"Word on the Street" - aka Bar talk... (1 Viewer)

[Joe OKC]

Has anyone else heard this?

Gossip is. That if Obama is elected president, that he will be assinated...

Politics is just one of those things that you talk about at a bar, over a beer with friends. But it does seem that this rumor has been getting around...

Joe

 

[RANdom_Saint]

..thats nuts...
This isn't that time anymore...

 

[TGCousin]

Has anyone else heard this?

Gossip is. That if Obama is elected president, that he will be assinated...

Politics is just one of those things that you talk about at a bar, over a beer with friends. But it does seem that this rumor has been getting around...

Joe

I have been hearing the exact same thing. I think he he get elected, you will have some nut to try and kill him. JMO

 

[bop]

I live in Mississippi and I work at a prison that houses a lot of folks who might talk about doing such things and this is the first Ive heard of it.

 

[whiteboycarl]

about a month ago, "assassinate obama" was the 13th most searched term on google according to google trends.

 

[SaintAkira]

Disturbing.

Hope Billary isn't his veep choice. (Go with Edwards).

 

[efil4stnias]

yes as a matter of fact my father in law mentioned it to me. I said " thats nuts, no way"...wonder where this started?

 

[saintfan-n-alex]

yes as a matter of fact my father in law mentioned it to me. I said " thats nuts, no way"...wonder where this started?

drunks in a bar

 

[Thorin]

Cue the foil hats.

 

[Jonesy77]

so it's completely racial? Because I don't see what would make him more objectionable ideologically to the wingnuts than Kerry, Gore, Clinton, Dukakis, Mondale, etc....

 

[SaintsBrazil]

I've never heard anything like that before. Can you imagine if people were talking about killing GWB?

 

[Thorin]

Not to mention, Obama pretty much swept the south didn't he? This seems to lay some stereotypes to rest IMO.

 

[Saintshizzle]

It puzzles me that people will cry for tolerance, new age accpetance, Tiger Woods blah, blah, blah...

...and in the same breath entertain statements or conversations this morbid.

I guess we do have a long way to go.

 

[Thorin]

It puzzles me that people will cry for tolerance, new age accpetance, Tiger Woods blah, blah, blah...

...and in the same breath entertain statements or conversations this morbid.

I guess we do have a long way to go.

I don't see it as people entertaining the idea so much as people being frightened that there are folks sick enough to do such a thing.

 

[Saintshizzle]

I don't see it as people entertaining the idea so much as people being frightened that there are folks sick enough to do such a thing.

Thorin, maybe so...

When you read something like this, regardless of your color, it is hard not to be cynical. For some, a conversation like this can feed an inner desire, without ever having to commit the act or witness it.