Just an idle thought

[gemfyre]

The U.S. is overdue for another presidential assasination...

Comments

[shewholaughs.livejournal.com]

I was actually discussing this with my housemates last night.

[jakie-em.livejournal.com]

be patient... at least wait until after this election to find out how badly it is needed

[gemfyre.livejournal.com]

Well of course.

I would vote no confidence myself. Wanted to do the same in the Oz elections.

[gemfyre.livejournal.com]

woe is being an anarchist.

[jakie-em.livejournal.com]

but if you voted no confidence we could never get howard out... we couldn't anyway but...

BTW if Bush was assasinated they would make him a martyr the same way they did with the lying, cheating weakwilled kennedy.

[gemfyre.livejournal.com]

I was rather fond of Kennedy.

Like Clinton - people concentrated too much on his personal life which had nothing to do with how he was running the country.

[sternenglanz.livejournal.com]

People think that Reagan surviving the assassination attempt broke the cycle.

Good thing you're not in the States, btw. The FBI would be knocking on your door as we speak ^_~

[berrytown.livejournal.com]

I heard something about that it only counts for presidents that have been chosen by the people and Bush wasn't really because the counting went wrong?
I dunno THAT much about it.
Between how many presidents did it happen?
There was a differance about how they where chosen the ones that did not died while they where supposedly next.

I should ask that woman who said something like this how she ment it exactly.

[sternenglanz.livejournal.com]

It's a twenty-year cycle. Presidents elected in a year ending in 0 have a history of dying while in office.

William Henry Harrison - Elected 1840; died of pneumonia on April 4, 1841.
Abraham Lincoln - Elected 1860; assassinated on April 16, 1865.
James Garfield - Elected 1880; assassinated on September 19, 1881.
William McKinley - Elected 1900; assassinated on September 14, 1901.
Warren G. Harding - Elected 1920; died of a stroke on August 2, 1923.
Franklin D. Roosevelt - Elected 1940; died of a cerebral hemorrhage on April 12, 1945.
John F. Kennedy - Elected 1960; assassinated on November 22, 1963.
Ronald Reagan - Elected 1980; survived assassination attempt on March 30, 1981.
George W. Bush - Named president 2000; choked on pretzel on January 13, 2002?

[abigail-always.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, the pretzel of infamy.

[blue-cat.livejournal.com]

Hum, I checked wikipedia and the election years were not actually -0's.

http://www.livejournal.com/users/blue_cat/399942.html

where did you get your dates from? I'll have alook at mine.

[aequanoctis.livejournal.com]

Ya BET!

[firvulag.livejournal.com]

I think we need at least a double assasination. kill both the primary party choices, then see them make a real decision

[sammmmmmmmm.livejournal.com]

It's very weird how gun happy the US is... or seems to be.

[stawberi.livejournal.com]

Dangerous thing to say, darls. Won't say I disagree, but still.

Disclaimer: Nuhuh, not me, I don't want to kill any presidents.

[gemfyre.livejournal.com]

Hah.

Like I could orchestrate something like that.

I'm almost too lazy to go do my volunteer work at RSPCA!

[stawberi.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I just feel sorry for that American chick who got reported to the FBI.

[synique.livejournal.com]

that's really a horrible thing to say - wishing death on someone?

[shadowshifter.livejournal.com]

not really much point. something bad enough to warrant removing him from office in major disgrace never able to return would suffice i think. that way he dont get martyred. people remember the strangest (and usually the most inappropriate) things.

[stawberi.livejournal.com]

Oooh oooh. I vote that someone somehow make him gay. It might not stop him being president, but it would be damn funny.