Will an assassination attempt hinder the November presidential elections? AddictingInfo.Org is pointing out some claims made by a conservative blogger that are nothing short of conspiratory, and that's not all. It seems that Kelly Keilsing, a Republican rep. from Tennessee, is taking part in the spreading these conspiracies, which leads one to believe that maybe something nasty is brewing with the conservatives.
The conservative blogger claims that President Barack Obama is going to fake a murder attempt to slow delay the November elections, but this makes no sense. The guy even went as far as to claim that he had been told by someone in the Department of Homeland Security. This led the Tennessee rep. to forward the story to another conservative blogger who ran with it as well. This behavior just reeks of suspicion, and seems like conservatives are trying any tactic they can think of to hinder progress in November -- even if it means staring up another massive conspiracy theory. However, it also should be taken seriously because with the sowing of the seeds of conspiracy comes the influence it has on the crazies who take these kinds of things entirely too seriously.
The animosity that extremists on the far right feel for POTUS Obama is enough as it is without other extremists claiming that the man is going to fake his own murder attempt to affect the election. In fact, just mentioning this sort of thing may inspire some whack-a-doo righty to attempt murdering the man. Hell, maybe that's the newest plan set in place by ultra conservatives like Kelly Keisling. If you have your empty-headed constituents believing any future attempt is a hoax before it happens, when it does happen they'll be likely to believe that the person responsible is a liberal plant and not one of their own -- making their denial of the facts about their political ideology more swallowable (to them of course).
A comment on AddictingInfo.Org hits the nail right on the head:
"They (republicans) will go to any lengths to incite the insanity that dwells within their ranks, just hoping someone will snap and see it as a call to action. I would say he should be ashamed, but shame has long deserted their party of hate."
That's exactly right. It seems that even though Kiesling has since apologized for forwarding the unsubstantiated email, he knew exactly what his actions could cause. The republican party is the party of such people as Sarah Palin, who uses constant gun rhetoric that may have led to the assassination attempt of Gabby Giffords in Arizona. If you peruse discussion boards and blogs run by conservative voters you will often find plenty of violent rhetoric and racial attacks on the current president. There are plenty of online comments expressing the desire to see the POTUS murdered. Even Ted Nugent was "hassled" by the government for some of his threatening comments.
Hopefully news of this so-called "fake" attempt puts Obama more on his toes and security increases. It's apparent that certain people on the far right have some ideas that are less than savory, and what better way to get away with the responsibility of something so horrid than to convince the sheeple that it was all a conspiracy plotted by the libbies?
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Comments: 124
The wingnuts went way too far a long time ago.
...DONE at the ballot box.
...well, except for a communist.
Wheter this talk comes from left/right, assassination attempt discussions should have no place in the political theater. I may not be Obama's biggest fan, but I pray for the safety of our President regardless.
...still, I just want him removed by the ballot box, don't want him going down as some kind of martyr.
...but what the heck
Help it out Chelsea.
FourMore -- yup!
But there is no additional report, here, that Representative Keilsing has ACTUALLY expressed public regret for his comments. But he apparently HAS expressed public regret.
Now, you can argue that he was FORCED to express public regret, for political purposes.
But the fact is, he apparently DID express public regret.
And, to be `fair and balanced', this should have been included, in the above Post.
Otherwise, you come across as thin and superficial.
["Better to remain silent and to be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubt"]
all interchangeable.
What are you going to say when Obama tries to pull off this scam? Nothing, you'll just move on to your next scam. But, these "crisis of the week" series have been a lot of fun. Especially when each one of them crashes and burns.
Uh Oh, NoMo FoMo... he said "crashes and burns" ...what can you do with that?
"Will an Assassination Attempt Delay November Elections?" ...is preparing us for exactly what we've been saying will happen.
...who's the "conspiracy theorist" now?
...that must be because we have way too many jobs right now.
honestly, I mean I understand why we stopped allowing presidents to have as many terms as they're elected, but I think we should go back to the old way. I know eventually a president that I don't like would get more than 2 terms, but at least the country would have consistency for more than a decade at a time.
There is a small clause in the law that would allow for regional delays but overall, nothing except a nationwide martial law could offset the vote altogether... and even then, Obama wouldn't remain in office. If memory serves, the House and Senate would vote for a President Pro-Tem or Acting President from the upper chamber... filling the seat until such time as an election could be facilitated.
The older trick in book of dictatorial governments is to stage a false-terrorism against the government itself as a tool and pretext either to blame an enemy nation, or to blame an enemy sector against the dictatorial government.
For example if i wanted to be a dictator of the USA and if I wanted people to support me, all I would have to do is to do a fake-terrorism like blowing up a baseball stadium, a big building, or any other public place. And then direct the blame against anti-government revolutionary sectors.
I think that the US government and its zionist Wall Street banking class is aware that americans are angry, americans are going hungry and that the Arab revolutions, the European protests and revolutions will come to the USA. In which most poor americans will revolt against the US corporate capitalist government and elect a third party. Like the Green Party, The Socialist Party of USA, or any other anti-war populist option.
REMEMBER FOLKS: DUMP THE DEMOC-RATS AND THE REPUBLIC-RATS, AMERICANS DON'T NEED REPUBLIC-RATS AND DEMOC-RATS ANYMORE !!
IT IS TIME FOR A THIRD ANTI-WAR PARTY, THAT WOULD GIVE US JOBS, FREE HEALTH CARE, FREE COLLEGE DEGREES LIKE NORWAY AND FRANCE, AND NO WARS. WE DON'T NEED WARS, WE DONT' NEED CIA, WE DON'T NEED FBI, WHAT WE NEED IS FOOD, MEDICINE, WEALTH AND PLEASURES !!
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Not much unlike everything else Leftists put their hand to...
Thanks Simon, for saying it.
Never blow the cover of someone who--when all is said and done--is engaging in self-flagellation.
But so are those, who are too free with the definition of who is a Zionist.
I thought that I had read your post, thoroughly.
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