The Left continues to obsess about an Obama assassination
Al Maurer | Nov 19, 2009 | Comments 3 | Share: More
It just gets weirder. There are some (I think) humorous emails and bumper stickers going around referencing Psalm 109:8:
May his days be few; may another take his place of leadership.
Good for a chuckle–especially when considering the Constitutional line of succession–unless you’re a committed leftist. The Huffington Post reports on this “latest…thinly-veiled..death threats.” I wrote about this on September 18: only Republican presidents get shot. Curiously, the National Archives piece I looked up refers to Lincoln and McKinley being “shot”; only Kennedy was “assassinated.” Be that as it may, they all died of their wounds.
In the late 1980s my wife was working in the county library system in Maryland. One day a young man offered the observation that President Reagan “deserved” to be shot because he was taking away “our welfare rights.” You see, the left thinks in those terms. The idea that conservatives would do the same is another case of the myopic mirror-imaging that the left engages in.
When do conservatives commit physical, political violence? Discounting the Revolution itself one could start with the Whiskey Rebellion against taxes under Washington and include John Brown’s Raid against Harper’s Ferry in 1859. After that? Don’t think so. Let me know if you can think of any.
All the riots, intimidation and thuggery lately has been perpetrated by leftists such as ACORN and SEIU, both strong Obama supporters (and vice versa by the way.) Is this obsession with “right-wing extremists” a way of daring conservatives to respond?
I’m beginning to wonder. Well, we will respond: at the ballot box as we did this month and will again in 2010. Until then, we’ll just pray. And I’m really glad to see the left quoting Scripture.
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Actually, it means something more threatening. I think that the situation that I find genuinely frightening right now is that you have a ramping up of Biblical language, language from the anti-abortion movement for instance, death panels and this sort of thing, and what it’s coalescing into is branding Obama as Hitler, as they have already called him. And something foreign to our shores, we’re reminded of that, he’s born in Kenya. As brown, as black, above all, as not us. He is Sarah Palin’s “not a real American.” But now, it turns out, he joins the ranks of the unjust kings of ancient Israel, unjust rulers to which all these Biblical allusions are directed who should be slaughtered, if not by God, then by just men. So there’s a parallel here with Timothy McVeigh’s t-shirt on the day of the Oklahoma City bombing. He said the tree of liberty had to be watered by the blood of tyrants. That quote, we saw at a meeting where Obama was present carried on a placard by someone with a loaded weapon.
What we’re looking at right now is two things going on. We see the evangelical groups talked about in the book, Patience With God, enthralled by an apocalyptic vision that it goes into in some detail there. They represent the millions of people who have turned the Left Behind series into best sellers. Most of them are not crazy, they’re just deluded. But there is a crazy fringe to whom all these little messages that have been pouring out of Fox News, now on a bumper sticker, talking about doing away with Obama, asking God to kill him. Really, this is trolling for assassins. This is serious business.
It’s un-American. It’s unpatriotic. And it goes to show that the religious right, the Republican far right have coalesced into a group who truly want American revolution. If it turns out to be blood in the streets and death, so be it. It’s not funny stuff anymore. They cannot be dismissed as just crazies on the fringe. It only takes one. You know, look at the Boston Globe article from a few weeks ago that says the threat level faced by the Secret Service has gone up 400%, higher than any other time in 52 years, for any president, Democrat or Republican. These are no jokes.
OF COURSE THESE PEOPLE ARE NOT CHRISTIANS:
Good Christians will NOT pray for the death of anyone; whether it is Bush, Reagan or Obama
Good Christians will NOT pray for making some kids fatherless or making a widow out of a woman
Good Christians will advocate for “Christianized’ (socialized) medicine to care for all
Good Christians will pray for wars to end Not to constantly fuel war cries
Good Christians will NOT demonize their neighbors whether Arabs, or Mexicans
Good Christians will NOT be full of HATE. Hatred against the gays, the blacks, Hispanics, Jews, Immigrants and anything worthy and unworthy of hatred.
Good Christians may anti- abortion BUT must be for children’s healthcare once they are born
Good Christians will NOT want to edit or ignore passages in the Bible about the meek, the poor
Finally, good Christians will be multiculturally inclusive and NOT ‘talibanically’ exclusive.
Hey Real Christians unite against these C-Street evangelicals.
Evangelicals, they are mostly unaware of the fear that is governing their lives. It is rather ironic that their “faith” does so little to qualm their credulous fears. Rational thought and self-awareness does not usually occur in a state of fear, so the vast majority of Evangelicals would be unable to assume any culpability were the President’s life taken. It truly is up to Christian leaders, as Schaeffer pointed out, to do what they have demanded of moderate Muslims: decry their own, snowballing religious extremism.
The Bible, religious nonsense have no basis in fact or reality. What ever these so-called Christians believe is to satisfy the emotional needs of the self. It has been tiresome and annoying that the rest of us have to deal with people who feel the need to inflict their “faith” and beliefs on society. Religion and the religious right are a threat to freedom by definition. We are at war with the jihadists in the MIddle East and the evangelists here at home making veiled threats and inciting anger, hate and rage.
Mr. Goode, it looks like this really hit a sore point with you. First, I’m not aware of any Christians who wish the president to be killed. Yes, there are some on the fringe with strange beliefs, but they do not represent the vast majority of us. Nor are we wishing for revolution, at least not the kind that leads to blood in the streets. Did you know that quote about the tree of liberty being watered by the blood of tyrants (and patriots) is from Thomas Jefferson?
A question for you, since you believe the Bible to be religious nonsense: what basis do you have for setting the standards for Christians and what they would do or not do?
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