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Originally Posted by JonInMiddleGA
I believe an assassination is a virtual certainty, more a matter of "when" not "if". But for the hypersensitive, let me state categorically that I'm not calling for that to happen nor advocating that it happen. I'm simply stating that I believe that there's a high likelihood that it happens. So that is definitely not the close proximity miracle I was referring to.
Nope, that reference was to having the term of eventual President Biden turn out to be more tolerable than the one we would otherwise get. Given the climate that I believe would likely follow an assassination, that would take at least a minor miracle in its own right (since I suspect the Obama agenda would go sailing along on the coattails of his martyrdom).
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I'm a little concerned about that possibility in the first paragraph. There's still a lot of stupid in this world and in this country but I like to naively thing we've gotten past it. Not that there aren't people racist enough or filled with enough hate to try something but to do something like an assassination, you have to have more than a motive- you still have to have means and opportunity. So, I'm hoping a combination of all 3 aren't readily available.
As for the second paragraph- we've seen how people react here to tragedy in "recent history". After Kennedy, Johnson did a lot of what you just said tho I think he was a more forceful advocate for things he pushed than Biden. In short, he had more of an agenda than I think Biden does. Oklahoma City resulted in a lot of uproar but not much done- some militia scapegoating and a bunch of regulations on buying fertilizer but much ado about nothing. However, 9/11 and the recent economic problems have shown we're more than willing to act hastily and stupidly in the face of a crisis. But during those, people were pannicked because they were individually affected and there was wild sentiment to get something done- I'm not sure how an assassination plays into that as it's clear that only one person is a target.
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