Hushed worry about Obama's safety »
Posted by: JamesMarcus 6 months agoThere is a hushed worry on the minds of many supporters of Senator Barack Obama , echoing in conversations from state to state, rally to rally: Will he be safe?
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MichaelRhodenteComment removed: User banned.2 Replies
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Dionys6 months ago
" Dont you believe for a second that everyone is not checked for weapons.There are some very hi tec ways to scan people for weapons that dont involve passing through metal detectors or being wanded."
Umm. There aren't that many 'high-tech' ways and the ones that exist are very unlikely to be used in these situations.
People should be worried, especially at any outdoor event as spring comes into being. Let's just hope it doesn't happen to him as it has to people like JFK/MLK.
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SonOfTheMask6 months ago
Well, this article is right on the edge of being a bit dodgy. By questioning his "safety" in a news article, his safety actually becomes a "real" news item, whether it is or isn't.
Almost seems like people are pushing comparisons to "position" Obama as some kind of "heir" to what certain folks view as the "political martyrs" of the 1960s.
I'd rather hear about policy positions and solutions...not read the beginnings of a hagiography.
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blinkers6 months ago
I think you've said all that needs to be said, SOTM, on this, and well said.
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NoSpinDave6 months ago
Exactly! He is the one constantly bringing race to the debate, not anyone else. He does it in such a clever way too.
All this is is a clever way to say, "Hey, the eevvilll white people are going to kill me....so all you people of my color should vote for me, we are all in the same boat after all!!"
Please, he has run a VERY CLEVER racist campaign. Of course the media is too busy kissing his arse to call it like it is.
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Howtogo6 months ago
It would be another sad chapter in America if someone should kill him. It would of course start a race riot in most large cities (unless it is cold and snowing). The crazies would love it and it is a real concern.
With a little satire, his biggest worries about being killed may come from the Clinton camp. Remember the Clinton's have a bad record of having those that could possibly threaten them politically ending up dead under suspicious circumstances.
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silvera6 months ago
Without a little satire I would be more concerned about an attempt on his life coming from either BushCo or his corporate cronies. I would not put anything past this collection of contemptible clowns in their continuing quest to stay in power and loot what's left of the US treasury. All they'd have to do is buy out one of his secret service "protectors". And...make it look like Al Qaeda, of course.
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rightfromwrong6 months ago
This is true and remember also that both Bill and Hillary have met with the Bilderbergs who have an agenda of their own
"NEW WORLD ORDER"
Obama represents hope/change and his security should be a priority. All it takes is one lunatic or a group who see his Presidency as a threat. Too many people still think Robert Kennedy was killed by one person!!!!!!!
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GLee6 months ago
It should come as no surprise that 'He' is in danger. It is also of no surprise that this story became a 'headliner' for Propeller. Thing is, this story should focus on all of the candidates as potential targets and not just 'Him'. For that reason you will find my 'neg' vote.
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JamesMarcus6 months ago
Neg away--your privilege. But Obama is more of a potential target than the other candidates, for obvious reasons, so I see nothing wrong with posting a story on the subject.
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SonOfTheMask6 months ago
I'm not sure I concur on the "obviousness" of the situation, James.
If by "obvious", you mean because of his ancestry, that seems to be playing the dreaded "race card". He gets to don the mantle of "martyr to the cause"? I don't think so.
To me, it is as likely that Hillary might be targeted for "being a woman" as it is for Barack as a "person of color" (I hate that term).
Moreover, it is just as likely for McCain to have a misguided anti-war protestor take a crack at him due to a misguided mission to prevent "10,000 years of Iraqi occupation".
Crazies exist across the landscape. I'm not buying that Barack is especially at risk. This isn't the 60's anymore, people.
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Daylight6 months ago
JamesMarcus
Neg away--your privilege. But Obama is more of a potential target than the other candidates, for obvious reasons, so I see nothing wrong with posting a story on the subject.
Well said, Martin Luther King and MelcomX were killed because they were very popular and they were black. And Obama is a popular and a charismatic leader. He can be a target of the Right Wings or racists. It is important that people should demand that he be given a maximum security and protection.
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coreyspring6 months ago
For what it's worth, I was covering an Obama rally in Columbus earlier this week and the security detail was the highest I've ever seen before for someone who wasn't the president. I've covered several rallies for people who've already got the nomination before, and the security at the Obama event was about at the level I saw at a 2004 rally for President Bush in rural Ohio.
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slate6 months ago
All politicians, heads of state, CEOs and celebrities are in danger when out in public among the masses, why do you think they have body guards? Obama is no different, I think some want to stir the race pot by making the notion that he is in MORE danger than the others because of the color of his skin.
In truth, anyone running for president (or just having a certain view) will say something that will get a nut thinking they should put a bullet in them, ask Reagan, JFK, RFK, Lennon, John Paul, MLK and others.
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dissent6 months ago
you're kidding right? he's the first black man to run for president in a country built on slavery where presidents have always been very very very white.... hello?
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slate6 months ago
No I'm not Kidding I'm from the South and we seem to be way over the slavery thing,,,, too bad you people aren't.
Why is it you people can't see this as a possible positive sign for the country and enjoy it? Why does the Liberal mind insist on finding a way to make a negative out of everything so they can fortify their twisted ideas that America is a hateful WHITE Bread place that hates the idea of a woman or minority to make good?
Your world is a place I'm so glad that I don't live in.
