Earlier it was said that they did not constitute a credible threat. One has to ask whether this is true, or whether this was just said to calm people down.

I don't think we've seen last of such plots. To a white supremacist, Barack Obama, being in an eexcellent position to become the next president, represents their worst nightmare come true.

I don't see much value in discussing this. Barack is facing threats, not surprisingly from inbred racist shitheels. He is better protected than any candidate in history and he's in my prayers. What else is there to say?

The Secret Service and local law enforcment are actually willing to protect Obama where years ago they were tacitly if not explicitly complicit in the assassination of MLK and Malcom X (and if you are partial to conspiracies you can throw in RFK).

(there were too many -icits in that screed I think)

I wonder what their Free Republic screen names were?

Don't be surprised if we don't hear from Matthew Weaver or Dem Bill for 5-10 years.

No cause for alarm - four assassins, so a lone nut is impossible. We do not have actual conspiracies in this country, only "possible" conspiracies. Therefore, do not be concerned So long as it isn't a lone nut, Barack Obama is absolutely safe.

If these same nuts were planning to blow up a federal building, on the other hand, the feds would have thwarted a very real terrorist threat.

By way of comparison, consider this kid Eric McDavid. His plot was far less "credible" --- they didn't have guns, a specific target, a desire to injure anyone, etc. --- and the government put him away for 19+ years. He, too, may have just been trying to impress a girl.

If they'll press federal felony conspiracy charges against him, why not these racists?

http://supporteric.org/

Obama was criticized for playing the race card when saying that there were those who would oppose him because he looked different from the presidents on our currency. Every Obama surrogate should be out there putting the question to the press - Did not Obama have a real concern on this issue?

I really don't think we want to play this up. I agree that I don't quite understand the rhetoric coming out of the FBI; I await an explanation of why it's not a credible threat when white supremacists with rifles say they want to shoot you. The whole thing makes me sick, and really makes me feel for the Obama family.

But as someone else said -- I don't want the threats publicized, I just want them *caught*. DKos diary from the Springfield event reported that the Secret Service was *thick* on every rooftop anywhere nearby. As long as they keep doing that, they can play down the threats in the media for all I care. Maybe they're trying not to give other nutcases a model.

Not a credible threat. Gee, thanks for the reassurance Mr. Bush Appointed U.S. Attorney.

So tell me, how credible a threat would Lee Harvey Oswald have been deemed if he'd been arrested in Dallas with a cheap-ass mail-order Italian bolt action that couldn't be properly scoped on November 19, 1963? How credible a threat would Mark Hinckley's .22 caliber toy revolvers and Jody Foster obsession have been considered to Ronnie four days before he took his shot? How credible a threat would Squeaky Fromme and Sara Jane Moore have seemed to be before the fact?

For Christ's sake. Put any of those people behind the wheel of car with their guns in the back and pull them over on a routine traffic bust, do you think anyone would have thought they added up to a ?credible threat"? Hell, even Sirhan Sirhan wouldn't have seemed like a credible threat if you'd only pulled him over and found a gun. The threat wouldn't have been apparent until you searched his room and found the clippings and the notebooks, and its questionable whether a judge would have found sufficient probable cause to even issue a warrant.

Just goes to show. In Bushworld, there are no right wing terrorists, only Islamofascist t'r'sts.

Oh, and way to prejudice your jury pool, there, dumbass.

Who will protect Obama from the Secret Service?

http://www.star-telegram.com/667/story/486413.html

Here's a few reasons to be concerned for Senator Obama, folks: the frequent acts of campaign office vandalism, the earliest request EVER for Secret Service protection, the failure to screen participants at the Dallas rally, the fact that the DNC convention is meeting in Denver, the increased chatter on hate group sites referring to Rahowa, the Clinton's race-baiting appeals...there's an ominous pattern here. Publishing what Obama wrote in his prayer inserted into the Wailing Wall was intentional and more than an invasion of privacy if you remember what was stated in the first sentence of the prayer.

If George W Bush can survive 8 years after what HE's done to our nation -- ANYBODY can.

McCain is white Obama is Black what more is their, hate and fear runs deep. I wonder what it feel like to hate based only on a person's skin color, that must be a hard burden to bare.

If this had been aimed at McCain, the DOJ and LEA's would be trumpeting it as stopping a Major Terrorist Plot.

Since it's nutty White Racists trying to kill the Black Democratic Nominee for President, there was "no credible threat to Obama".

Classic.

John

Could it be? Ever since these arrests, I haven't seen one word out of fogu3!

What a remarkable coincidence!