Thursday, August 07, 2008

Florida Man Threatens Obama

I'm guessing Obama gets a lot of threats, judging from what's going on around the Internet.

Want to see the hatred that exists, visit freerepublic.com or worldnet, contentions, NRO, or humanevents. Just Google them. I don't even want to post links. Look at the youtube videos. There's hate breeding hate out there. Without a doubt, it's escalated because people have plenty of places to express their hate.

It's not a dislike of Obama's policies. It's a visceral personal hate, a loony tune hate, wingnut hate, a hate that is being perpetrated by radio talk show blowhards and commenters on blogs. If you ask me it's way out of hand. But how do you stop it. 

cnn: 
A man is being held in Florida on charges he threatened to assassinate Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, according to court documents.

An affidavit filed by a Secret Service agent in U.S. District Court claims that Raymond Hunter Geisel, of Marathon, Florida, threatened to "kill, kidnap and cause bodily harm upon a major candidate for president of the United States, that is, Senator Barack Obama."

From MSNBC