Posted on 11/11/2008 12:50:32 PM PST by pissant
The Secret Service is blaming Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's harsh attacks on Barack Obama in the final weeks of the campaign for triggering a dramatic spike in death threats against the future president -- but that revelation hasn't stopped a Georgia politician from further ratcheting up the rhetoric against the nation's next chief executive.
U.S. Rep. Paul Broun Jr., a physician from Athens, Ga., told the Associated Press yesterday that he fears Obama plans to establish a Gestapo-like security force to impose a Marxist dictatorship on the American people:
"We can’t be lulled into complacency," Broun said. "You have to remember that Adolf Hitler was elected in a democratic Germany. I’m not comparing him to Adolf Hitler. What I’m saying is there is the potential of going down that road."
Broun cited a speech Obama gave in July in which the candidate called for a civilian force to take some of the national security burden off the military, which Broun likened to actions taken in Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. An Obama spokesperson told the AP that the senator was referring to a civilian reserve corps that could take on postwar reconstruction efforts -- an idea also supported by the Bush administration.
A former Democrat turned Republican in the 1990s, Broun originally won the seat in a special election held last year following the death of Rep. Charlie Norwood. He was re-elected last week with 61 percent of the vote.
The private intelligence firm Stratfor recently warned that Obama is a high-risk target for assassins, according to the Telegraph. Stratfor noted that two plots to assassinate Obama were disrupted during the campaign -- including one involving Southern white supremacists who also planned to murder black students -- while others remain under investigation. In addition, the Southern Poverty Law Center has documented instances of racist verbal attacks at McCain-Palin rallies and a recruitment surge among white supremacist groups following Obama's win.
The day after the election, graffiti stating "Shoot Obama" and "Kill That N-----" appeared in the Free Expression Tunnel at North Carolina State University in Raleigh. Four students have admitted to painting the graffiti, which the school immediately painted over. The incident sparked a protest rally that drew some 500 students as well as calls for action from the NAACP. The Secret Service has reportedly determined there was no actual threat to Obama in that case.
Total, absolute bull5hit.
Ah yes, the peaceful tolerant left and their Messiah versus the evil gun-toting racists of the right.
I’ll never forget the image of the mean spirited old woman beating the peacefully demonstrating homosexuals with her cross.
It’s just not fair sometimes.
It’s not a Civilian “reserve” Corps, what ever the hell that means. It’s a “security” force. He said so! Post war “reconstruction”. Why, have our cities been bombed to rubble like Dresden or are they going to be? “Post” war? You mean NEXT one?
0bama supporter talking about being angrily savaged by McCain supporting relative:
“I wouldn’t have acted that angrily if McCain had won”
Couldn’t help myself:
“A McCain win wasn’t a threat to your very way of life.”
Yep - whoever was quoting that is referring to the incident made up by one of Obigula’s media sycophants.
And can someone explain what “post-war reconstruction efforts” the spokesman for Obigula is referring to?
This is ridiculous. Sarah Palin had nothing to do with it, and I doubt that he got many more assassination threats than any other political candidate in a hotly contested race. Think of all the foaming at the mouth about Bush - in fact, think of all the insults against Sarah Palin, such as the mock hanging, which seemed to be just fine with the Secret Service.
Who knows, in fact, if the Secret Service even said anything like this? I think it’s all part of an attempt to silence all criticism.
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Call me sceptical. Or skeptical. Or just ornery, if you will, but I don't believe it.
Well that settles that. From now on there can be no campaigning by the opposition in the final weeks before an election.
Exactly my thoughts. I have never heard of a comment like that coming from a Secret Service agent. Did not happen in my opinion.
“The Great Unifier.” ROTFLMAO! Yeah! Right! We ain’t ever seen a “divided” country like the one we’ll be seeing over the next four years. The Breck Girl’s “Two Americas” is about ready to become a reality.
There will be a huge push to do this.
“triggering a dramatic spike in death threats against the future president
Total, absolute bull5hit.”
I agree... perhaps the spike is because he is a communist and threatens our country. Half a dozen wackjobs out of almost 300 million isn’t that bad...
His biggest threat, IMHO, comes from his friends the ragheads because he “claims” to be Christian.
Who spoke to the Secret Service and when?
Typical Obots, saying what they THINK instead of facts.
Obama, allowing the media to be lazier than ever.
Speaking for myself, and only myself, I would happily suffer the rigors and hard times of a full fledged depression if it meant many of the newspapers would be forced out of business.
Where's it going to end? Six months plus of all-out attacks on the Republican candidate(s) with no attempt whatsoever to disguise it as journalism. On-air personalities openly talking the Obama line.
A very biased article. Two examples of people doing dumb things but the real gist is if you speak up about anything or express an opinion - you are a racist, troublemaker or worse.
It is okay that Libs called Bush Hitler, made films of him ending up like JFK or other sick sick crap.
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