Pstern. You open many doors that lead to the danger in America. It is not just the voters who are terrified of an African American in the White House, but much of our federal government. Few of us even know the powers of the CIA around the globe. Many have their own prisons where torture is the general attitude for information. Life in our government is cheap and dispensable.

Electing Religious Leaders is not the answer as they can sin and break all the commandments and ask for forgiveness. No! We need leaders who know right from wrong and will lead us all into the same culture. No forgiveness for killing innocent people or torturing to death those they doubt.

This is America where the world looks to us for individual freedoms. We'll have to fight to keep them. We may have to march on the Capital one of these days to get their attention. I have many friends who will not vote in November as it only encourages the government to become more powerful over the will of the people.

I mailed in my ballot on Friday just so I wouldn't be talked out of voting for the Presidential election. I had my own concerns with the Propositions and Sheriff choices.

Good commentary!

Malcolm

If Bush can survive 8 years without a bullet, I think Obama is pretty safe

That's an interesting comment, sherry, though I don't know if it's true.

If you review the majority of assassinations [presidential and otherwise] you will find that the murders were most against the Democratic Party side of the scale:

John F. Kennedy

Robert Kennedy

Martin Luther King

Abraham Lincoln

William McKinley

John F. Kennedy Jr.

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If the elite are dissatisfied with the tenor of the new President, no amount of Secret Service will keep them safe because the assassinations noted in our past were not actually assassinations but a coup d'etat.

Now add to that the distorted reasoning of bigotry coupled with slack-jawed religious fanaticism and you have the perfect storm.
There are hordes of people in this country who believe that Obama is the living embodiment of the antichrist and a signal that they are to spring into action to save the world in a blaze of White Christian purity and goodness. I know, because I live in a city where it is not surprising to see posts in local blogs celebrating the coming race war.

It is my sincere hope that Barack Obama is able to serve out his terms with healthful vigor and return to public life safe and sound and in one piece with a happy healthy family in tow.

But given the size of the odds against him, I hope that he has a plenty-big and far reaching personal mafia in addition to the state appointed watchdogs.

Lyndon Johnson had a reputation as being very conservative until JFK was killed. At which point Johnson cloned himself a being a continuation of Kennedy.

However, Kennedy's new policy toward Vietnam was only a few weeks old and not know by the America public. Had it been know the US never would have fought the Vietnam War.

Today right-wing Jews think Obama's foreign policy will be similar to Eisenhower's, slanted toward the Third World. Most think Obama's policy in the Middle East will be similar to Carter's, constantly trying to be even-handed only openly criticizing Israel after he left office or even slightly slanted toward Israel.

The best way to keep Obama alive is for Biden to announce that in areas where he may differ with Obama, he plans to implement Obama's policy if he becomes President because of an assassinate or an extreme injury to Obama. And if an assassin might think Obama will increase affirmative action, or try to equate Muslim ideals with Christian, then as President I will assume it is part of my responsibility to initiate a Presidential policy not in the assassin’s liking.

RichardKanePA