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Originally Posted by KSig RC
How many assassination attempts have there been on any other candidate in the past, say, 20 years? How many candidates have been viewed as "radical/dangerous/disruptive" in either direction? It sure seems like one answer is "0" and the other is "certainly not 0" . . .
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Well, attempts or plots? I haven't read the article but I believe that it was just a plot, no? A gunmen didn't shoot at Obama but miss, did he? I would imagine there have been plots of assassination for every viable presidential candidate in the last twenty years. Have every single one of them been uncovered? Hardly. I attempted to google information on that but all it brought up was the Obama attempts.
Radical/dangerous/disruptive? That's what every viable presidential candidate (and some not so viable) is labled as every year by both sides of the spectrum of the media and the general public. That's how I labeled Obama and how someone else will label McCain.
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In your quest to avoid "oversimplification" it sure seems like you're ignoring the clear solution under Occam's Razor. You really think dudes with ties to white supremacist/neo-Nazi organizations are worried about Obama's stance on public finance or welfare compared with the very real threat of a Black man leading in every major poll?
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Many white supremacist and so forth are also very against the federal government, money not backed by securities, and gun control among other things. Obama represents all those things politically and so not necessarily the attempt was due to Obama's race. It's just far too easy (but wrong) to peg it solely to racism as Mrs. Wright would have you believe.