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The Ottawa Sun’s Earl MacRae adds to the growing number of Obama assassination fantasies:
Barack Obama is waving his arms. The crowd is cheering. I see the image I don’t want to see. I see the image that is the terrible sickness in the great republic. I see Barack Obama one minute smiling, the people crying his name. I see Barack Obama grab his chest and his eyes widen and his mouth opens and the crowd screams as Barack Obama, black candidate for the presidency of the United States of America, falls to the ground dead, an assassin’s bullet inside him.
Via Mark Steyn, who notes that - unlike pieces musing on the possibility of George Bush’s death - “Obama-assassination porn is written by his worshippers”. Nice friends you’ve got, Senator.
If Obama is assassinated, it will be seen as proof that racist, xenophobic AmeriKKA could not tolerate a black Muslim-named man as President. Despite having just elected him.
Say, I think that’s it. The Left can’t accept that America would elect this man. It destroys their central beliefs. So he has to be assassinated or their world falls apart. Now I’ll go read that Steyn column, where he probably says that but a million times smarter.
People like MacRae believe we’re still in the 1960’s and they’re walking with Martin Luther King Jr. in Selma, Alabama. America has moved forward, losing much of the shakles of racism and other -isms. But MacRae and his ilk havne’t moved one step. Truth be known, they wish it was still the Sixties.
Posted by wronwright on 2008 02 17 at 10:29 AM • permalinkOT The Palestinians seem to be doing Mossad’s job for it: Egypt shocked by ‘foul-mouthed’ Gaza cousins.
It also turns out that the Egytptians have a slightly more robust approach to border security than most western countries:
Egypt’s foreign minister, Ahmed Aboul Gheit, warned last week that “anyone who breaches the border will have their legs broken”.
I sorta like this guy.
The assassin’s bullet for Obama will enshrine him as a martyr and he can be worshiped forever that way.
It’s a variation on the JFK model - a piss-poor President, assassinated by a lone left-wing wacko, but turned into the victim of a right-wing conspiracy that prevented the attainment of political nirvana.
Obama has become a Rorschach test for the left, saying little of substance, but with his supporters projecting their own political dreams onto him.
When people predict that he will be assassinated, what they are really saying is that they need for him to be assassinated in order to preserve their dream of what Obama could have been and to confirm their own biases against American society.
And that’s what makes predictions of his assassination particularly creepy.
Posted by Bruce Rheinstein on 2008 02 17 at 11:23 AM • permalinkJust finished reading McRae’s column. Ye gods, but the man is unhinged. As everyone here points out, he is panting for Obama to get taken down, it’ll prove the fantasies of the left. Hell, I’ll bet McRae and his sicko comrades would cheer if Obama caught a bullet.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2008 02 17 at 12:26 PM • permalink#13, When people predict that he will be assassinated, what they are really saying is that they need for him to be assassinated in order to preserve their dream of what Obama could have been and to confirm their own biases against American society.
I believe this is exactly right. And if Obama is assassinated, then they will never have to find out what a terrible disappointment he ultimately would be.
That MacRae character sounds like he’s positively salivating at the prospect of an Obama martyrdom. What a disgusting jackass.
Just finished reading McRae’s column. Ye gods, but the man is unhinged.
He’s more of a mushy-middle numbnuts than lefty psycho, Jeff, although I haven’t read him often lately.
Posted by andycanuck on 2008 02 17 at 02:13 PM • permalinkA lot of the loony left is composed of drama queens who dream of glory. The sixties fulfilled their adolescent dreams of being grand rebels against an evil dictatorship, and since then, they’ve been trying to recapture their moment in the sun by framing everything in mythical terms. Bush isn’t an evil dictator or a moron, but that doesn’t fit their narrative, so they had to make him one in order to frame themselves as the heroes.
Hence the assassination fantasies. Obama’s tragic death would give them an air of tragic heroism that would fit the narrative, like a beautiful/pure/powerful woman with raven-black locks and sparkling crystal eyes delicately wiping a single tear from her eye after her home has been burned to the ground.
*coughs, spits after writing the preceding sentence*
For those of you who hang out in Internet fiction communities . . . they’re Mary Sues, the whole lot of them. ‘Nuff said.
Posted by Tungsten Monk on 2008 02 17 at 03:35 PM • permalinkMcRae was a sports writer for the Ottawa Sun, who had visions of being a satirist. During the 90s he was angling for a reputation such as Mr Steyn has today. He was also a practitioner of the one-sentence paragraph. Unfortunately, his political commentary remains less informative than his sports reports.
