Saturday September 26, 2009, 8:29 pm
Subject: Protect the President from right-wing extremists...

Dear Friend,

As racist attacks increase and protestors continue to bring guns to presidential events, it is strikingly clear that President Obama is vulnerable to harm. Are the Secret Service and the FBI doing enough to protect him? Are they confronting those who threaten our president?

Ronald Kessler, a veteran investigative journalist and conservative who recently authored a book about the Secret Service, notes that funding cutbacks have already left the first African-American president in U.S. history particularly vulnerable. The book, which alleges that the cash-strapped Secret Service is endangering the president by cutting corners, has sent shockwaves through Washington.

We cannot allow funding problems to weaken the organizations charged with protecting the life of our nation's president. It is time for Americans of every stripe to insist that the Secret Service and the FBI operate at the highest levels of effectiveness.

I just signed a petition to ask Janet Napolitano, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, to ensure that efforts of the Secret Service and FBI to protect President Obama from escalating threats are expanded and fully funded. I hope you will, too. Please have a look and take action. (Visit site)

Saturday September 26, 2009, 8:40 pm
It's extraordinary how much goes on behind the velvet curtain, is it not?
Thank you, David---already signed, and now noted. xo

Saturday September 26, 2009, 8:54 pm
Draw that velvet curtain Janet...There's a lot of nasty stuff happening in that big bad world out there, but let's not just ignore it and sweep it under the carpet?

Thank you and all who may sign this petition. xo

Saturday September 26, 2009, 9:04 pm
Petiton signed of course.........

Sunday September 27, 2009, 5:58 am
Noted; petition signed and sent forward. Thank you, David. It is chilling to hear, read, and see hatred and when it is delivered from a church pulpit its face is even uglier. Thank you, David.

Monday September 28, 2009, 3:56 am
Thanks David.

I just signed a petition to ask Janet Napolitano, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, to ensure that efforts of the Secret Service and FBI to protect President Obama from escalating threats are expanded and fully funded. I hope you will, too. Please have a look and take action.

Tuesday September 29, 2009, 2:31 pm
The Secret Service just called to thank me .... for my screen grab of the poll asking whether President Obama should be killed, and said without it, they wouldn't have been able to address the matter.Go here to read the original post.... they rely on people like us to help them out. Sounds awfully grassrootsy, doesn't it? Almost community service-like. Imagine that.