Sharpshooters on the roof

This is an excellent diary. It should be read in it's entirity by all.

Sharpshooters on the roof, Updated
by teresahill
Fri May 23, 2008 at 08:18:54 PM PDT

Obama came to Clemson University sometime before the South Carolina primary, and my son went to hear him speak.

His first and most-lasting impression? The sharpshooters on the rooftops that he spotted around the area where Obama was speaking.

This is a kid who's probably never seen weapons like that in person. His nearest reference to that kind of firepower is from video games. And he was amazed to see those guns panning the crowd at his school.

Which gave me the opportunity to explain to my son: Merely standing before us and offering himself to us as a Presidential candidate is an act of courage on behalf of Barack Obama every day he's on the campaign trail.

Death threats came early, we know, judging by how early the Secret Service stepped in to try to protect him. I suspect, the death threats come in greater numbers for him than any Presidential candidate before him.

And yet, he still stands before us. He stands before us with his wife and with his daughters by his side. Think about that.

Think about what it would take for any of us here to believe so strongly in the need to change our country that we could handle constant death threats. That we could handle the danger inherent in our campaign not just to our spouse, but to our children?

Think about Wing-Nut radio show hosts who feel free to joke about the possibility of him being assassinated. Didn't a Fox News person make some kind of reference to assassination, too?

And the good Rev. Mike Huckabee? How funny. That sound? Someone shooting at Obama. That was within the last week, right?

Apparently, it's still OK in this country to many people to joke about shooting and killing a black politician.

And yet, Obama stands before us, offering himself to us.

Think about the stadiums, 15,000, 30,000, 50,000, 75,000 people. And how many in Oregon this week?...


http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/5/23/224630/771/5/521718

sharp shooters on the roof.

I am sure there are sharp shooters on the roof of Hillary engagements too.


"Obama stands before us, offering himself to us".


H O L Y. F U C K I N G. S H I T.



The same is true of EVERY person that has run for the Presidency.

Stop turning him in to some weird martyr/saint.

It's creepy

Sorry you can't see the difference.

x

And so she is not in much danger
The only ones that have been killed are those that what to change things and that goes back to Abe Linc-on.

belief that JFK, MLK and RFK drew their assassins partly because they were such "hot" politicians who attracted such an emotional response. I think the attempts on Gerald Ford prove that all you have to do is be in the public eye.

President?
And you forgot George Wallace Had he not been shot Nixon would not have been president.
Sorry but I am one of those crazy people that do not discount conspiracies.

any presidency. Hokey. Are you suggesting Reagan's and Ford's vice presidents were responsible for the attempted assasinations ?

Nixon's southern strategy would not work with 30 percent voting for Wallace.
And like I said I do not rule out a conspiracy by the same ones who killed JFK and RFK and MLK. In my opinion the right wing fascist with the help of the CIA.
And that is just an opinion on which I have no hard evidence, just a hunch based on circumstance.

2 very different dynamics.

Obamaites tells me that she is probably getting many death threats. President McKinley was not killed because he wanted change. The attempted assasination of Pres. Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan was not because they wanted change. Pres. Nixon was threatened with unpresidented death threats not because he wanted change. Every adminstration has their fair share of threats. You can be darn sure Hillary Clinton needs plenty protection because hatred of her has had no bounds (at least on this one sided forum.

I find it interesting that the observable behavior of the "reality-based" community (e.g. the Secret Service) is discarded in lieu of the fantasy-prone delusions of the inhabitants of ClintonCloudCuckooLand.

Hate radio has been advocating the assassination of "liberals" for more than 20 years. There are quite a few wingnuts that hate Hillary also. My whackjob brother even sent me a photoshop of Ghouliani shoving her in front of a subway train last year. That's why it is so unbelievably fucking STUPID of her to be playing with fire.

Like Hillary (and McCain as well) doesn’t have secret service protection, which would include sharp shooters…


Obama’s supporters seriously scare the crap out of me.

I swear some people's adulation of Obama is like they think he is the second coming. Even John F. Kennedy didn't have people slathering all over him like he was some heavenly saint. I understand admiration for him, but surely not adoration.

Mote. Log. :shrug:

there is an added dimension of danger to him as a direct consequence of his race, surely you cannot deny that?

