Remember when the Democrats complained about Bush's Imperial Presidency? But now Obama needs fighter jets to protect Air Force One and the Republican Party frontrunners need Secret Service protection... this no longer is a country with checks and balances. It used to be that no President had secretive bodyguards and practically any armed gang of citizens could walk up to the White House and assassinate them. The days of the Republic is over... we're now living in a 21st century Roman Empire.