750 vote as health care debate gets serious.........
DUBAI : The United State's Secret Service was investigating on Tuesday a poll published on social networking website Facebook for asking if President Barack Obama should be assassinated amid tensions on planned health care reforms.
The controversial poll asked users: "Should Obama be killed?" and offered four answers: No, Maybe, Yes and "Yes, if he cuts my health care."
The Secret Service said it was treating the survey, posted on Facebook over the weekend, like any other threat to an American president.
The poll was only removed from Facebook after the agency alerted the company, which said the poll was created by a person using an add-on application.
"All we are saying is we are aware of the poll and we are investigating the matter," Secret Service spokesman, Ed Donovan, told Al Arabiya.
More than 750 Facebook users had reportedly cast votes by the time the poll was yanked.
When asked about what the majorty of votes were Donovan said: "We will not be giving the nuts and bolts of the investigation."
The president's proposed healthcare plans have stirred much controversy with several anti-Obama protests being held across the U.S.
Former president Jimmy Carter and House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi, have blamed racism for the outrage but Obama later dismissed the claims on The Late show with David Letterman where he joked: "I was actually black before the election."
According to the Britain's Sky News, Southern Poverty Law Center, a U.S. civil rights group, reported a rise in traffic on white supremacist websites since Obama was inaugurated.
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