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Interesting: The Obama Assassination Hints Are Starting To Stack Up

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by Rocket River, Jun 8, 2008.

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  1. GladiatoRowdy

    GladiatoRowdy Member

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    MM has plenty of friends around here and, IMO, is one of the most respectable posters here. I would take his anecdote as 100% fact.
     
  2. Pistol Pete

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    It's become a crutch.....
     
  3. SamFisher

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    ....for you.
     
  4. pgabriel

    pgabriel Educated Negro

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    haha, exactly what i was thinking. irony
     
  5. DaDakota

    DaDakota Balance wins
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    Well once he wins and becomes the leader that this country needs, and DOESN'T get gunned down, it will help change those perceptions.

    Obama is going to win, and win handily.....

    DD
     
  6. MadMax

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    are you suggesting i made it up?? :D
     
  7. weslinder

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    Of course. Everyone knows that you don't talk to black people. :eek:
     
  8. FranchiseBlade

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    Yes, because your only objective in coming here is to be popular on the D&D bbs.

    you don't care what kind of stories you have to make up in order to be popular on the internets. That post along with all the others I've ever read all point to the same thing.

    The Freak just busted you on it!

    Unless this is all a plot by The Freak to steal your bbs homecoming King crown.
     
  9. gifford1967

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    I have no doubt that Obama's life is in grave danger and that he is at much more risk because he is black. If there is an attempt on his life, it's not going to be because there is some high level conspiracy to keep a black man from becoming president. It's going to be because there is a small, but significant, segment of the population that still harbors such deep, virulent racial hatred that the idea of a black president enrages them to the point that they will put their own lives at risk to kill him.
     
  10. justtxyank

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    If he is elected, I hope there is never even a leaked rumor of an assassination attempt, let alone an actual attempt. God forbid if he were assassinated by a white man because of racism...this country would descend into chaos overnight.
     
  11. Rocket River

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    I seriously doubt it
    MLK was assassinate . .. we survived without a race war

    Honestly . . . I cannot imagine what would spark Black folx to
    force this country to 'descend into chaos'.

    We are far to American to do such a thing . . . .
    so
    Please sleep at night comfortable knowing that
    Sons of Nat Turner will NOT be coming door to door killin folx
    :D
    ;)

    Rocket River
     
  12. justtxyank

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    I really meant more at a political level
     
  13. Pistol Pete

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    It doesn't surprise me that you two think alike. Maybe one day the two of you will wake up. I doubt it though.

    You'd rather conduct pity parties than realize that if you want true change it's going to take compromise from all races.
     
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  14. RocketMan Tex

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    I've got news for you:

    Bush Junior did a hell of alot more damage to this country than Jimmy Carter ever did.
     
  15. FranchiseBlade

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    What compromise would you suggest from the race that holds the power structure, has always held the power structure, instituted slavery, racist laws, and is currently holding almost all the cards in our society, the same race that has used other races for medical experiments assassinated other races leaders when they pushed for changes and equality?

    What type of compromise would suggest from them? Would you expect that race to compromise more or less than the other races?
     
  16. pgabriel

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    link


    sign of perilous times: Early protection necessary
    Cost of security 69% higher than in 2004 election



    By STEWART M. POWELL
    Copyright 2008 Houston Chronicle

    VEEPS MAY GET EXTENDED SECURITY

    Secret Service protection would be extended for vice presidents after they leave office under a measure the House approved on a voice vote Monday.
    The measure would provide security for former vice presidents, their spouses and their children for six months after the vice president leaves office.

    The legislation would also allow the secretary of Homeland Security to extend Secret Service protection beyond six months.

    Former vice presidents aren't required by law to receive Secret Service protection after they leave office.

    BLOOMBERG NEWS

    McCain, Obama look for soft spots on issues of money McCain allows the media into private fundraiser Campaign briefs: Obama gets help in VP search Forums, video and news in Politics The Secret Service, mindful of the historic presidential candidacy of Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., and the threat of terrorists striking high-profile targets, is providing the earliest and most expensive day-to-day protection for the major presidential candidates and their spouses in U.S. history.

    Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, who authorized the protection, says plainclothes Secret Service agents, drawn from a pool of 3,300, backed by some of the 6,500 uniformed Secret Service officers, are providing candidates "the protection they need" during the protracted presidential campaign.

    Candidates are not entitled to U.S. Secret Service protection by law until 120 days before the general election. That would be July 8 this year.

