Sarah Palin’s attacks on Barack Obama’s patriotism provoked a spike in death threats against the future president, Secret Service agents revealed during the final weeks of the campaign.
The Republican vice presidential candidate attracted criticism for accusing Mr Obama of “palling around with terrorists”, citing his association with the sixties radical William Ayers.
The attacks provoked a near lynch mob atmosphere at her rallies, with supporters yelling “terrorist” and “kill him” until the McCain campaign ordered her to tone down the rhetoric. But it has now emerged that her demagogic tone may have unintentionally encouraged white supremacists to go even further. The Secret Service warned the Obama family in mid October that they had seen a dramatic increase in the number of threats against the Democratic candidate, coinciding with Mrs Palin’s attacks. Michelle Obama, the future First Lady, was so upset that she turned to her friend and campaign adviser Valerie Jarrett and said: “Why would they try to make people hate us?”
The revelations, contained in a Newsweek history of the campaign, are likely to further damage Mrs Palin’s credentials as a future presidential candidate. She is already a frontrunner, with Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, to take on Mr Obama in four years time. Details of the spike in threats to Mr Obama come as a report last week by security and intelligence analysts Stratfor, warned that he is a high risk target for racist gunmen. It concluded: “Two plots to assassinate Obama were broken up during the campaign season, and several more remain under investigation. We would expect federal authorities to uncover many more plots to attack the president that have been hatched by white supremacist ideologues.” Irate John McCain aides, who blame Mrs Palin for losing the election, claim Mrs Palin took it upon herself to question Mr Obama’s patriotism, before the line of attack had been cleared by Mr McCain.
Is this just more piling on? It doesn’t sound right to me that the Secret Service would make a public statement like this.
I think your suspicions are right, McCullough, this article needs a BS meter.
Best I can tell, the GOP leadership is trying to destroy Palin while she is still in the spotlight.
She made the mistake of suggesting that she wanted to be in party leadership and they have absolutely no intention of letting this loose canon hick be a standard bearer for the party.
These conservatives can be such bastards and not just to we liberals. They eat their own, too.
>> Thermo said,
This is such BS. It was proven that no one shouted “kill him”. The Secret Service investigated this and found that it was a lie.
Did the “Secret Service” bother to watch the many YouTube videos documenting this?
Poor Cuda was just parroting the vitriol of Limbaugh and Hannity. Infact, their sermons are far more inciting than Cuda’s barbie like comments. Its been fun listening to right wing nuts these days, poor guys badly need a screww. Maybe Cuda can take care of that!
tHERMO.
I love your thoughts..
Its like living NEAR a child molester, having a Block party, and NOW everyone is ON THE LIST.
I dont know if you understand HOW to create an OPEN mind. You have to HAVe one first..and talking/listening to Everyone that has an idea/opinion is a GREAt place to start.
If you listen to the 2 parties, you only have 2 IDEAS in your WHOLE mind..
I would also add to a few of you..
HOW those DEDICATED IDIOTS out there take your THOUGHTs and speeches to heart.. Even if you didnt SAY kill the B..its the IMPRESSION that is left inside that Little HEAD.
The election is over. Why does anyone still care about Palin? Both the Dems and the Repubs would do well to ignore her, and let her simply fade away.
That said, this story seems like a bunch of BS.
Does anyone seriously believe that that these neo-nazis *weren’t* sitting around thinking about assassination until they heard Palin? Yeah, right.
Mccain and Palin should leave the country and pound sand!!!
MEMO TO THE FEVER SWAMP …
YOUR GUY WON. You can stop the character assassinations now.
Funny how Mr. Musturd and Mr. Fusion (you’re gay lovers, right?) always start with the facts on Palin “she’s dumb because she’s religious”. Isn’t President-elect Osama a professed Christian? At least that’s what Stepalloverous said when he covered for Osama. Doesn’t that make him dumb too? Since she has more executive experience than him (since he has none), doesn’t that make him dumberer? Anyway, back to the headline, what is the Vegas line on Osama even surviving the next 4 years? Not-a-chance. It’ll be an inside job, not some skinhead, in order to further destablize the world financial markets. Soon we’ll all be paying carbon credits due to glocal warmin.., I mean climate change.
