The New Media Journal | The Kennedy Factor: Why Obama Should Be Worried by Albert Kirkpatrick Adamson

The New Media Journal | The Kennedy Factor: Why Obama Should Be Worried by Albert Kirkpatrick Adamson: "In recent days, the media has remarked extensively on the concern that President Obama’s life might be threatened by various hate groups and ostracized conservatives. It is true that assassinations have a strong historical precedent, and that a good cause attracts everyone, unfortunately even some whackos. (John Brown, for instance, comes to mind for Abolitionism.) Unfortunately, the situation isn’t as simple as the media wants to make it.



As his health care program grinds to a halt in the face of a minority opposition in congress and he is less and less able to deliver on all of the massive promises he made during the election, Obama is in increasing danger of violence from both sides of the fringe political spectrum. The simple fact is that as the years wear on, he may become more useful to the Radical Left as a dead symbol than as a living president.



American history has seen a couple of examples of an assassination resulting in what I label the “Kennedy Factor.” Abraham Lincoln became the first in 1865, but John F. Kennedy himself is the more dramatic example. Before his murder, in domestic policy, Kennedy was ineffective at best, and in fact could not even successfully manage a Democrat-controlled Congress. Many of hi"