What leadership looks like

It's highly unlikely that, if I were president, I would ever sign off on instituting an airport-security program that coerced virtual strip searches, limited sexual assaults, irradiating passengers and the practice of reusing plastic gloves to fondle the private body parts of multiple travelers.

But, if I were and if I did, it would mean I really thought this wretched practice was vitally necessary to the security of the nation.

So I would be sure to take my wife and children over to the airport, along with a camera crew, and go through the ritual myself. Just to be sure the Transportation Security Administration employees didn't go easy on me because I'm the president, I would insist that they inflict on each of us the most draconian steps ever required to clear a passenger. That would mean we would each go through the scanner. We would each endure the most intrusive pat downs ever required. And I would insist that the latex gloves used on us were used on at least a dozen previous passengers.

That's what I would do. And that's what I think any real leader would do given the revulsion and uprising that has accompanied the new TSA procedures.

However, I don't expect Barack Obama to do that any time soon. Because he's not a real leader. He enjoys his privileged status too much to endure that kind of abuse or to subject his family to what other American families must endure to travel on a commercial airliner these days.

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The second thing I would do, if I believed, which I don't, that airliners are more secure without any firearms aboard – not even in the possession of the pilot and cabin crew – is that I would insist that Air Force One be likewise stripped of all firearms and trained security personnel. The Secret Service would have to check their guns like everyone else. After all, what's good for the goose is good for the gander.

I would also mandate that, going forward, no background checks and no "profiling" take place for any passengers boarding Air Force One. Instead, they would all go through the same kind of screening the TSA performs at major airports. All passengers, including the first family, VIPs and the crew, would be required to go through this process each and every time they board.

Another thing I would do is institute these same security procedures for all those gaining access to the White House, the Capitol and the Supreme Court. No more, no less.

This would be leadership by example.

How much do you want to bet Barack Obama doesn't agree to do any of these things?

This is a guy, for heaven's sake, who refuses to cough up his birth certificate, his college records, any writings he did at the Harvard Law Review. This is a public man who protects his privacy like none of his predecessors. This is not a man of the people. This is a man who enjoys his elite status.

But that's how easy it would be for Obama to quell the rebellion. He would simply have to live by the same rules he imposes on others.

And we all know that's never going to happen – not in this lifetime.

That's why this uproar is going to continue. That's why it is going to intensify – because this issue of what is happening at American airports goes way beyond inconvenience and embarrassment.

This is a movement.

It's a movement akin to the tea party.

Americans are saying no to rule by men rather than governance by the people and the rule of law.