Barack Obama faces 30 death threats a day, stretching US Secret Service

[sheshe2]

What if?

Biden: "Imagine if Obama had been assassinated"

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1287&pid=251645

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Here are a few facts for you all.

Barack Obama faces 30 death threats a day, stretching US Secret Service

By Toby Harnden in Washington
8:34PM BST 03 Aug 2009

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.

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According to the book, intelligence officials received information that people associated with the Somalia-based Islamist group al-Shabaab might try to disrupt Mr Obama's inauguration in January, when the Secret Service co-ordinated at least 40,000 agents and officers from some 94 police, military and security agencies.

More than a dozen counter-sniper teams were stationed along the inauguration parade route and the criminal records of employees and hotel guests in nearby buildings were scrutinised.

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After Mr Obama was elected president, his two children Malia, 11, codenamed Radiance, and Sasha, eight, codenamed Rosebud, began receiving Secret Service protection. Mr Obama's wife Michelle is codenamed Renaissance. The Secret Service also started to protect Vice-President Joe Biden's children, grandchildren, and mother.

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The Secret Service has increasingly cut corners after it was absorbed by the new Homeland Security Department under Mr Bush. Kessler said that when Mr Biden threw the first pitch at the first Baltimore Orioles game of the 2009 season, the Secret Service did not screen any of the more than 40,000 fans, stunning his agents and the local Secret Service field office.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/barackobama/5967942/Barack-Obama-faces-30-death-threats-a-day-stretching-US-Secret-Service.html

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Not One Day Went By That I Did Not Fear For Obama. Not one day. I didn't say it out loud to anyone. I was to scared to say it, think it or feel it...that is how terrified I was for him and his family.

I am disappointed in DU tonight. Joe once again is being trashed. He lived the Obama WH. He knew the threats and danger to his family and his President. He knew.

Take a moment and imagine that the hatred and a single bullet was directed at you every dayum day.

[dawg day]

1. I know-- me too I never wanted to say anything.

But I wasn't sure the haters would let him be. He was/is charismatic, charming, handsome -- like JFK, and that gets inadequate men envious.

I wish he and Michelle and their wonderful girls could have some peace. God knows, we owe them that.

And that terrible bomber, the one who sent bombs to both the Clintons and the Obamas-- I hope they put him away forever.

[sheshe2]

6. I always wonder about McConnell's words.

He said on election night that he would make Obama a one term President. Mitch works for Russia. We know that now.

But I wasn't sure the haters would let him be. He was/is charismatic, charming, handsome -- like JFK, and that gets inadequate men envious.

That is a fact, dawg. Inadequate men are envious.

[Thekaspervote]

2. Thank you sheshe.. once again such a sensible post

What amazes me... those here on DU that can’t see if their chosen candidate were in first place what terrible menial things would be then thrown their way

[George II]

3. The night Obama was elected my wife and I started worrying that he wouldn't serve eight years.

Thankfully he did, and he served them well.

[sheshe2]

7. When they got out of the car to walk...

I was screaming in my head, please get back in. Get back in the car.

Yes he served them well, as did Biden.

[Vegas Roller]

4. And the repukes and the ultra left neither liked him

BS wanted to primary him in 2012.

I admire the courage of Obama (and Michelle) in just going about their business in the face of riled up racist nutcases carrying assault weapons. One of the greatest human beings.

[BannonsLiver]

5. Yes, I guess were not allowed to talk about that though?

In a historical context, or in any other context. We’re not allowed to talk about it. That’s the takeaway from the hysteria in the other thread. That, and a whole lot of desperate people are pining away for any little thing they think can aid their candidate.

[Cha]

8. And, as usual the "media" & Joe Biden Detractors took it out

of context.

Link to tweet

Thanks for your OP, she

[OhZone]

27. Exactly.

[liberal N proud]

9. trump and his klan are still obsessed with Obama

Between the Clinton's and Obama's, the trumpkins have overflows

[Control-Z]

10. Thank you, she.

I can't tell you how much I appreciate your post and how it makes me feel.

Sadly, I usually know which candidate is being supported by what they post. I had so hoped that wouldn't happen this time around around.

You are a wonderful DUer, she, and a great example of how a supporter of your candidate should behave.

Again, thank you.

[sheshe2]

33. Hey, Control-Z.

Thank you so much for your kind words. They mean a lot to me.

We can do this. We must do this, for our children and our future.

Many more people will die because of those who voted for him, didn’t vote at all, or voted for anyone other than “her”. How many? I don’t know, but I fear the numbers will be high. All because we were, yes, decadent, and thought that what happened in 1933 couldn’t happen here in 2016. It could have, and it did, and now we’ll have to rebuild.

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I have no explanation why our country descended into apathetic madness. But we’ll have to atone for this sin for decades to come. If we survive that long.


https://www.thepeoplesview.net/main/2019/8/21/when-words-fail

https://upload.democraticunderground.com/100212407157

[highplainsdem]

11. K&R. Thank you, sheshe, for this perfectly worded reminder of how worried we all were.

Like you, I'm disappointed in DU tonight.

Yes, Joe Biden, as Obama's VP and friend, had to have been keenly aware of the threats. It's quite possible they talked about them, more than once.

[sheshe2]

34. He is not my first choice.

My Senator Warren is, however I will be damned if I let anyone trash him. He is a good man and deserves this countries respect. I would be proud to vote for him as President.

Thanks, highplainsman.

[RockRaven]

12. I'm even more worried about PBO and his family NOW, with Trump inciting deplorables, than I was

when he was POTUS himself.

