Reply #21: I agree that this is dangerous.

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I am getting frightened for Obama. We all know-or at least we all should-that there are many ignorant, hate-filled and frightened racists with guns out there who can't accept the fact that we have a black President, and one who actually wants to benefit the country as a whole, rather than just the upper class. There was a lot of hateful and threatening talk about the Clintons from the right-wing media when they were in the White House, but I think that this is even more dangerous. I admit that I have been naive; I thought that once he was in office and showed that he wasn't going to fulfill their paranoid fears--no war against white people, no confiscation of guns--they'd calm down. I should have known better; they never gave up on trying to destroy Clinton.

I doubt that legal action can be taken except against those directly advocating violence against the President, but at the least we need to protest these characterizations of him and members of Congress who are trying to get health care reform passed, and we need to point out that Obama is fulfilling a campaign pledge and has an electoral mandate to do so.