Unidentified Man Detained by the Secret Service for Carrying Sign that Read "Death to Obama," "Death to Michelle and her Two Stupid Kids"

If this isn't a throwback to the presidential election campaign, then I don't know what else it. An unidentified man was arrested by federal officials because he had a sign that just went too far. He was holding a sign that read "Death to Obama" yesterday outside a town hall meeting on health care reform in Hagerstown, Md.

Washington County Sheriff's Capt. Peter Lazich said, in an interview with NBC Washington, that the sign also read, "Death to Michelle and her two stupid kids." Lazich said U.S. Secret Service agents took the unidentified 51-year-old man into custody Wednesday afternoon after deputies detained him.

President George W. Bush was ridiculed and caricatured by many and that was clearly wrong and in poor taste. I disagreed with a lot of his positions and policies, but he did not deserve the ridicule that came his way. The same holds true for President Obama. Why are people carrying around signs calling for his death? The reality is that some nutjob may actually consider it a badge of honor, as was the case with the abortion doctor recently, to attempt to assassinate him. We are living in some perilous times and I don't blame the Secret Service one bit to lock this man up. You may not agree with much of what the president says and does, but it isn't right to call for his death.