The Social Protocol For 10/1/09: Just A Juvenile

The nutcase that put up that assassination poll on Obama. Just a kid.

As many of our commenters speculated, fortunately, there was not. The Secret Service has since been able to identify the person responsible, and is it turns out, it was a juvenile. According to the AP, the Secret Service met with the child and his parents, determined the poll was nothing more than a prank, and will ultimately not file charges.

Now a kid nowadays can range from someone who is, say, 8 years old, to one that is, well, 17.

Either way, no rational kid any age would do that. And really, was it just a joke, or was that a coverup for real anger? Who knows except that kid and his family.