    But Chertoff authorized protection for Obama on May 3, 2007 — 15 months before the law required it — in response to a recommendation by the five-member congressional advisory committee that oversees protection for presidential candidates.

    Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., who initially resisted protection, accepted Secret Service coverage April 27.

    "There's a natural tendency for us to be extra careful as we go into an election season," Chertoff said in an exclusive interview. "That's just based on common sense."

    Candidates' children are not protected by the Secret Service. The children of current and former presidents are provided protection until they reach 16.

    The Secret Service gained on-the-ground experience protecting candidates in a wartime environment during the 2004 presidential election, protecting President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, as well as the Democratic challengers, Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., and then-Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C.

    "We put in a lot of resources," Chertoff said. "It's an unfortunate part of living in our current environment."

    The budget for agents to provide protection to presidential candidates has jumped from $65 million in 2004 to $110 million this year — a 69 percent increase.

    The Secret Service also has the ability to call in federal law enforcement officers from other agencies, including airport baggage screeners from the Transportation Security Administration and immigration enforcement officers, to lend a hand providing site security and screening supporters flocking into campaign rallies.

    "We started planning for this years in advance," said Edwin Donovan, a Secret Service agent serving as an agency spokesman. "This campaign didn't come as a surprise to us."

    Donovan said his agency has been keeping a watchful eye on any potential security threats that might arise in this year of breakthrough candidacies.

    "We've been mindful that this has been a historic campaign with the first African-American and the first woman to come close to winning a party nomination," Donovan said. "That's not lost on us. We certainly pay attention to all of the information that becomes available to us and our law enforcement partners."

    He declined to discuss whether the Secret Service intelligence branch detects a spike in threats on the anniversaries of assassinations, such as last Thursday's 40th anniversary of the assassination of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, D-N.Y., after he won the 1968 California presidential primary.

    Donovan also declined to discuss whether threat traffic increased after Clinton's recollection of Kennedy's assassination as a partial rationale for staying in the fight for the Democratic nomination until June.

    The Secret Service, founded in 1865 to combat counterfeiting, was given presidential protection duties after the assassination of President William McKinley in 1901. It was ordered by President Lyndon Johnson to begin protecting presidential candidates in 1968 — the day after the assassination of Kennedy as he neared the Democratic nomination.

    Of the 20 presidential candidates in the 2008 race, Clinton had protection from the outset because of her status as a former first lady.
     
  17. SamFisher

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    Pity party? No this is a fun party. I'm laughing at you still riding that one-trick pony! YOu cry "reverse racism" with pretty much every single post on this BBS. It's not just a "crutch" for you - it pretty much defines you.

    Poor victimized Ill-Skillz.

    Well let's dig deeper. Please regale us about all the times in your life when you've been victimized by race-card playing darkies.
     
  18. KingCheetah

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    President Bush was almost assassinated in 2005 in Georgia (the country) by a grenade that landed near him and failed to go off -- it was live and malfunctioned.

    Any US president faces almost constant threats I would guess if elected Obama will have to be extra careful unfortunately.
     
  19. bucket

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    However, there were riots in cities throughout the country. A horrible chapter in history, one I don't ever hope to see repeated.

    I think the Secret Service has been doing their job pretty well. It's actually pretty fortunate that no one's killed the current President, considering how many people hate him. Hopefully, the same will be true for Obama when he's elected.
     
  20. JuanValdez

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    I don't blame people, especially baby-boomers, for anticipating an assassination, given how many high-profile assassinations we had in the 60s and 70s. As a Gen-Xer, I don't think those assassinations had impacted me as much. I remember I had gone to Dallas years ago and saw where Kennedy was shot and had this transcendant historical moment. It was a strange experience. I started reading a bunch about that assassination and the others around the same time and, I think, gained a much greater appreciation than I had for just how crazy it was then to have all these galvanizing leaders just picked off. I know it must have left a scar on the baby-boomers that I don't carry myself.

    And, I'd like to think the times have changed and that people who assume an assassination is coming are still just jaded from things that happened decades ago. The torch has passed to a new generation. I'd like to think we won't be using assassinations as a political tool anymore, and that Obama will be elected without incident and the scars can heal some. I recognize there is a danger of someone making an attempt. It would validate the cynical assumptions that "they" won't let Obama win. It would shake my own confidence in the progress we made. But, I'm optimistic.
     

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