There ain't nothing new under the sun

This morning, I read an article on ABC News.com about a "thwarted" assassination attempt of Barack Obama. It is one week before this "historic" (depending on your definition) election. The pundits across the networks have basically handed the election to the Obama camp. They believe that the exit polls do not lie and Obama's lead in these statistics is enough to assume that he will be come president of the United States of America. So today, October 28, is the day the media finally decides to shed the light on the fact that people are plotting killing sprees and assassinations of this "transformational" leader. Like I said before, it ain't nothing new under the sun. This should not come to a surprise to anyone who has remotely studied American political history. Transformational leaders always have threats for thier lives. Especially, transformational black leaders. We want to firmly believe that times are different and that this shallow outward racism no longer exists, but that is simply not the case. People hate. People hate. People hate. There is a video of confession back from August here.
A Seattle PI blog reported that 'assassinate obama' was one of the top 100 google search phrases. An artist even took the liberty of creating the following art exhibit entitle the assassination of Barack Obama: http://www.theassassinationofbarackobama.com/.
Even outside of the United States people envision it happening:

STOCKHOLM (AFP) - If Barack Obama becomes the next US president he will surely be assassinated, British Nobel literature laureate Doris Lessing predicted in a newspaper interview published here Saturday.

Obama, who is vying to become the first black president in US history, "would certainly not last long, a black man in the position of president. They would murder him," Lessing, 88, told the Dagens Nyheter daily. (Huffington Post)

There isn't a damn thing new under the sun....

The reality, the harsh reality, a compromise of ideology it seems to me is that Barack and Michelle must discuss on the regular basis how real his assassination could be. An ultimate sacrifice, for a worthy cause? I do not believe so, but that has to be rationalized on their terms... and as far as it is displayed it has to be in order for them to continue so valiantly towards to White House....