So the Renegade beat the Maverick - (Renegade was Obama's Code Name)

[RamboLiberal]

Just struck me when I was reading about Richard Wolffe's book coming out in June on Obama. I was wondering where he got Renegade and figured it was Obama's Secret Service code name which it was. How appropriate that the Renegade beat the Mavericks!

Newsweek's Richard Wolffe, who's been on the Obama trail since February 2007, has just signed a book deal with publisher Crown, a Random House imprint.

Wolffe's book will be titled "Renegade: The Education of Barack Obama," and is scheduled for June 2009. It will include Wolffe's reporting from trail, as well, one-on-one interviews with Obama, senior aides, and friends.

Besides Newsweek, Wolffe's profile was raised during the 2008 race with regular appearances on MSNBC -- enough to be parodied last week during the Keith Olbermann sketch on "Saturday Night Live."

Senior editor Sean Desmond, who will edit the book, negotiated the deal with Kristine Dahl of ICM. Desmond also acquired Washington Post reporter Anne Kornblut's forthcoming book, as The Observer reported yesterday.


http://www.politico.com/blogs/michaelcalderone/1108/Newsweeks_Wolffe_inks_Obama_book_deal_.html

U.S. Secret Service agents have tagged Sen. Barack Obama with the code name "Renegade."

Obama, an Illinois Democrat and seeker of his party's 2008 presidential nomination, received the name in the time-honored tradition of giving "secret" code names to protected high-level dignitaries.

Obama's presidential rival, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., retains the code name "Evergreen" -- given to her when her husband, and former president, Bill Clinton became a protectee and was named "Eagle."

Sen. John F. Kerry of Massachusetts was named "Minuteman" after winning the 2004 Democratic nomination, while former vice president Al Gore started out as "Sawhorse" but became "Sundance," though the reason for the change was unclear, The Washington Post (NYSE:WPO) reported Sunday.

President George Bush, a protectee dating back to when his father was president, is "Tumbler" while former president Jimmy Carter is "Deacon." The president's father, former president George H.W. Bush, is "Timberwolf" and Ronald Reagan was "Rawhide."

http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2007/06/17/Secret_Service_tags_Obama_Renegade/UPI-88121182100001/

BTW, for those of you wondering. McCain was Phoenix and Palin was Denali. Too bad they didn't give McCain Grampy or Grumpy.