I think (am afraid) that chances are high that someone will try. Besides the nutcases that might want to try to kill any politician or famous person, Barack Obama could draw some unwanted attention from extremist / racist groups. Furthermore if Obama gets elected it will mean a lot of change from the current neoconservative government. To some that change might carry negative consequences and those have a motive as well to stop him.
However I also think most attempts are probably not succesful and perhaps it will not even come that far.
[2 points]95 days ago by pollewopReplyEdited 95 days ago by pollewop
Some sicko tries during almost every political leaders' term in office in almost every country in the world. It is good they have been able to stop all but two of these loonies in the last hundred years. JFK is the only sad incident in the USA that comes to mind, though Reagan came close to not making it.
I expect there will be some sort of tribute to Gwatney at the Dem convention next week. He would have been the fellow announcing Arkansas's delegate vote.
nope - those that think suck thoughts are from a pretty thin gene pool - and hopefully 'evolving out'. The only other threat is the corporations that he's not afraid to go against and we all know what happened with Bulworth... I just don't see it happening in this day and age.
I refuse to answer such a question for fear that even my thought (or lack of thought) that someone would try to assassinate him would bring on an investigation from the US Government, be placed on a "no fly" list and receive more harassment when crossing the border.
"Y'all ain't nivver bin in th' South, hevya? We knoze whut ta do wit' them uppity types, we do."
Sounds just like my idiot uncles talking about assassinating LBJ for the Civil rights Ace and the Voting Rights Act. And there are a LOT of those kind of idiots out there.
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Not unless Hillary is nominated for his vice-president.
Huh?
I think (am afraid) that chances are high that someone will try. Besides the nutcases that might want to try to kill any politician or famous person, Barack Obama could draw some unwanted attention from extremist / racist groups. Furthermore if Obama gets elected it will mean a lot of change from the current neoconservative government. To some that change might carry negative consequences and those have a motive as well to stop him.
However I also think most attempts are probably not succesful and perhaps it will not even come that far.
Someone has, planned to, or something... i saw a little something about some guy who tried, planned, or something like that.
yeah i heard in the news that a guy was going to try....but they arrested him! is it true or is it just another rumor?
That is always a possibility.
Maybe. Perhaps someone will try to assassinate McCain. Who the hell knows?
Some sicko tries during almost every political leaders' term in office in almost every country in the world. It is good they have been able to stop all but two of these loonies in the last hundred years. JFK is the only sad incident in the USA that comes to mind, though Reagan came close to not making it.
RFK?
I guess MLK was a different category, but still sad.
A quick on wiki shows it is alost a national sport over there!
Joseph Smith, Jr., (1844), Mayor of Nauvoo, Illinois and presidential candidate and LDS church leader.
Charles Bent, (1847), Governor of the New Mexico Territory
James Strang, (1856), Michigan State Representative
Abraham Lincoln, (1865), President of the United States
John P. Slough, (1867), Chief Justice of the New Mexico Supreme Court
Thomas Hindman, (1868), Confederate General
James Hinds, (1868), U.S. Congressman killed by members of the Ku Klux Klan
Edward Dexter Holbrook, (1870), Congressional Delegate from the Idaho Territory
James Garfield, (1881), President of the United States
Jesse James, (1882), notorious outlaw
John M. Clayton (Arkansas), (1889), Congressman from Arkansas
David Hennessey, (1890), Police Chief of New Orleans
Carter Harrison, Sr., (1893), Mayor of Chicago
William Goebel, (1900), Governor of Kentucky
William McKinley, (1901), President of the United States
Frank Steunenberg, (1905), former governor of Idaho
Don Mellett, (1926), newspaper editor and campaigner against organized crime
Anton Cermak, (1933), mayor of Chicago
Huey P. Long, (1935), Louisiana senator and former governor
Walter Liggett, (1935), Minnesota newspaper editor
Carlo Tresca, (1943), anarchist organizer
Albert Patterson, (1954), Alabama Attorney General
Curtis Chillingworth, (1955), a Florida judge
John F. Kennedy, (1963), President of the United States
Lee Harvey Oswald, (1963), alleged assassin of John F. Kennedy
Medgar Evers, (1963), U.S. civil rights activist
Malcolm X, (1965), black Muslim leader, killed in a Manhattan banquet room as he began a speech
George Lincoln Rockwell, (1967), founder of the American Nazi Party
Martin Luther King, Jr., (1968), U.S. civil rights activist
Robert F. Kennedy, (1968), Presidential candidate and John F. Kennedy's younger brother, shot in Los Angeles
Fred Hampton, (1969), Deputy Chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party
Dan Mitrione, (1970), FBI agent and torture expert, killed by the guerrilla movement Tupamaros
Marcus Foster, (1973), School District Superintendent in Oakland CA, killed by members of the Symbionese Liberation Army
Don Bolles, (1976), Investigative reporter for Arizona Republic, killed in car bomb, Max Dunlap and James Robison convicted, alleged Mafia ties
Orlando Letelier, (1976), Chilean ambassador to the United States under the administration of Salvador Allende
Harvey Milk, (1978), gay rights campaigner and city supervisor of San Francisco, California
George Moscone, (1978), Mayor of San Francisco
Leo Ryan, (1978), Congressman from California, killed as part of the Jonestown Massacre
John Wood, (1979), first US federal judge killed in the twentieth century
Russell G. Lloyd, Sr., (1980), Mayor of Evansville, Indiana
Allard K. Lowenstein, (1980), Congressman from New York
Alan Berg, (1984), radio talk-show host, killed by Neo-nazis
Chiang Nan, (1984), Taiwanese-American writer, allegedly killed by Kuomintang agents
Alex Odeh, (1985), Arab anti-discrimination group leader, killed when bomb exploded in his Santa Ana, California office
Alejandro González Malavé, (1986), famous undercover policeman, in Bayamón, Puerto Rico
Selena Quintanilla-Pérez, (1995), singer killed by former employee, Yolanda Saldívar
Tommy Burks, (1998), Tennessee State Senator
James E. Davis, (2003) New York City Councilman assassinated by Othniel Askew, a political rival in the Council chambers in City Hall
Kathy Augustine (2007), Nevada State Controller
Chauncey Bailey, (2007), journalist
Bill Gwatney, (2008), Chairman of the Arkansas Democratic Party
I expect there will be some sort of tribute to Gwatney at the Dem convention next week. He would have been the fellow announcing Arkansas's delegate vote.
Not to mention attempted assasinations, most notably that of Ronald Reagan back in '81.
And Ford, twice in 1975.
Every president, most world leaders, have assassination attempts on them. Some you hear about, the vast majority you don't.
Obama will be no different.
This one is pretty much an even split.
nope - those that think suck thoughts are from a pretty thin gene pool - and hopefully 'evolving out'. The only other threat is the corporations that he's not afraid to go against and we all know what happened with Bulworth... I just don't see it happening in this day and age.
If we haven't assassinated Bush, I think anyone else should be safe.
I refuse to answer such a question for fear that even my thought (or lack of thought) that someone would try to assassinate him would bring on an investigation from the US Government, be placed on a "no fly" list and receive more harassment when crossing the border.
Almost certainly. Probably more than one.
"Y'all ain't nivver bin in th' South, hevya? We knoze whut ta do wit' them uppity types, we do."
Sounds just like my idiot uncles talking about assassinating LBJ for the Civil rights Ace and the Voting Rights Act. And there are a LOT of those kind of idiots out there.