The Obama pool

Gonna start a pool. There's no pot, it's just for A) shits and giggles, and B) to hopefully provoke a more serious discussion.

Right then: racism is still rife in the US, the UK and rather a lot of other countries in the global north. Divide and rule has it's claws in deep. Barack Obama is the US's first non-white president (he's not black btw, he's mixed-race.) Not everybody is gonna take kindly to having a man of mixed ethnicity running a country where a not inconsiderable number of people still feel that racism is a god-given right.

So, how long until some zealous nutjob shoots him? It doesn't have to be fatal, but the bullet does have to come within one metre of his skin. I'm gonna say 12 months. Any other takers?

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Permalink Reply by sean harper on November 30, 2009 at 5:16pm

theres lotsa racism based threds for a mohawk site...
anyhow, in my opinion he wont get shot and if he does things will be worse, take note i'm not quite a obama supporter, but neverte less think of what'd happen if he did get shot by anychance, "america's first black president gunned down by america" that would literally create social anarchy and most likely a uprise of fanatics, government won't want that

but the main root o' te matter, he's the first black president, ond mutually due tae te reason above, the government isn't gonna let it happen, it just wouldn't fly, to strong of a supporting army, body guards, and obama supporters
it's just so likely it was prepaired for ahead o' time?

but tats just my opinion on teh matter