"Report: Axelrod Was Assassination Target"

[Clio the Leo]

I dont normally pay much attention to the stories of threats to the President, but this one stood out of the obvious reason. Apparently, a notebook was found in Van Brunn's car saying Ax was on his hitlist next.

"Report: Axelrod Was Assassination Target"
September 30, 2010 10:51 AM

By Matt Cooper
Updated, 11:56 a.m.

Time magazine is reporting that one of the president's top aides was the target of a racist extremist who shot and killed a guard at Washington's Holocaust Museum in '09.

According to the magazine, the shooter, James Van Brunn, who died after he was shot in the museum incident, had Obama's adviser David Axelrod as one of his targets.

Axelrod was assigned a Secret Service security detail, according to the story written by veteran journalist Barton Gellman. After the Holocaust shooting, law enforcement authorities discovered that Axelrod was a target, according to Time which writes: "The President was too hard to reach, in Von Brunn's view, but that was of no consequence. 'Obama was created by Jews,' he wrote. "Obama does what his Jew owners tell him to do."

Through an aide, Axelrod declined to comment to Hotline On Call on the alleged assassination plot.

http://hotlineoncall.nationaljournal.com/archives/2010/09/report_axelrod.php

Axelrod was lucky, Stephen Johns was not. May he rest in peace.

[AtomicKitten]

1. I can't believe as a society we're flirting with a 1960s redux in violence.

I can barely wrap my mind around that.

[Mimosa]

2. That scares me.

Atomic kitten, I hope our fears don't come true.

There are some real crazies out there.

[boppers]

3. I'm not old enough to remember the 60's.

When I gradually learned of it, growing up, I realized that something was really, really, wrong in the 40's (WWII), and the children of that generation were going to have some really messed up issues.

Their children, in turn, brought us the 80's, and their children, the millenials.

The world's changing fast. :)

[LiberalFighter]

4. Was Van Brunn influenced by a group?