
Shortly after the election of Barack Obama as the first person of both African and European descent to the Presidency of the United States of America, a news item circulated across the country that exposed an ugly vein of incipient violence lurking in Eastern Idaho. Apparently schoolchildren on a public school bus in Rexburg, Idaho , began chanting "Assassinate Obama, Assassinate Obama." It's quite possible that the students didn't understand the full meaning of "assassinate," nor comprehended the full implications of what they were saying. However, those who started the chant had heard those words put together some place and decided it was acceptable to publicly broadcast them. Raw Story carried a story , as well as KIDK . Even though Rexburg is politically very conservative, with 93 percent of the voters voting for McCain and Palin in the 2008 election, and with an overwhelming Mormon influence, that neither excuses nor explains such frankly anti-A...