post-presidential protection 10 years after leaving office or in 2027.

Former President George W. Bush to receive lifetime Secret Service protection | Texas on the Potomac | a Chron.com blog
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Old 01-11-2013, 10:14 AM
 
Location: Barrington
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Not true.
Obama is the one who changed it to security for life. Before that, it was only ten years.
toodie

Quote: Obama signed legislation into law to indefinitely extend protection from 10 years to lifelong for former presidents who served after 1997.
Before the change, former President George W. Bush had been scheduled to lose U.S. Secret Service protection 10 years after leaving office or in 2019.
Obama would have lost post-presidential protection 10 years after leaving office or in 2027.

Former President George W. Bush to receive lifetime Secret Service protection | Texas on the Potomac | a Chron.com blog
This reverses a previous law that limited protection to 10 years and imposed on any Presidents elected after 1997. Bush ( Texas) would have been the first former President to experience the cut.

The bill was introduced by a Republican from Texas. It was approved by the house and senate. Get over it.
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Old 01-11-2013, 10:23 AM
 
Location: Littleton, CO
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Don't you just luv the typical Liberal Elitist phonies....
Do you mean the Congressional Republicans who passed this bill?

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