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January 11, 2008

The Incomplete Kennedy

Bob Owens;

Dark fantasies of Obama’s pending death have been brewing for over a year, well before his win over Hillary Clinton in the Iowa caucuses on January 3. His recent success has proven to be fertile ground for those promoting more paranoia.

A day after the Iowa caucuses, Huffington Post contributor Joseph A. Palermo wasted no time in stating that Obama might be assassinated, and went so far as to preemptively assert blame [...] On the day of the New Hampshire primary, numerous polls (wrongly) indicated that Barack Obama would defeat Hillary Clinton by a substantial margin. Three foreign news organizations used the occasion of a pending Obama victory to push the meme yet further.

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But where are these threats against Barack Obama coming from in the blogosphere and on other corners of the internet, and who is making them?

The simple answer is “the usual suspects” — the pundits themselves.


Or maybe it's just that after a few paragraphs of gush about style and charisma and speeches that "elevate", the resume-challenged candidate doesn't give them much else to write about.

Related: as the old saying goes - "who needs enemies?"


Posted by Kate at January 11, 2008 10:56 AM
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Personally, I sure hope Hillary beats Obama, cause most of us Lil Common Folk down here in fly-over-country don't want to see the sequel to the Los Angeles Riots when Mr. Hussien loses to the Mormon.
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Posted by: Ratt at January 11, 2008 11:57 AM

Hitlery is just afraid of the backlash if they found another dead body in the park in DC. Then they would HAVE to reopen the Vince Foster file.

Funny, there's an episode of COLD CASE in itself, but somehow I don't think Hollyweird wants to open that can of worms. Instead they just keep hammering the dead horse of racism and wife beating over and over. The show became boring after year 1.

Posted by: Doug at January 11, 2008 11:57 AM

Paranoia is freqently generated by a desire to attribute to others an unacceptable wish that we ourselves possess. I believe the phenomenon is called "projection".

Posted by: RSP at January 11, 2008 12:49 PM

Nothing like an assassination rumore to boost lagging numbers.

I love it how Dems feel their candidates are so populist that they are instant targets for military industrial complex trigger men.

Posted by: WL Mackenzie Redux at January 11, 2008 12:58 PM

Whether it's verboten to write of such things in the media is debatable. I remember some black comic a while doing a bit about the first black prez getting shot at pretty much the instant he is inaugurated. Seemed funny then...

And does anyone reading this think that there aren't people right now vowing to get BO if he becomes prez?

Posted by: Gord Tulk at January 11, 2008 1:12 PM

Of course, lost in this media-induced nonsense is the simple reality that every US President has faced, and will face, a constant threat of assassination regardless of political affiliation, sex, race, religion or whatever...

43 presidents
18 (officially recorded) assassination attempts
4 killed
2 injured

Note to MSM: we call this sort of information "perspective."

Posted by: JJM at January 11, 2008 1:21 PM

'And does anyone reading this think that there aren't people right now vowing to get BO if he becomes prez?' Gord

My guess is the Leftist pundits are trying to get one of their own- otherwise known as Useful Fools- whipped up to do the job for them. It isn't so much paranoia as it is their own racism bursting through.

Posted by: otter at January 11, 2008 1:22 PM

Note to Obama: If Teddy Kennedy offers you a ride, DON'T TAKE IT!!

Posted by: grok at January 11, 2008 1:33 PM

JFK endorses Hussein Obama. The hand that bites; the left hand of Kerry on O's back! Oowooo.
Chosen by Al-Jaz?

http://tinyurl.com/2jhlfp

Posted by: maz2 at January 11, 2008 2:06 PM

There's no chance any of the other dems would select Hillary as their vice-president. Just not healthy.

Posted by: John_N at January 11, 2008 2:15 PM

If BO is elected he'll be fine. The only one who would have to worry dieing OF lead poisoning to the head would be Ron Paul if he ever made an attempt to abolish the Federal Reserve. Same as what happened to JFK.

Posted by: Shawn at January 11, 2008 2:17 PM

maz2, I thought I was the only one wondering. What has happened in a country which was endlessly wallowing in 9/11 grief, and now is even considering a man who is/was a muslim to be President? And his name neatly combines the names of America's two biggest recent enemies, Saddam and Osama. Seems strange to me is all.

Posted by: KRF at January 11, 2008 2:21 PM

[quote]Paranoia is freqently generated by a desire to attribute to others an unacceptable wish that we ourselves possess. I believe the phenomenon is called "projection".[/quote]

RSP,

Psychology "is frequently" the Fuzzy Logic applied to an illogical problem.

