[MMike]

...the assassination thereof.

Makes me wonder if it happened today.......

a) would they even consider a white guy as a suspect?
b) it happened in Dallas. Would Texans be as upset if a DEMOCRATIC president were killed nowadays?

 

[mattmatt86]

Read this article earlier today, doesn't exactly answer your questions but brings up a similar subject matter.

The mood has not subsided since. But in the final stretch of 2010, the radical right’s anger is becoming less focused, more free-floating — more likely to be aimed at “government” in general, whatever the location or officials in charge. The anger is also more likely to claim minorities like gays, Latinos and Muslims as collateral damage. This is a significant and understandable shift, if hardly a salutary one. The mad-as-hell crowd in America, still not seeing any solid economic recovery on the horizon, will lash out at any convenient scapegoat.

 

[kidwoo]

a) would they even consider a white guy as a suspect?

That would be my FIRST profile by a long shot.

 

[MMike]

That would be my FIRST profile by a long shot.

racist!!

 

[Pesqueeb]

Read this article earlier today, doesn't exactly answer your questions but brings up a similar subject matter.

In a cover article last month, Barton Gellman wrote in Time that the magazine’s six-month investigation found that “the threat level against the president and other government targets” is at its highest since the antigovernment frenzy that preceded Timothy McVeigh’s bombing of a federal building in Oklahoma City in 1995.

How long until we see something similar again? Within a year I'm guessing. Especially if the Tea Baggers get systemically shut down this election. To answer mmike question, no and no.