Wonkette
- OBAMAS ALL HAVE HOPEFUL SECRET-SERVICE CODE NAMES: Here is a fun fact! Secret Service code names were invented for easier pronunciation and transmission over radio devices, not as any sort of “secret code.” Thus it does not matter if everyone in the world knows the upcoming First Family’s code names. They are: Renegade, Renaissance, Radiance, and Rosebud. Barack Obama is also known as “Smurfette,” in honor of Karenna Gore. [BBC News]
McCain: Prunestain
Palin: Salmonbox
Who f-in cares? Really? I want to know Sarah and Todd’s code names!
as opposed to bush cheney dubya and dooshy
Remind me again what George and Laura and the Twins code names are?
Idiot, Clownface, Tweedle-dee and Tweedle-dumber?
Interesting to know that Obamas name is renegade. Was mcCains Lemming?
Hillary Clinton’s Secret Service name was “Evergreen” because, as demonstrated by the Democratic primaries, just when you think she’s dead, she comes back full force.
The ten worst names are hilarious: http://www.therealright.com/blog/content/id_37930/title_The-Ten-Best-And-Ten-Worst-US-Secret-Service-Code-Names/
Whale Boat and Unicorn are my favorites.
John Edwards was Paperboy, innit?
Todd was Driller. Oh that is the awesome.
Viva la Cynthia: 1. Prince Charles of the United Kingdom - “Unicorn”
HAHA!
What the point of secret code names, if eveybody knows the secret code names? I thought secret code names were supposed to be secret, but don’t worry, I won’t tell anybody…
I hear the secret service codes for Sarah Palin’s kids were: Bristol, Trig, Willow, Track and Piper.
“Fuckit, the names are weird enough already that we don’t need to come up with new ones.”
There’s probably some GS-14 at the White House whose full-time job is to think these things up.
And this reminds me: when is “Nailin’ Palin” coming out? Do you suppose the demand may have dropped a bit? Maybe that’s why she keeps giving all these interviews. Do you suppose she has a percentage of the gross?
I would have thought Barry would have been “Horsecock Johnson”…maybe that’s just what Michelle calls him…
RadioFreeBabylon: Sarah was Denali and Todd was Driller. I want to know Trig’s name.
What I like is that they follow the Jane Goodall style of naming entire family lines with the same letter. W is “Tumbler” (high ball or cheerleader?) because 41 was “Timberwolf.” Just like Jane’s chimps Flo, Frodo, Faye… etc.
Palin’s inner monologue: “Todd should have been ‘bullwinkle’. I would have taken ‘Meth-Fight!’ ” [SIGH].
MargeSimpsonsBlackFriend: Apparently it had to begin with a “D”, but if it was Dumbo, that would be just mean.
I think Taft’s was “The Fat Slob”.
Jim Newell’s secret code name is “Future Gitmo 77564, pending Exec Order (Top Secret) Last Wad”.
Sarah and Todd: Moose and Squirrel
I worked a party that Clinton attended and the Secret Service agents told me that Bil’s code name was ‘Energy’. Originally, they called him ‘Evangilist’ and he didn’t like it.
The code names are from the U.S. Army Signals Corps, not the Secret Service.
MargeSimpsonsBlackFriend: WadISay: I’m thinking “Down’s.” It would make perfect sense, and would still manage to be relatively non-offensive.
I like Bush nicknames more than Secret Service nicknames
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nicknames_used_by_George_W._Bush
Oh Bush, we’ll miss your days of recklessly calling world leaders Pootie Poot and Dino
Cape Clod: Oh, I think “Energy” “worked” that party, bub.
NoWireHangers: A more apt name would actually be herpes, then.
Sarah’s has now changed from DENALI to DENIAL.
Tommy Says Soooo: There’s only one ‘E’ codename that truly fits Bill Clinton: Erection.
RadioFreeBabylon: Thing I and Thing II.
Min: That one was worth cleaning the monitor of coffee.
mattbolt: Thank the Good Lord Jebus that we live in a world where just a few keystrokes (or a click of the mouse, in my case) can pull up an exhaustive list of the nicknames that GWBush has reportedly used for people. This list is beyond my wildest dreams! And it’s inspired me to be more creative and prolific with the nicknames I have for my friends/enemies–this may be the one way in which I’d enjoy emulating Dubya.
Renaissance was chosen for easy pronounciation and communication over radio?
I find it perturbing that Dubya’s nickname for Alan Greenspan is missing when it is well known to be “Ripping Beefers”.
Unicorn. Reminds me of this:
“The 1981 Disney Corporation purchase of the United Kingdom, which was
remodeled into a theme park, the United Magic Kingdom.”
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.html?curid=5444218
Would I get to keep Magic Titty?
Ahem: http://jalextees.spreadshirt.com/us/US/Shop/
Doglessliberal: teehee!
Luckily they just re-used Lieberman’s from 2000, “Lupus”.
Reminds me of an old Letterman Top Ten list, “Top 10 Signs Dan Quayle is Finally Gaining Respect.”
One of the signs was, “Secret Service code name now differs from actual name.”
I laughed and laughed…
Renegade, Renaissance, Radiance, and Rosebud? Aren’t those Robert Rodriguez’s kids?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Rodriguez
Renegade? Cue the Styx song! How Mavericky of them!!!!
MargeSimpsonsBlackFriend: Algebra.
Haha, Bush calls Barney Frank “Sabertooth” and Maureen Dowd “The Cobra”.
Those are oddly appropriate. Probably the only sensible things Bush has ever come up with.
Rosebud.
V572625694: It’s on Fleshbot! Get with it!
Back in the 1980’s and before, the names were kept secret because the Secret Service used open VHF radio channels for communication. In fact until just a few years ago, you could listen to the air to ground phone on Air Force One.
But in the 1990’s everything was moved to digitally encrpyted radios, so it makes no difference if you know what the codes are.
So Pissflaps, Cuntjuice, Asswipe, dickhead are out of the question?