Quite the day today! My campaign snagged an endorsement from the NAACP (thank y’all!), I had a chat with the United States Secret Service (read on for more on that conversation), I broke down and started a Twitter (thanks for the shout out Rachel!), and consumed twice my body weight in coffee.

Oh, right, you’re probably wondering about the Secret Service. Well, while at work and skimming Facebook’s news feed, I came across a Huffington Post article about President Obama’s trip to Allentown, PA today to plug his economic agenda. But it wasn’t the article that caught my eye. It was this lovely little nugget of southern hospitality from a Mr. Chad Ward out of Atlanta:

“As a small matter of fact people, no matter how much damage this Hate driven animal Obama does to our great country, I know we will come back better and stronger after he is long gone. Hopefully very very soon. Hey Obama you LIE , and for you, success is not an option. You have pissed off the wrong people you childish Liberal puke”

Not only is that tremendously offensive, but I viewed it as a threat against a sitting president. So, I hopped on the phone and called the Secret Service to let them in on what was up. I will say, it was odd to start a phone call with “Hi, I’d like to report a threat against the President, please.”

The call itself was rather uneventful. The agent took down all of the info, said “thank you”, and hung up. I suppose this sort of thing must happen all the time, as it was a very quick phone call. Hopefully they follow up and nail this guy. I’ll update you all if I hear anything back from USSS… not likely, but hey who knows?

Crackpots are a dime-a-dozen in this country, but I draw the line at threatening the President of the United States. I would have done the exact same thing if Bush had been threatened, and its just one example of a larger theme this blog will address: where has America put its head nowadays?

Thanks for reading, and check back daily for more posts… or twice daily. Your call.