I'm not more worried about Obama getting shot at than any other President. Ford was shot at, Reagan got shot, and I believe there have been plots against Clinton and GWB as well (I can't remember anyone going after Carter other than a killer rabbit). There are bad people out there, and every president is at risk. We just have to have confidence in our Secret Service that they know what they're doing and can protect the people they are supposed to protect.
But I am troubled by this messianic aura many people seem to perceive around Obama. That's dangerous. The government can't give you fulfillment or personal salvation - only you can do that. The adulation and exaltation, to me, are dangerous. That's the sort of reverence for the leader that people have in a fascist state. Obama is certainly no fascist, but that impulse in his devotees is a dangerous one. He is just a politician. Yes, a very gifted speaker and, so far as I'm able to tell, a genuinely nice person - but still, just a politician. I don't adore any politician, and I don't think anyone else should either, except the politician's spouse, kids and parents.
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