Obama is given secret service protection

Barack Obama was just recently placed under secret service protection. Exciting for supporters, who may think it boosts his status in the primary, as an even better alternative to Hillary Clinton. The article points out the John Edwards and John Kerry were placed under secret service protection around the same time, in February 2004. Obama is getting the secret service protection 9+ months early. I do not think it will have much effect on the campaign, because like Chertoff and other authorities say it wasn’t the result of a specific event or threat. Obama may have requested it because a specific threat, but I do not think he was approved for that reason. Jesse Jackson was also given secret service protection early on in his campaigns in the 1980s.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/05/03/obama.protection/index.html