You know, I get these weird thoughts flash in my head too when I watch him speak. “is he gonna get assassinated?”

But really it’s meaningless and irrational. There is nothing to back up thoughts like that really. The fact that a couple other great men who were instigating change got assassinated, King and Kennedy, really has no bearing.

And if it were to happen those of us who said it can’t even claim to have been right all along. It is a purely meaningless irrational thought. Nothing to base predictions on.

I think its simply an inward projection of our own little fears mixed with a dose of cynicism. The last 8 years sure as hell have made many of us cynics.

I disagree on the “irrational” part. There is a huge difference between an assumption that has the capability to be correct and a “prediction”. I don’t think this is a prediction,(if Obama were to be assassinated- I wouldn’t be jumping up and yelling “I called! I called it!) but nor do I think it’s irrational.There is a clear pattern in US politics of silencing the voice of reason once that voice gains momentum. Recognizing a (glaringly obvious) pattern is far from being a “meaningless irrational thought”.