The recent shot through the window of the Democratic HQ in Mobile has crystallized a feeling I've been having. This latest is just another in a long series of violent acts against Democrats that have been happening across the country.
Currently the usual right wing commentators are sounding like Baghdad Bob with the pronouncements that all the polls are wrong and Romney is going to win. Even with that some in the opposition are slowly realizing that their guy is going to lose ... badly. For four years they have been fed a steady diet of fear mongering in regards to the Kenyan Muslim America-hatin' Socialist. I'm really starting to fear that a few of the more impressionable bottom feeders in that group will consider Obama's re-election to be the political (and in some cases, actual) end-of-times and start doing irrational things. And with this bunch, irrational equates to violence.
Spend some time reading the comments at Redstate or any of the other winger sites. IMHO the anger and barely disguised threats are growing in intensity. When these people fall, they are going to fall HARD. If this rude awakening was to happen after the election was completed I'd have less of a worry. But between then and now the President is spending a lot of time "pressing the flesh".
Every time I see the President working a hand shaking line I get nervous. You have a scrum of people all reaching forward at the same time, some with cell phones in their hand and a couple of Secret Service agents on each side of the President with the impossible job of trying to see everything.
I can't help but think of this: WARNING - graphic video of George Wallace being shot.
I'd feel better about the President's security if I wasn't reading quotes like these from his first line protectors: One ... [Secret Service] field agent assigned to the Washington office,... told investigators in a polygraph examination that he did not think at the time that the two women he brought back to his hotel room were prostitutes.
Maybe growing up in the 60's with all it's attendant political turmoil colors my perceptions but if I was able to speak to the President tomorrow, all I'd say is, "Can you please turn your security up to 11?".