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Blog Rant Puts Sen. Clinton Security on Notice
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ABC News' Kate Snow and Eloise Harper Report: The Secret Service has been alerted to an apparent death threat made against '08 presidential candidate Senator Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y.
As a former First Lady, the Senator is afforded protection by the U.S. Secret Service, unlike some of her lesser know rivals at this early stage in the 2008 presidential campaign.
But already, the additional security protection seems warranted.
On Sunday, a threatening rant was posted on a website run by Senator Barack Obama, D-Ill.'s campaign.
"You're too black for whites and too white for blacks," the author said of Obama.
"But please put up a good fight for us - and if you get a chance to shove a pillow over Hillary's face and smother her to death before the primaries, 20 black-eyed virgins will wait on you in paradise."
A campaign staffer for Obama tells ABC News the posting clearly violated the rules of not posting "threatening" language, and it was removed when it was discovered. However, it had reportedly been on the site for several hours at that point.
"Those comments are absolutely deplorable and we removed them from the website," said Bill Burton with the Obama campaign.
"You run just this sort of risk when you've got an open website and a campaign focused on the grassroots," said Burton. "But, frankly, despicable comments like these are in the vast minority among positive input from thousands of individuals from around the country."
Campaign sources say the Secret Service was alerted about the online threat.
A Hillary for President spokesperson said the campaign staff never discuss her security arrangements publicly. But reporters have recently observed Secret Service agents in action at campaign events in Iowa and New Hampshire.
Part of that security involves bomb-sniffing dogs and metal detectors.
Senator Clinton often mingles with the crowd after large events, and agents are constantly watching over the people who approach her.
In fact, some staffers have joked about how much time Senator Clinton is spending glad-handing after events.
"You think she's going to turn out the lights on the way out?" One quipped in Davenport, Iowa, when the Senator was one of the last in a dwindling crowd still chatting long after the formal town hall meeting was over.
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The idiot that wrote the comment about Sen. Obama smothering Sen. Clinton, I suspect, did not expect him to do so. Now, to another point or two, whereas the Supreme Court equates money as speech, we will always "have the best government that money can buy". The British have both money and time constrants on elections to public office, and no one says it has cost them freedom of speech. We will never have a government "Of the People" as long as we have one of "Buy some People". Access to the halls of power by dollar amount has ruined our industrial base, got us into oil wars, and caused the government to open our borders to whoever can walk in to cut labor costs. No concern for the drugs, criminals, or potential terrorists can cause them pause. When money talks the talk, Washington walks the walk. If only Sen. Obama could change the culture in Washington, it so needs to be. Oh where is a "trust buster" like Teddy Roosevelt when you need one.
Posted by: Alexander Mackenzie | Feb 15, 2007 1:58:22 PM
Really now, how is "shove a pillow over Hillary's face and smother her to death " that much different than Cindy Sheehan saying, "it'd be better had George W. Bush not been born." ??
Face it, the Libs was full Freedom to say anything, including hate speech, but do not want the same standard applied to them. Typical, typical Liberalism.
Posted by: David Drake | Feb 15, 2007 8:11:16 PM
Take the Pledge
All Presidential Candidates should make pledges like those below. If they refuse, then you should refuse to vote for them.
1. No More Oil Wars.
2. Work for independence from foreign oil on day one.
3. No more wars for corporate profit.
4. No more secret deals for $4 per gallon gas.
5. No more Chicken Hawks promoting wars of choice when they themselves avoided combat.
6. Make government green--if you can't make what you have the most control over green, I don't care about your plans to make the country green.
7. No more torture.
8. No more lying about torture.
9. No more re-defining torture.
10. No more drunken hunting.
11. No more secret deals with big corporations to divide up the spoils before the war even starts.
Posted by: Poetry | May 27, 2007 4:17:01 PM
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