When men with guns haunt Barack Obama, could we at least notice?

It was less than six weeks ago when a man walked into the Democrat Party Headquarters in Little Rock and murdered Arkansas Democratic Party chairman Bill Gwatney.

Since then, there have been two high-profile cases of men with guns have come frighteningly close to Democratic Presidential nominee Barack Obama. Or at least, they would be high-profile if anyone seemed to care that men with guns and other instruments of assassination were haunting one of the United States’ most prominent politicians.

During the Democratic national Convention, three men were arrested in Denver with methamphetamines, guns and bulletproof vests and had made racist threats against Barack Obama. Federal authorities immediately announced that they had no intention of killing the Senator from Illinois.

Today, a man drove up to the security perimeter around Obama’s Illinois home with a gun on the floor of his car and a bulletproof vest.

Try to find that story in the mainstream media today, even though it ran in the Chicago Sun-Times.

When President Bush was handed a daily briefing titled “Bin Laden determined to strike in the U.S.” he promptly ignored it. And while there’s no need to panic over these two instances involving Obama, ignoring danger rarely has good results. If people with guns haunt a U.S. Presidential candidate, the stories need to be told and not brushed away as nothing.

–WKW

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