Is there a real concern that somebody might try to assassinate Obama? I guess there’s a concern about that for any candidate. Or could there be something about Obama that worries a certain group? That’s where this all starts sounding a bit “tin-foil hat” to me. Still, there are those extra agents around him now…
Assassination Fears: Reality or Conspiracy Theory?
The conservative site Newsbusters has denounced the concern expressed by Joseph Palermo, a Huffington Post Blogger, about the potential assassination of Barack Obama by Blackwater (or other private security companies) whose balance sheets have benefited immensely from George Bush’s Long War on Terror. Newsbusters claims that Palermo’s fear for Obama is merely ludicrous “tin foil hat” lunacy from the Left. Oddly enough, three days later, The Washington Times, not exactly a bastion of liberals or progressives by anyone’s definition has written a story about the same topic: fear of [...]
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lonetruth // June 9, 2008 at 1:23 am |
Yes, it is a real concern:
http://lonetruth.wordpress.com/2008/06/09/barack-obama-will-not-win-in-november/