The President in a bubble

I just watched the speech on CNN. It was AWESOME, but I hate the fact that he's behind so much bullet proof glass. This is a situation pretty unique to him, correct? Like I never remember Bush giving speeches behind a curtain that side.

Don't get me wrong I understand why he needs it, it just makes me sad that its necessary. Has every outside speech since the election been behind one of these?

This is sad. We have a brilliant President ready to guide this country out of a Repub mess, and he has to appear behind bullet-proof glass just to talk to us.

There are just too many death threats against him. They just arrested and charge another redneck (although he's from Wisconsin) in Mississippi who was trying to find someone to get him a gun, a ticket to DC and to help fund his sick scheme.

There have also been an escalation of this crap via call-ins to Rush Limpyballs and other hate-mongering radio shows spewing their poison into our airwaves.

For this reason alone (although it will come in handy in investigations of the Bush regime and their crimes) I understand why Obama voted for the FISA bill.

Tuesday can't get here soon enough!


(And yes, it's truly terrible that Obama will probably be in danger for his entire presidency.)

He will be in danger probably the rest of his life, so long as the bigot nutjobs are still passing along their nasty belief system to their kids. I grew up east of Houston at a high school that was pretty ethnically diverse. But despite that diversity, we had our pockets of redneck bigots. They were known as "kickers," wannabe cowboys who drove around in jacked up Chevy Z71's and went mudding every night in those trucks. My neighbor and best friend from across the street ended up in that clique of people by the time we made it to high school. It was sad to see. I wish it was as simple as "let the racists die off" but the fuckers keep passing their nastiness onto new generations of people.

I suppose it comes from feeling SO inadequate themselves.

I worry every day for those little Obama girls and I seethe with rage every time I think about all Sarah Palin did to fan the flames of hatred and racism. And now that BITCH has the NERVE to blather on and on about the media treating her and her family "badly."

really nice old ladies but being that I am in a really conservative part of the country, they believe literally every piece of garbage email that is sent to them. They firmly believe Obama is Kenyan and secretly a terrorist. It's blatant racism. The sad thing is that fairly normal people like my co-workers spreading the "he's not a citizen" meme only gives the TRUE nutjobs even more reason to act on their delusional beliefs. I mean when I go to a right wing website claiming they want to kill Obama because they believe he's not a citizen, it makes me very sad to know that I work with people who subscribe to half of that belief. They won't act on it but they hate him with a passion because of their fake excuse ("he's not a citizen"). The real reason is blatant racism and xenophobia. It sucks that we're in the 21st Century and this is such a persistent problem throughout the country. And trust me, it is far more prevalent than the Republican Party will ever admit.

the only time he was outside his bubble was when he was addressing hand-picked supporters.

I have seen the anonymous threats from racist psychotics in chatrooms over the years ... They are numerous and conspicuous ....

I am sure the racist haters are creating enough 'chatter' to concern the Secret Service ...

We have to accept that Obama is going to be a target of such disturbed people, and he will need to be protected in ways he had not needed before ...

Something we will need to get used to for now ...

Remember John ...

Remember Martin ...

Remember Bobby ...

I remember reading that he asked his staff if it was really necessary.