Obama Has Been Threatened

Unfortunately, this was entirely predictable, just as the murder of Bobby Kennedy was predictable, though I was still young and idealistic enough in June, 1968 to be shocked when it happened, not to mention heartsick and bereft of much hope.

Of course, we have all learned alot since then.

I told a friend, when Obama's star began to rise, that I didn't know enough about him to be for or against him; that I only hoped that he wouldn't be killed.

Now, I can only hope that whatever is causing him to need secret service protection is just some cranky crackpot, who will soon be indentified.

If they start killing Democrats again, I doubt we will take it sitting down.

As I recall, the secret service is no gurantee of good health.


Barack Obama placed under Secret Service protection
from Alexander Mooney

(CNN) -- Illinois senator and Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has been placed under the protection of the U.S. Secret Service, the agency said Thursday. The Secret Service would not divulge the reason for the protection.

The organization said in a written statement that Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, "after consultation with the congressional advisory committee, authorized the United States Secret Service to protect presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama.

"As a matter of procedure, we will not release any details of the deliberations of assessments that led to protection being initiated," the Secret Service statement said.

Chertoff works with a congressional panel including half a dozen members of Congress, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.

Another Democratic presidential candidate, New York Sen. Hillary Clinton, already has Secret Service protection because of her husband's presidency.

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