re: #20 DaddyG

I think it has been “piled up” for a long time. The election of a black President just emboldened the closet dwellers to start flinging it again.

From the links:

msnbc.msn.com

In response to a question from Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-D.C., he said Obama had not had an extraordinary number of threats against his life, contrary to her assertion, and said that Obama had received no more such threats at this point in his term than his two predecessors.