we ve spoken with scores of them, have said that they have gone to the fbi and brought them threats or referred threats to them that they were worried about, and the fbi has taken them and said they re investigating but they haven t really heard back in many cases, most cases. what if anything, peter, can you tell us about what kind of people are making these threats? i mean, i know you re dealing with a large number here. but have you been able to sample their backgrounds, where are they from, what do they do, beyond just their motivations? so we you know, many of these things are anonymous. and we were able to, for example, identify a gender in 500 plus of these messages, it s overwhelmingly male, four out of five of the messages where we were able to identify the gender, were obviously male. we found a substantial number of these cases, the threatener was
houses, the house and the senate and inheriting a political atmosphere post-assassination of john f. kennedy and he did it and no question that lyndon johnson was a remarkable arm-twister and threatener and all of those things. i think what obama believes about the presidency is those skills are the at the margins. personal relationships we talk about all the time. that is at the margin. the big systemic factors are what controls politics. that right now, he has got a congress that is not going to pass much at all. he ll be very lucky if he got immigration through. i think mark would agree. most of the ambitions that he would shoot for are not going to happen. reverend al, you want to chime in on this conversation? what do you think? well, i think you cannot underestimate the fact that a