Obama security and the prescience of JMZ
When I heard the news last night that Secret Service protection has been extended to Barack Obama it sent shivers up my back. Jill Miller Zimon at Writes Like She Talks already mentioned this on her page today, but as soon as I heard it last night I was thinking the same thing. So this morning I dug around in the attic of TSM to find this item from Jill’s portion of the live-blog compilation of the Obama event on February 27th:
Okay - I made it in - I fed everyone in my family - the dishes will be there when I get back - the press table was GONE - they had nothing on me - but a nice tall woman who said she was the sleonard who had emailed with Wendell told me I could go in - and I saw Anastasia P.
It’s warm - not so loud yet - not back to the doors but very full. Mark Naymik is supposedly here somewhere behind me. And Jerid is supposedly here - I haven’t seen anyone else.
Now I just have to hope that they don’t drag my car away like they were doing to the car that had been in my spot. The tow guy - fascinating - said, you here for Obama? I said yeah. He said, “I wouldn’t want to be the first black president, no way. Just like Kennedy.”
Wow - I hope that’s not prescient.
Hopefully with the help of some early Secret Service, it won’t be.
Is that creepy or what? I wonder if the tow truck guy even realizes what he said. Probably, maybe going around saying to friends, “I told this lady the same thing that night…”
Have a good weekend, Wendell.
Thanks Jill.