Cheers
Posted by J.M. Heinrichs on 2008 02 17 at 04:30 PM • permalinkThis last bit sums up his mental disorder.
John McCain, who has rejected Secret Service protection: “It’s a waste of the taxpayers’ money ... I’ll take my chances.”(As a senator, not as President) John McCain, in the paradise of freaks.(Because only Cletus the slack jawed yokel votes for him) John McCain, white;(pantomime BOO-HISS) John McCain, war hero;(Bugger those inconvenient facts) John McCain, fool. (More a refection on the writer I think)So how many attempts to shoot Obama so far?? A little disappointed that in a country of how many hundred million there hasnt been ONE racist white male right winger who’s a good enough shot to fulfill your fantasies?
Sucks to be you.Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2008 02 17 at 05:21 PM • permalinkMaybe Hillary is arranging for Teddy to give Obama a lift home one night?
Posted by andycanuck on 2008 02 17 at 07:44 PM • permalinkObama has become a Rorschach test for the left, saying little of substance, but with his supporters projecting their own political dreams onto him.
Though, one could say the same thing about basically every other candidate the Democratic Party has trotted out both in 2004 and 2008. It’s just that the sheer ridiculousness of all the grassroots projecting is all the more obvious with people like John Kerry or Hillary. (The other week on the news I saw a female Hillary supporter describe her as demeanor as “warm”...)
Are these people not taking or are taking some meds? Makes me wonder given the below:
Anxiety drugs scrutinised after Northern Illinois uni shooting.
Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 02 17 at 08:16 PM • permalinkWhat is a “secular Christian”?
Sounds like an oxymoron to me.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2008 02 17 at 10:10 PM • permalinkHe’s more of a mushy-middle numbnuts than lefty psycho…
Well, if you say so, andycanuck. But he sounds like a Keith Olbermann wannabe......and that’s pretty unhinged, IMHO.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2008 02 17 at 10:16 PM • permalink“No doubt right now in America some person, some group, is thinking of how to assassinate Barack Obama…”
Maybe so. But, until someone engages in an overt act (like making a written or verbal threat, or actually taking a shot at the guy), there isn’t much we can do about it, except to provide secret service protection…and we’ve already done that…so what’s your point?
Posted by Dave Surls on 2008 02 17 at 10:46 PM • permalinkthe fantasy is needed to keep the myth alive of oppression by evil neocons.
It doesn’t have to actually happen. The fantasy itself is proof enough of right-wing evilness.Posted by daddy dave on 2008 02 18 at 04:52 AM • permalinkThe newly elected president rode in back of an open limo, part of a motorcade winding its way toward his first address to Congress. Armed and anonymous, crouching behind the throng of cheering Obama supporters, Hillary is barely hidden behind a thin screen of bushes on the grassy knoll.
At peace with his beliefs and firm in the knowledge of what he must do, the handsome young leader sits with his back uncomfortably straight as a bullet pierces the explosives strapped around his waist.
In a frozen moment that seemed to end before it began, a severed head landed in the grass with a thud and rolled toward the former First Lady, oozing its contents at her feet.
Witnesses reported seeing a hysterical woman being dragged away by police screaming “It wasn’t me! I saw a man in the window of that building over there! This is all a terrible mistake, it’s a conspiracy! Let me go, let me go!”
“No doubt right now in America some person, some group, is thinking of how to assassinate Barack Obama…”
Right. And George W. Bush. And Hillary Rodham Clinton. And John McCain. And from this, we conclude, what, exactly? That AmeriKKKa is irredeemably racist? Yeah. I’d point out that every single assassinated US president - every single one! - has been a white male.
Posted by Steve Skubinna on 2008 02 18 at 09:14 AM • permalinkAll the head-tilting MoFo’s want to say if the worst happens for Obama is “see I told you so” and feel right, warm and fuzzy about how ‘racist’ the rest of America is as they are given further grist for their paranoid mill.
Were I come from Obama is very popular in my neck of the hoods. I say fuck the melanin quantity, show me the policies. And surrendering to Al-Qaeda like a Fag Archbishop is not on my wish list for 2008.
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Steyn is quite right. remember the film ‘death of a President’? regarding the possible death of George Bush? Wiki has this to say regarding its cheer squad: