Obama: 30 death threats a day

[RamboLiberal]

Lee-Anne Goodman
The Canadian Press
WASHINGTON — Death threats are part of the job for any American president, but Barack Obama has reportedly had more levelled against him than any commander-in-chief in history.

Concerns about his safety are mounting in the midst of a tense summer that has seen mobs of angry demonstrators showing up to protest Obama’s health-care reform plans — including a man openly carrying a pistol today in New Hampshire, where the president held a town hall meeting on health care.

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Footage of the protester with his gun in a leg holster rapidly made its way to various news websites in the hours before Obama appeared, alarming video in a country that has seen four presidents gunned down in public and attempts made on the lives of 11 others.

“There is, and rightly so, a growing concern about the tone in American politics right now,” Cal Jillson, a political scientist at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, said today.

“It started with Sarah Palin and the way the crowds responded to her last year, and continued with the tea party gatherings and now the town hall meetings on health care — there is an arc of rhetorical excess that I think is rightly worrying to people.”

http://www.thespec.com/News/BreakingNews/article/616408

[NC_Nurse]

1. Hardly surprising, but terribly scary and sad. What a sick sad place the USA

has become. :-(

I am so tired of all the hate.

[FreakinDJ]

2. Where are the arrest

last I heard making Death threats against the President of the United States carries some hefty jail time