It is getting real frustrating defending a guy who does not want to be defended, PERIOD. The secret service investigation of all of these death threats, regardless of the bull shyt cover used, should be spear headed by the DEPT OF JUSTICE, again PERIOD. Why isn’t the DOJ involved? Because Obama doesn’t want them to get involved. If I were to define OBAMA by any animal it would be an ostrich, because in the midst of all of these threats daily swirling about on AM, FM, TV, and CABLE, he refuses to see any danger to his person as a black President of the United States. More below the fold.
Believe me just a handful of DOJ arrests and court complaints issued against those calling for death to a sitting President would have a lasting and CHILLING effect on this expanding problem of the President’s safety. What is so astounding about this is those people calling for death to the President are all on public RECORD in one way or another. There are video and audio tapes of broadcasts where these threats were publicly uttered, so no huge earth moving forensic investigation will be required to tie these people to their public statements.
The tragedy here is that Obama refuses to classify this as a national problem, and continues to play the role of the macho guy sticking to his principles that ALL CONFLICTS can be solved in compromise. The crazies out there are beginning to see this message, “you can SCREAM KILL OBAMA from the roof tops and no punitive action will be taken against you whatsoever”. So as with any unregulated social behavior, a race is triggered to see who can escalate the situation by creating the next most outlandish event. This race continues until someone does something so outrageous that society becomes sufficiently roused and steps in to legally curb/regulate the respective behavior. This is the situation that President Obama has inadvertently created by his stubborn reluctance to take definitive action to curb these death threats, and until he does it’s only going to keep on growing.
Obama’s argument is that he has sooooo many important things to do that he doesn’t have time to worry about every demagogue making idle treats on Faux or Talk Radio Network. But my question to him is, “Mr. President have you stopped for just a minute to think what would happen to this country is someone actually was successful in carrying out a threat against your life?” If you actually love this country as you often state that you do in your speeches, you would recognize that your HIGHEST PRIORITY is to secure YOUR SAFETY to assure leadership continuity for your nation in these turbulent times. Yes Mr. President, THIS IS JOB #1.
here is a another fanatic with enough money for a billboard:
http://www.nbcactionnews.com/news/local/story/Anti-Obama-Sign-Displayed-on-Metro-Highway/mdjlnrpjG0q
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Thanks for the link to the billboard. This is just another beat in the increasing perceived buildup of public outrage against President Obama. The fact that the guy who paid for the billboard is a small business owner indicates that more and more little anti-obama people are being emboldened to take action on their own personal campaign against the President. It indicates that they are losing their fear of facing any consequences for their actions. As long as the White House remains passive on this issue their ranks will continue to expand.
Maybe Barack needs to invite Rep. Grayson over for a beer. Maybe Barack will get some important pointers on how to stand up to this endless Republican crap.
I have to agree. First, because in the inevitable riots and violence that would follow the assassination of the president, even more people would die. Second, because he has a responsibility to his family, which is all too likely to be caught in the crossfire. And third, because he has a responsibility to us.
Obama may have grown up on the tough streets of Chicago, but lemme tell you, I grew up in the rural South. And while the South is nowhere near as bad as the prevailing stereotypes suggest, we do have an awful lot of honest-to-god crazy, hateful people with tremendous amounts of arms and ammunition, and given enough time and rabble rousing, it is a statistical certainty that not only will many of them try, one of them will get lucky.
We are never going to be able to reach a compromise with that class of nutjob. We will be lucky if we can apprehend and institutionalize most of them before they do something really awful. Psychopaths are psychopaths, and no amount of goodwill and happy talk will change that.