clear and present danger

this is why all the b.s. about the "angry left" from o'riley and the right wingers is so ludicrous

Since Mr Obama took office, the rate of threats against the president has increased 400 per cent from the 3,000 a year or so under President George W. Bush, according to Ronald Kessler, author of In the President's Secret Service. Some threats to Mr Obama, whose Secret Service codename is Renegade, have been publicised, including an alleged plot by white supremacists in Tennessee late last year to rob a gun store, shoot 88 black people, decapitate another 14 and then assassinate the first black president in American history. [...]

between that and the right wing's overall disrespect for democracy, in spite of all of their goddam flag pins and patriotic rhetoric, god help us all