Secret Service secrets

I hope Osama bin Laden doesn’t read the papers over here. ’Cause if he did, he would find out that the new Secret Service code names for Barack and Michelle Obama are Renegade and Renaissance. Heck, for that matter, First Daughters Sasha and Malia will be Rosebud and Radiance.

Call me old-fashioned, but shouldn’t Secret Service code names be, well, secret? Seems like a security slip to me.

And why do all the Obama code names have to begin with the letter R. Why not O — as in Obama? All the Bush code names began with T — again, making no sense whatsoever.

On top of everything, the Online Etymology Dictionary says that Renegade’s earliest meanings referred to deserting one’s religion, coming from the Spanish word “renegado,” which originally meant “Christian turned Muslim.”

Wow; talk about “Don’t go there!”

The Bushes should get new code names since they won’t be in the White House anymore. For W, I’m thinking, “The Guy Who Left a Truckload of Problems for his Successor.” And of course, Laura would be “The Wife of the Guy Who Left a Truckload of Problems for his Successor.”

As for the Bush daughters, maybe something like “Reformed Party Animal I” and “Reformed Party Animal II.”

That’s all from me -- or as I’m known these days, “Tapped Out.”

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