From what I've read previously, there's like an order of magnitude drop-off or more in resources devoted to ex-POTUS's compared to current POTUS, but are the nutjobs really more than an order of magnitude *less* riled-up by Trump's bile *now* than they were by Boehner/Paul/McConnell/FOXNews/Koch Bros/Rush/Beck/etc when he was POTUS? The thought makes me sick, because I'm not at all confident that the answer is yes.

[certainot]

13. what is really fucking idiotic is for democrats to keep ignoring republican talk radio

in sept 2008 limnbaugh made up a silly pretext - that obama should fire a staffer - to say 'obama's head needs to roll"

the local blowhard says hey maybe the 'purge' concept isn't so bad in reference to sanctuary cities.

limbaugh started around inauguration selling the bs that the obamas got a place near DC so they could oversee the 'deep state coup' and has been obstructing and polluting the mueller probe and jury pool sever since

it's been going on for 30 fucking years from a 1500 radio station monopoly that is now getting input from the kremlin and democrats continue to do nothing

this situation is really fucking stupid

democrats cannot collectively say they're getting the back of one of our best presidents. really fucking stupid, and i regularly have people tell me talk radio is irrelevant

[brer cat]

14. Thank you, sheshe.

This is the correct perspective, not the trashing taking place elsewhere.

[sheshe2]

15. Hey, brer.

[patphil]

16. For the record, sheshe2

Joe's not my first choice, but he'd make a fine president and I will support him completely if he wins the nomination.
I see no point in trashing any of the Democratic candidates. It's a matter for the primaries. Let's see who wins next year.

Patrick Phillips

[sheshe2]

17. Not my first choice either.

My Senator is.

However will support any Democratic nominee 1000%

Thank you Patrick Phillips.

[Scurrilous]

18. Thanks!

[murielm99]

19. Thank you for this post.

I looked back at the thread that was so critical of Joe, and I was appalled by the deliberate misunderstanding and outright hate directed at Joe by some DU members. Joe is not my first choice, but he may be the nominee. I understand what Joe was saying.

I worried about President Obama every day of his Presidency. I never said anything about it outside of my household.

I worry about him now, with all the hate trump is bringing to the surface. I worry about the Clintons, too. The waves of hate being directed at all of them are searing.

I was a senior in college when MLK and RFK were assassinated. Bobby had just visited my college in Valparaiso, Indiana. He quoted Camus about hungry children. He went on to Indianapolis. We all know what happened when he got there.

A month later, in the waning days of my semester, when I was finishing my finals, Bobby went to California, and he was shot. He died just before I took my last final.

I was a wreck when I got home. My parents were Democratic election judges. The Democratic precinct committeeman lived next door. We spoke. He handed me a stack of literature for local Democratic candidates. He told me to find a friend, to go out and canvas the precinct. We mourn, and then we go on, he said, or else they win. His attitude did help me, but I know the horror and grief Joe was referencing. I lived with it myself.

I don't know how some people can go so low just to trash a candidate who is not their first choice.

[pnwmom]

20. But that's the point. The threat is STILL all too real, and I don't how it makes Obama safer

to have Biden tell people to imagine the possibility, and what a large impact it could have.

Other than the Secret Service and others whose job it is to keep the family safe, I'd rather people not be encouraged to imagine the assassination of Obama (except those charged with protecting his life.)

[Hekate]

30. It doesn't make Obama any less safe to tell the truth

[LW1977]

21. So fucking sick!

Just disgusting!

[real Cannabis calm]

22. K&R for this quote:

The Secret Service has increasingly cut corners after it was absorbed by the new Homeland Security Department under Mr Bush.

[Scurrilous]

23. ...

[melman]

24. Maybe that's exactly why it's not such a great idea to be saying stuff like this?

Just a thought.

[Peacetrain]

25. Thank you sheshe2..

I was beside myself this morning reading some articles and quotes .. (some in here).. trying to make political hay.. or saying it was another gaffe.. not understanding for a moment what the VP was saying.. there is such a thing as purposeful ignorance.. and I am chalking it up to that.. we talked about it here in DU.. scared spitless sometimes for President Obama and his family.. and some of us have lived through that time.. wanting to win a political moment without stopping to think or read for comprehension what the VP was trying to tell people.. is beyond sad.. and my opinion of some people has been permanently altered because of this..

[CrispyQ]

26. I worried about President Obama & his family every day he was in office.

I was a kid back in the 60s & I remember all three assassinations. They shook my world. I remember a story about someone getting over the White House fence while Obama was president & my mind went right to that dark place. So yeah, it was jarring, what Biden said, but those of us who lived through it have never forgotten.

[treestar]

28. I'm glad the Secret Service was up to it

With the technology they have now, I felt actually like Obama was pretty safe, in spite of being the subject of the most threats (no surprise there).

[Hekate]

29. Thanks, She.

Some days I really wonder why I come to DU. (Then I read my friends' posts and know why I'm still here.)

But gods, the stupidity that sometimes runs rampant here. So if the hyper-partisans manage to get rid of Joe, who will be next? And the media? They're going after him like HRC -- who will they destroy next? The media is callous -- hey, we have lots of Dem candidates, right? But the hyper-partisans are just astoundingly shortsighted and easy to manipulate.

[roscoeroscoe]

31. I love Barack & Joe

Go fightin' Joe!

[IndyOp]

32. I worried daily too - I think he is one of the

bravest people on the planet. The fact that he made miracles happen while in office - I can’t fathom how he did what he did.