If you believe she didn’t know Africa was a continent or which countries were in NAFTA, then you are dumber then the Left claims Palin to be.
You Palin defenders crack me up. That empty suit could only broadcast a message of hate, fear, and division. She and her people are a bunch of narrow-minded losers who think of the country as divided between “us” and “them”. She doesn’t deserve to be in politics with her hate-filled rhetoric, and good riddance.
#44 “she’s dumb because she’s religious”
Wrong way round
“She’s religious because she’s dumb”
I love the smell of Palin haters in the morning.
The news media has totally lost its credibility. I don’t believe anything anymore.
I believe I was right when I said a few days ago Palin is the new MAC on this blog. You want to get the hits mention her.
Ahmadinejad’s wife is cuter than Palin:
http://tinyurl.com/58e9o7
#51 Special Ed
Gee, after looking at that sexy pic, I was Soooo glad you had provided the link in Post 18! I really needed that to help me with “that problem”!
AC
I’m expecting Palin to be charged with inciting riots, masterminding the attempted assassination of an elected official and terrorism.
Giddy-up. Send her ass to Gitmo.
@52 – Hey AC, I don’t make this shit up, it is too funny! I just find it and post it. The Mormon Guide to Stopping Masturbation in #18 is priceless. Those religious folks are hilarious and they don’t even know it!
You talk out both sides of your mouth. You talk about Republicans being hate mongers while you and your like counter with the same hate and despise of this woman and anyone who doesn’t think like you do. I’m not surprised though, this is the typical hypocrisy I have come to know from the left.
I have always suspected they are one in the same person. Their style of hate and douchery is too similar to be 2 different people.
I heard Carl Cameron once answered his hotel room door in a full Wonder Woman costume when Bill O’Reilly dropped by.
I’m not sayin’ it’s true, I’m not sayin’ it’s not. That’s just what I heard.
And no, I won’t tell you who said it. Under the new standard of journalism, it’s plausible until proven otherwise. And I get to decide what constitutes proof.
At the Huffington Post anyway.
#44 – Kevvie
>>Funny how Mr. Musturd and Mr. Fusion (you’re
>>gay lovers, right?) always start with the
>>facts on Palin “she’s dumb because she’s
>>religious”.
Yer new around here, right Kevvie? That’s the first time anyone has EVER accused me of saying someone is “dumb because [they are] religious”.
Sheesh.
Or are you just stoopid?
#45 – Lyin’ Mike
>> If you believe she didn’t know Africa was a
>>continent or which countries were in NAFTA,
>>then you are dumber then the Left claims
>>Palin to be.
Aw, give it up, Lyin’ Mike. Even BILL “LOOFAH PAD” O’REILLY believes it:
http://tinyurl.com/5wh66h
Or are you claiming that Loofah Pad is “Left”??
The woman is a colossus of ignorance. That’s a given.
55,
I obviously disagree. I do condemn those hate-filled right wingers who label all those they do not agree with, but I am always ready to discuss things in an intelligent manner with everyone.
As I have said here many times before, what was the rhetoric of the candidate?
#17 – McCullough – [Why, it’s the same link I made in the first sentence of the post????]
That link pointed to the image. Someone changed it to the correct link.
Cheers.
even before secret service made public their findings, i knew and heard the hate at her rallies in videos, she is shameless and uncaring about all life, animal and human. i agree with previous poster that if anyone considers her a candidate for anything but dog catcher from here on out , they should be put in the position of being the one she attacks with lies and slander and hate the next time she decides she wants more power at the expense of a world. she should also be held accountable for inciting riots and if anything happens to obama family , she should be held accountable as an accomplice since they hold her on a pedestal and they would do it just to honor her feelings since she lost. she is a disgrace, bozo the clown is loved, not hated like her.
>>Sarah Palin meeting staff wearing just a towel.
That news item made me like her a little more. It’s just the right amount of tawdriness I like in a candidate.
#62 noname:
“she is shameless and uncaring about all life, *animal* and human”
Thanks for letting us know you’re a nut!
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