Does anyone seriously think that the president is disinterested in the professionalism of the Secret Service? His life is in their hands. Would you like it if your paid bodyguards were more interested in playing with prostitutes than in protecting you? Yet, Sarah Palin can never miss an opportunity to try to score some political points. It turns out that one of the Secret Service supervisors who lost his job over his behavior in Colombia was once assigned to Gov. Palin. And he wasn’t very professional about that responsibility either. He wrote on his Facebook page that he was “checking [Palin] out, if you know what I mean.” This was all the opening Palin needed to launch a truly tasteless attack on the president:
“Well, this agent who was kind of ridiculous there in posting pictures and comments about checking someone out,” Palin told Greta van Susteren on her FOX News program. “Well check this out, bodyguard — you’re fired. And I hope his wife sends him to the doghouse. As long as he’s not eating the dog, along with his former boss. Greta, you know, a lot of people will just, I guess say that this is boys being boys. And boys will be boys, but they shouldn’t be in positions of authority.”
“It’s a symptom of government run amok, though, Greta,” Palin said on the Thursday broadcast of “On the Record” on FOX News. “Who is minding the store here? And when it comes to this particular issue of Secret Service, again, playing with the taxpayer’s dime and playing with prostitutes and checking out those whom they are guarding.”
“You know, the President, for one, he better be wary there when Secret Service is accompanying his family on vacation. They may be checking out the First Lady, instead of guarding her. I say that not just tongue in cheek, but I say that seriously,” Palin said.
“The president, the CEO of this operation called our federal government, has got to start cracking down on these agencies. He is the head of the administrative branch and all of these different departments in the administration that now people are seeing things that are so amiss within these departments. The buck stops with the president. And he’s really got to start cracking down and seeing some heads roll. He has to get rid of these people at the head of these agencies where so many things, obviously, are amiss,” she said.
This really has it all, doesn’t it? She attacks the president for eating dog. The president revealed in Dreams From My Father that he was fed dog when he was a very young boy in Indonesia. He didn’t like it. The Republicans think this information is supposed to inoculate Mitt Romney from charges of animal cruelty. How stupid is that?
Then Palin goes to an obvious place. The prostitution scandal in the Secret Service is evidence of “government run amok” and wasting taxpayer dollars. By what logic?
Of course, this is the president’s fault. He isn’t minding the store. He’s not cracking down. He needs to start firing people from all kinds of agencies because the Secret Service had a scandal. Never mind that the people responsible have already been sacked.
But the most classless thing Palin said was about the president’s family.
“You know, the President, for one, he better be wary there when Secret Service is accompanying his family on vacation. They may be checking out the First Lady, instead of guarding her. I say that not just tongue in cheek, but I say that seriously,” Palin said.
Why even say that?
I get that Palin experienced that kind of treatment. She’s not wrong. She just has no sense of decorum or decency.
