Posted on 03/27/2014 10:36:46 PM PDT by chessplayer
One of the many pearls of wisdom that alcoholism recovery programs impart can be applied to the guys who caused the U.S. Secret Service's latest imbroglio. It's not that every time an agent drinks on the road, he has a problem. It's that, whenever there's an incident, it's usually because he's been drinking.
The Secret Service has a drinking problem. It's much worse than any other cultural deficit the elite agency has. It's more widespread than sexism, certainly, and the other isms that have been attached to the agency since the prostitution scandal in Cartagena, Colombia. It's something that every journalist who covers the White House kind of knows, intuitively, if they've ever traveled with the president. Pick your favorite White House correspondent and ask him or her whether agents on President George W. Bush's detail created problems at the Wild West saloon in Waco. One former White House scribe told me that although reporters regularly witnessed agents drinking heavily BEFORE shifts, "we just assumed they could control themselves. After all, they were the ones who were the most responsible of all of us."
But often, agents drinking with each other don't have the foresight, or the ability, frankly, to tell their colleagues to stop drinking without losing face. In the Netherlands, not only was a member of the Counter-Assault Team drunk, he was falling-down drunk. He was sleeping on the floor of a hallway drunk. And several of his team members were drunk, too.
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I think I’d quit!
Being that it’s Obama, I’d drink too ... LOL ...
If I had to be around Obama, Biden, et al I’m sure I’d develop a drinking problem, too.
If my job was to protect a cheap imitation of a rodeo clown, I’d get drunk too.
Leadership problem?
If you can’t do the job you’re sworn to do, then yes, move on...before something bad happens.
One bourbon, one scotch & one beer, UNTIL they feel good about themselves.
There ya go...
If I thought about getting killed to protect Zero I’d be drinking heavy too.
I’d drink heavily too if my job was to protect Odumbo. Can you imagine taking a bullet for that worthless ass?
They are “Broken Toys”— Its a wonder they can do their jobs.
I still can’t believe Barry hasn’t surrounded himself with Nation of Islam protection from Farrakhans posse. Are there no patriots in the current group that might cause Barry to be fearful of an accident?
“Why do they do this?”
In any large organization the followers take on the characteristics of the leader. If the leader is crazy, the organization beneath him will act crazy. If the leader is a philanderer the men under him will be also. At a company where I worked the president took up cigars. Within days every top report and some of their reports were smoking the same cigars. When the top guy stopped the cigars disappeared as if a switch had been flipped. So, if the Secret Service is drinking heavily look at the leadership first.
The only assassination protection BHO has, and needs, is Joe Biden.
The Secret Service need not worry too much.
They should ditch the alcohol and just smoke dope and snort cocaine like president Obama - aka “The Big Choomer”.
With apologies to W.C. Fields:
I am indebted to Obama for one thing and one thing only, and, that is, he has driven me to drink.
Drunken SS agents! Who gives a rat’s rear end?
If I was being paid to give my life for this “president”...I’d take up serious drinking myself.
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