What are your thoughts on talking about killing our elected officals?

I think it is a blatently iresponsable and shamefull thing to do, period. I know of only a few examples from the mainstream commercial venues, some have already been mentioned here, like Al Frankin's infamous line. One I haven't mentioned yet, though not really a call for a killing, was when John Kerry said he wished "palin would go missing". I would imagine the fbi or secret servic does look in to each and every one of thses cases, most are probably quickly discarded as rhetoric from "fat mouths" as you put it. Otheres are probably investigated a little more deeply, depending on who made the statement and the circumstances around it, though these people probably had no idea they were ever looked in to. Just out of curiosity, did you post this with any one particular incident in mind?

I think it's grossly inappropriate. I haven't heard anyone on TV talking about it lately, but I do remember back in 2001 when people at the NAACP cheered a woman who said she wanted Strom Thurmond to die so democrats would get the majority in the senate. I generally assume the FBI chalks it up to "fat mouths" as you say. They can't very well investigate every single person who makes such a comment. With the president I assume they do at least some measure of investigation anytime someone makes such a comment. I'm sure such things were said about Bush, but the only "fat head" I specifically remember was Al Franken when he joked about helping al Quaeda kill the president. Clearly it didn't matter much to the voters of Minnesota or the democrats in congress.

I think that when the media talks about this stuff its because they want to make it a point to scare people. If somebody wanted to do it there is nothing that could stop them but when the media "talks" about it they just wait for it to happen and then blame some religious nut. They just love stiring up fear when there isn't any.

It doesn't surprise me one bit that people are doing this, and it surprises me that no one does a thing about it. Many of these talking heads say these things to get better ratings, so they can make more money. Often they don't say they want to kill someone, they just imply it, and then say that YOU are the one implying that they said that. I think that people should be accountable, but I think that it is the job of the American people to hold them accountable. If you don't like what someone says, then go after the station that they are on, and the sponsers of their programs. If they can't make money doing it, then they will be off the air fast (we all learned that from the Christian Coalition back in the 80's).

No friend, this would be too bad. Now as you are not getting benefit there fore you are wanting to kill but why did you elect them and now look for some better solution.

There's only two goals to the killing of these officials, one is power, the other is revenge..mos specially if the elected official did the right thing and has busted every single corrupt activities of other officials and ordinary people..