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Sarah Palin blamed by the US Secret Service over death threats against Barack Obama
The UK Telegraph ^ | November 8, 2008 | Tim Shipman

Posted on 11/08/2008 11:24:05 PM PST by Pinkbell

The Republican vice presidential candidate attracted criticism for accusing Mr Obama of "palling around with terrorists", citing his association with the sixties radical William Ayers.

The attacks provoked a near lynch mob atmosphere at her rallies, with supporters yelling "terrorist" and "kill him" until the McCain campaign ordered her to tone down the rhetoric.

But it has now emerged that her demagogic tone may have unintentionally encouraged white supremacists to go even further.

The Secret Service warned the Obama family in mid October that they had seen a dramatic increase in the number of threats against the Democratic candidate, coinciding with Mrs Palin's attacks.

Michelle Obama, the future First Lady, was so upset that she turned to her friend and campaign adviser Valerie Jarrett and said: "Why would they try to make people hate us?"

The revelations, contained in a Newsweek history of the campaign, are likely to further damage Mrs Palin's credentials as a future presidential candidate. She is already a frontrunner, with Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, to take on Mr Obama in four years time.

Details of the spike in threats to Mr Obama come as a report last week by security and intelligence analysts Stratfor, warned that he is a high risk target for racist gunmen. It concluded: "Two plots to assassinate Obama were broken up during the campaign season, and several more remain under investigation. We would expect federal authorities to uncover many more plots to attack the president that have been hatched by white supremacist ideologues."

Irate John McCain aides, who blame Mrs Palin for losing the election, claim Mrs Palin took it upon herself to question Mr Obama's patriotism, before the line of attack had been cleared by Mr McCain.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: blame; deaththreats; obama; palin; pds; sarahpalin; usss
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To: jla

321 posted on 11/09/2008 2:50:30 PM PST by timestax ( CNNLIES)
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To: Pinkbell

The drivel goes on and on.


322 posted on 11/09/2008 2:50:45 PM PST by stevem
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To: Pinkbell
The attacks provoked a near lynch mob atmosphere at her rallies

Gee, Tim, could you produce some video of that?

323 posted on 11/09/2008 2:51:35 PM PST by Right Wing Assault ("..this administration is planning a 'Right Wing Assault' on values and ideals.." - John Kerry)
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To: doug from upland

some how michelle the angry racist bitter anti American woman would have never had said a thing like

why are they trying to hate us

pleassseeee.
the woman is a Chicago racist thug and is only where she is because of affirmative action


324 posted on 11/09/2008 2:51:37 PM PST by manc (Marriage is between a man and a woman no sick MA,CT sham marriage end racism end affirmative action)
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To: Pinkbell
"I thought the Secret Service determined the "kill him" stuff was the figment of a reporter's imagination."

"The narrative was right, but the facts were wrong."

Evan Thomas on the Duke rape case.

http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/?id=110010350

325 posted on 11/09/2008 2:52:06 PM PST by Eagles6 ( Typical White Guy: Christian, Constitutionalist, Heterosexual, Redneck)
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To: Pinkbell
What the ef? I was at one of her rallies (Beaver PA 10/23) and there was no shouting of death threats. It was a family atmosphere, like a football game. But the writer of this article will have foreign audiences believing lies.
326 posted on 11/09/2008 2:53:01 PM PST by Ciexyz
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To: Pinkbell

It’s obama’s fault for palling around with terrorists. Nothing like being blamed for someone else’s mistake. But Palin is going to have to get used to that. She is the designated punching bag right now.


327 posted on 11/09/2008 2:53:46 PM PST by Right Wing Assault ("..this administration is planning a 'Right Wing Assault' on values and ideals.." - John Kerry)
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To: Pinkbell
"This blaming Palin crap has got to stop.."

But it won't. Not any more than your neighbor's dog has to stop barking. The bad guys call the shots.

Islamists are the reason we have vast ease dropping of communications in place. Islamists are the reason we are in at least two wars. Not W's fault. Not the USA's fault. Yet they are not going to stop.

The bad guys don't stop. The good guys do, if they are weak. In the USA the good guys are weak.


328 posted on 11/09/2008 2:56:37 PM PST by I see my hands (_8(|)
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To: Atchafalaya

you mean Brit
though it’s nothing to do with where one reporter is from so less of the stereotyping

the media as a whole are biased and full of crap no matter if they are French, Irish, American or British

we have had to face this nonsense by the media for months and I think we will continue for many more months

they do not want Sarah to be there in 4 years. they will hound her out of office, give millions to her opponent and trash her

this is how it is and what we face now and while we have a few on here who know the real truth the problem is that it is not enough .
We have to get the message out to a more larger audience over these next 4 years

first off is that we need the GOP to get some balls and name reporters for not telling the truth on live camera so they cannot edit it right there and then


329 posted on 11/09/2008 2:57:19 PM PST by manc (Marriage is between a man and a woman no sick MA,CT sham marriage end racism end affirmative action)
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To: Pinkbell
SARAH PALIN TRUMPS LIBERALISM...AND IT DRIVES THEM CRAZY