The intellectial collective of Psychology "may frequently" be compared to a Bag of Hammers, where each hammer thinks the other hammer has the solution.

Buddy! If you don't fear the Crazies you meet the victim criteria of "Survival of the fittest" it’s called Extinction

Posted by: Phillip G. Shaw at January 11, 2008 3:38 PM

Amusing isn't it, the implication is that some redneck, the same rednecks that in lilly white rural Iowa and NH who've put Obama on top would do him in. Never mind the rabid and in too many cases physically violent lefty moonbat fringe that has adherents that would kill Bush or Cheney in a heartbeat.

The chattering morons on the left are so loathsome. Having lost control of their sacred whites-as-racists meme with this election, the fools are in total disarray.

If for nothing else Obama has been good for this country in that his wins in white Iowa and NH put to rest the racist crap. Whites need to start throwing the lesson of Obama's wins back on their accusers.

Posted by: penny at January 11, 2008 3:40 PM

Re: white Iowa and NH

I would like to see the # of white democrats in suburbs around cities like Chicago and Detroit who would have voted for BO. One of the reasons why Iowans may be swooning for BO is because they ahve had little direct contact with the Al Sharpton democrats.

On the Dem side expect things become increasingly driven by identity politics - Blacks behind BO and women behind HC. If the race remains tight you can anticpate rhetoric that goes beyond the pale of or mainstream voters - support for partial birth abortions, heavy increases in welfare and taxes. Good news for the GOP in other words.

Posted by: Gord Tulk at January 11, 2008 4:00 PM

Let me get this straight...

Hilary is gaining popularity by 'almost' crying.

Obama is creating support by rumors of death-threats.

Can these dems not come up with one good POLICY between them that would excite,or even just interest voters?

Posted by: teddy at January 11, 2008 4:16 PM

Phillip G. Shaw:
When I wrote the comment on "projection", I was thinking of a conversation I had several years ago with a very liberal New Yorker. She said that most conservatives "just wish that Africans would die", or something to that effect. I asked her if she was "projecting". After only a moment's thought, she admitted she was.

I think there is a lot of hypocrisy regarding race, especially among those who are most relentlessly "open minded", and it was this opinion of mine that motivated my post.
As to your point, I'm not totally sure what it is, but you seem to feel that a certain amount of "paranoia" regarding Mr. Obama's safety is justified, If that is your point, I think I agree with you. It's just that, when I posted my comment, actual justification for the "paranoia" was not uppermost in my mind.

One final point. I am not your buddy.

Posted by: RSP at January 11, 2008 4:57 PM

Ted kennedy a incompetent spoiled rich little demacrratic brat who acts like a jerk when he dont get his way

Posted by: Spurwing Plover at January 11, 2008 6:02 PM

spurwing:

There is nothing "little" about Teddy Kennedy

Posted by: Gord Tulk at January 11, 2008 8:33 PM

RSP,
I apologize for mistaking you for a Liberal shrink. The flip side is usually used against republicans.

Peace

Posted by: Phillip G. Shaw at January 11, 2008 11:41 PM

Phillip G. Shaw:
Apology accepted.

Posted by: RSP at January 12, 2008 12:08 AM

Are you guys Buddies now?

Posted by: Largs at January 12, 2008 7:10 AM

Posted by: teddy at January 11, 2008 4:16 PM

"Can these dems not come up with one good POLICY between them that would excite,or even just interest voters?"

What you are seeing is a script that has been played out over, and over, and over again.

The Democrats are most adept at eating their own while pointing out how 'derisive and divisive' the Republicans can be. It's in the genes.



Posted by: Yoop at January 12, 2008 11:33 AM

To me the worst two guys to win the presidency would be:

1) Obama because 2 years in the senate is not enough experience to run one of the most powerful nations on earth.
With him as Pres, the country would probably lurch from disaster to disaster.

2) Fred Thompson, who I heard say publicly he really didn't want the job.

Putting a guy like that in gives them a free ride to do anything their little heart desires because as they already told you, they didn't really want the job to begin with so what's the big deal?

Posted by: rockyt at January 12, 2008 11:39 AM

More material for the .....

*Clinton Dead Pool*
Although most of the subjects had connections back to Akansas .... I'm sure the skeletons continue to pile up somewhere.

Posted by: OMMAG at January 13, 2008 12:07 AM
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