I am Really Concerned what the other side will do When Obama Wins

[romantico]

The anger that is boiling and ready to erupt. really is scary. We all know what it feels like when our candidate does not win/take office. These whiners have been spoiled for 8 years. The hatred towards Obama is so DEEP what will happen when he wins? I fear for Obama and his safety but I also fear for people like me and other Obama supporters. These people are crazy and they really believe Obama is a terrorist and so on. Anyone else here excited but also terrified what might happen come November 5th?

[jgraz]

1. I'm concerned what the other side will do to keep Obama from winning.

[tridim]

2. All but the most hardcore racists will love him after a few years.

They'll eventually see the greatness we already see in the man.

[anonymous171]

3. I hope they do riot. Show the country what the GOP is all about.

[DJ13]

4. Obama will be safe (Bush has been afterall)

I plan on sitting back and enjoying the show.

They wont help their causes by being idiots.

[asdjrocky]

5. Let em.

I'd be happy to get out in the streets and break some pug heads. I can't believe I'm saying this, but I've had it and I'm ready to fight if need be.

[RoccoR5955]

11. Me too... I would buy special commemorative baseball bats..

...for the occasion to defend my country from the enemy from within.

[awoke_in_2003]

22. Make sure that bat is made out of ash...

MLB has had nothing but problems with those new maple ones.

[RoccoR5955]

25. Ash?!?!?! I was thinking Aluminum, with a lead core! n/t

[carnie_sf]

16. I'm with you brother nt

[asdjrocky]

31. Perhaps we need to form our own-

Pug welcoming committee.

[carnie_sf]

32. Works for me

just baseball bats?

[my2sense]

6. I completely agree

They are going to go ape shit crazy on November 5th. We (the supporters) will certainly be targets of their aggressions.

[ClarkUSA]

7. The F.B.I. will stay busy for eight years arresting any racist fool who threatens Pres. Obama

I look forward to it and might make a few citizen's arrests myself (I have F.B.I. as my immediate family members).

Thanks for your concern, anyway. :eyes:

[ClayZ]

34. FBI could put them in one of bu$h's concentration camps!

Just until they are rehabilitated!

[stolivodka]

8. I hope they try something. I really do.

I'd like them to discover, first hand, how horribly wrong they were when they characterized liberals as a pack of weenies who don't believe in guns or self-defense.

In all seriousness, though, the odds of Repukes rioting on behalf of McCain are even lower than the odds that Democrats would have rioted on Gore's behalf in 2000.

[Raksha]

36. They probably wouldn't riot on behalf of McCain,

but Palin, their "annointed one," is a whole other story. It's the whackjob fundie Palin supporters who are the problem, NOT the McCain supporters...assuming there still are any McCain supporters.

[scheming daemons]

9. I'd love to find out.... the alternative would be horrible for our country.....

Really...it's no different than how they acted in 1992 as it became apparent that Clinton would win.

[Essene]

10. I'm less concerned about it if he wins... im more concerned about it in the coming 2-3 weeks

I think most of these people will crawl back into their trailer parks and condos if he wins, depressed.

There will be a wave of hate crime, vandalism, etc. That would remain for a long time.

Likewise, Obama's security would be a serious matter.

But that's not new.

The bigger issue is that we're looking at a major economic "era" with a lot of angry people. That makes it much more dangerous long-term.

[muntrv]

12. If so, that would inspire me to exercise my 2nd Amendment rights

to purchase a gun for protections.

[jberryhill]

13. It's like lancing a boil on America's butt

A little painful and ugly, but you have to draw out the infection to deal with it.

As mentioned upthread, decent people of all stripes are going to come to grips with the fact that hate is neither patriotic nor a family value.

Smoking it out into the open is a step in that process.

[HughMoran]

14. I'll worry about that AFTER he wins

...not before...

[styersc]

15. Let them go nuts, even riot!!!!

Building prisons will give lots of people work.

We'll build the new economy on the backs of nazi bigots!!!!

[OmahaBlueDog]

17. My ANGER at them is a big part of my motivation to vote for Obama

I'm ANGRY about Florida in 2000

I'm ANGRY about Enron

I'm ANGRY about the manipulation of the energy markets to remove Gray Davis

I'm ANGRY at Al Quaida for attacking America on 9-11, and I'm PISSED OFF that Osama Bin Laden hasn't been stuffed and mounted in a display case at "Ground Zero"

I'm ANGRY about being deceived into going to war in Iraq, and thousands of Americans dying for WMDs that weren't there and a stable government in a nation I don't give a damn about, to bring stability to neighboring nations I don't give a damn about

I'm ANGRY that more decent Americans die from lack of decent medical care than terrorism, but there's a war on terror, and not a war for medical care.

