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Sorry, but this is just the cost of doing business for the city. I agree that the party doesn't matter one iota, but when the occupant of the Office of the Vice President of the United States pays a visit your town, whether to make a political speach, open a high school, pay a campaign visit or visit an old friend who happens to own the local nuclear power concern, you are obligated to take the necessary steps to protect him in whatever way the Secret Service sees fit. Politics doesn't intrude on this issue at all, and this is simply one of the benefits of the office. This happens on ever single visit that Bush or Cheney makes anywhere.
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