# Man held in Florida for threatening Obama's life

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [August 8, 2008, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-held-in-florida-for-threatening-obamas-life/459265 "2008-08-08T04:47:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2008, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-held-in-florida-for-threatening-obamas-life/459265/1 "2008-08-08T04:47:09Z")

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[Story here](http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26077318).

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> MIAMI - A man who authorities said was keeping weapons and military-style gear in his hotel room and car appeared in court Thursday on charges he threatened to assassinate Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.
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> Geisel allegedly referred to Obama with a racial epithet and continued, “If he gets elected, I’ll assassinate him myself.”
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> In the interview with a Secret Service agent, Geisel said “if he wanted to kill Senator Obama he simply would shoot him with a sniper rifle, but then he claimed that he was just joking,” according to court documents.

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**Author:** ![Don\_t\_fight\_the\_hypothetical](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/59ef9b/32.png) [@Don\_t\_fight\_the\_hypothetical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_fight_the_hypothetical)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2008, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-held-in-florida-for-threatening-obamas-life/459265/2 "2008-08-08T07:02:49Z")

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“Holy shit, the Democratic presidential candidate is (clang) near!”

[Kia Malone](http://www.dailybuzz.tv/index.php) has been saying that the black community is fearful that if elected, Obama will be assasinated. So much so many will not vote for him for that reason.

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**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2008, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-held-in-florida-for-threatening-obamas-life/459265/3 "2008-08-08T14:24:10Z")

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[QUOTE=Don’t fight the hypothetical]  
[Kia Malone](http://www.dailybuzz.tv/index.php) has been saying that the black community is fearful that if elected, Obama will be assasinated. So much so many will not vote for him for that reason.  
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I don’t know what the basis for that idea is, but I really don’t think all those people I’m seeing wearing or selling Obama t-shirts and painting Obama murals are going to stay home in November.

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**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2008, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-held-in-florida-for-threatening-obamas-life/459265/4 "2008-08-08T14:30:28Z")

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In fairness, the accused is an equal opportunity whackjob.

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Another person in the class quoted Geisel as saying that “he hated George W. Bush and that he wanted to put a bullet in the president’s head,” according to the Secret Service.  
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