Posted by
Playful Walrus on Tuesday, September 29, 2009 1:00:00 PM
A poll by a Facebook user where one of the options is threatening to our President? Really? Thankfully, Facebook managers removed the offensive poll.
Whether these kinds of threats are being made by sincere conservatives/libertarians/dissenters, or whether they are being made by Leftists trying to make those other people look bad, threats against the President as a person are inexcusable. Threaten his political career, say that his legacy will be a negative one - that's one thing. But we are a nation of laws, and we have lawful means of opposing a President's proposals without violence. We have lawful means of removing a President from office - elections, or impeachment/conviction if a President has committed serious crime.
Let us neither sink to the level of threats against the person nor shy away from our duty to stand up for the Constitution and the liberty it was designed to protect. That's true patriotism.