I have to say, I'm watching this Baltimore Event now, and it scares me.....

What a security nightmare. Highrise buildings surrounding the area, security glass only appears to protect from below and not above. I just don't like this kind of exposure anymore. I'm not saying I don't want him to give large speeches in front of huge crowds, but I have to say I'm very concerned with the buildings surrounding.

and those buildings have been swept through and no one has been in those buildings for days.

the Sunday he was here before the election.

Rest assured, he is well protected. They've thought of stuff you haven't even dreamed of.

Breath deep and enjoy the speech!

Get control of yourself and stop being afraid. It's how Bush was able to snooker the populace following the mass hysteria after 9/11.

It's mostly municipal buildings around the square, and it's Saturday, they're mostly closed. Baltimore isn't a hostile area for him anyway.

It could happen anywhere and I hope the Secret Service is on their toes at all times with weeks of planning.

for not being paranoid. If I were him, I would have a bulletproof glass cube around the podium.

Todays glass looks to be just 10 feet. That's what scared me, the overhead angle.

it was just in front of him. What I'm saying is I'd have every angle covered around the podium to take away any threat. The biggest threat is when he starts walking around greeting the crowd.

any info or links on that?

It was just in front of him. I don't think it covered behind or to the side.

http://www.daylife.com/photo/03fgekn4Yq7ZR/obama_grant_park_glass



2 months ago: President-elect Barack Obama and his wife Michelle, right, along with Vice president-elect Joe Biden and his wife Jill wave to spectators at their election night party at Grant Park in Chicago, Tuesday night, Nov. 4, 2008. The individuals are behind bullet proof glass.
AP Photo by M. Spencer Green

Thanks for posting it. :)

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but not in front? Kinda strange.

The light wasn't striking the front, it was there, just no light bouncing off at that angle.

thanks. :eyes: I am so on the edge of my seat (physically AND emotionally--lol) this weekend that I go from being elated to worried about his safety pretty quickly. This all seems like a dream I might wake up from--and I don't want to wake up. We have all waited so long for this...

I'm just worried I guess, not so much scared. History shows that men of historic change are targeted the most. I just want the secret service to maybe increase some of these security measures. I don't want him riding around in a pope mobile or anything. But events like this I'd like to see maybe a fully enclosed glass cube.

By the way, on a much lighter note...

Does anyone knows who was the gentleman with the beautiful voice just sang the National Anthem in Baltimore?

They mean business.

I stood on an overpass today to wave at Obama's train and had a police helicopter circle me at least a half a dozen times. It was unnerving and yet comforting at the same time.

and they are the best in the business.

It had a picture of people on a bridge waving at the train. Read your thread already, it was a different shot of the group. I wonder if that was yous guys.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x8097056



Is that your crew?

...the Gray's Ferry bridge which was the bridge just before ours.

Obama's got this.

They ordered everyone out, locked the buildings, posted guards, sharpshooters on the roofs. Those buildings are likely empty, and have been swept.

And I hope that's what they do all the time.

I just want to see them on their toes.

WASHINGTON (AFP) — The outgoing US administration indicated Thursday that President George W. Bush could issue pardons in the last hours of his term.

I just listen :)

:rofl: Sorry. :D

a friend from another weight blog i am on said he was going to watch from his office a block away but couldn't go because of streets and parking places closed. They are watching everything.

I would think so.

flying over the venue to keep him safe.

(Just kidding, of course!) But I have NEVER been as emotionally involved with a President, as I am now with Obama! And I was born in the last years of Hoover, and cast my first vote for Stevenson in 1952. I've seen most of the last century!

You got me worrying again! Tuesday can NOT come too soon for me!

pnorman

They are well aware - more than anyone else - of the security issues involved and how to deal with them.

Relax. They got this.

But since I'm a worrier I wondered why there wasn't a five guys behind him ready to pounce.

Obama was elected.

I know they're doing everything they possibly can to keep him safe, but all it takes is one nutcase with the means and opportunity able to get past security

:scared:


I think I'll probably feel a whole lot better once he's sworn in and actually living in the WH....

... that I'll never forget: "When going through security, and after, especially on the rope lines, we're looking at your hands, and even more so, at your faces. We're not so worried about happy, excited people in a political crowd. But if we see someone who's not smiling, our eyes are glued on that person, and every agent in the area is quickly made aware of that person."

I always found that to be very interesting. And when my Mom (DUer Kukesa!) and I were on the rope line to see Joe Biden, the Secret Service were moving several paces ahead of him. As they moved down the line, they were saying, sternly to everyone, "Let me see your hands." We were all holding "Change We Need" signs and American flags. The agents made us put the flags down (pointy? I don't know), and made sure they could see everyone's hands before the Senator got anywhere near us.

The Secret Service does not play. Thank God!!!