Leonard Pitts Jr.: 'Biracial' is no bodyguard (Obama Secret Service Protection)

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http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07127/783963-109.stm

Not Rudy Giuliani, who is a supporter of abortion rights. Not Tom Tancredo, who is a hardliner on immigration. Not John Edwards, who is a critic of the war in Iraq.

Only Barack Obama, who is black.

No other presidential candidate, no matter his or her polarizing positions, has felt it necessary to seek protection from the Secret Service. But last week we learned that Sen. Obama has sought and will receive that protection, the only candidate ever to do so this early in the process. Only one other candidate even has a Secret Service detail: Hillary Clinton. And that's because she's a former first lady.

You know who else required early protection? Jesse Jackson, when he ran for president in 1984 and '88.