Secret Service Code Names for the Obamas

In My Humble Opinion
1

Ok, we all know they are gonna have them, at least, that is what I learned from West Wing.

Anyone care to guess? Or is it already known?

Here is a list of past code names:
http://www.2600.com/secret/more/codes.html

I have not checked them for accuracy or authenticity. They seem to choose a single letter for the First Family names.
Example:
RELIANT RONALD P. REAGAN
RHYME MAUREEN REAGAN
RIBBON PATTI REAGAN DAVIS
RIDDLER MICHAEL REAGAN
ROSEBUD MAUREEN REAGAN
Tell me dopers, what are your guesses?

2

Evidently, they already have names, I bet we can do better than this:

Barack Obama (President-elect) - Renegade[6]

* Michelle Obama - Renaissance[7]
* Sasha & Malia Obama - Radiance and Rosebud (It is unclear which is which.) [8]

My silly suggestion: Barack/Quarter, Michelle/Dime, Sasha/Nickel, Malia/Penny

The Change has come. :stuck_out_tongue:

3

I knew that other Dopers had to be wondering this. I wonder what Palin’s code name was?

4

Wackjob?

5

I gotta wonder, what the hell is the point of having code names if any bozo can look them up on the Internet? Sure, they change them up once in a while, but still. I imagine they’re on secure frequencies, but surely the agents using them are out among the public too.

:confused:

</slight hijack>

6

Latte
Espresso
Mocha
Frappaccino

:wink: Not terribly PC methinks.

7

WAG: They might be using them for the same reason people use ‘niner’, ‘bravo’, ‘whiskey’, etc: to reduce the chance of misinterpretation. It’s not a big strech to imagine ‘Sasha’ being confused with ‘Michelle’ on a noisy radio connection, for example.

8

Code names are not chosen as much for secrecy as for clarity. It is important that everyone knows what is meant during a communication. The code names selected are such they would not be used during ordinary conversation, (briefcase, or sandwich for example.)

9

Did anyone notice:

:dubious:

10

Geez, wouldn’t be hard to guess what they would’ve called McCain if he’d won.

Looking at the list, I think it’s interesting that they liked to use the same first letter in the code names for family members.

11

I remember what they gave Jesse Jackson (Pontiac) and then everybody denied they knew what it meant. The names come from the White House Communications Agency.

12

Poor
Old
N----r
Thinks
It’s
A
Cadillac

:rolleyes:

13

Lipstick?

14

Denali. The weirdest? Lock Master???

15

Actually the odd one for me was :

Todd Palin - Driller
Only because it puts the quote “Drill, Baby, Drill!” into a whole 'nother context for me. :smiley:

16

I’m more interested in who got to be “corkscrew” !

17

Bill Clinton…

:smiley:

18

Joe Biden is Celtic. So do they say Keltic or Seltic?

19

Lock Master is strange but I think Clam Chowder and Whale Boat have it beat.

20

His wife is Capri, so I’d guess a “hard” C sound (K).