330 posted on 11/09/2008 2:59:45 PM PST by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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To: McCainPalin_08

agreed
it is one lefty reporter making up a story to suit his own ends

I hope we are not going to be seeing all this lefty media crap over the next 4 years

as soon as one see it then report it on here so we can all stereotype and go off at the deep end

we need a GOP to name names on live camera
we need to close the illegal money down as if we don’t we will face the same amount of money again

go after the media and ban his illegal money
point out to friends, family neighbors, etc what obama does

this is what we should be doing not posting a lefty hack no matter where they are from


331 posted on 11/09/2008 3:02:15 PM PST by manc (Marriage is between a man and a woman no sick MA,CT sham marriage end racism end affirmative action)
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To: Pinkbell

My god this woman makes these people poop themselves. This however is above and beyond and I have to believe this is libel unless someone can prove the Secret Service actually said this.


332 posted on 11/09/2008 3:03:32 PM PST by redk
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To: Crim

The Secret Service listened to the tapes and said they distinctly heard “TELL HIM” not ‘kill him’!”

Oh jesus christ, is this place turning into DU now????

there was MORE than one incident!!!!!!!

I heard the first one myself....when Palin said that bill ayres had bombed the pentagon...a guy on the crowd yelled “kill him”...

the SECOND incident...didnt happen..the only person that heard that was a reporter and an obama supporter...

The second incident is what was being painted as a threat on Obama....the SS checked out THAT incident...and found no one that heard “kill him”...

GEEZ

C/mon people...READ.

The press is trying to paint this as one incident....and you guys are taking the bait....

Once again...in the first incident...I heard the guy yell “kill him ‘ clearly...and it was in refenerce to BILL ARYES.

*bangs head on desk*
correct
I have no idea why this was put on here

it’s all crap by a lefty hack so called reporter

I hope we are not going to fight like this, by putting up links to lefty non factual links


333 posted on 11/09/2008 3:04:13 PM PST by manc (Marriage is between a man and a woman no sick MA,CT sham marriage end racism end affirmative action)
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To: Pinkbell

Yet Obama requested increased Secret Service protection over a year ago, 9 months before Sarah was picked


334 posted on 11/09/2008 3:05:03 PM PST by realcleanguy
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To: Pinkbell

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2128771/posts


335 posted on 11/09/2008 3:06:42 PM PST by StandUpChuck
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To: Rodney Dangerfield
IMO, Palin is done because the MSM will spend the next 4 years doing to her what they’ve done to Bush for the last 8 and she has no forum to counter their lies.

Unlike President Bush, Ms Palin will have the balls to try to put a stop to this stuff. She will raise hell over it. Why Dubya never stood up at least for the office of the Presidency when these clowns were trashing everything about him and his family is beyond me. God bless Sarah Palin.

336 posted on 11/09/2008 3:11:46 PM PST by Albion Wilde (Why are people so critical of Obama? He hasn't done anything.)
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To: Eric Blair 2084

did u read todays news ? first thing BO is going to do when he gets in office is reverse Bush’s EO’s on offshore drilling ! here we go again 4 steps forward and 5 steps back! Btw al franken is meeting with BO to congratulate him on behalf of the nation of islam!


337 posted on 11/09/2008 3:13:11 PM PST by TinaJeannes
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To: Pinkbell

Why are these things coming out in print in the U.K.? Is it because they want us to be like them?


338 posted on 11/09/2008 3:15:45 PM PST by taxesareforever (Quick justice for the senseless killing of Marine Lance Cpl. Robert Crutchfield.)
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To: Pinkbell

SARAH PALIN CAUSE OF GLOBAL WARMING

Due the warmth and graciousness of her heart and soul
Sarah Palin is responsible for the melting of the polar ice caps.

I remember when George W, was elected it had been the tradition for out going Presidents and First Ladies to have tea with the incoming. Clinton and Hillary refused to partake in this practice, ushering in the loss of decorum.
Just thinking of this punk flipping the bird to Hillary and then to McCain when mentioning them in his speeches just solidifies he is nothing more than a thug. The gaffe directed a Nancy Reagan just shows that he cannot help himself, he has no manners and no class. The Clintons made bad taste the norm and this is just the onward slide of even worse taste.

The left is nothing more than crying babies. Today the gays are marching all over a Mormon church because they did not get their way in California. The US have become a sewer of the lost. The gays crowding all over a church for revenge is no better than the terrorists marching and howling over the mohommed cartoons.


339 posted on 11/09/2008 3:15:52 PM PST by Tessarie
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To: jetson
Where is Bo’s birth certificate. WE ARE STILL WAITING.

It's with Kerry's 180, which BO will waive as a requirement for Kerry to be SecState.

340 posted on 11/09/2008 3:20:50 PM PST by Albion Wilde (Why are people so critical of Obama? He hasn't done anything.)
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