But as it is, he's just a frontman. If 8 years of Bush taught us anything, it's that the Presidency is a hollow token position.

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I really believe that it is possible that some loose screws could attempt something. There have already been too many attempts on the lives of US presidents in our history to discount that it would not happen again. We are producing too many over medicated, under educated, fear based drones that could have their fifteen minutes and a video on You Tube if they make an attempt on Obama's life. Those who fear this radical change in US policy, either to the left or right need to consider the current job of President in the US these days.
The job of President has become more of an upper management position rather than that of leader. Obama appears and promoted himself well as someone who is going to be the leader. However, his early picks for his cabinet and changes in position on key campaign issues show that he is angling for an eight year run that will result in little, if any change. We will always be in Iraq. He will fail on this promise. He will allow a surge in Afghanistan that will sap billions of dollars from the taxpayer, reward the military industry and result in thousands of lives lost. I voted for the guy because I did not want to see the racist idiots and phony conservatives, who would not know a conservative issue if it slapped them in the face, get a victory. I did not and do not expect change. Business as usual.

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If someone published a magazine that showed a photo of Bush in the crosshairs wouldn't they all be in jail now? Or maybe just snagged off of the streets as terrists and held at an undisclosed location indefinately?

What happened to the President being respected (especially during war time) as being a sacrosanct moral policy?

Does anybody else see the problem that grandmothers (et al), who were peacefully holding protest signs, being rounded up and jailed as a threat to our country and those who are promoting a race war and threatening the office of President as just being allowed to express their free speech?

This is seriously something that the NSA needs to be correcting.

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For two reasons:

Reason #1

The most hated man in the world right now, is George W Bush. He is still alive, so the security must be pretty damn good.

Reason #2

It takes a cunning, smart, well thought out plan to actually assassinate a president nowadays.

Racists are stupid, and not capable of it. (If they were intelligent, they wouldn't be racists, now would they?)

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May it not be naive to think that all racists are stupid? Sadly, many of them are quite intelligent & are quite capable of planning & carrying out an assassination. And they would most likely get their "foot soldiers" to carry out the deed. The less sharp of the various groups.
Just "Google" publications like, "The Occidental Quarterly" or, "National Policy Institute". Very intellectual racists that prefer to somewhat stay in the background while the numbnuts get all the publicity. Or Willis Carto or Lyndon La Rouche.

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All of the high-profile assassinations of political players in recent history (JFK, RFK, MLK, John Lennon) were inside jobs, NOT the work of small-minded "haters".

Obama has nothing to fear as long as he keeps to his corporate-sponsored script. The only problem will be if he tries to be a president "of the people, by the people and for the people". Then he's in deep shit and no amount of Secret Service can save him. I think his cabinet selections reveal that he's going to be a good (old) "boy" and play along.

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While I was watching the video of the duke meeting, I kept having this fantasy of being a building maintenance worker there and planting a couple of neat bombs to go off when all these assholes were there.
I'm a white American who is no more American than my black American neighbor or President Obama.
Do NOT fuck with me.

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If obama gets assasinated it wont be white supremists. It will be the same assholes that are running the show behind the curtains. Of course Im sure they will make it look like white supremists did it.

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White Supremacist may be hilarious but that doesn't give you the right to insult unemployed high-school dropouts.

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Look, if anyone hurts Obama, it'll be the death of the Republican Party and probably cause a strong backlash against the people who did it. When was the last time people got this excited (positive or negative) regarding a new prez?? He'd be cannonized beyond anything JFK ever attained. If someone did attempt on his life, then motivation would be traced back to all the fear mongering propaganda put forth by the alleged "right-wingers". All those hate group people inflate their importance and their numbers anyway. Quit giving them free TV time. Have a good day.

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to figure out that Obama (or anyone Obama grants such power to) can just declare them enemy combatants and throw 'em in one of those "holding pens" Haliburton/KBR built.

Problem solved! :)

#@!

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If you are going to dream up new boogeymen, can't you at least have the decency to make them more plausible than this?

The "rising" white supremicist "movement", huh?

Sure...

That's why a half-black guy just won a LANDSLIDE victory in the Presidential Election, because of a "rising white-supremecist movement".

Makes a whole lotta sense.

-matti.

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He will continue to need his armoured car; and his whereabouts will have to be a closely guarded secret. Come January 20, he will be the one who needs to watch his ass.

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