The civil liberties’ attorney said there has been an up-tick, a pretty sizable up-tick, in violence from fringe, white, skin-head, Western cowboy, Michigan thumb, tea party, old, hardly movin’ folk movin’ toward mainstream groups since, none other than, Barak Obama, middle name Hussein, appeared on the scene, audaciously according to all the previously mentioned, as, of all things, our (our?) president, our (Are you kidding me, they wonder.) Commander-in-Chief (Hey, dude, who wears the fatigues, the cowboy boots and the 9 mm Glocks around here?). The loonies, apparently, were willing to put up with Dubya, probably, mostly because he was a sorta, simple, white guy who spoke in Texas colloquial even if he had a Brahmin background which was hidden behind “Ah, shucks, wood chompin’, brush clearin’ I’m the decider,” middle Texas talk. And they’ve got guns, lots of guns and they are not only pointing them, they are now shooting them here, there and everywhere and they are scared, oh, so scared and oh, so dangerous like a cornered rat in our now rodent ridden NRA nation, and even though I’ve been concerned for the president’s safety from the beginning, I, now, just really want the President to finish out his second, duly elected term, faster than those two and a half remaining years and get on with a requisite memoir, a foundation, a legacy and, by the grace of God, old, really old age given a guy who is in such good shape now, now that he has finally quit smoking and this from a guy who turned the corner of 144^th and Halsted Street as the newscaster broke in on the radio station to say that John Fitzgerald Kennedy had been shot in Dallas, Texas.