Obama assassination plot?

[bascule]

http://www.9news.com/news/article.aspx?storyid=98343&catid=188

 

Unconfirmed reports! Possible white supremacists!

 

Yeah, hard to say what's really going on, but if it's true, I can't say I'm too surprised...

[iNow]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/us_elections/article4609445.ece

 

Nice.

[DJBruce]

It will be interesting to see if this turns out to be a serious threat. But none the less I would not be surprised if it is serious. If it is serious I could see this to be a bust for Obama.

[iNow]

Well, he's been receiving credible threats for over a year now, and has had secret service protection as a result. This does appear to be real, but not exactly the best representation of where we're trying to take this nation and our planet.

[Phi for All]

If it is serious I could see this to be a bust for Obama.

What do you mean, a "bust" for Obama? A setback? An arrest? A bummer? Or something that will cost him the presidency? Edited August 26, 2008 by Phi for All

[Pangloss]

Yeah there was a case like this just last week here in South Florida, which I guess was just on local news. Guy made threats against Obama and the Secret Service came down and arrested him, and they found a bunch of guns in his place, etc.

 

No idea if they had a search warrant.

[DJBruce]

Wow my bad. I meant to say If it is a serious threat it might boost his campaign.

[Phi for All]

Wow my bad. I meant to say If it is a serious threat it might boost his campaign.

No problem. I guess "bust" has done a 180 just like "fat" and "bad". I can't keep up.

 

We're groovy now, though.

[Mr Skeptic]

An assassination attempt on Obama could either hurt his chances for presidency or increase them, depending on how it is played in the media. A few people might not want to elect a president who might get assassinated, but I think most people would take it as a sign that he's a good guy.

[Sisyphus]

No problem. I guess "bust" has done a 180 just like "fat" and "bad". I can't keep up.

 

We're groovy now, though.

 

"Fat" is still bad, AFAIK. "Phat," which is pronounced the same, is a backronym for "pretty hot and tempting" or variations thereof, and is primarily an adjective for attractive women, with a secondary meaning of generalized approval. The term originated in 1960s African American slang, and its mainstream usage peaked in the late 1990s, and is now used primarily ironically.

 

*Cue "The More You Know" music.*

[Phi for All]

I doubt very seriously if these doofi would have been any kind of threat to Obama. One was driving erratically on a suspended license in a rental truck he had no papers for, another jumped out of a six story window when police raided his hotel room (the genius, a white supremacist named *Adolph*, broke his ankle in the jump to the roof of an adjacent building, but still had enough meth in him to encourage him to jump off *that* roof too).

 

Does a political candidate get sympathy votes from an assassination attempt by idiots?

 

"Fat" is still bad, AFAIK.

Bad as in bad, or bad as in good? I get the fact that DJBruce meant "boost" when he said "bust" but using "bad" for "good" is just bad, imo. Bad bad, not good bad.

 

[ecoli]

I don't think an assassination threat is the same thing as a plot.

 

Anyway, this whole thing smacks of nothing more than attention seeking.

[Sisyphus]

This doesn't sound like there's anything to it, but I'm sure there are people out there who would like to assassinate Obama. It's pretty much a given if you're a militant white supremacist, and there still are a fair number of such people. I don't know how much of a threat they actually pose, though. Such people are generally losers in every sense, and probably not capable of carrying out a real "plot." On the other hand, it only takes one crazy person to get lucky, and it's not like that's impossible - it's happened before!

[Pangloss]

"Fat" is still bad, AFAIK. "Phat," which is pronounced the same, is a backronym for "pretty hot and tempting" or variations thereof, and is primarily an adjective for attractive women, with a secondary meaning of generalized approval. The term originated in 1960s African American slang, and its mainstream usage peaked in the late 1990s, and is now used primarily ironically.

 

*Cue "The More You Know" music.*

 

Cool, I didn't know that was the origin of phat! Thanks!