Oh really? Proof? Or are you just another troll talking out of his ass?…

Dr. Condoleezza Rice has given her critics an enormous bounty of incompetence to criticize her for. Her ethnic heritage has nothing to do with it…

This fall we will see the full re-emergence of open and honest racism in this country.

Where have you been? There has been “open and honest racism” against Condi Rice for the last four years. It has just been coming from the left, rather than the right.

Ms. Kate, you have a solid point here, but in all fairness I think it’s more ‘visual read’ than ‘one drop’ in Obama’s case.

Uh.

And why would it be that we tend to read anyone with darker-than-pale skin and/or kinky hair as (part) black? If I see someone who has blond hair or blue eyes, I don’t automatically think “ooh, part nordic” and start basing my evaluation of their cultural and economic situation on that fact. The only races we “read” people as being when they’re obviously mixed are nonwhite.

There’s nothing much random about centre-to-left politicians and activists being continually murdered.

Gerald Ford was almost killed twice. He’d have been dead if Squeaky Fromme had remembered to cock her pistol.

George Wallace was left in a wheelchair by a lunatic’s bullet.

I stand by my point. Assassinations are random events, powered by lunacy, which is inherently unpredictable.

This is hardly the first time Pandagon has had an entry about racist lunatics posing a threat to Obama’s personal safety, though. This particular article might not be on Pandagon were it not for that cover, but it’s not like the publication has managed to get the issue on the blog all by its lonesome.

Joking about assassination would be in bad taste. But this is not a joke, or even hyperbole. It’s a hard-hitting representation of a stark and ugly reality.

Obama got Secret Service protection earlier than any other candidate in US history because of the credible threats against him. Emails have surfaced that prove the existence of extremely racist cliques within the dignitary protection branch of the Secret Service that love to swap jokes about lynchings.

…“Libertarians, gun nuts, conspiracy theorists, leftovers from the militias, and yes, some who are petrified by Obama and what he represents. That’s the group we’ve got here,” says Mack Reynolds, a rare coin dealer. “We stay in touch by computer, fax and shortwave radio and have a little get-together every month. I’d say that 95 percent of them are good, honest, hardworking people.”

Frankly, I’m more upset by how advocates of private despotism describe themselves as libertarians.