POLITICS/NEWS: TWO CHARGED WITH PLOT / PALIN GONE ROGUE? / TELL BARACK

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Daniel Cowart, 20, and Paul Schlesselman, 18, self-described white supremacists, have been charged with plotting a “killing spree” against blacks and an assassination attempt on Sen. Barack Obama.

Both were charged with illegal possession of a sawed-off shotgun, conspiracy to rob a federally licensed gun dealer and making threats against a presidential candidate.

One law enforcement source said, “We take this very, very seriously but we see no evidence these guys have the ability or the wherewithal to pull off what they say they wanted to do.”

Obama was placed under Secret Service protection in May 2007, much earlier than other candidates…rightfully so, considering two previous cases involving threats against him. In August, three men were arrested who posed a “true threat” to the candidate. Earlier that month, a Florida man threatened to assassinate both Obama and George W. Bush.

Check out Obama’s response to this latest threat:

McCain advisers have suggested that his vice presidential candidate, Sarah Palin, is “going rogue”.

Sources say she’s gone off-message several times and even noted how “irritating” robocalls are while the campaign defended their use.

One suggests Palin is looking out for herself more than the McCain campaign: “She is a diva. She takes no advice from anyone. She does not have any relationships of trust with any of us, her family or anyone else. Also, she is playing for her own future and sees herself as the next leader of the party. Remember: Divas trust only unto themselves, as they see themselves as the beginning and end of all wisdom.”

A group of Obama supporters have created a website tell him what they want.

TellBarack.org gives visitors an opportunity to let Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama know what is important to them.

The web site includes surveys, details on several issues where visitors can comment and leave ratings and a feature where visitors can send an email to Obama. The site is not affiliated with the official Barack Obama campaign, but the site’s founders believe that with enough input from individual Americans, the Obama staff will be interested in what they have to say.

According to the founders of the site:

“Most of the information available in the media and on the web is telling Americans what Barack wants to do once he is President. But people aren’t listening close enough to what he is saying. He says it is about us. Not him. So we need to let him know what we want him to do.”