#BARACK OBAMA

[prettiestpear]

[mysharona1987]

The body count of the people in this picture. It must be astronomical.

[theconservativecowgirl]

How Trump and Obama acted at Jimmy Carters funeral is how politics should be. Civil, able to joke and laugh with each other, and viewing them as a friendly competitor rather than an enemy. And it's not just one side treating the other like and enemy, it's all sides against the others.

[dosesofcommonsense]

I don’t believe General Flynn is done. There are some key appointments that Trump hasn’t named yet. He’s intentionally held them back. I’m hoping Flynn is in that group (CIA and someone who would clean house between all “intelligence groups” like an Intelligence Czar).

[hussyknee]

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[truth4ourfreedom]

DO YOU REMEMBER THE EARRINGS ISSUE FROM THE DEBATE? WATCH THIS! OMG!

Thoughts? Mine are like, cheat and steal! The Democrat way!

[mostly-funnytwittertweets]

[one-time-i-dreamt]

Any mention of Obama was referred to as "Dropping That O-Bomb" in a similar fashion to "the F-bomb" and Obama started making vent TikToks about it.

[liberalsarecool]

The stars are aligning. #FirstWomanPresident

[jasondamien93]

[dosesofcommonsense]

Obama is a traitor. For this and many more things.

Really?! Conspiracy theory?!

Let’s look at some history.

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[mikkeneko]

On January 30, 1835, US president Andrew Jackson was confronted by Richard Lawrence, who twice attempted to shoot him in the back with a pistol but the gun did not fire. Andrew Jackson proceeded to beat the crap out of Lawrence with his cane. Jackson did not run again in the 1836 election.

On October 14, 1912, former US President and running candidate for the 1912 election Theodore Roosevelt was shot in the chest by John Schrank while on the campaign trail in Milwaukee. He stayed at the podium and delivered the remark "Friends, I shall ask you to be as quiet as possible. I don't know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot—but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose." Despite the extreme badassery of this line, he lost the 1912 election to Woodrow Wilson.

On May 15, 1972, US presidential candidate George Wallace was shot by a man named Arthur Bremer in Laurel, Maryland. He was injured enough by the attempt that he retired from the 1972 election. He ran for president again in 1976, and did not succeed.

On September 5, 1975, US president Gerald Ford was confronted on the grounds of the Capitol Building by Lynette Fromme, who attempted to shoot him but was not successful; he then went on to be shot at by another woman, Jane Moore, less than two weeks later. Ford campaigned for re-election in the 1976 election, but lost to Jimmy Carter.

While looking up citations for this post I found out about any number of presidential assassination attempts I never even knew about; Wikipedia has an entire category page for them (and another for successful assassinations.) Gerald Ford was shot at twice in two weeks, and Barack Obama at least three times.

Sadly, this type of political violence in the United States is not at all new, not at all uncommon, and the incidence of attempted assassination seems to have no correlation whatsoever as to the individual's success rate in future elections.