Female Secret Service bodyguards are not as awesome at hand-to-hand combat as you might expect from watching TV, Steve Sailer notes, citing this New York Times account of the White House intrusion a few weeks ago:
As the officer stationed there tried to lock the doors, Mr. Gonzalez “barged through them and knocked her backward.” She told him to stop but he continued on to the East Room.
“After attempting twice to physically take Gonzalez down but failing to do so because of the size disparity between the two, the officer then attempted to draw her baton but accidentally grabbed her flashlight instead,” the report said. “The officer threw down her flashlight, drew her firearm, and continued to give Gonzalez commands that he ignored.”
Mr. Gonzalez entered the East Room, but then exited, heading down the hallway. Two officers stationed in the White House, assisted by two plainclothes agents who had just finished their shifts, tackled him.
To judge by its use of women to guard the President, the regime really does believe its own propaganda about equality. Any ruling elite that detached from reality is ripe for replacement.
Or protecting the president is both easy and unimportant.
Easy part: Only lunatics think that killing the president is a good idea or worth the cost. The physical infrastructure around the president precludes a competent assassin who isn’t suicidal from even trying.
Unimportant part: Obama as a martyr charges up the left. Hell, at this point the left would be thrilled if Obama was killed — no more awkward questions about him, instant beatification.
I vividly remember the coverage of Elian Gonzales’ capture by the feds. One of the agents was a diminution women who was so small she couldn’t even wear her books. Affirmative action black humor.