In the news today again is the Cartagena scandal involving some secret service agents who partied and solicited prostitutes the day before President’s Obama arrival in Colombia. The agents had been assigned to prepare Obama’s visit to the Summit of the Americas.
If one of the agents had not been so cheap as to resist paying the prostitute what he owed her, this may have never become news.
What is interesting is in how many directions this news story goes.
Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, the senior Republican on the Homeland Security Committee, and Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., both said that more female Secret Service agents might help guard against such incidents from happening again.
"I can't help but wonder if there had been more women as part of that detail, if this ever would have happened," Collins said on ABC's "This Week."
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According to Maloney only 11 percent of the Secret Service's agents are women. But I wonder, what did they mean exactly by women agent guarding against these types of incidents? I am all for seeing more women join the ranks of the secret service and don’t understand the discrimination there, but their duty should not be to babysit men with frat boy syndrome. I expect women agents to be assigned the same duties as the guys - and that does not include playing chaperone.
And then there is of course none other than Sarah Palin herself blaming Obama for the scandal and claiming that this happened because of his "poor management skills".
Really? Palin cannot hold back. If there is the slightest opportunity to pin blame on Obama, however ridiculous those reasons may be, she will go for it.
Nothing can prevent a bunch of guys on a beach resort from having a sexcapade if that's what they set their mind to, except that next time around, they will be more discreet.