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August 26, 2008 05:27 AM UTC

Awful news - Plot to Kill Obama

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  • by: DavidThi808

from CBS Denver

CBS4 has now learned at least four people are under arrest in connection with a possible plot to kill Barack Obama at his Thursday night acceptance speech in Denver. All are being held on either drug or weapons charges.

CBS4 Investigator Brian Maass reported one of the suspects told authorities they were “going to shoot Obama from a high vantage point using a … rifle … sighted at 750 yards.”

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  1. Where they would have fired a shot from. There’s really no building near the stadium that would be high enough to allow you to get a good look down at field level.

    1. probably weren’t thinking that far ahead.  They were probably thinking that they could just find a “convenient spot” to do the deed.  Don’t expect logic from meth users, and it goes double for the racist kind.  Keep in mind, any possible angle for a long range assassin’s shot is going to be covered by sniper teams.  I doubt that anyone showing up near there with a rifle-like object will last long enough to set up a shot.

      It’s great that these losers were caught before they could do any harm.  I doubt that they would have gotten anywhere near enough to Obama to be a threat to him.  But any idiot can get lucky, and who knows what kind of mayhem they would have committed beyond or concurrent with an attempt on Obama’s life.

  2. is that the “assassins” seem to have the intelligence and planning ability of the guys who wanted to blow up the Brooklyn Bridge with a blowtorch.

      1. not yet mentioned here (at least as far as I’ve seen):

        But that man, identified as Shawn Robert Adolph, 33, who was wanted on numerous warrants, jumped out of a sixth floor hotel window. Law enforcement sources say Adolph broke an ankle in the fall and was captured moments later. Sources say he had a handcuff ring and was wearing a swastika, and is thought to have ties to white supremacist organizations.

        These guys are dumb, but the worrying thing is that the neo-Nazis may be really motivated. Fox News has interviewed a white supremacist who thinks Obama will and should get shot.

              1. http://www.eschatonblog.com/20

                A friend writes that she got a telephone poll asking “my opinion, as a Jew, on the various policies on Israel (and the impact of those opinions now that I know them) on my judgment of the following people: Barack Obama. John McCain, Joe Biden, and Joe Lieberman.”

                Friend concludes, “someone is very interested in learning what effect Joe Lieberman’s possible place on McCain’s ticket might have on the Jewish vote for McCain.”

                1. are crazy, then they will vote for McCain purely because of Lieberman. If they are rational, they will realize that our Israel policy has always been fairly consistent no matter who is in office, and will then vote based on other issues that matter to them.

  3. believing that 4 tweakers even have the ability to sight in a rifle at 750 yards, let alone actually complete the task.  There are not many individuals that are even close to proficient at that distance.  Idiots

    Please remove them all from the gene pool for an extended period of time.

    Hope you all have a nice convention and be good, I’ll be in the Zirkels if anyone needs me.

    1. Someone with the intent and no ability can still cause plenty of damage in a stadium full of people. Of course it was highly unlikely that they could get the weapons through the dragnet. Of course they might have sensed that when they got there and chosen to shoot into the crowd outside instead. All in all, a very good thing that they were caught, and I hope that’s the last of it.

  4. The decision to use Invesco was purely for political theatre and safety concerns from those who have to protect everyone were ignored, and they were never consulted, just told at the last minute.

      1. the Secret Service and the city were concerned about the change and the time frame for implementing security measures.

        I don’t remember the Secret Service saying they didn’t want Mile High but I’m sure they weren’t happy about the change.

        1. Byt the Secret Service sent out a retired agent to be the spokesman for the media, and he was highly thankful that they got the notice they got. He said they typically got days, not weeks of notice.

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