What if Barack Obama gets 'Wellstoned'?

[bermudat]

I have a bad feeling about what's shaping up in Illinois. Keyes does not have a snowflake's chance in hell to win. Most of us think the repugnants are paying off his IRS debt and debt incurred when the voters spanked him in Maryland. God forbid, what if something happens to Obama and Keyes wins by default? Repugnantcans are very arrogant and for good reason. Absolutely no one gets prosecuted, no questions are asked, the mediawhores cover for them completely. Hopefully, Obama will stay out of private planes.

[genius]

1. Count on it and then stop it.

[rainy]

2. OMG I wouldn't put ANYTHING past this group

nt

[trumad]

3. Wellstoned?

It's a very unproven theroy.....

[hippiegranny]

4. I have already had the same awful thought

It is a shame when anyone who represents good is in such great danger from the right wing mafioso.

[dammit905]

6. I dunno...

I don't think Republicans are evil people. Some are misguided, some are ill-informed.. most of the higher-power Republicans are simply greedy, and are willing to shit up faceless peoples' lives to better their own. But actually killing someone? I think that's a bit far.

[dflprincess]

11. Of course not all Republicans but the thugs in the executive branch

I wouldn't put anything past them. How many have Bush, Cheney, Rove, etal killed in Iraq? They let 3,000 die on 9/11 to futher the PNAC agenda. The lives of anyone outside their club or the life of anyone who threatens them means nothing to these people.

I've been worried about Kerry, but Obama would certainly seem a likely candidate for the "Wellstone treatment". I keep telling myself that 3 Democratic candidates in a row would be too obvious, but they got by with it before, why not try it again?

[drdtroit]

5. Keyes is a sacrificial lamb

and the repukes are running him just to show how fair and balanced they are,
They feel that it is better for Alan to endure the slaughter than one of their "own".

[harrison]

7. I know people hate to hear this kind of crap, but I have an

acquaintance who was in a Republican Administration. She told me one day that plane crashes were a favorite form of political assassination. She was dead serious (pardon the pun). I have yet to see a satisfactory explanation for the Wellstone crash when two pilots were on board.

Important politicians should stay out of planes.


On edit: Political Assassination has a long history. Read Michael Parenti's The Assassination of Julius Ceasar. He shows that the elite were all about killing any politician who threatened their power.

[Tosca]

8. Sounds like Freeper talk

through the looking glass.

Oooh, I heard this, I heard that!

[harrison]

10. I know. That is the reason I hated to even mention it. This

person is no longer a Republican. She is quite brilliant and she has quite a bit of knowledge about well known Republican politicians. She isn't a freeper, and I damn sure ain't.

[Tosca]

12. Caesar

/Read Michael Parenti's The Assassination of Julius Ceasar.

Yes, if only they did it honestly, like in the old, old, OLD days. With knives, eh?

[Stephanie]

19. which administration?

you can say - we're all friends here. And your ID of the person is so vague. Which administration?

[KYDEM]

9. Have you noticed

Kerry and Bush both doing most traveling in buses? Is there a reason?

[Tosca]

14. Built-in jacuzzis?

[lanparty]

18. Flying 30 mile hops ...

... really isn't effective use of campaign busses.

They'll do "bus tours" in a swing state. Than the candidate will get on a plane and do some engagement somewhere. The busses will drive onto the next targeted location for the "bus tour".

[Minstrel Boy]

13. If, God forbid, it happens,

expect a sizable contingent here to insist it could be nothing but an accident, and to even suggest otherwise dishonours his memory.

Oh, state assassinations happen, and murders can be made to appear suicides and accidents. But only elsewhere. :eyes:

[Tosca]

15. Yes

And expect some to say it is always a conspiracy, no matter what the circumstances.

(Big Rollin' Eyeballs)

[buycitgo]

16. two words

Ernie Banks

[lanparty]

17. Keyes STILL wouldn't win ...

Yet again wise voters would elect a dead man over an idiot.

[jmags]

20. Let's not get hysterical.

Obama is not going to be murdered. Keyes is not going to win by default. There are plenty of concrete, real world examples of things to get worked up about (exposing our biggest Al Queda mole, causing us to lose valuable suspects and info for one) than to worry about something that is as likely to happen as you getting struck by lightning.