...and pass the ammunition

[arguchik]

Great. The gun nuts are adding to their arsenals because Obama is a "gun snatcher." This is exactly what the U.S. needs right now. Paranoid, reactionary wackos with larger collections of assault weapons and a brand new reason to use them.

Here's the NYT story about it.

I sure hope Obama's Secret Service detail know what they're doing. Seriously. I can't be the only person worrying that some of this hateful, paranoid rhetoric will boil over into an assassination attempt...? I know people have been talking about the possibility for awhile, but some of this shit is really scaring me.

Comments

[arguchik.livejournal.com]

Very true, and thank you for being a calming voice of reason. However, this 8 years of fear...I have spent being afraid of the fear mongers, not the stuff they've been telling me to fear. I don't think that's an irrational fear, and the thing about fear mongers is that they don't tend to down quietly.

Meanwhile, Bush is practically throwing the keys to the White House at Obama. I think there is noone more acutely aware of the tangled mess he has made than he is, and he can't wait to get out of the middle of it. Asshole.

[rojonoir.livejournal.com]

McCain's was the happiest concession speech I've ever seen. You mean I never have to deal with Sarah Palin ever again? You mean the economic meltdown is someone else's problem? You mean Obama and Bush get blamed for the two failed wars and republican's decades later will be saying "the *maverick* would've won 'em!"?

[arguchik.livejournal.com]

I agree--it was a gracious speech, delivered with a relieved tone. He actually looked a little worried about some of his more vocal supporters, though, both during that speech and previously on the campaign trail as he had to sort of talk people down from their paranoid, reactionary invective. I'm not sure he succeeded all that well.