Parallax View.
I wonder how the outrage will compare to two servicemenn gunned down...
On Fox News coverage before 3PM I noticed an interesting comment by national security correspondent Catherine Herridge. Discussing the recent Homeland Security alert warning about attacks by white supremecists she said (paraphrased):
‘The lone gunman scenario has been the chief concern among national security officials since the inauguration.’
This suggests that, perhaps understandably, national security officials have switched their focus from attacks on the US and its citizens from coordinated international terrorists to a focus on protecting Obama from personal assasination attempts.
I certainly don’t want to see the TOTUS assassinated, I’m relishing defeating him at the ballot box in 2010 and 2012.
But it does seem to me to be somewhat selfish of Obama to order the entire national security apparatus to focus on his personal security (like he doesn’t have enough) at the expense of leaving US citizens more vulneable.