# What's with this disturbing trend (Obama assassination)

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-this-disturbing-trend-obama-assassination/470879>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [November 3, 2008, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-this-disturbing-trend-obama-assassination/470879 "2008-11-03T16:35:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2008, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-this-disturbing-trend-obama-assassination/470879/101 "2008-11-06T01:03:56Z")

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To be fair, John McCain seems to be in fine health, and having at least one living parent at 90+ is a pretty damn good sign.

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**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2008, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-this-disturbing-trend-obama-assassination/470879/102 "2008-11-06T01:18:49Z")

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> [@Der\_Trihs](#):
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> Most of the people now alive were either unborn or children. And the left rather notoriously sold out and gave up it’s principles. So yes, the 60s were another world.
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> They have quite thoroughly demonized themselves what with invasions and torture and so forth. And I fail to see why meeting these people halfway is either ethical or desirable.
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> Nonsense. Hatred is neither good nor bad; it’s just another emotion. And often a quite constructive one; few tyrants would be overthrown or resisted without it. Hatred isn’t always bad. Love isn’t always good. Compromise isn’t always the best position. And so on; those absolutes don’t work.

Well, you’ve proved my points.

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**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2008, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-this-disturbing-trend-obama-assassination/470879/103 "2008-11-06T01:27:12Z")

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> [@j666](#):
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> Well, you’ve proved my points.

Um, no I didn’t.

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