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His father is from Kenya, in Africa. Not Arab.

The great chance of Obama's assasination would not be during the presidential race, but if he gets elected and has Hillary as a vice-president. If that happens, the man's toast.

Chuck, I don't think Dems need to believe their candidates will be assassinated.

My personal experience is that I hear these fears expressed most by people who lived through the '60s. A lot of these people would've been going through their "young and idealistic" phase during the '60s -- and saw a series of leaders they saw as young inspirational (JFK, RFK, MLK Jr.) cut down in their prime.

Now these people see a new candidate they find young and inspirational (and I understand you don't agree) AND who happens to be the first African-American with a realistic shot at the presidency ... in a country only a few decades removed from Jim Crow. It stirs old fears, not some subconscious hope for martyrdom.

Ironically enough, Penn of Penn and Teller has a brilliant response to this. It's entitled "Disagreeing Doesn't Make You Evil." He basically demolishes the argument that we Republicans are going to kill him.

I blogged about this on my personal blog about how I hate David Gergen's obsession with national service. I hate how everyone assumes that some nut out there is going to kill Barack Obama because he's People who disagree with you aren't going to kill you, particularly on the Right. Remember J.F.K. was killed by a Leftist and McKinley was killed by an anarchist. (Leon Czolgosz.) Good ole Ronnie Reagan was almost killed by a Jodie Foster fan and I'm not quite sure where you classify that on the Left-Right continuum.)

Of course, various nuts want to believe that Obama will be assassinated because they need to believe in the whole symbolize martyr thing. Take this Nobel Prize winner as exhibit A.