So the question is.. will anyone try and assassinate Obama?

[Alex]

What with so many extreme racist organizations, not to mention greedy heads of industry that will feel the pinch from mass unionization and hefty tax increase(wealth 'redistribution')

Vote on the outcome you think most likely

*disclaimer I may not agree with Obama's politics but I am very against the assassination of any democratically elected official.

[ebbomega]

Plenty of attempts already.

Point is though nobody has been able to assassinate a president in the last 100 years without it being an inside job, so I don't think they'll be able to get away with it.

SS and CIA know far too well that if Obama gets assassinated they're facing a civil war.

[Alex]

Who's to say someone on the inside can't be bribed, or doesn't have strong feelings against Obama's politics?

[cubed]

Originally Posted by Alex

Who's to say someone on the inside can't be bribed, or doesn't have strong feelings against Obama's politics?

Did you miss this part right here???

"SS and CIA know far too well that if Obama gets assassinated they're facing a civil war."

[Alex]

and if you're counting those two 18 year old skin heads who were 'planning' to assassinate Obama by 'driving a car towards him really fast and shooting at him' I don't really think that counts, or ever was a serious threat.

[ebbomega]

Regardless, for all the disagreement they may have, they don't want a race war. Part of what makes the US so successful at interfering with world governments is the fact that they have stability at home. Losing that would be a primary concern.

As for the bribing scenario, it'll take a lot of high-level individuals to be bribed in order to let it happen. And again, there's gonna be too many people scared of race war that they just plain won't follow through.

[Alex]

Originally Posted by cubed

Did you miss this part right here???

"SS and CIA know far too well that if Obama gets assassinated they're facing a civil war."

and it's impossible individuals have motives that differ from the organization they belong to.

[ebbomega]

Originally Posted by Alex

and if you're counting those two 18 year old skin heads who were 'planning' to assassinate Obama by 'driving a car towards him really fast and shooting at him' I don't really think that counts, or ever was a serious threat.

Yeah, but those are the types that would be inclined to try to assassinate him. White Supremacists.

Only reason CIA would get involved is if he starts cracking down on their drug runs like Kennedy did. And still, White House pressure is far better than complete instability in the homeland.

[ebbomega]

Originally Posted by Alex

and it's impossible individuals have motives that differ from the organization they belong to.

You don't understand the concept of an "inside job", do you?

It would require the whole organization's cooperation in order to get away with it. A renegade/rogue agent would get taken down.

[Alex]

I'd fear more elaborate plans by large corporations with hundred's of millions, if not billions of dollars at their disposal, wanting to remove Obama from the picture because of financial woes, than I would, for the most part, uneducated racists acting under emotion with no intelligent plan..

[ebbomega]

That's a nice hat. What is that, foil?

[Alex]

Originally Posted by ebbomega

You don't understand the concept of an "inside job", do you?

It would require the whole organization's cooperation in order to get away with it. A renegade/rogue agent would get taken down.

I doubt it would take the whole organization. A handful of Rogue agents working together might be able to pull it off.

[Alex]

Originally Posted by ebbomega

That's a nice hat. What is that, foil?

You don't think corporations are willing to kill for increased profits?

[ppcock]

MP we need you!

[ebbomega]

Handful of KEY rogue agents. That's the point. You need specific people in order to pull it off. And if they're not idealistically motivated (like white supremacists are) then they have no way of pulling it off without the organization taking them down. Corporations don't exactly entice people to become suicide attackers.

A decision would have to be made at the top levels, otherwise there's too many people loyal to the organization to make it plausible. If the top level people don't want Obama dead, they're going to put people they can trust in those key positions. No way the corps will be able to buy them all out without risking a whistleblower.

Obama isn't really that different from any other democrat who came to power except that he's black, and that's why there's such paranoia about an assassination attempt.

[ebbomega]

Originally Posted by Alex

You don't think corporations are willing to kill for increased profits?

Willing and able are two very different things.

[NinjaBoy]

Alex, how do you tie your shoes in the morning? Seriously... I'm demoting you to flip flops and clothes without zippers.

[C_squared]

Hey everyone its time to chase our tails with hoaky conspiracy theories. That UK film/mocumentary about assassinating Dubya covered this. It's fun to pretend!

Assassination attempt: probable

Assassinating Obama: not likely

[ebbomega]

I don't think there's been a single president since Nixon that hasn't had an assassination attempt on them.

[Courtney]

Try? Yes.
Succeed? No.

[tiedye]

Originally Posted by Alex

I'd fear more elaborate plans by large corporations with hundred's of millions, if not billions of dollars at their disposal, wanting to remove Obama from the picture because of financial woes, than I would, for the most part, uneducated racists acting under emotion with no intelligent plan..

Are you kidding me? Obama's campaign was mostly funded by Wall Street donors... it was one of the most expensive campaigns in US history. I think they're quite comfortable with him in office.

[SEAN!]

Originally Posted by Alex

I'd fear more elaborate plans by large corporations with hundred's of millions, if not billions of dollars at their disposal, wanting to remove Obama from the picture because of financial woes, than I would, for the most part, uneducated racists acting under emotion with no intelligent plan..

Corporations require stability more tthen government orgaanisaions do.

they cant make any money with people rioting and fuckin everything up.

besides they're smarter then that, they could just co-opt obama and its alot less risky then getting caught trying to murder an elected official in the united states.

[Some dude]

Any white supremest with the brains to pull it off would realize that it would result in a witch hunt for white racists and thus would be counterproductive to their cause.

As for corporations setting it up, well, I imagine an assassination would be awful expensive. They'd need at least 3 cost analysis's before deciding whether or not it save them money in the end, and somewhere along the way, someone's bound to squeal.

[t-skywalker]

5 attempts already i have been told

[Grapes]

We have some pretty optimistic people in this poll.

I wasn't one of them.