[Deckard]

This sounds horrible to bring up, but the more McCain stokes (or fails to quell) this mob anger, the greater Obama's chances of getting shot. There must be a fair number of assholes out there who would genuinely think they were doing America a favour by taking out the traitor, the foreigner, the other.

Just think back to JFK - even he didn't receive this much hostility.

And to state the obvious, he was white.

Really, if anything ever happens - and there's a real chance it could - McCain is going to have some serious soul-searching to do, based on his behaviour at the moment.