Is anyone else concerned about Obama's safety?

[Mightyqueen801]

Originally Posted by Bluefly

Even though all economic indicators suggest that things beginning to improve, the right wing media seems to be ratcheting up the propagana and lies about Obama's policies (for example, completely misinterpreting a small section of the bill as "death care").

Followers are crashing town hall meetings and basically getting whipped into a frenzy like they were during the campaign when they were yelling things like "terrorist" and "kill him" at rallies before the McCain campaign stepped back on the rhetoric that was whipping people into such a frenzy.

One heavily armed woman scouted out a military base to plan a terrorist attack against it because Glenn Beck convinced her it was a FEMA camp.

I realize Clinton faced the same irrational fear before going down as one of the most successful presidents, but I'm increasingly concerned Obama won't survive long enough to reach that point.

I worry about him, too. This country will look like even bigger losers if this happens than we did for re-electing Bush.

[majoun]

Originally Posted by North Beach Person

Eco-terrorism


Federal Bureau of Investigation - Congressional Testimony (http://www.fbi.gov/congress/congress02/jarboe021202.htm - broken link)

Burning Rage - 60 Minutes - CBS News


Domestic Terrorism – Animal Liberation Front Claims It Flooded Professors Home : Homeland Security News

ALF and ELF are dangerous groups but the only politician assassinated by animal rights activists was Pim Fortuyn in the Netherlands. Animal rights extremists did make death threats against L.A. mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and his sister Judge Joyce Villar (and there was a plot to car-bomb Judge Villar that was prevented by police), unaware of them threatening any other politicians.

[majoun]

Originally Posted by groar

that's very interesting. the rate of death threats still quadrupled for obama over bush.

also, republican vs. democrat meant very different things before the 20th century, as other people have pointed out.

There were two assassination attempts against Truman.

Don't know of any assassination attempts against Wilson but there was an attempted assassination of his Attorney General, A. Mitchell Palmer, which resulted in the "First Red Scare" in which leftists and antiwar activists were imprisoned and deported.