Warning to Obama From Down Under: Far-right Racists Planning Your Assassination

Geez, we've only gotten through a single primary and Obamamania is creating hysteria worldwide.

Apparently this columnist from Australia thinks the United States is filled with a bunch of rednecks looking to take down Barack Obama.

Memo to Phillip Adams: We have a group here called the Secret Service. Barack Obama already has protection from them and should he be elected President, his security will be greatly enhanced.

I expect this stuff from the loony left, just not so soon.

Obama must be wary of the assassin's gun

BARACK Obama is crazy brave. His victory in Iowa puts him in the crosshairs of many a gun-toting racist for whom the thought of a black president is an abomination.

The prospect, even the likelihood, of assassination played a significant role in Colin Powell's decision - and that of his wife - to abandon any thought of a presidential run.

They were thinking hat-trick: Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Colin Powell. As was Ted Kennedy when he abandoned any White House ambitions: Jack, Bobby, Teddy.

Across the US, a fatalism was provoked by a culture of pervasive violence, hundreds of millions of guns, conspiracy theories and bitter experience.

Far from the Chappaquiddick scandal costing Teddy any hope of Pennsylvania Avenue, his grotesque behaviour after the drowning of MaryJo Kopechne may have been symptomatic of his desperation to escape dynastic destiny. He assassinated himself. (Yet Teddy would live to achieve more substantial political change than his brothers, as a consequence of 40 years as a crusading legislator.)

Inevitably, presidents and presidential candidates are prime targets for sundry loonies, with most being inside jobs. With two exceptions - attempts on the lives of both presidents Bush - assassinations and attempts came from enemies within.

Four serving presidents were gunned down: Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield, William McKinley and JFK. At least another 11 were targeted: Andrew Jackson, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and the two Bushes.

He goes on to give us quite a sketchy history lesson, and doesn't quite have all his acts straight.

John Hinckley Jr fired six shots at Reagan in March 1984.

We'll forgive him for that obvious mistake. He obviously has an agenda--to paint white America as a bunch of knuckle-dragging racists.

At least 18 attempts on sitting or former presidents, or presidents-elect. Facing the likelihood of an African-American in the White House, how many far-Right racists - from the old-fashioned Ku Klux Klan to more recent blast furnaces of bigotry such as Aryan Nations - are fantasising about or planning the assassination of Obama?

Good grief.

Get a grip, pal.

Besides, it's not the right Obama has to worry about.

Today, in Dover, Francine Torge, a former John Edwards supporter, said this while introducing Mrs. Clinton: “Some people compare one of the other candidates to John F. Kennedy. But he was assassinated. And Lyndon Baines Johnson was the one who actually” passed the civil rights legislation.

The comment, an apparent reference to Senator Barack Obama, is particularly striking given documented fears among blacks that Mr. Obama will be assassinated if elected.
Phil Singer, a Clinton spokesman said: “We were not aware that this person was going to make those comments and disapprove of them completely. They were totally inappropriate.”

Mrs. Clinton’s expression did not change noticeably when Ms. Torge made the comment.

Sure, they're never aware of it, but always disapprove of it when called on it.