Anyone else at least a little concerned about all the threats against President-elect Obama

[Polish3d]

What does everyone think about this? There are quite a few threats to President-elect Obama on the internet; if you check out any Youtube video with him ('Yes We Can,' 'Obama Girl,' etc) there are a lot of people threatening him...

I'm not sure it's that big a deal but I am concerned about it

 

[jpeyton]

Palin blamed by the Secret Service for inciting death threats against Obama.

But that's just the opinion of the Secret Service. What do they know?

 

[Moonbeam]

Psychopath Republicans are easily excitable. They are trained to be insane and then go buy whatever product Rush happens to be pushing.

 

[aphex]

When you run a campaign based primarily in fear mongering, you will bring out the worst in some of your supporters.

 

[Polish3d]

Originally posted by: jpeyton
Palin blamed by the Secret Service for inciting death threats against Obama.

But that's just the opinion of the Secret Service. What do they know?

That's honestly horrific.

 

[Rainsford]

Originally posted by: Polish3d

Originally posted by: jpeyton
Palin blamed by the Secret Service for inciting death threats against Obama.

But that's just the opinion of the Secret Service. What do they know?

That's honestly horrific.

No it's not, not really. What's REALLY horrific is that it was nothing more than a lame campaign tactic thought up by some half-wit politician to try to win an election. Actual violent animosity is bad enough, but feigning violent animosity to try to win a few votes? There is a special level of hell reserved for people like that.

 

[Baked]

Bullets will just bounce off Obama, there's nothing to fear.

 

[ProfJohn]

Who will be more scared on Jan 20:

Obama of being killed?
or
Bush of being arrested?

 

[woodie1]

Originally posted by: Baked
Bullets will just bounce off Obama, there's nothing to fear.

^^This^^

 

[sandorski]

Originally posted by: ProfJohn
Who will be more scared on Jan 20:

Obama of being killed?
or
Bush of being arrested?

Dunno, but Bush has good reason to be a little nervous.

 

[Rainsford]

Originally posted by: ProfJohn
Who will be more scared on Jan 20:

Obama of being killed?
or
Bush of being arrested?

Well the worst people talk about with Bush is impeaching him or arresting him legally, and trying him with legal representation and the full legal rights afforded a citizen of this country. With Obama, it will be a bunch of redneck, skinhead assholes with an extremely small brain to gun ratio. I know which one *I'd* be more worried about.

 

[Wheezer]

Originally posted by: jpeyton
Palin blamed by the Secret Service for inciting death threats against Obama.

But that's just the opinion of the Secret Service. What do they know?

Yes, and Judas Priest was responsible for a young man killing himself.

Please....if someone decides to take a shot at Obama, it in no way is Palins fault, that is the fault of the person that decides to pick up a gun and take a shot at the man.

 

[Farang]

Originally posted by: ProfJohn
Who will be more scared on Jan 20:

Obama of being killed?
or
Bush of being arrested?

One is an outlandish prospect for the judicial system. The other is a (hopefully) outlandish prospect for the life of the leader of our country. I don't understand your comparison.

 

[ModerateRepZero]

As long as Bush relied on the Office of Legal Counsel's advice in good faith, he prob won't get in (much) trouble.....there's a reason why many were in an uproar over Yoo's memos, besides the fact that his views were very sweeping.....

 

[Butterbean]

Libs made books and movies and plays and parades about killing Bush - for years. Looking at the crowd in front of White House election Day as they crushed against the gates with their communist flags they look deranged enough to do it. Libs also make up false reports of death threats at Palin rallies so calm down girls.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...-of-kill_n_135195.html

 

[jagec]

Originally posted by: Butterbean
Libs made books and movies and plays and parades about killing Bush - for years. Looking at the crowd in front of White House election Day as they crushed against the gates with their communist flags they look deranged enough to do it. Libs also make up false reports of death threats at Palin rallies so calm down girls.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...-of-kill_n_135195.html

It's true; you can't worry about the threats against Obama without considering the threats against Bush. Plenty of nutjobs on both ends of the spectrum.

Although I suppose that your average nutjob Democrat is probably not as well armed as your average nutjob Republican.:laugh:

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

Originally posted by: ProfJohn
Who will be more scared on Jan 20:

Obama of being killed?
or
Bush of being arrested?

I'd never be scared of dumbya being arrested on 1/20/09, or any other day of any other month in any other year. He deserves at the very least a trial where he and others are tried for war crimes.
I am constantly afraid that President Elect Obama could be assasinated. The reaction across this country would be deep and frightening, as well as removing all respect we obtained on Nov 4th 2008.

Bush arrested = justice.
Obama assasinated = cowardly, racist murder.

