Robert, I have to say I really don't think we are following the correct story. Obama has been photographed with the Salahi's before (2005) and clearly knows them.

I believe that it is very possible that Obama did invite them and left their names off the guest list because he was afraid of the backlash. I think he assumed that no one would have noticed.

Now that the news broke, he is stuck playing the anger card because if the truth came out that he actually invited them, then there would be more Hell to pay.

Of course, that is only my conspiracy theory. But since I do not trust Obama, or his people, it does hold water with me as a possibility.

I share your concern for the President and his family's safety.

My default assumption is a Secret Service error, possibly triggered by interference.

For all their faults, French presidential bodyguards have been rather more successful at thwarting assassination attempts, and I gather they took a dim view of security arrangements taken in the USA before the Kennedy assasination.

This infiltration does look like a reality TV prank, whatever the affiliations of the participants.

Why would that be a conspiracy theory? You aren't alleging that certain parties are colluding in secret, you're making observations about one man and his affiliations!

I don't know whether or not you tuned in to this past week's Agudah convention, but one of the speakers on Saturday night referred to "the prevailing zeitgeist" in Washington. So you certainly aren't alone in the Orthodox Jewish camp - you're just lucky enough not to need to get along with the Beltway crowd.

Right, alterbentzion. A conspiracy theory is a theory about a conspiracy. There's no conspiracy here, just a publicity stunt.

Speaking more generally, though, I dislike most conspiracy theories intently. But that doesn't blind me to the existence of real conspiracies. I believe in the 9/11 conspiracy theory, for example -- the one that holds that a group of young Arab men successfully conspired to hijack plans and wreck the World Trade Center and damage the Pentagon.

Well, I just saw on MSNBC.com that they claim they were, in fact, invited.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34218967/ns/today-white_house/

Hmmm.

Let me be clear: I did not vote for Barack Obama. I do not think that Barack Obama's policies are good for America. I believe that he is a radical leftist intent in transforming our market economy into a Eurpean style socialist state.

I'm guessing you don't get a tingle up your leg listening to Obama speak. Just a hunch.

I think someone in the WH vouched for them and got them through the gate. It's just too hard to think that a SS agent, whose only job is to protect the president from people that want to hurt him, would let someone through without an invitation of their name on the approved list.

And who are the dolts that would want to harm Obama? Even Jimmy Carter deserved the respect that comes with the office. Besides, Biden is next in line followed by San Fran Gran Nan. Obama could tour a Taliban training camp and every conservative voter would protect him with their life to keep Dolt Joe away from the Oval Office.

Johnny,

You bring up Carter. I remember the Killer Rabbit incident, and it is documented in the Carter library and you can find the reference via Google.

Carter is many things Anti-American and Anti-Israel, but in this he does acknowledge the truth, the rabbit came after him and the Secret Service did nothing to protect him.