Codename POTUS

Tumbler (George W. Bush)
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Okay that is funny on at least two levels.

It really has been a slow news week hasn't it? Yawn. Won't it be exciting to be able to report on an actual news story again at some point?

Lancer=JFK. Folks at the Secret Service has a sense of humor.

Oops. The Secret Service has but the folks there have.

Didn't the SS originally codename GW Bush "Einstein" until they were ordered to change it? Am I imagining that? Because I'm sure I remember that being a newsstory even though I can't find a reference to it now. Anyone?

How about Wolverine Stein? It has a ring to it.... Of course, he could always go with Hussein Stein. Nothing like being fashionable *s*. If you want to be bipartisan: McCain Hussein Stein.

It's certainly reassuring to know that guarding the POTUS is only a part time job. That helps explain all that extra hours....

"Rosebud" is charming only if you DON'T know the source of the allusion.

The Secret Service does not choose these names, however. The White House Communications Agency assigns these names.

This helps explain why the Nixon era ones strike me as particularly insane.

Henry Kissinger - Woodcutter
John Ehrlichman - Wisdom
H. R. Haldeman - Welcome

Jesus Christ this post is inane.

Evergreen (Hillary Clinton)

Clever.

I may be wrong here, but wasn't Rosebud always a reference to a certain part of the female anatomy? If I am right, that seems a wildly innapropriate nickname for a small child.

Barack Obama...
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Backed out of public financing which historically had helped Dems a lot more than Repubs
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Didn't pick HRC as VP candidate even though he was told it would lose him the white women vote
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Refused to sling mud in kind even when everyone urged him to
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Did not accept money from pacs or special interest groups which was unheard of in a general election
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Used a 50 state strategy that every body derided Howard Dean for and said wouldn't work
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Went on a whirlwind European/Middle Eastern world tour in the middle of his campaign even though many people thought it would come off as elitest and play into his celebrity meme
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Didnt use "walk around money" in Pennsylvania to get votes when people thought that was how you had to do business to win there
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Committed to meeting our enemies without pre conditions knowing fully well that he would be attacked by both Dems and Repubs as naive for doing so.
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Structured perhaps the greatest get out the vote effort in the history of the Democratic party in states that Dems havent been competitive in for generations
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Hitched his hopes for election in large part on the votes of young people, a group notorious for not voting in this country
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Yeah that Obama guy could NEVER be considered a Renegade!

OT, but a Time story that actually cries out for a thread of its own:

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1858991,00.html

Short version: the show trial of former AL Governor Don Siegelman was even more rotten than had previously been supposed (including jury tampering).

#12: 'Rosebud' isn't generally accepted slang for anything. There was a rumor to the effect that 'rosebud' as a pet name of sorts was part of the pillow talk of William Randolph Hearst and Marion Davies. But that rumor has one source and one source only: Gore Vidal's obit of Orson Welles in the NY Review of Books, and he neither substantiates nor attributes it.

Maybe that's part of the problem: Our awesomeness value matrices are precisely opposed..
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Renegade, Renaissance, and Radiance are awesome code names.
"Angler" for Dick Cheney? That's lame.
"Trapline" for Neil Bush? That would be okay except now it sounds like Palin is his mother.
Tumbler is also lame.

I think we should all have code names. I'll take "Spackle."

Friar
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I have always been partial to "jaberwocky"

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kth, Vidal was a close friend of Hearst and I'll take him at his word, but that's a debate for another day.
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Either way it's widely alleged to be the source of the reference, whether true ultimately or not. That in my view makes it a crappy nickname for a young girl.

This is a no-brainer (or a big-brainer): Ein

"Joe Bftsplk" IS a code name:
http://www.lil-abner.com/other.html
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Actually, I've never felt a kinship with the character -- I've just always liked the challenge of pronouncing the name.

Joetheplumber

Just to make the whole rosebud conversation a little murkier
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According to Welles author David Thomson, “Rosebud is the greatest secret in cinema…” [8]:801 [9]
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Orson Welles, explaining the idea behind the word "Rosebud," said, "It's a gimmick, really, and rather dollar-book Freud."[10] The symbolic sled 'Rosebud' used in the film was bought for $60,500 by film director Steven Spielberg in 1982. Spielberg commented, "Rosebud will go over my typewriter to remind me that quality in movies comes first."[11][12] According to Peter Bogdanovich, Welles' reaction to Spielberg's purchase of the sled was "I thought we burned it..."
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According to Louis Pizzitola, author of Hearst Over Hollywood, "Rosebud" was a nickname that Orrin Peck, a friend of William Randolph Hearst, gave to his mother, Phoebe Hearst.[13] It was said that Phoebe was as close, or even closer, to Orrin than she was to her own son, lending a bitter-sweet element to the word's use in a film about a boy being separated from his mother's love.
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In 1989, essayist Gore Vidal cited contemporary rumors that "Rosebud" was a nickname Hearst used for his mistress Marion Davies; a reference to her clitoris,[14][15] a claim repeated as fact in the 1996 documentary The Battle Over Citizen Kane and again in the 1999 dramatic film RKO 281. A resultant joke noted, with heavy innuendo, that Hearst and/or Kane died "with 'Rosebud' on his lips."[1]

Eeyore.