Threats and White Powder Sent to McCain Campaign Offiices! Lets Check the Calender

Yep, Barack Obama is going to be announcing his running mate most likely sometime tomorrow.  And the Democratic Convention starts next week. 

Not that a little white powder (already shown not to be hazardous) is going to throw up a smoke screen for the convention. 

They'll work up something more for that I'm betting.

Though, as the Bushies found in 2004, it's a lot easier when you are already in the White House.

An orange alert  Check!

(And when people question the alert, expose the only al Qaeda mole that the US and UK had even been able to plant to prove you weren't just making things up, and clear the way for the next year's terror attack in London,  since the qaeda involved in the plan escape.)  What's 50+ people dead when there's an election to be won.  Have the Brits shoot some innocent guy for it and it's all even steven, right?

But you have to admit the McCain camp is doing the best it can while out of office.

Read AP report "Officials: Threat sent to McCain's Colorado office "

Excerpt:

A threatening letter containing an unidentified white powder was sent to a John McCain campaign office in this south Denver suburb Thursday, authorities said. No injuries were immediately reported. Authorities later said the substance was not hazardous.

A second letter sent to a McCain campaign office in New Hampshire initially was reported to contain threatening language and white powder. Authorities said that was a false alarm and there was no powder in that envelope.

At least 19 people were examined at hospitals or were quarantined outside the Colorado office while authorities tried to determine whether the powder was hazardous. Everyone was sent home by late Thursday, said Arapahoe County Sheriff Grayson Robinson. He said the substance was not hazardous and not lethal, but that it will take days to determine what it was.

It gets better.  The sender, an inmate at a detention center in Denver supposedly applied his correct name and address to the letters.  

And the news report seriously goes on to say:

[The inmate] may face federal felony charges for Thursday's incident, sheriff's officials said.

I guess this could actually be all true, even if it hits so many prejudice buttons and fills the Republicans' wish list so well, I'm guessing it's a long shot (though I'm not privy to the writing in the letters at this time).  If it turned out to be a threat to keep McCain from choosing a pro-life running mate it would fit into the mold that the Republicans got some of the militia to jump into in the 90s  of sending white powder to organizations that work are pro choice. 

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