Barack Obama's Life In Danger?

Mindcrime · Senior Member

Barack Obama's Life In Danger?

BrattyJenn · Veteran Member

You know, I was wondering the same thing. The McCain/Palin (especially Palin) events are beginning to get a really creepy lynch-mob overtones. It does seem like they are inciting hatred and mass hysteria.

I read somewhere that when Obama became the nominee, Sarah Palin had some rather unpleasant commentary:

Alaskans Speak (In A Frightened Whisper): Palin Is Racist, Sexist, Vindictive, And Mean

by Charley James

So Sambo beat the bitch!

This is how Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin described Barack Obamas win over Hillary Clinton to political colleagues in a restaurant a few days after Obama locked up the Democratic Party presidential nomination.
According to Lucille, the waitress serving her table at the time and who asked that her last name not be used, Gov. Palin was eating lunch with five or six people when the subject of the Democrats primary battle came up. The governor, seemingly not caring that people at nearby tables would likely hear her, uttered the slur and then laughed loudly as her meal mates joined in appreciatively.

It was kind of disgusting, Lucille, who is part Aboriginal, said in a phone interview after admitting that she is frightened of being discovered telling folks in the lower 48 about life near the North Pole.
Then, almost with a sigh, she added, But thats just Alaska.

Racial and ethnic slurs may be just Alaska and, clearly, they are common, everyday chatter for Palin.
Besides insulting Obama with a Step-N-Fetch-It, darkie musical swipe, people who know her say she refers regularly to Alaskas Aboriginal people as Arctic Arabs how efficient, lumping two apparently undesirable groups into one ugly description as well as the more colourful mukluks along with the totally unimaginative f**king Eskimos, according to a number of Alaskans and Wasillians interviewed for this article.

But being openly racist is only the tip of the Palin iceberg. According to Alaskans interviewed for this article, she is also vindictive and mean. Were talking Rove mean and Nixon vindictive.
(from LA Progressive Sept 5, 2008)

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On Snopes.com, it says that the validity of this is "undetermined."

Then there is this, which is equally as troubling:

DALLAS -- Security details at Barack Obama's rally Wednesday stopped screening people for weapons at the front gates more than an hour before the Democratic presidential candidate took the stage at Reunion Arena.
The order to put down the metal detectors and stop checking purses and laptop bags came as a surprise to several Dallas police officers who said they believed it was a lapse in security.

Dallas Deputy Police Chief T.W. Lawrence, head of the Police Department's homeland security and special operations divisions, said the order -- apparently made by the U.S. Secret Service -- was meant to speed up the long lines outside and fill the arena's vacant seats before Obama came on. [...]

Several Dallas police officers said it worried them that the arena was packed with people who got in without even a cursory inspection.

They spoke on condition of anonymity because, they said, the order was made by federal officials who were in charge of security at the event.

"How can you not be concerned in this day and age," said one policeman.

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I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but things like this get my attention. All I know is there are a LOT of ignorant, angry morons in the world, and I wouldn't put anything passed them.

BrattyJenn · Veteran Member

Here's something not exactly life-threatening, but it is the same old song and dance with the GOP stealing the election, which, I really think is entirely possible!!!!

Voter Suppression Battle In Northwest Indiana
By Josh Kalven, Progress Illinois
Posted on October 5, 2008, Printed on October 9, 2008
http://www.alternet.org/bloggers/http://progressillinois.com/101681/
It appears that Lake County, IN may be the latest arena in the GOP's effort to suppress the vote in swing states

First some basics. Under Indiana election law, early voting can only take place in a county clerk's main office. This clearly could be problematic in areas where the county seat is far in distance from the most heavily populated parts of the county. Therefore, the law gives each board of elections the authority to approve early voting centers elsewhere in their county.

Lake County's geography provides the perfect argument for these "satellite" polling places. The county seat, Crown Point, is the 7th most populous city in the county (pop. 24,000) and centrally located. Meanwhile, three of the four biggest municipalities -- Gary (pop. 96,000), Hammond (pop. 77,000), and East Chicago (pop. 30,000) are all located at the northern edge of the county, along Lake Michigan. Together, these towns hold more than 40 percent of the county's residents. Moreover, Gary and Hammond are the fifth and sixth largest cities in the state.

It's in the city clerk's offices in these three towns that the Democratic members of the Lake County Board of Elections wanted to open up satellite voting centers. After all, it's about an hour roundtrip drive to Crown Point from any of them.

But on September 24, the two Republican members of the elections board voted against doing so. Their explanation is that Lake County Democratic chairman Rudy Clay made an agreement early in the year with GOP chairman John Corley to allow satellite voting during the state's presidential primary, but not during the general election.

Why wouldn't the Republicans want residents of these three cities to have easier access to early voting in the weeks leading up to this historic election? Because they're heavily minority, heavily low-income, and heavily Democratic.

Following the 3-2 party-line vote, the board of elections proceeded with its plan to open up the voting centers. Meanwhile, the county Republican Party argued that state law requires each board to unanimously approve any satellite voting and pledged to mount a legal challenge. The Democrats countered that voting centers located in city clerk's offices -- which are part of the county government -- don't fall under the statute cited by the GOP. This is where things get murky. From the Post-Tribune:

At the center of the argument is a 1993 state law creating the combined Lake County Election and Voter Registration Board, a five-member body which now administers elections in the county.

The county clerk is in charge of elections in 91 of the state's 92 counties.

Not in Lake County, though.

According to Republican Election Board attorney Bruce Lambka, satellite voting offices can be set up without a vote in county clerk's offices only in counties where the clerk is in charge of elections.

"In one county, incidentally this one, we vote in the Office of Elections and Registration," Lambka said.

Representatives of Secretary of State Todd Rokita declined to offer an interpretation of the law.

Rokita, by the way, is a Republican.

The GOP's legal challenge has made its way to federal court, where Judge Joseph Van Bokkelen scheduled a hearing for next Thursday and convinced the Democrats not to being early voting at the three locations until he ruled on the injunction filed by the Republicans.

After the recent evidence of voter suppression in Michigan, you can be sure more attention will be paid to this issue in the coming week, perhaps even at the national level. The hearing will ultimately focus on competing interpretations of state election law and the GOP leaders will tell the press that their actions are driven by legal considerations, not political ones. But it's important to remember the critical moment in this whole process: when the two Republican members of the board voted against the additional voting centers, each located in heavily-populated, minority-rich areas. That tells you all you need to know about their motivations.

© 2008 Progress Illinois All rights reserved.
View this story online at: http://www.alternet.org/bloggers

What the friggin' hell? Here we go again....

Mindcrime · Senior Member

Bomb Scare At Obama Headquarters

Mindcrime · Senior Member

The McCain / Palin Hate Train is gaining speed, with no signs of slowing...

Watch Here

-- Edited by Mindcrime at 18:48, 2008-10-15

BUFWINGS · Veteran Member

Mindcrime wrote:
The McCain / Palin Hate Train is gaining speed, with no signs of slowing...

Watch Here

-- Edited by Mindcrime at 18:48, 2008-10-15

After watching this... I'm really starting to like the idea of moving to Canada. The even sadder part is, I work with people who think like this. *lowers head*