 

[SigArms08]

Originally posted by: Butterbean
Libs made books and movies and plays and parades about killing Bush - for years. Looking at the crowd in front of White House election Day as they crushed against the gates with their communist flags they look deranged enough to do it. Libs also make up false reports of death threats at Palin rallies so calm down girls.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...-of-kill_n_135195.html

:thumbsup:

 

[nageov3t]

when was the last assassination in the US?

the biggest scare we've seen so far was a couple guy's, some guns, and Obama's name on a list with no real plan or organization.

 

[alchemize]

Originally posted by: Butterbean
Libs made books and movies and plays and parades about killing Bush - for years. Looking at the crowd in front of White House election Day as they crushed against the gates with their communist flags they look deranged enough to do it. Libs also make up false reports of death threats at Palin rallies so calm down girls.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...-of-kill_n_135195.html

I hate to say it, but Butterbean has a great point.

 

[nobodyknows]

Originally posted by: Moonbeam
Psychopath Republicans are easily excitable. They are trained to be insane and then go buy whatever product Rush happens to be pushing.

It seems to me it is the left who is being easily excited? I'm expecting Jpeytonplace to have a premature ejaculation any moment now.

 

[whylaff]

Originally posted by: Butterbean
Libs made books and movies and plays and parades about killing Bush - for years. Looking at the crowd in front of White House election Day as they crushed against the gates with their communist flags they look deranged enough to do it. Libs also make up false reports of death threats at Palin rallies so calm down girls.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...-of-kill_n_135195.html

Right, because the Secret Service is known for their political bias. :roll:

From the Telegraph article posted before:

The Secret Service warned the Obama family in mid October that they had seen a dramatic increase in the number of threats against the Democratic candidate, coinciding with Mrs Palin's attacks.

From http://www.timesonline.co.uk/t...ons/article5110674.ece

Barack Obama?s neighbourhood in Chicago has been turned into a virtual fortress as the Secret Service moves to protect the President-elect.

Assassination fears mean that Mr Obama, who was codenamed ?Renegade? by his Secret Service detail on the campaign trail, will become perhaps the most heavily guarded president in history. Streets around his mock-Georgian mansion in the usually easy-going enclave by the University of Chicago have been closed. The main thoroughfare has been shut down because it passes his garden.

Visitors to the synagogue that faces his house must put their names on a list 24 hours before they attend so that their identities can be checked.

?I live one block away. I get ?carded? to go on my block,? said Adrienne Stone, 33, a US Air Force veteran. ?I have become accustomed to the Secret Service being everywhere. I don?t get a lot of sleep. There are helicopters overhead. But he deserves this. We have lost too many leaders before their time,? she said.

 

[Polish3d]

Originally posted by: Butterbean
Libs made books and movies and plays and parades about killing Bush - for years. Looking at the crowd in front of White House election Day as they crushed against the gates with their communist flags they look deranged enough to do it. Libs also make up false reports of death threats at Palin rallies so calm down girls.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...-of-kill_n_135195.html

I'm not going to argue this with you, particularly when you're not even capable of maintaining a basic level of respect in your postings . Palin is a leader and she is responsible for what she says and responsible to at least some degree for the effects of what she says.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVFWahLTdUo

 

[Moonbeam]

Originally posted by: alchemize

Originally posted by: Butterbean
Libs made books and movies and plays and parades about killing Bush - for years. Looking at the crowd in front of White House election Day as they crushed against the gates with their communist flags they look deranged enough to do it. Libs also make up false reports of death threats at Palin rallies so calm down girls.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...-of-kill_n_135195.html

I hate to say it, but Butterbean has a great point.

It's not the point that matters. It's what you do with it. If your intention is to excuse yourself for what others do, then he has no point. If his point is that it's shameful to condemn the faults of others without condemning your own, then he does, but if so, why not include some evidence of that evenhandedness, eh?

 

[Polish3d]

Originally posted by: alchemize

Originally posted by: Butterbean
Libs made books and movies and plays and parades about killing Bush - for years. Looking at the crowd in front of White House election Day as they crushed against the gates with their communist flags they look deranged enough to do it. Libs also make up false reports of death threats at Palin rallies so calm down girls.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...-of-kill_n_135195.html

I hate to say it, but Butterbean has a great point.

It really isn't, it's honestly a very poorly reasoned point.

Just because George Bush had the type of grumbling described about above, does not in any way change or inform about the seriousness of the threats against Barack Obama. Unrealized threats against Eisenhower did not prevent JFK from being gunned down.

It is an irrelevant comparision, and an example of very bad reasoning, to make the assertion that: because one thing did not happen, another thing that may be similar in some respects is unlikely to happen also.