Wingnut Assassination Threat Against Barack Obama Watch for Sunday, August 10

Another one:

Authorities say a North Carolina man will undergo a psychiatric evaluation after being jailed on a charge of threatening to kill Barack Obama.

Federal documents identified the man held Friday as 48-year-old Jerry M. Blanchard. A criminal complaint says witnesses overheard Blanchard twice last month threatening to kill the presumptive Democratic nominee.

A Secret Service agent wrote in court documents that Blanchard may have mental health issues related to recent head injuries. Blanchard denied making the threat, according to the documents.

Or he may just be a wingnut whipped into a frenzy by racism and multimillion dollar talk radio hosts who have been saying for over a decade that liberals should be killed and blacks want special treatment.

These two recent threats against Barack Obama's life make the column that Dana Milbank wrote in the Washington Post on July 30, even more reprehensible. In that column, snarkily titled "President Obama Continues Hectic Victory Tour", he showed that in the eyes of the media, Obama can't win no matter what he does. They parrot the McCain campaign's question "Is he ready to lead", and then when he behaves like a leader, they say he's "acting like a president."

In that column, Milbank wrote:

The 5:20 TBA turned out to be his adoration session with lawmakers in the Cannon Caucus Room, where even committee chairmen arrived early, as if for the State of the Union. Capitol Police cleared the halls -- just as they do for the actual president. The Secret Service hustled him in through a side door -- just as they do for the actual president.

...implying that Obama's Secret Service protection was another symptom of his "hubris", or if you want to cut out even this small amount of journalistic nicety, his "uppity n----ishness". Milbank head is so far up the anal canal of John McCain that he has forgotten why Barack Obama was given Secret Service protection in the first place back in May 2007:

The government is not aware of any specific, credible threat against Obama, according to a law enforcement source familiar with the decision. But his office has received hate mail and calls and other "threatening materials" in the past and during his campaign, the source said.

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The Secret Service is authorized to provide protection to "major" candidates as determined by the advisory committee, under certain guidelines.

Among those guidelines, the candidate must be announced, be actively campaigning in at least 10 states and have some degree of prominence in the polls.

The fact that even as far back as May 2007, there were people intent on stopping Barack Obama by threatening to take his life, isn't enough reason for Secret Service protection, according to Dana Milbank and the other media apologists for John McCain. No, it's just another n---- who doesn't know his place.

And so from now until the election, we will hear media hacks dogwhistling to racists about "President Obama", and if God forbid one of these lunatics succeeds, then we'll hear all the handwringing about racism in the U.S.

Meanwhile, overseas, where they don't have to pretend racism doesn't exist in America, they're covering the very real threat Obama faces:

AMERICAN law enforcement agencies fear Barack Obama will be the target of a violent attack by white supremacists at the Democratic convention in Denver this month.
Ever since the Senator for Illinois emerged as the likely Democratic presidential candidate, neo-Nazis, the Ku Klux Klan and similar groups have been making racist threats.

In an interview on Fox News, Railton Loy, Grand Wizard of the National Knights of the Ku Klux Klan International, said of Obama's presidential campaign: "I'm not going to have to worry about him, because somebody else down south is going to take him out... If that man is elected president, he'll be shot sure as hell. The hate would be so deep down south."

Meanwhile, websites and blogs have been buzzing with racist posts.

"Obama will die, KKK forever," says a post by "Rodney" on a blog run by a person identified only as Strider333. "The KKK or someone WILL assassinate Obama! If we get a N***** President all you N*****'s (sic] will think you've won and that the WHITE people will have to bow to you F*** THAT."

John W Hickenlooper, the Democrat Mayor of Denver, confirmed that he was aware of threats against Obama from white supremacists and other racist groups.

He added that the Denver Police Department was working closely with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Secret Service. He said: "We are looking at every possibility and making sure that we have prepared for every conceivable contingency. If someone is threatening violence we will go to great lengths to deal with that."

The federal government is providing Denver – and St Paul, Minnesota, where the Republicans are staging their convention at the start of next month – with $50m (£26m) each to cover the security costs of staging the conventions.

The Denver Police Department will nearly double in size, bringing in an additional 1,500 police officers from communities throughout Colorado and beyond. National Guard specialists trained to deal with biological, chemical, nuclear and radiological weapons will also be available.

And you'll be able to rely on people like Dana Milbank to declare Obama to be "presumptuous" (which is the new "uppity") because there is this much security around someone that American white racists, fueled by Republican-borne poverty, racism, beer, and guns, have vowed to terminate.

Oh, and while were on the subject of death threats against Democrats? House Minority leader John Boehner (R - Oil) has exhorted Americans to execute Nancy Pelosi.