>>I don't know that Biden's odds of holding the top position are really slimmer than McCain's VP. If you mean actuarially based the ages of McCain and Obama, I'm sure that's true. But I think there is a much higher than usual chance Obama will be assassinated if elected.
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>Obama asassination story is lingering in the air quiet long.
>http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-513512/They-kill-Obama-US-president-Outcry-Nobel-Prize-winners-assassination-warning.html

I don't know know why there was an outcry over what Doris Lessing said. You don't have to be a conspiracy theorist to think some whack job might take a shot at Obama. Personally I am more concerned about it happening during the remainder of the campaign. He will be out in large crowds far more often than a President is, plus the assassin would probably see the virtue of killing him before he could "stain" the White House. There are lots of nuts in this country, if case anyone hadn't already noticed.