I’m not going to wade through all that crap to find some nut posting hate on the internet. Hannity would not cheer. He’d be kicked off the air if he did. Same for Rush. But I don’t want to debate this type of stuff. It’s what makes me lose interest in this forum.
Which would be much worse than a few nutjobs on the right “cheering”.
I think the OP adds to this whole sense of Obama the Messiah. Obama is not essential in any way to us getting along as a country.
At first, people would be glued to their TVs, for endless replays of the assassination itself and the emotional swearing-in of Biden . . . then the inner-city riots . . . then the endless talking heads of all persuasions . . . then the massively-attended state funeral.
Limbaugh, et al, would have a huge display of crocodile tears until after the funeral, when they’ll claim that the assassination was an expression of America’s refusal to accept a “socialistic” President . . . followed by attacks on Biden for continuing Obama’s policies.
Then, of course, the conspiracy theorists would take over . . . endlessly. An investigation will be underway, concluding that there was no conspiracy. But of course the theories would persist indefinitely.
Schools and streets across the country . . . and around the world . . . would be named after Obama. There would be more statues of him than anyone else in history.
Obama’s face would wind up on our money.
Basically, the country would not significantly unravel.
Answer to the OP: Nope. There’d be problems, but inertia is a marvelous thing and we’d get by, even with a term and a half of Joe Biden as president.
So was I.
I was in Lime Bar at the time, and one of my friends (a Labour voter and a big Obama fan) was on the edge of his seat.
I leaned over slowly, and then went “BAM!!”
He jumped an inch.
Then he did the same thing to me later.
Really? As a Chicagoan, and despite our mob image, I expect electoral transitions to maintain SOME decorum, and as this came close (but not nearly as close as 1960, as no numbers were disputed) to a Richard (M, not J) Daley coronation there would be no screwups. None. Whatsoever. Those things happen in other cities.
I’m not trying to be argumentative… well not more than the forum requires. 
I’m not saying Hannity will laugh. He’ll appear very contrite and saddened. But a fair number of soft heads who follow him will. He works through insinuation, they all do. Well except Beck, he just says the stuff.
Obama isn’t the Messiah. He is however a symbol for young black people that America isn’t a dead end. That they have options. It’s not magic, but I’m sure it feels like JFK made Catholics feel. And I can see that soured and shattered if he’s killed in office.
Do you remember the far left during the last presidency? One would expect the same result there so let’s don’t go on thinking that only the far right is capable of cheering on the death of a president. Here is some help if you forgot:
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Give me a fucking break… please. Face facts and get to work on fixing the Democrats.
Uh, first off a couple things. Those guys aren’t running the Democrats. So on the face of it you fail.
There is a lunatic fringe on both sides and in the middle. But the lunatic fringe is actually in charge in the Republican party now. How long did the birthers get traction with actual congress persons?
Second off, Bush actually did horrible things. Do you want me to list them? Bush was a terrible president and he just about ruined the country. Obama hasn’t done anything of that level. Talk of socialism and nazism and tyranny is simply moronic and it’s the status quo in right wing talk circles.
So fix your own party. 
There would only be cheering if the gunman took out Biden and Pelosi at the same time as Obama.
He was surrounded by bulletproof glass when he gave his victory speech on election night.
I wonder if he wears bullet proof vests everywhere he goes. I hope as much. They dont’ work with rifles, but they protect against handgun bullets.
As far as what will happen, like others have said the far right will cry crocodile tears the same way they did with Tiller to avoid any legal repercussions for their actions while letting out dog whistle shouts of joy to their loyal fans. And they’d start acting like persecuted victims when other members of the media connected the dots and tried to blame them for creating an environment where violence was seen as a viable method of political persuasion.
The country itself would go on. Obama has lost most of his appeal and cult of personality IMO. Even his biggest supporters are fairly lukewarm now and he has descended from a savior of Bush administration incompetence to basically just another politician.
Plus it is not like it’d be a surprise, which would temper reactions. When JFK was shot I am under the impression it was a surprise. Obama being shot would be horrible, but I don’t think many people would be shocked to find out it happened. It’d be more like finding our your drug addicted friend just had an OD. Its still bad, but you kindof expected it sooner or later.
Gotcha, so if Bush was killed and people cheered it would be AOK because he did stuff that you didn’t agree with. I appreciate the honesty I guess.
By the way, Who said I was a Republican? I’m not. The freepers, wnd’s and nazi’s aren’t running the party any more than the fuckwits that I linked to are running the democrats.
They’d still cheer; Biden and Pelosi are white.
Wrong; they ARE running the party.
Well, I guess if you said it, it must be true. :rolleyes:
Life goes on. The President is not particularly important to the smooth running of the country; in fact, oftentimes he’s a hindrance. Biden would do alright as a caretaker. I do think there would be some pretty serious rioting.
What nonsense. Palin, Beck, Hannity and Limbaugh are not “far right” in an American context; they’re smack in the middle of the right. None would openly cheer the death of a President, any President, even if one or all of them was secretly pleased.
This especially goes for Palin, whose hopes of winning national office would be destroyed by any sort of public comment in which she expressed approval of the hypothetical assassination.
Now this is a far more likely scenario. I can see Limbaugh especially opening with some sort of commentary designed to deflect blame from himself.
Jesus Christ. I always thought you were pretty reasonable… until now.
It wouldn’t be okay. Some Democrats would cheer of course if it had happened. A whole fucking lot of Republicans would cheer today, more than half of the Republican party are sympathetic to the birthers. Stupidity and irrationality are now officially the norm for Republicans. I’m saying that the current far-right Republican party is awash in anti-Obama hysteria.
Yes they are. They get sitting congress people to pat them on their heads and give speeches about death panels, killing old people, killing veterans, Kenyan presidents and the rise of totalitarian socialism.
You should seriously consider becoming informed before getting up in a tizzy.
I’ve been thinking of writing a story where the setting is in a post-Obama assassination universe. In a nutshell: after Obama’s assassination the country mourns. Yes, there are a few nuts, but the mood of the country is somber.
Joe Biden is sworn in and appoints Roland Burris, Obama’s replacement in the Senate, as his vice-president. Biden, widely unpopular, despised even, in his brief term in office resigns as more and more scandals pile up. Burris is sworn in as president after Biden’s resignation.
Burris, a man who was in no way prepared for the presidency, makes Biden look competent. Growing elements on the right refuse to accept Burris as legitimate. Things only get worse from there and the country is torn apart.
Those appear to be the same person.
Psst:
The talking heads won’t laugh… except possibly Beck, but he honestly might be crazy. Some of their followers, not all of them, will cheer. The freepers, word net dailyers and the others of the lunatic fringe will see it as divine intervention.
Oh, well, fair enough then. I can’t argue with that.
Ironically, the assassination of the first black President would then lead to an ex-Klansman in the WH.
But in anycase, I don’t think it would be that big a problem if Obama gets shot. We’ve lost several Presidents mid-term, and a few through violence, but the succession has gone through pretty smoothly in all cases. Obama would get elevated to psudeo-martyr status in the same way Kennedy was, some far right bloggers might say some distasteful things but I agree most or all of the ones with actual jobs they can loose will at least feign sadness. There might be some racial-rioting, but even that I think would be fairly mild. Biden would certainly be under a lot of pressure to pick a black person for VP though (Holder, maybe).
