Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?

Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest? So said Henry II "rhetorically". How rhetorically has been the subject of some debate. Yet there is plausible deniability for Henry's innocence. Regardless Henry was over heard by two of his knights who went straight away to Canterbury and assassinated Thomas Becket while he was at his prayers.

So whether Henry intended for his knights to carry out this act or not, it occurred and Thomas Becket was cruelly murdered. Which brings us to today.

John McCain and especially Sara Palin have been using some pretty inflammatory "rhetoric" of their own which has incited some on the crowd to yell "terrorist" and "kill him". For now it's just hate speech but what if someone acted as those knights did? Am I suggesting McCain and Palin want someone to assassinate Obama or Biden? Not at all. But what I am saying is that if harm comes to Obama or Biden as a result of their rhetoric then the guilt lies as hevaily on them as of they committed the crime.