I would accuse him of not being Christian at all, since what he is saying and doing is the exact opposite of what Jesus would say and do. Who knows? It might make him think. At the very least, it would likely make him think twice about bugging you.
I believe that saying that Obama needed to be killed should be reported to the SS pretty soon. Just because it fits in with your comfort level is no reason NOT to let them know what was said.
Next, I wouldn’t tell anybody else about it at the office. They will just think you are obsessing on the freak.
Also, next time he was a jerk, I’d ask him how his plans to bump off the President are going, THEN, you could remind him and the others of what he said.
IMHO, you guys are a bunch of tattle-talers. So the conservative office blowhard doesn’t care if Obama dies. Unless you think he’s really unbalanced and capable of such an act, ignore the guy. He probably gets off on the attention.
The FBI and Secret Service will give him lots of attention. Another poster pointed out in an earlier thread that, according to a source at the Secret Service, Barack Obama has received more death threats than all 43 other Presidents combined. So, pardon us if we’re not exactly sanguine about threats to a man some of us worked very hard to elect. A lot of us didn’t like the last President, but how often did you hear leftists make death threats against George Bush? Maybe a few self-styled anarchists at rallies, but the big difference between the disgruntled members of left and right is that the latter tends to be fairly heavily armed.
I know of a person who was arrested by the FBI for threats on/about the president. He has been in FBI custody for several months now at least. He posted radical Libertarian-esque tirades several places on the Internet – nothing that was too much different from what the OP’s cow-orker said – which was what garnered the attention of the authorities. I have no idea if he is really dangerous but apparently the FBI thought he was enough of a risk to detain. I say, go with your gut, and it’s better to be safe than sorry.
Okay, you’ve heard many opinions about what to do. Allow me to add a little historical perspective.
This year, it has been 200 years since the birth of Abraham Lincoln. There are more pieces on television than usual about him. Many of us can recognize hundreds of facts about him, but I heard one the other day I had not heard before.
John Wilkes Booth was in the crowd at President Lincoln’s second inauguration. As he heard the speech, Booth turned to a man next to him, and he said Lincoln had to be killed. The man did not report hearing Booth say it until after Booth killed Lincoln.
If I were one of your co-workers who heard what you heard, I would have already called the Secret Service. If he had said the same thing about president George W. Bush, I would have called the Secret Service then, too. I don’t like Mr. Bush at all, but I am an American. You don’t go messing with my president.