OK - now that I've got your attention, I have something to say that has been bothering me for awhile now. I am really starting to worry about the safety of our nation's first legitimate African-American presidential candidate. Our nation's first populist - and popular - anti-war candidate since Bobby Kennedy.
I first got a little nervous when I heard a couple of reports about his plane being mis-directed to the wrong airport in Iowa. The media kind of laughed this one off as one of those zany campaign trail mis-haps.
Ha Ha ! Those Washington politicians don't know Des Moines from Ottumwa ! After that came a story about his plane narrowly missing a runway collision during take-off at yet another airport. And this was when I started getting really worried.
What if there was something more sinister at work here ? What if someone was carefully setting up a scenario in which a final "accident" would occur, taking Obama's life in the process ? If you think about it, the best way to make an accident look "inevitable" would be to stage some near-accidents before-hand. Goddamnit - I hate to think like this, but I can't help it. Especially after what later happened in Texas.
Supposedly, the Dallas police were told by The Secret Service to stop searching people at the door to an Obama rally. There had been such a huge turnout, someone made the decision to keep things moving along by dropping all safety-checks and allowing everyone to enter unsearched. What the hell was that about ? Is it really a good idea to let political candidates make an appearance before a live crowd without conducting the same inspections you find at a baseball park, for Chrissakes ?
I'm not buying it. I'm worried. And scared. I'm fucking terrified that there may be forces at work who want to see Barack Obama's rise to national leadership stopped and discarded for good. He has distinguished himself as the anti-war candidate with no embarassing authorization vote in his Senate record. His speeches have drawn record crowds and inspired young voters to get involved like almost no one before him. Charm, composure and intelligence have marked his every move upon the national stage. This is a man who took his Harvard law degree to the streets of Chicago to work for housing rights for the poor. At every subsequent step in his public service carreer - Illinois legislature, U.S. Senate, Democratic presidential nominee - he has proven himself to be worthy of his supporters expectations, hopes, and ideals. Its almost certain that his ideas for change, and his potential to carry them out, have got to have some people in some certain quarters worried.
And that is what worries me.
Thank you for indulging me in a paranoid rant.
