Can a president still get shot?

[FlippyD]

Nowadays, if you shoot the president they shoot back.

... With RPGs...

 

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I think an assassination would cross the line, most Americans have had enough with all the shit that has gone on in America anyway. But if someone is so Racist that the don't believe an African American can run the country.... We have been tring whites for along time, and that has only gotten us into the hole we are in now ,it is time to try something different.

I have to disagree with you if you think being black is the kind of change Obama is talking about. The whole idea is that race has absolutely no impact on a person's ability to govern, not that white people got it wrong so black people should be given a shot at it, that's really sad.

@Ixis: come on man you know the president only gets a crowbar (or an umbrella).

 

[Incognitus]

In the first instance the question is patently absurd: The President can still be shot so long as guns fire bullets - although given how much security there is surrounding POTUS nowadays you would be unlikely to get an unwarrented photograph, let alone empty a bullet into his brain... or maybe that's just for Bush. (And no obvious jokes about how Bush doesn't have a brain in which to plug a bullet plz!  :straightthumb

In the second instance, how likely it actually is, very much open to debate. There could be a genuine Lone Assassin case - it is unlikely that there would be a "co-ordinated" attack on Obama by the people you'd think would do so; having looked around to find out what people at Stormfront or Aryan Nation seem to think or feel, you kind of get the impression that they consider a McCain Presidency more of an affront to their whole schtick than an Obama Presidency.
One of the sites I saw had a thread about the injustice that saviour of the white man is, in fact, a nigger. (But it was shot down and attacked several times, for some very good reasons - even for racists).

@Ixis: come on man you know the president only gets a crowbar (or an umbrella).

No. He can fight back with Saddam's WMDs: invisible, so they'll never see them coming.

 

[FlippyD]

@Mr.N

I meant more that the secret service now have men equipped with rocket-propelled grenades in hidden spaces to help defend the president... With hot sexy explodey JUSTICE!!

But, while the president starts out with the crowbar, he can eventually work his way up to shotguns, miniguns, a magical crossbow and the BFG.

 

[Incognitus]

I meant more that the secret service now have men equipped with rocket-propelled grenades in hidden spaces to help defend the president

Have they become a lot smaller recently, because I imagine that could be pretty uncomfortable. Not to mention dangerous.

 

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Actually they have, I don't know if you've seen the new ceramic composite RPG launchers the military has but they're extremely compact, about the size of, say, an XBOX. I actually worked where these were developed, knew some of the engineers, they are badass, light as a feather (of course I couldn't get anywhere near the weapons themselves, just the launchers). The rockets are significantly smaller too, if you could imagine about the size of a paper towel roll. I'm sure they're pretty heavy.

Also I forgive you guys for totally missing that obscure reference to crowbars and umbrellas

 

[JoshieBoy]

I think an assassination would cross the line, most Americans have had enough with all the shit that has gone on in America anyway. But if someone is so Racist that the don't believe an African American can run the country.... We have been tring whites for along time, and that has only gotten us into the hole we are in now ,it is time to try something different.

I have to disagree with you if you think being black is the kind of change Obama is talking about. The whole idea is that race has absolutely no impact on a person's ability to govern, not that white people got it wrong so black people should be given a shot at it, that's really sad.

@Ixis: come on man you know the president only gets a crowbar (or an umbrella).

What do you suppose we do? Give it to McCain? We need a Change. McCain is no different than Bush. Obama Could possibly present a change that could fix all of our problems, or he could make them all worse.

 

[sixtyandaquarter]

hahahahahaha
a president?  fix our problems?  wait - wait... ALL our problems?
hahahahahaha

 

[sixtyandaquarter]

okay to actually be on record,
that whole joke's out there.  we're voting for vice presidents, yadda yadda - one get's shot the other has a mac attack, yadda yadda.

Thing really isn't "can" a president get shot, it's "if" a president get's shot, what will happen.  Not really a "when" since it's inevitable that eventually someone will one day get shot, but the whole question I'm thinking wouldn't really be "can it" or "how would" or all that jazz.  How would it happen/how would it affect.  I'm just thinking the finality of if.  Because it's just... boring.

also, rmxp.org, welcome to the black watch list :D
way to go :straightthumb:

 

[FlippyD]

I meant more that the secret service now have men equipped with rocket-propelled grenades in hidden spaces to help defend the president

Have they become a lot smaller recently, because I imagine that could be pretty uncomfortable. Not to mention dangerous.

Hidden =/ small, but Mr.N is right. And by umbrellas and crowbars all I could come up with was Half Life.

 

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I was referencing "the Hunted" a TFC map where one team escorts a fat penguinesque president equipped with a brutally powerful umbrella (sometimes crowbar) through a shipping yard infested with terrorist assassins. I love that map : )

 

[rey meustrus]

Just wait...another fifteen years (I think) and we can figure out the "how" of the Kennedy assassination.  Magic bullets explained

 

[FlippyD]

Obviously, wizards.

 

[arbiter]

;D

 

[Incognitus]

Just wait...another fifteen years (I think) and we can figure out the "how" of the Kennedy assassination.  Magic bullets explained

We don't need to worry about all that crap anymore: There's been a confession. Move on! :D

 

[Cryranos]

I'd be afraid if Palin were to poison McCain, and then write it off as old age and she becomes president.

Hmm... Obama gets shot, he gets more powerful and we get Biden.  On the other hand, McCain dies, and we get Palin.

I don't think McCain is a bad choice, but... Palin?  She's not my first pick as president.

Good thing I'm not able to vote for president until next election!

 

[FlippyD]

I don't think Palin has to poison McCain.

 

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*laugh* That's a good conspiracy theory

 

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For the record though a Biden presidency terrifies me. The guy is one of the biggest drug warrior surveillance mongers in the Senate. Obama took a huge hit in my mind when he picked that guy. The fact that he's extremely well-informed and intelligent unfortunately hasn't helped him see that the policies he's supported are sometimes very extremely wrong.

 

[FlippyD]

I don't think it's that he doesn't realize he's wrong, I think it's that it's one of those things that gets you reelected and makes you feel like you're actually doing something. That and perhaps he could be out of touch with reality a bit.

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