Frank Rich goes all creepy, imagining the assassination of Barack Obama, in comparing him to JFK.

No president is completely safe from a determined lone gunman. There was plenty of hate for George W. Bush and probably any number of crackpots who would've taken a shot at him if they'd had the chance.

Besides, it wasn't hate that killed JFK. It was Lee Harvey Oswald, a determined pro-Castro socialist. If Rich is right, we should be keeping a watchful eye on Michael Moore.

Lunacy.

UPDATE: From a piece by the Manhattan Institute's James Piereson:

In the latest effort to recycle the Camelot myths, Frank Rich has published a delusional article in New York Magazine under the title, "What Killed JFK: The Hate That Ended His Presidency is Eerily Familiar" in which he draws a straight line from Kennedy's assassination to imagined threats against President Obama arising from conservatives and the tea party movement. The occasion for Mr. Rich's ruminations is a review of several recently published books about President Kennedy and the assassination, including one by Stephen King in which the novelest dispatches a time traveller on a mission to intercept Oswald before he can commit his deed so that history might be redirected on a more hopeful path. Mr. King, however is a writer of fiction and thus entitled to invent his facts. Mr. Rich, as a journalist, does not have the same license.

Like I said, lunacy and dishonest lunacy to boot.