I'm ANGRY that I have to hear those bastards bray about Ayers, while Sarah Failin' is married to a secessionist, and John McSame gets a pass for his friendship with David Ifshin

I'm ANGRY we opened a concentration camp in Cuba

I'm ANGRY that I have to hear about lies told by FAUX, Limbaugh, Savage, Boortz, Ingraham, Miller, Beck, Hannity, BillO, et. al., but it's still somehow all about a "liberal media"

I'm ANGRY about being lectured about family values by a man who cheated on wife 1, married a beer heiress half his age, and who belongs to the party that brought us Larry Craig, Mark Foley, and others.

There's more, but I've taken up enough time here.

[asdjrocky]

27. You need to make this an OP. nt

[OmahaBlueDog]

30. Thanks, I did

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=7404104&mesg_id=7404104

[JimWis]

18. They may cause some trouble for a few days, hopefully nothing

dangerous for innocent people, then their attention span will waiver and that will be it.

[redqueen]

19. We know what it feels like to lose when we're ahead in the polls.

Not quite the same scenario as we're seeing now... but I know what you mean. I live in a small town in a very, very red area. I'm scared, too.

[tledford]

20. My most deeply sincere hope (and wish!) is that their heads explode. eom

[AZBlue]

21. I'm very bothered by both the OP and some of the responses here!

[romantico]

26. Bothered?

Do you really think this scenario is not plausible considering the angry McCain supporters at his rally's? Do you think I am over reacting? Do you think this concern is somehow a dig towards Obama? Explain to me why you are "Very Bothered".

[awoke_in_2003]

23. "I fear for Obama and his safety "

Should anything happen to him, this country is going to be torn apart

[cottonseed]

24. They'll bitch and moan and after a few years will find their lives much improved.

And like clockwork, come another election cycle they'll vote for Republicans because the Dems don't understand "real americans". :eyes:

[qwlauren35]

28. ME. Very afraid.

I may be afraid for the next 8 years. And it doesn't feel good.

A Republican co-worker pointed out that plenty of us reveled in the idea of Bush getting killed. I guess turn-about is fair play.

I'm just not comfortable when it gets screamed at rallies.

[stillcool]

29. Not me. I've lived in fear..

for the last 8 years and I'm sick of it. Fuck that. Let those assholes own their hatred and bigotry. Let it eat them up. I'm not wasting one second of my time worried about those sick little shits.

[WallStreetNobody]

33. Report anyone you hear/read make threats or hateful racist remarks about Obama

Just scan the right-wing blogs every now and then and if you see any threatening or hateful racist remarks about Obama forward them to the Secret Service. Those right-wing blogs have become forums for radicals and racists and the Secret Service will shut down any that carry threatening posts.

[Morning Dew]

35. With Obama in office, I can't wait to say . . .

things like:

"Don't talk about your President that way, why do you hate America?"

or

"Love it or leave it."

[KathieG]

37. Ditto...that will be quite enjoyable.

:evilgrin:

[onager]

38. I expect Clinton Redux.

For some bizarre reason, GOP supporters think they have a Divine Right to run the U.S. government. To some of them, a Democratic President can only get into power thru the direct intervention of Satan. (As an atheist, I'm speaking metaphorically here, in the terms in which these asshats think--to use the word very loosely...)

Obama's "honeymoon" will be just like Clinton's, lasting about 23 hours before the screeching, relentless attacks start on everything he does.

Even foreign crackpots like Ambrose Evans-Pickard will probably slither back into the country, armed with new book deals from Regnery Publishing. That guy always made me nostalgic for the Alien & Sedition Act of 1798...

Hopefully, a Democratic majority in Congress will stop the GOPpers from creating any bullshit investigating committees or Special Counsels.

I just hope (but doubt) that the Dems learned a lesson from the whole Linda Tripp thing. They let this disgruntled, troublemaking kook hang around the White House for months, even though she was already known for trying to peddle gossip about the outgoing Bushies.

I remember an interview with a Clinton staffer who said they needed Tripp at first, "because we didn't even know where the light switches were in the White House."

That made my jaw drop.

My advice would be to clean out the White House staff from top to bottom on January 21. I guess most of them are civil service and can't be fired. But any potential Tripps need to be given a nice, new job. Maybe working with the Dept. of the Interior on counting the remaining bears in Alaska, or monitoring activity at the fish hatcheries.

[lamp_shade]

39. The anger will subside as we get closer to Nov. 4th. By then, the reality will have

set in for many of McCain's supporters. A large percentage of them are already saying Obama will win.

[crankychatter]

40. they don't hate obama any more than they hated clinton or all of us or what flipping ever

and it ain't all of "them"

just SOME of the fundies and Fox Parrots

what's new really?

We're going to win... THAT is the only really "new" thing

at the moment Senator Obama is at the center of that... but this election isn't about HIM, is it?

or is that just rhetoric?

I think not

[mythyc]

41. "It is the starved imagination, not the well-nourished, that is afraid." E.M. Forster

nt