I have telling my husband for months that I fear for Obama

[Marnieworld]

Since his speech on race in March I have been very afraid for him. Anyone who eloquently challenges the status quo and has the ability to inspire lots of people is always in jeopardy. Being the first black man with a shot at the presidency increases this risk exponentially. He is often compared with JFK or MLK and both of these men were assassinated. I recall even an Eddie Murphy comedy routine (was it Delirious?) when he pretended to be Jesse Jackson campaigning and giving a speech. The joke was he was running around the stage, ducking and jumping constantly due to obvious threat.

I watch Obama work the crowds after a rally, shaking hands and I've been studying the faces of the Secret Service people to judge how well they are protecting him. My husband went to a rally without me and assured me that he had a lot of security in order to reassure me. My heart is in my throat as I see his beaming face and natural interactions with well wishers and I wonder just how safe he is? What would it take for one mistake to happen? I recall reading about a controversy in Texas perhaps that security was lapsed at a rally in order to start they abandoned metal detection of the crowd. The thought of the specific and intense threat that Obama is living under every day as he campaigns has always been on my mind and anyone else's that is paying attention regardless as to whether they share my support and affection for him. It's so clear that it doesn't need to be said. And then she said it.

The thing that I have been terrified about happening was said nonchalantly as a possibility to hold out for. She may not be hoping for it but she's quite COMFORTABLE with it as one way to get nominated. She knows that this threat is always in the air about him and her last gasp of a campaign is to actually want to appear more electable because of it. She mocks my hope in him, my dream of this country healing. She reflected a dark, cynicism, perhaps born from the close proximity to assassination for such a long time themselves, yet unforgivable because of this very knowledge of the experience of its possibility. I am still stunned that she would cross this uncrossable line. I am personally insulted myself as well as anyone else who has feared for him already should be.

[sandnsea]

1. Like she nonchalantly injects racism

She may not be a racist just like she may not be inciting murder, but she sure is comfortable stirring those ugly pots.

[Cha]

16. Oh, hilary's a comfortable shit stirrer,

all right.

[EFerrari]

2. I posted earlier that I do the same thing.

Instead of watching Obama with the crowd, I scan for his security detail -- how many, how alert, how many feet away from him.

That's just the reality of this country right now -- where Rush and Savage are the most popular radio haters. Where brown people get rounded up like cattle and die in detention at a rate 10x that of our prisoners in the War of Terror.

She does know this threat is always around him. You don't have to be Freud to realize what ripples a remark like that will spread everywhere from political circles, to the Obama campaign, to the public at large.

She needs to go away immediately. And the DNC needs to step in because apparently the Clintons can't even manage themselves, let alone their campaign or the nation.

[keep_it_real]

3. I know how you feel

[earth mom]

4. Quit looking for the race card in every thing Clinton says or does.

:eyes:

[Marnieworld]

5. Such a blase politcial phrase

The "race card". Like it's all some game. I mentioned JFK too because I was talking about assassinations. Do you deny that his unprecedented candidacy places him at great risk? She was injecting race when talking about "white" hard-working Americans. This is something much much worse.

[earth mom]

6. No, Hillary has been talking REALITY. Obama can't win without the "bitter" white working class.

Also, even RFK Jr. thinks Hillary was talking about a timeline not the assassination!

If anyone should be pissed off at her comment it would be RFK Jr., since his own father was the one who was killed!

That's why trying to tie this to Obama is just fucking stupid! :crazy:

[ossman]

7. watch him win without your racist votes. The young and AA vote will cancel out the rednecks.

[earth mom]

8. ROFL! DREAM ON!

:rofl:


p.s. I'm racist because why? I don't support a corporatist tool like Obama? What fucking ever! :eyes:

[Exilednight]

10. No, you support a corporatist tool like Hillary. n/t

[earth mom]

15. Wrong, I don't support either candidate. But I don't like what I'm seeing be done to Hillary.

Because it reeks of lies, disinfo and misogyny! :puke:

[BlooInBloo]

11. Ah - so it's much more than just "a few bad apples" then?

[TahitiNut]

13. "Obama can't win without the 'bitter' white working class."???

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/TahitiNut/500

[chill_wind]

9. Here as well.

I've expressed that anxiety to those closest to me. This is an oligarchy steeped in decades of greed and unfathomable corruption. More frequent talk about things like cooked WMD intelligence, War Crimes, War Profiteering, Election Fraud, Illegal spying, LIHOP, MIHOP, Signing statements and so many other crimes against the Constitution etc have entered the public consciousness- and they know it.

What wouldn't they conceivably concoct or LIHOP to protect themselves when someone like Obama might decide to restore the power of Congress, the power of the courts, and the rule of law?

I'm another that finds myself watching the security detail. I've noticed how quickly they grab and wrest away people's hands from his shoulders who try to hug him now, or try to touch him in any way except to shake his hand.

[Marnieworld]

12. It's definitely so much more than just because of his race

You nailed it. That's what made my fear rise and keep rising. He makes speeches against oil companies and war profitting and speaks of investigating possible crimes. He is a real threat and it would it be so convenient to make it look like it was racism when it is about silencing. He is a very, very, brave man and patriot to put himself on the line like this. He can't be protected enough for me.

[chill_wind]

17. Exactly. n/t

[jcla]

18. Marnieworld...

you have expressed many peoples fears...
One of my co-worker's mother didn't want to vote for BHO because of these fears. We can fear but we MUST move forward. Too many courageous people have given all and we can not stop... they wouldn't want us to. Not to vote for this wonderful man is to give into fear and will give the hate mongers and profiteers what they want. I voted. And am proud every day to pass the many many Obama 08 signs in my neighborhood and know that many families have overcome this and are supporting him and his campaign. He knows the risks. I pray every night he and his family is kept from harm.

[2rth2pwr]

14. How can you even think such a thing?

[H2O Man]

19. He will be fine.

Barack Obama will serve two terms as president, and then he will continue to contribute to our society.