Obama will be assassinated if he wins.

[exopolitician]

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Thats a bit unsettling...I guess. :/

[Gabu]

Well that's a take I suppose you can try: "Elect Hillary over Obama, at least she won't be assassinated!"

[Thereisnospoon]

Well that's a take I suppose you can try: "Elect Hillary over Obama, at least she won't be assassinated!"

Heh. Reminds me of those old Dan Quayle jokes.

[exopolitician]

I think every President has the danger of being killed while in office, but lately I think you'd have to do something incredibly serious to piss someone off that much to try and kill them. We havnt had an assassination attempt on a sitting President [on US Soil] since Clinton.

[King]

The change candidate usually dies so Mr. Aggressive Establishment Politico Boss can try to keep the status quo.  See Robert Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey, John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, William McKinley and Teddy Roosevelt...uh... that's pretty much it.

All Obama needs to do to avoid this is pick a runningmate who the establishment doesn't like much either.  If he goes for Hillary or Joe Biden or somebody like that, the bullet would be through him before he could finish the victory speech at the convention.

George McGovern would be dead right now if 1972 was a close election that people cared about.  The man wouldn't even let Richard Daley be a superdelegate.  That's how disgustingly uncorrupt he was.

[exopolitician]

All the presidents who have been assissnated have had odd circumstances currounding them that made them extremely vulnerable:

Abraham Lincoln : Civil War, Killed by well known actor and southern sympathizer John Wilkes Booth.

James A. Garfield : Killed by Lunatic who stalked the President and repeatedly implied he should be US Ambassador to Paris and was frequently ignored.

William McKinley : Killed by anarchist [and influenced by Emma Goldman] Leon Czolgosz.

John F. Kennedy : Killed by sharpshooter from a window of the Texas Book Depository in Dallas. Evidence points to Lee Harvey Oswald as culprit but before his trial he was killed by nightclub owner Jack Ruby. Speculation of Government Involvement and Conspiracy Theories make it almost unkown as to who and why anyone would want to kill JFK.

Race could certainly be a factor, but I honestly doubt some White Racial Extremist would show up at one of Obama's events and kill him. Though shown before stranger cases have happened.

[Verily]

Her job is coming up with intriguing works of fiction. Like this. It might make a great novel.

I mean, honestly, what does anyone care what a Nobel Prize winner thinks about something that isn't even her field?

[Eleden]

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Thats a bit unsettling...I guess. :/

I've had a bad feeling about something like this ever since Obama won Iowa.  He'd make an awesome president but I'm sure some racist asshole would attempt to kill him because of his skin color. 

[gmo]

I mean, honestly, what does anyone care what a Nobel Prize winner thinks about something that isn't even her field?

But she is 88!  And British!

Really though, this has been brought up millions of times (literally I think getting down to individuals on messageboards and normal discussion), but this is the first time I have seen it as news because it is from someone with some sort of status.  There is not meat on this bone.

[Iosif is a COTHO]

Well if Doris Lessing says it...

Living overseas, when I speak to people about this race, pretty much no-one believes it's possible for America to elect a black man. Most of that's really just down to anti-American snobbery, so I hope you guys prove them wrong.

[Person Man]

If he assasinated, may he be martyred as the next Lincoln....and show that his opposition (who probably would have assasinated him) as nothing but murderous thugs.

[Thereisnospoon]

It's a fear, but every presidential candidate has some loony somewhere in this country eying to gun them down over arbitrary or imaginary reasons. One of the things about Obama that brings this all to mind is his campaign message (young optimist seeking to bring out the best in the newest generation). It's a lot like JFK, though I think the RFK situation is far more comparable to that of Obama's.

Needless to say, let's pray that such a tragedy does not befall any of these candidates, regardless of whether or not we agree with them.

[exopolitician]

It's a fear, but every presidential candidate has some loony somewhere in this country eying to gun them down over arbitrary or imaginary reasons. One of the things about Obama that brings this all to mind is his campaign message (young optimist seeking to bring out the best in the newest generation). It's a lot like JFK, though I think the RFK situation is far more comparable to that of Obama's.

Needless to say, let's pray that such a tragedy does not befall any of these candidates, regardless of whether or not we agree with them.

Good thing he didnt hold a rally at the Ambassador Hotel last tuesday then....:X

[Iosif is a COTHO]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_Presidential_assassination_attempts

Pretty much every President has had someone try, however half-heartedly, to kill them. It's a job hazard.

[Lief 🗽]

Well, hopefully he picks an LBJ or a TR for vice president, instead of a Johnson or an Arthur.

I don't think that, in this day and age of increased secret service protection (especially post-9/11), there's very much to fear.

[TomC]

Anybody seen "Bob Roberts"?

[Verily]

Well, hopefully he picks an LBJ or a TR for vice president, instead of a Johnson or an Arthur.

I don't think that, in this day and age of increased secret service protection (especially post-9/11), there's very much to fear.

Arthur gets a serious short-shrift. He was a pretty good President.

[exopolitician]

Well, hopefully he picks an LBJ or a TR for vice president, instead of a Johnson or an Arthur.

I don't think that, in this day and age of increased secret service protection (especially post-9/11), there's very much to fear.

Arthur gets a serious short-shrift. He was a pretty good President.

Alot of people thought Arthur's people were behind the Assassination though. I honestly dont think he had anything to do with it.

[ilikeverin]

What's crazy is that anyone is listening to Doris Lessing.

[angus]

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Thats a bit unsettling...I guess. :/

Nah, consider the source.  It's from Sweden.  You know, in places like that they settle their differences at the point of a gun.  Think:  Anna Lindh vis-a-vis the european currency unit.  Well, here in the Western Hemisphere we have our problems, but we generally resort to bullets only after arm wrestling and Australian Biscuits contests are inconclusive.  Anyway, none of that matter, as the article is a thinly veiled attempt to push voters.  It's like push-polling without the polling.  Jeezus, Hillary's camp keeps getting sleazier and sleazier.  But my guess is that Hillary probably didn't order this piece of work.  She's sleazy, but I don't think she authorized the floating of most of these really sordid analyses, such as Obama's misspent youth or this assassination scenario.

Hey, check this out:  Necronegrocratia.  That's the new word I'm coining for "Rule by the fiat of a dead black guy."  eh?  like that, do ya?  I thought you would.

[JohnFKennedy]

What's crazy is that anyone is listening to Doris Lessing.

Ever read any of her books?

[Ben.]

Any president runs the risk of being assassinated... i dont think it takes a writer (however celebrated) to tell anyone that, and it sure as hell doesnt take a writer to say "dont vote for them, coz america is so racist and reactionary that they'll be shot because their black"... I'm sure their are plenty of folks who "like" to cause Bush or Clinton or McCain harm, as i say it's par of the course with being a prominent personality.       

[Gustaf]

Hah, funny that this would come from Sweden. I have to read that interview.