Via CNN:

The social networking site Facebook on Monday pulled a third-party application that allows users to create polls after a site member built a poll asking if President Obama should be killed.

The U.S. Secret Service, the agency assigned to protect the president, has launched an investigation, agency spokesman James Mackin said.

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The possible responses to the poll were “yes,” “maybe,” “if he cuts my health care” and “no.”

I actually spotted this when I was removing the majority of my Facebook applications earlier today (that’s a future post topic) and I was shocked.

First, I don’t care who they are, if you disagree with someone, this is outright wrong to think, let alone ask others.  Not to mention whoever is behind this is just going to throw more fuel on the idiotic “race” fire (anyone with half a brain knows that it’s not about race at all, but party policies).

Second, who in their right mind would 1) publish this active poll, 2) take it & 3) add it to their Facebook page? Seriously, you’d have to be completely out of your mind and/or completely ignorant that any threat, real or not, against the President of the United States of America is taken seriously and can land you in a federal prison for quite some time. While you may not like the man, this is an extremely stupid way to show that dislike.

For the sake of our country I certainly hope that they determine this to be the work of someone outside of the States.

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