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Originally Posted by Elephant Walk
While not recent, I wasn't aware Robert Kennedy was black?
Edit: And one may argue (similar to my google search) that there hasn't been such media hype on both sides of the aisle about a Democrat nominee like Obama since perhaps.... Robert Kennedy?
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This is why I limited the argument to the last 20-25 years - because the "change" of the 60s seems like a difficult time to translate to today (plus I didn't want to muddy this up with irrelevant material such as the attempt on Reagan). It wasn't out of convenience for my argument, but expedience for our relevant memories - I personally have no idea if anyone threatened Mondale, but would remember any other credible threats.
However, if you'd like to make such a comparison, it seems like a
tacit admission that race is a primary factor for assassination attempts on Obama even though RFK was white - just think for yourself about the changes RFK represented and the period in which he lived.
Additionally, your OpEd interjection (and really this whole point) is a complete strawman, honestly - the main point still stands: Obama's policies have been parroted or preceded by others who did not receive the same threats (that we know about). These people were white.
Besides this, if your only example is RFK during the height of the civil rights movement and its dovetailing with Vietnam, you're not exactly disproving my point, since RFK was a strident supporter of the civil rights movement, even though his assassination shows no real connection to the movement itself (personally I think Sirhan Sirhan was just crazy, rather than anti-Israel).