ALl I can say is this, Hillary or Obama, whichever one of you wins, to get my vote, don't play into the vitriol of the scared brats in your party,,,, stand strong, tell me what you are going to do... Remember Hillary it's quite obvious what your gender is and Obama the same holds true about your skin color,,,, try your best to act like that matters so little over what you plan to do,,,,, believe me the America I Live in is soooo over the I'm Black or I'm a woman thing,,,,, get over it
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dissent6 months ago
bush played the perfect a$$clown for bin laden who wanted a fool who'd shoot first at nothing and never ever stop to think, ever. bin laden didn't want a peacemaker, he wanted a dumba$$ confrontrationalist who'd tire himself out throwing punches and money at nothing and make the world hate him while he was doing it. he got all that and then some with bush. i reckon he couldn't be happier and he'd be sad to see bush go.
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tanglang6 months ago
Spamming the thread posted by Propellers lead anchor. Not the smartest spammer are you? In other words, beat it.
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OldHickory6 months ago
The recent photo of him wearing a turban and robe is a real hoot. He bears more than a striking resemblance to the ones that are killing GIs in Afghanistan and Iraq. So much for 'change'. I could see why most Americans really have a hard time relating to him and why the subject of JFK, MLK, etc. is even broached.
Semper fi.
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most_reasonable6 months ago
Obama sounds alot like a black George Bush.
Experience isn't all that important, "I'm a uniter not a divider", LOL.
The democratic party has not been this divided in over a 100 years. McCain has offered a hand to the right wing of the GOP and he has had his thumbs bitten off, think Obama will get better treatment?
Obama has sold a bill of goods to his black supporters who can not see beyond the color of his skin and the left wing of the DNC who have proven time and time again that they are totally blind.
The GOP has all but destroyed this country and the rush to Obama will provide them with ability to make the country's destruction complete.
McCain's election will provide America with a heartbeat away from a theocracy; a vote for Obama is a vote for the end of America. Can you hear Karl Rove laughing?
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canadianrancher576 months ago
1968 was along time ago and so many things have changed in your country, the events that happened then made a nation stop and look at itself and it has brought forward a better society for not all but for most. If there is a threat to Barack it is not the race card but the religious aspect of the man, the events of 9/11 and the Iraqi war are still fresh in all minds and we have seen even in this story how people feel about a person who had a Muslim father and carries a Muslim name. To me that is where the new danger lies but I hope that the belief that the nation neeeds a change will prevail, for it is not only the left who wishes change. AS for the point of whether or not it will happen is something that people should not be dwelling on for it only makes those who think about it more of a danger.
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fotoman11334066 months ago
Guys,
What I fear for him; is the same that was with Colin Powell, when he was in the same "spot light"...The "good ole boys" of the south(the K K K) will indeed try to harm him. There's still hate there; they see, as with Colin Powell, the guy is an "uppity ******" that needs to be put in his place.
Too bad, too; get rid of the "hate" guys, and we will have a good man in the white house.
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tanglang6 months ago
It shames me that there are still people ignorant enough to think the way you do. Perhaps you should take a trip to the south and see what we are actually like down here. Two little facts for you.
1: Ohio has the highest concentration of hate groups in the US.
2: I have never heard the N word so much as I did when I lieved in Nj. That is a word that I almost never hear in Atlanta.
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Mdiar6 months ago
Well said tang. I'd almost have given him a positive if he hadn't have decided that it was the south that was going to kill him. The south got past it, as tough as it is for some people to accept. I live in Missouri, a "border-state" and lord knows we have our own history of border-ruffians, but I've encountered very few racists.
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slate6 months ago
I travel all over the country and I agree Tang, the N word isn't used here in Texas and those that do are shunned and though of a trash,,,,, but up north it seems to be more liberally used for some reason I can't figure out, after all the years of growing up being told we are racists and those up north arent,,, fantasy and facts are always ar odds it seems
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Bkumm6 months ago
While I realize that there are some out there who wish the Senator harm, his danger is really no more or less than any high profile politician. This is even mentioned in the article.
What the article is trying to point out (if it isn't fear mongering) is that the perception is that he is in somehow "more" danger because of his race or even worse because he, like the Kennedys and King, is a messenger of hope.
So, the conspiracy nuts and the regular whack-jobs get on the Internets or they talk smack to the media and the next thing you know everybody is talking about the danger that Senator Obama is in.
He is taking a risk. No question. But, so is everyone else running for President. Well, maybe except for Nader.
The point is that we've GOT to get past the fear. I've come to the conclusion that this nation just NEEDS the fear of something, just to keep going.
We can do this, people. Together.
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ZiegfeldGirl6 months ago
"He is taking a risk. No question. But, so is everyone else running for President. Well, maybe except for Nader."
ROFLMAO!!!
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Mdiar6 months ago
I do fear for Obama. I fear for Clinton as well. Even McCain. Obama has to fear the neo-Nazis more then anything else, Clinton the residuals of extreme sexism and McCain the craziest of the anti-war crowd (I'm anti-war myself but I accept that crazies exist there). I'd say we each have three candidates more likely to be killed then others in the past, but overall its fairly equal in comparison to each other just how likely they are to be killed. I think security on all of them needs to increase a bit.
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Albmore6 months ago
At the moment if I was Obama I believe the biggest threat is from the Clintons or their supporters.
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MMJT6 months ago
If Obama were to win, there is no doubt someone will try and assinate him. And, it will probably be the KKK. That wouldn't have to happen for a revolution to happen here in the States. It already is.Even the Mexican President has said that. Many European countries are calling us stupid Americans for the movement towards Obama. And, sadly people are already stabbing people because of Obama.
This election cannot go on like it is, the conflict is just heating up and it is bound to break wide open and soon.
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jmopinion6 months ago
Hillary probably should worry. I cannot remember what black leader said that"if the super delegates cause Obama to lose there will be riots in the streets".
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James Marcus is a writer, translator, critic, and editor. He is the author of Amazonia: Five Years at the Epicenter of the Dot-Com Juggernaut and ...
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