Brucc, in my not at all humble opinion, point #3 of your first post to this thread is waaay over the line, especially given this information:

www.telegraph.co.uk/.../barackobama/.../Barack-Obama-faces-30-death-threats-a-day-stretching-US-Secret-Service.html

"Barack Obama faces 30 death threats a day, stretching US Secret Service

US President Barack Obama is the target of more than 30 potential death threats a day and is being protected by an increasingly over-stretched and under-resourced Secret Service, according to a new book.

Since Mr Obama took office, the rate of threats against the president has increased 400 per cent from the 3,000 a year or so under President George W. Bush, according to Ronald Kessler, author of In the President's Secret Service.

Some threats to Mr Obama, whose Secret Service codename is Renegade, have been publicised, including an alleged plot by white supremacists in Tennessee late last year to rob a gun store, shoot 88 black people, decapitate another 14 and then assassinate the first black president in American history."...

www.telegraph.co.uk/.../barackobama/.../Barack-Obama-faces-30-death-threats-a-day-stretching-US-Secret-Service.html

Sorry. The hyperlink will not work for this article. But it can be accessed through google.

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Bruce, to refer to or joke about a US President possibly being assasinated is bad enough. But the method you referred to-hanging-is very much like a modern day lynching, and that makes this topic even more distasteful.

Of course, your opinion may differ and you may say that this is all in fun. This is Mudcat after all....