Amid raucous protests on health care, some worry about Obama's safety

[RamboLiberal]

WASHINGTON - Death threats are part of the job for any American president, but Barack Obama has reportedly had more levelled against him than any commander-in-chief in history.

Concerns about his safety are mounting in the midst of a tense summer that has seen mobs of angry demonstrators showing up to protest Obama's health-care reform plans - including a man openly carrying a pistol on Tuesday in New Hampshire, where the president held a town hall meeting on health care.

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"There is, and rightly so, a growing concern about the tone in American politics right now," Cal Jillson, a political scientist at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, said Tuesday.

"It started with Sarah Palin and the way the crowds responded to her last year, and continued with the tea party gatherings and now the town hall meetings on health care - there is an arc of rhetorical excess that I think is rightly worrying to people."

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"It's a matter of time until someone is shot. And if it's Obama, the country is going to explode in violence," wrote a commenter on the Washington Post's website on Tuesday.

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[HopeOverFear]

1. Yep

[justiceischeap]

2. I'm sure I'll be one of those people "exploding with violence" if he gets shot

I hate to say this but if Obama is successfully assassinated I will always wonder if the SS did their job or let it happen.

[PopSixSquish]

5. Please Do Not Say or Even Think This About the Secret Service

I don't normally do this, but I have a friend who worked at the Clinton WH (I won't say which office) and every campaign since then including Obama's. Several of us worried about this last fall and he emphatically stated "Trust the Secret Service"...

[kjackson227]

3. If President Obama is hurt in ANY WAY, there will be an uprising...

like this country has NEVER seen before.

Head Obama Cheerleader

[Cha]

4. You got that right.

Here's to a long and happy life for the Prez and his family.:fistbump:

[tavalon]

6. In this environment, anyone who spends a moment thinking about it is worried