To the NSA reviewer reading this post, no actual Presidents were harmed in the writing of this post.
I’ve seen several people saying that Barack Obama is more likely to be a target for assassination because he’s half black. Is there any truth to this? Not just in the sense of the President’s race but overall.
I’ve always assumed that potential assassinations were living in another world from the rest of us. Their motivation is completely internal. If somebody is going to shoot the President in 2010, it won’t matter if it’s John McCain or Barack Obama. He’ll be shooting the President because he’s trying to get a date with Hillary Duff or get people to spay their pets or because he deciphered a secret message in a Seinfeld rerun. He’ll barely notice who the person is he’s shooting at.
Am I right or wrong? Are assassination attempts pretty much random occurences? You get shot if somebody happens to go crazy and then get lucky when you’re President? Or are there factors that make a President more likely to be the target of an assassination attempt?