Obama's Almost Assassin

[Vercetti Thug]

Found this on MSN. Who in their right mind wants to kill Obama?

MIAMI - A man who authorities said was keeping weapons and military-style gear in his hotel room and car appeared in court Thursday on charges he threatened to assassinate Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.

Raymond Hunter Geisel, 22, was arrested by the Secret Service on Saturday in Miami and was ordered held at Miami's downtown detention center without bail Thursday by a federal magistrate.

A Secret Service affidavit charges that Geisel made the threat during a training class for bail bondsmen in Miami in late July. According to someone else in the 48-member class, Geisel allegedly referred to Obama with a racial epithet and continued, "If he gets elected, I'll assassinate him myself."

Obama was most recently in Florida on Aug. 1-2 but did not visit the South Florida area.

Another person in the class quoted Geisel as saying that "he hated George W. Bush and that he wanted to put a bullet in the president's head," according to the Secret Service.

Geisel denied in a written statement to a Secret Service agent that he ever made those threats, and the documents don't indicate that he ever took steps to carry out any assassination. He was charged only with threatening Obama, the presumptive Democratic nominee, but not for any threat against President Bush.

Geisel's court-appointed attorney declined comment.

In the interview with a Secret Service agent, Geisel said "if he wanted to kill Senator Obama he simply would shoot him with a sniper rifle, but then he claimed that he was just joking," according to court documents.

A search of Geisel's 1998 Ford Explorer and hotel room in Miami uncovered a loaded 9mm handgun, knives, dozens of rounds of ammunition including armor-piercing types, body armor, military-style fatigues and a machete. The SUV was wired with flashing red and yellow emergency lights.

Geisel told the Secret Service he was originally from Bangor, Maine, and had been living recently in a houseboat in the Florida Keys town of Marathon, according to court documents. He said he used the handgun for training for the bail bondsman class, had the knives for protection and used the machete to cut brush in Maine.

In the affidavit, the Secret Service said Geisel told agents that he suffered from psychiatric problems including post-traumatic stress disorder, but he couldn't provide the names of any facilities where he sought treatment

Edited August 8, 2008 by Vercetti Thug

[Nate10]

Meh, not too surprising but definitley scary to hear about more people going to assasinate, presidents, or anybody. So how'd the guy get caught?

@sky-

Do you not like Obama? I usually have good sarcasm-radar but.........

Edited August 8, 2008 by Nate14

[WRX22B1998]

lol. pretty freaky

"if he wanted to kill Senator Obama he simply would shoot him with a sniper rifle, but then he claimed that he was just joking

eheh talk about idiot. "il kill him. nah just joking"..especially to a secret service agent lol. durr retard

[Pandora]

Who in their right mind wants to kill Obama?

Well... er, people who hate him? Rightwing extremists?

And what's on this Obama loving on the Internet? McCain has a lead (strangely), though everybody just doesn't shut up about Obama. What makes people think Obama is so special? He starting to look like a populist more and more if you ask me..

[Vercetti Thug]

All the teenagers like Obama for some reason. Its like, at school I ask people and they're like "Obama!" and "Fucking Obama owns!" and "Mccain is Bush on crack!"

Unfortunately, i think Mccain's gonna win if hes Bush on crack, cause Bush, no matter what drug he uses on himself, always wins out.

[Pandora]

I hate teenagers that don't know shit about politics in the first place and think Obama is awesome just because they've heard his name in the media.

Sure, support Obama. No problem, but you better have a reason too. I know many who think he's awesome, but they can't say one thing Obama stands for. That's what annoys me. He's like a celebrity. Treated much better than others and in most cases for no real obvious reason.

[Vercetti Thug]

But your saying you'd like to see him dead? Cause if your saying that in this topic, thats what you mean. Say that in another topic and we'll cover it there.