As the “vast right wing conspiracy wants to assassinate Obama on Facebook” meme just did?
“The Secret Service has determined that a juvenile was behind the online survey that asked whether people thought President Obama should be assassinated, an agency spokesman said Thursday.
No criminal charges will be filed against the juvenile or the juvenile’s parents, spokesman Edwin Donovan said. Donovan would not identify the names of the child or parents or say where they are from.
The poll, posted Saturday on Facebook, was taken off the popular social networking site quickly after company officials were alerted to its existence. But, like any threat against the president, Secret Service agents took no chances.
The poll asked respondents “Should Obama be killed?” The choices: No, Maybe, Yes, and Yes if he cuts my health care.
After Secret Service agents met with the child and the child’s parents, they determined there was no intent to harm the president.
“Case closed,” Donovan said. “I guess you could characterize it as a mistake.”
Yeah, or something like that. Look, I am in no way applauding or approving of what this little cretin did, but we ought to find this instructive of the way the Left seems to want something bad to happen to Obama. So they can ghoulishly use it to their political advantage. Just like they did with that census worker in Kentucky who, so far as we know to date, wasn’t actually killed by right-wing Tea Partiers acting on orders from Glenn Beck.
Let’s look at this from the standpoint of logic – why would evil right-wing Tea Partiers taking orders from Glenn Beck want to knock off Obama? What, so that we could get President Biden, perhaps the one person in Washington D.C. who is less competent and insightful than the current occupant of the Oval Office? No thanks. Besides, though we may not like or agree with the President, nearly all conservatives (unlike the Left) can understand that the man and the office necessarily go hand in hand. The office is constitutional, and is to be respected, because it is a symbol of American sovereignty and the executive power that represents our nation on the world scene. Harming the man in the office is an attack on our constitutional system – even if the man in office is busy himself attacking that same system. Some things are just too important to leave to the ghouls.
Yet, there seems to be a serious case of martyr-syndrome out there among many on the Left. They need the omnipresent vast right-wing conspiracy to commit some horrible political crime, so that they can ride it for all it’s worth politically. Really sick, when you think about it.
