30 November 2007

is there a pattern to the madness?

Last week some A-hole crazy person held hostages at Hilary Clinton's campaign office in New Hampshire. What a terrible news headline. Luckily it turned out to be some nutjob with a fake bomb taped to his chest who wanted treatment for his mental illness (uuh, sounds like a good idea).

This got me thinking...is there a correlation between presidential assassinations and party affiliation? My informal research is focused on successful assassination of sitting presidents.


Let's see shall we? Please mind the source: Wikipedia and Me

Successfully Assassinated Presidents:

Abraham Lincoln
James A. Garfield
William McKinley
John F. Kennedy

Ok, Abe was liberal. He may have been called a Republican, however we are all aware of the party shift. Garfield was also liberal. William McKinley was liberal, as was JFK.

Golly. That's interesting. Who knows what to make of the evident trend. I dont' want to jump to any conclusions based on such lacking information...but it's still interesting dontcha think?

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

yes, indeed. Btw, your photo-cd hasn't arrived:( where is it?