Instead of talking about prosecuting Michaele and Tareq Salahi, the brazen couple who crashed President Barack Obama’s first State Dinner, Congress should be organizing an award’s ceremony for them. Like modern day Paul Reveres, they sounded the alarm on a miserably feeble security system that is supposed to be in place to protect our President and other American and foreign dignitaries.

The pair easily eluded all systems in place with nothing more than the appearance of propriety, and became part of the celebration, even to the point of being announced as they swaggered into the dinner all smiles. They even had their pictures taken with the President and Vice President Joe Biden.

We believe this was a classic case of political correctness gone awry. It is an example of being so sensitive to the “feelings” of everyone that even the basic concept of providing sound and secure protection for the President falls by the wayside because we don’t want to offend.

When Michaele and Tareq Salahi appeared on the scene asking for admittance to the dinner, and their names did not appear on the officialguest list, they should have quickly and courteously been ushered into a cordoned off area until the problem was resolved—end of story.

That, of course, did not happen. No one providing security at the dinner believed that the President’s safety, and that of his family and other dignitaries, was worth the risk of making a social faux pas.

That’s no way to run a State Dinner and no way to run a country.