Posted on 04/22/2012 9:35:48 AM PDT by smoothsailing
April 22, 2012
Bridget Johnson
The ranking member of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee said on CNN this morning that there’s extra concern for President Obama’s safety seeing as how he’s around people with “guns strapped on their legs.”
Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) spoke with Candy Crowley on “State of the Union” about the Secret Service scandal. Cummings and Oversight Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) sent a letter to Secret Service director Mark J. Sullivan last week asking for a full accounting of the events and a history past disciplinary trouble with agents’ behavior abroad.
“It bothers me a lot because I know that there are a lot of folks who are perhaps looking for opportunities to do harm to the president or others that the Secret Service, you know, guard,” Cummings said. “And you never know what they think that is a moment of weakness.”
He was asked if he has more concerns for President Obama’s safety because he’s African-American.
“First of all, let me say I have concern about all presidents and everybody that the Secret Service guards,” Cummings said. “But the fact is that African-American people have always expressed concern to me about this president. They see, Candy, folk around this president with guns strapped on their legs. And they say, you know, how can that be?”
“And they’re just — they worry,” he added.
The congressman said he thinks the Cartagena incident was limited to the 11 relieved from duty, “but we’ll find out.”
“So, you know, you can’t, you know, legislate people not being stupid, but certainly you can uphold the high standards of this organization,” Cummings said. “Keep in mind, the Secret Service has been around since 1865, and we’re going to make sure that it remains the great organization that it is.”
“Candy Crowley is “Mrs. Alan Colmes”, isn’t she?”
I think you may be joking; however A Colmes in married to Monica Crowley’s sister.
I keep hoping and waiting for a Secret Service agent to spill the beans on the Usurper in the White House.
IIRC, Alan Colmbs is married to Monica Crowley's sister, don't know her first name though.
This racist is mad because white people have legs to strap guns too. Cut off whitey’s legs so he can’t strap a gun to ‘em.
Cummings is an idiot.
Every President is surrounded by guns.
What Cummings should be worried about is Obama destroying America
Does he actually have fawning sycophants?
I think Aleister is her father.
“First of all, let me say I have concern about all presidents and everybody that the Secret Service guards,” Cummings said. “But the fact is that African-American people have always expressed concern to me about this president. They see, Candy, folk around this president with guns strapped on their legs. And they say, you know, how can that be?”
And many of those Agent and soldiers are black Mr Cummings.
OOPS..............
I believe that in his ham-fisted way he was attempting to construct a false meme about “those radical Republicans” peremptorily heading into the election season.
The fact is that the safest place for Øbozo is in the company of conservatives. There ain’t a one of us that doesn’t wish the opportunity to humiliate him, but none of us wish him physical harm. The same can’t be said by numerous factions of the left who feeeeeel that he has let them down, or double-crossed them.
His greatest fear (and he knows this) is his own people.
Wow! Those crazy Romans sure set the bar high on the concept of “checks and balances”
Interestingly, those two groups stand to gain quite a lot if Barry were to be assassinated. I just wonder if they're smart enough to frame someone else.
I pray for the safety of this and every president even though I might actively work for the defeat of their policies.
Yeah, but nobody axed you.
hahaha
The voters in Maryland who sent this moron to congress must be as dumb as dirt. I guess this clown Cummings is intelligent compared to the dolts who voted for him. What an embarrassment.
Follow up question, Mr Congressman... Wasn't that pretty much how Obama got elected? Because of White Guilt?
Elijah Cummings -—> Congressional Progressive Caucus -—> Communist.
I guess my comment in reply would be...
“If our elected officials would conduct themselves with true respect for the American People and understand that they are not a separate or higher class than any other American Citizen and stop trying to restrict our freedoms and Rights, they wouldn’t have to worry about it now would they? The fact that they do worry about it is probably a good thing in that it’s a consideration that they must think about when they forge ahead with questionable actions and laws.”
In other words, if you don’t like it, then stop trying to enslave the American People. Maybe then you wouldn’t have to worry so much. The fact that you are worried shows that you don’t have the nations best interest at heart. We’re not giving up our guns and that scares the hell out of our elected officials. THAT is a good thing.
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