Obama's life has been threatened?!

[Bicoastal]

It's on the CNN ticker now: placed under protection of secret service because of a threat against him...

No article yet...

[Monkeyman]

1. Yep

[mikelgb]

2. congrats obama

[Dinger]

5. ??? What's That Supposed To Mean? (nt)

[wyldwolf]

9. probably just a poor way of saying Obama is being taken seriously(?)

[mikelgb]

21. though it sucks to be threatened and I hope it was fake

this announcement does nothing but help his campaign. gives him a level of legitimacy above all the others, though it is hard to imagine the Clinton does not have an SS detail.

[ripple]

26. As former First Lady, Clinton does have SS detail n/t

[Raven]

8. Yeah, what's to be happy about??? n/t

[goclark]

3. Hope he has the best Secret Service of them all!

[Adelante]

4. This is horrible

:scared:

[spinbaby]

7. No, it's good

He got protection before any damage was done. That's good.

[Adelante]

11. That's another way to look at it

Thanks :pals:

[Ethelk2044]

24. Obama Threaten

It shows you that we have not come as far as well all would like to think. I hope this does not make him pull out the election and it should give him more incentive to win.

[Oreo]

6. Randi reading it now

earliest Secret Service has ever placed a candidate under their protection

[goclark]

10. He needs it and so do the others

Basic "Homeland Security."

[Monkeyman]

12. To Many Right Wing Nut Cases everyone needs this who is running

[Alamom]

18. I have the same concerns.

They know they are losing ground everyday and will most likely lose the WH. I've been worried for all of the candidates. Also, the speaker and other high profile dems. I hope they are all well protected.

[goclark]

27. Exactly right ~

Rightwing nuts are running scared.

They know they are headed for defeat without Diebold.

[Ishoutandscream2]

13. Well, our country shows racism certainly isn't dead

I'm sure one, fine upstanding white supremacist is behind this.

[jcrew2001]

14. Is it an angry myspace blogger?

otherwise its the cia, they killed bobby kennedy.

[AlCzervik]

15. i wish i could say i'm shocked but i'm not.

this country has a long way to go.

[Virginia Dare]

16. It certainly couldn't have anything to do with RW hate radio could it?..n/t

[depakid]

17. Well, we knew this was coming...

And I'm sure Obama knew it, too.

[Cameron27]

19. goddammit,

Just please stay safe.

[IntravenousDemilo]

20. He's a black man doing a good job running for President of the United States of America...

...a country tormented by racism since its inception. I'm surprised it took this long.

[Czolgosz]

22. There are times when I hear Obama speak so powerfully and beautifully that I fear for his safety.

The first images of this video superimposed over that haunting song scare me: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqDx9rwexlk

[Alamom]

23. Senator Clinton was threatened on Senator Obama's website in Feb.

Race AND gender oriented?

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2007/02/blog_rant_puts_.html


Blog Rant Puts Sen. Clinton Security on Notice
February 12, 2007 5:48 PM

ABC News' Kate Snow and Eloise Harper Report: The Secret Service has been alerted to an apparent death threat made against '08 presidential candidate Senator Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y.

As a former First Lady, the Senator is afforded protection by the U.S. Secret Service, unlike some of her lesser know rivals at this early stage in the 2008 presidential campaign.

But already, the additional security protection seems warranted.

On Sunday, a threatening rant was posted on a website run by Senator Barack Obama, D-Ill.'s campaign.

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A campaign staffer for Obama tells ABC News the posting clearly violated the rules of not posting "threatening" language, and it was removed when it was discovered. However, it had reportedly been on the site for several hours at that point.

"Those comments are absolutely deplorable and we removed them from the website," said Bill Burton with the Obama campaign.

[Doctor_J]

25. I'm shocked, I tell ya - SHOCKED!

I thought the wingers would be happy as could be that the leading candidate for prez is black. They threaten the lives of liberals and Dems every day, over things like calling the lying drunk in the WH a lying drunk. This has got to have them shitting their depends.