The Assassination Smear 2

I agree with a lot of what Noah said in a comment to my Assassination Smear post and just want to highlight and clarify some of it, and disagree with some it. I didn't excerpt all of his comments, so read it there. You can check out Noah's progressive blog here.

I would really like to think this [Obama assassination] isn't a possibility, but that would be naïve – it's all good to be wary of security risks.
Yes, increasing security was the right decision, due to the crowds attracted by Obama's candidacy. But not only bloggers and media, but people at the water cooler are getting a little carried away with saying Obama is going to get assassinated. I can't trace any of the "assassination smear" to the Hillary campaign, although the first draft of my post tried to (water cooler types excepted) until I edited it.

I feel as though Brunstein was not referring to mainstream society.
I'm not sure I implied otherwise. There is always going to some nut out there outside the mainstream, but I think whether "decency and reconciliation" is going to be the last straw for that nut is an open question. I wasn't sure Benazir Bhutto needed to be dragged into this conversation, either.

The chances of Hillary accepting the VP slot is extremely slim, in my mind. I have a post of my blog about this.

Don't you think she would like to be a Dick Cheney style puppetmaster? ;)

I really doubt the upper-Clinton campaign is really trying to smear Obama based off of that incredibly stupid Muslim "argument"

Really? She sure is milking the religious-guilt-by-association card for all its worth in the case of Rev. Jeremiah Wright, so it would seem to be in character.

(what's wrong with having Islam as your faith, anyway?).
Nothing at all, but that makes the Muslim "smear," if it is coming from Hillary, more egregious, not less, because she would be playing to people's prejudices.