Metamucil to Ovaltine: What’s Your 20?

Nearly a month has passed since GOP Presidential candidate John McCain was forced to receive Secret Service protection as he continues his way along the campaign trail. With his tough guy, war-hero persona officially upstaged by the SS, it is time now to start speculating what his codename will be and how it will measure up to the SS political codename hall of fame. My democrat political friends started a rather humorous discussion about the whole thing, suggesting that McCain take on code names such as “Metamucil,” “Matlock,” “Ovaltine,” “Tempestuous,” and “Ho Chi Minh.” I personally think something like “Granddaddy” might also be appropriate.

Past POTUS and FLOTUS have taken on the following alias’ to protect their identities, which turns out to be a rather amusing list:

John F. Kennedy - Lancer or Dazzle
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis - Lace
Caroline Kennedy - Lyric
Lyndon Johnson - Volunteer
Lady Bird Johnson - Victoria
Richard Nixon - Searchlight
Pat Nixon - Starlight
Gerald Ford - Pass Key
Betty Ford - Pinafore
Ronald Reagan - Rawhide
Nancy Reagan - Rainbow
George H. W. Bush- Timberwolf
Barbara Bush - Snowbank or Tranquility
Bill Clinton - Eagle or Elvis
Chelsea Clinton - Energy
George W. Bush - Tumbler or Trailblazer
Laura Bush - Tempo

I find this list rather hilarious and a great means to subplot Secret Service communications.

Apparently, with the Kennedy’s it was all about making the enemy believe that the most important United States matters was resembling a Broadway show:

“Dazzle and Lace are on the stage! Where is the lyric? Make sure to keep the lights on, so we can see the Dazzle.”

And then with the Nixon’s, perhaps a nursery rhyme from time to time:

“Starlight, Searchlight, The first star I see tonight, I wish I may, I wish I might …”

So what will the Secret Service code names of the 2008 Presidential Campaign tell us?