Memo to the Secret Service: Clear Eyes, Cool Heads, Gun Hand Free.

[WilliamPitt]

I hate to have to say this, but it's true: the Secret Service agents guarding the president best eat their Wheaties for the next four years.

For the Radical Right, Obama Victory Brings Fury and Fear
The Southern Poverty Law Center

When the word came in last night that Barack Obama and the Democrats had won national elections in something close to a landslide, millions of Americans went to bed, satisfied that even if their candidate didn’t win, democracy had survived. The lopsided results made it clear that this election had in no way been stolen.

But not so at Ole Miss, which last month marked the 50th anniversary of deadly segregationist riots. Shortly after midnight, several hundred mostly white students protested furiously, reportedly yelling anti-black racial slurs and throwing rocks at passing cars. An Obama/Biden campaign sign was burned before campus police broke up the crowd in Oxford. There were apparently no arrests or injuries.

The reaction to the re-election of our first black president from the radical right — and that seemed clearly to include some University of Mississippi students — ranged from sputtering rage and name-calling to calls for a new Southern secession, mass emigration to Europe, or even the break-up of the United States. There was one thing large numbers seemed clearly to agree on: The changing racial demographics of our country, expected to lose its white majority by 2050, was key to the result.

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Non-Islamic domestic terrorism in the United States shot up in the wake of President Obama’s first election in 2008, spurred by fury over the “socialist” president and the racial change that he represents in the American population. Now, given the reaction from the radical right to last night’s election results, that seems likely to continue — or to get even worse, as racists and right-wing radicals seethe.

The rest: http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/11/07/for-the-radical-right-obama-victory-brings-fury-and-fear/

Clear eyes, cool heads, gun hand free.

[lalalu]

1. Many of us have been talking about this.

It is a real concern many supporters of the president have. It is not paranoia. We saw people like Rove and Trump have public meltdowns and there is concern about their rabid followers.

[mfcorey1]

2. Thank you. This is one of my greatest fears. It is sad that there are

those who basically are such sore losers that they would readily commit an act of violence against the President of the United States. This country also has a history of such violence. Yes, they need to be ready for any circumstance.

[WilliamPitt]

3. "... would readily commit an act of violence against the President of the United States."

Or his wife. Or his daughters.

You want a profile in courage? They all have targets on their backs for the rest of their lives.

Fact.

[DinahMoeHum]

4. God. Help. The. Racist. Pigs. If. Anything. . .

ANYTHING!!!!! happens to Obama or his family.