Obama suddenly getting Secret Service protection

And he's getting it far earlier than any previous presidential candidate.

Which makes it rather odd timing that Senator Obama just said that Rush Limbaugh's repeated racist attacks against him, African-Americans generally, and Muslims were simply innocuous jokes. Do note the picture on the page I just linked to - via its title, it links Obama to Saddam Hussein, Islam and one assumes Muslim terrorists all in one. Yes, pretty innocuous humor there. So innoncuous, in fact, that Obama now has the Secret Service protecting his life.