Hillary does have SS protection.

people who dare to fault others for ignoring a personal candidates choice's fault...a bit hypocritical to say the least...

I've never in my life thought anyone was worthy of unbiased blind faith, I have admired many and to be honest I like knowing that those that I admire are not saints and not perfect....perfection is not reality and it's more than dangerous to believe such exists.

Obama is under double the threat level.

I think that all 3 (especially the 2 dem candidates) are under EXTRAORDINARILY tight security
because in this day and age, more and more people are unstable & want to gain fame on a 24/7 news loop.

remarks. She's hurt Americans beyond measure with her evil dreams and comments. rec'd

evil comments,and does evil things. Don't look in any mirrors, you might not have a reflection.

Bobby Kennedy was fatally shot from behind -- Sirhan was in front of him at all times. Sirhan emptied his clip and never reloaded. There were nine more bullets found at the scene.

who saw a security guard holstering his gun right after the shooting.

and BETTER. Not the same at all.

but at Obama's in Bend OR a few weeks back...there were more secret service than I'd ever seen before when he shook hands with people in the audience.

Even as a sitting President he didn't have anything NEAR the number of Secret Service agents assigned to Obama ... at least visibly. I see a minimum of five around Obama on TV, not counting those in the crowd and elsewhere. Ford had three, max, and a couple working the crowd that I could reasonably identify.

Scary shit.

before as is exibited on this forum.

at Penn State?

damned if I'd be caught taking pictures of them. You're a braver man than I.

Recommended.

incident with Bosnian snipers you would think that she would be extra careful of any similar references.

Nope, not a cult at all.

be counted when there is so much danger. I admire him - it is one of the reasons I support him.

I was watching the Eulogy to Robert Kennedy on another Daily Kos post yesterday - the still shots that they were showing of him and crowds, during the Eulogy reminded me a lot of the Obama rallies - people reaching up from the crowd just to get a chance to touch his hand.

Meg

exactly do you believe he is? I say he is a man that does not live up to his own words.They are empty BS.

So she is courageous too...as anyone running for President. There is always someone who hates them...especially Hillary!

"I suspect, the death threats come in greater numbers for him than any Presidential candidate before him.

And yet, he still stands before us. He stands before us with his wife and with his daughters by his side. Think about that."

So do the Clintons.

--assassination, for any reason.

Not even close.

Too bad Walter died, and can't cover the Clintonista meltdown for the old NY Miror!

talking about?

You just completely closed your mind to everything I said...and resort to the easy answer...reject everything!

"And yet, Obama stands before us, offering himself to us."

Okaaay! :eyes:

this that much until now..I didn't want to let myself dwell on it so I concentrated on everything else.

And now, I'm disgusted from all the dishonesty from clintons and the outrageous lies she tells and how far she stoops to make sure she gets lower each day. That wasn't enough for them ..they had to make sure "assassination" has been in her talking points for the fourth time as of yesterday.

Now, this is all too real and I realize the SS has one of the most challenging jobs imaginable.

"To take jokes from Republicans and wing-nut radio hosts is one thing, but to take it from a Democrat is something else. And to take it from a person claiming to be fit to be President, is something else entirely.

A woman who is also a mother, who knows what it's like to try to raise and protect a child in the White House, to have a husband who I'm sure got a lot of death threats of his own, who stood before huge crowds and generated horrific amounts of irrational hatred from the Republicans... Think about that?

She knows what it's like to need the kind of protection Obama has. For her daughter to need it and her husband to need it, and it has to be even worse for Obama, a black man who dares to think he can break through hundreds of years of racism in this country and be President.

She has a better idea of that fear than most any of us could have, and yet she said it anyway..."

This is an outstanding reaction to what Obama is going through to be up there each day and what hilary is doing because she's lost.

Thanks, whereismyparty, for posting this diary by teresahill.

the one in Bosnia, remember? Or, her reminding us of how she used to shoot guns in Pennsylvania? Hmmm, she seems fixated lately.....

when a President, or prominent Presidential candidate or world leader, is speaking. I first noticed them when I worked on the 1992 Bill Clinton campaign. In fact I have a little hobby of looking for them whenever I go to a candidate event.

Well, has he or hasn't he? Stupid locution.

I think they're really there just for intimidation.

How could we know?

I can certainly see a situation in which a sharpshooter prevents a second, fatal shot from being fired.