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It’s not funny or just a sick joke and it should be treated as a direct threat to the President of the United States. I’m sure you heard about the poll that was going around Facebook, which asked the question, “Should Obama be killed?” According to Facebook the poll was submitted by an anonymous user with an outside application and was taken down within hours of posting but not before 730 people responded. Conservatives are free to trot out the first amendment again but there are limits to free speech. One of which is you are not allowed to make threats against the President of the United States in fact it is a federal crime. Whether it was meant to be a joke or some college prank is irrelevant, the Secret Service has launched an investigation, with the help of Facebook and the user will be tracked down and prosecuted to the fullest extent the law allows for threats against the president.

Of course this is not an isolated incident. In fact according to the Secret Service, President Obama receives at least 30 threats a day, four times more than former President Bush and has been provided with Secret Service agents since he announced his intention to run for president in 2007. I wonder why. Have you heard about Steven Anderson the white pastor from Tempe Arizona? He preached a sermon entitled “Why I Hate Barack Obama”. Must be some of that new age religion. He preaches in his sermon that he prays President Obama would get brain cancer like Ted Kennedy and die. Anderson called his message “Spiritual Warfare”. Scary? How about this, at a rally where Obama was appearing the next day, one of Anderson’s parishioners showed up flaunting an assault rifle and a gun. Scarier still, the parishioner was a black man. Now there may be no law against praying for the death of the president but there has to be one for inciting violence against the president.

How about this, the Secret Service is investigating a Maryland man who held a sign, which read “Death to Obama” and “Death to Michelle and her two stupid kids” outside a town hall meeting. Earlier this summer a man stood across the street from a Presidential town hall meeting with his gun proudly and prominently displayed. So what is the conservative take on all of this? They say this is the latest sign of the public anger with the Obama healthcare plan. Hunh? How about this is the latest sign of more of these nut jobs coming out of the wood work fueled by the Republican party’s bitter, venomous and forceful opposition to all things Obama. How about the fact that they have done nothing to condemn or discourage these people. And how about they accept the blame for all the Facebook, Pastor Anderson, sign carrying, gun-toting idiots they’ve created.