Obama will be assassinated if he wins.

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

[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.

[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.

[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

[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.