WI: Bomb Attack on Obama's First Inauguration?

Pretty much in the title, but I recall there being plans for some individuals to hit the Inauguration with a dirty bomb attack that was thankfully foiled. But what if it had managed to go off without a hitch at the bomb had exploded? There's numerous points to be taken, whether the bomb going off on time or it activating early, leading to Obama potentially surviving the attack.

I've never been able to get a full list of all the current Congressman and Senators who were there, but here's something from Wiki that details the guests. Any thoughts on the immediate impact this would have, as well as long term?

Former Presidents Jimmy Carter, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush and former Vice Presidents Walter Mondale, Dan Quayle, Al Gore and Dick Cheney, along with their respective wives, attended the inauguration, including Hillary Clinton, who had been Obama's main opponent in the Democratic primaries (Clinton was attending as a former First Lady, not as the losing candidate.[174][175]) Cheney was in a wheelchair because of an injury that he suffered while moving boxes.[175][176]

Congressman John Lewis, the only living speaker from the historic 1963 rally at the March on Washington, was present on the stage during the inauguration.[177] More than 180 of the Tuskegee Airmen attended as invited guests for the inauguration.[178][179] The five-person crew of US Airways Flight 1549 attended the swearing-in ceremony, including Chesley Sullenberger, the pilot who landed the aircraft in the Hudson River near Manhattan after losing both engines due to a bird strike just after departing LaGuardia Airport.[180]

Eighty-seven-year-old Sarah Obama led a group of Obama's Kenyan relatives from his father's home village of Kogelo.[181] Other relatives who traveled from Kenya as guests included Obama's aunt, Maggie Obama, his uncle, Sayid Obama, as well as his half-brother Malik Obama.[181][182] Also, Kenya youth activist and Chair of the Martin Luther King, Jr Africa Foundation, Mwangi Mukami, attended the Inaugural events.[183] Mwangi Mukami had served as Chair of the Obama Worldwide Supporters Campaign though it was unrelated to the official campaign. Joe Biden's son, Beau, Attorney General for the state of Delaware and an officer and Judge Advocate in the Delaware Army National Guard, received a special furlough from serving in Iraq to participate in the ceremonies.[184]

Celebrity guests included the actors Dustin Hoffman, Samuel L. Jackson, Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington, talk show host Oprah Winfrey, singer Beyoncé Knowles, director Steven Spielberg, boxer Muhammad Ali, and golfer Tiger Woods.[174][185]
 
Ah, this was the one I was thinking of:

Maine "dirty bomb" threat[edit]
On December 9, 2008, 29-year-old James G. Cummings, a wealthy white supremacist, was shot dead by his wife, 31-year-old Amber Cummings, in their Belfast, Maine, home. When police arrived at the scene they discovered components and instructions for making a dirty bomb and notified the FBI, who sealed off the scene. The FBI discovered four one-gallon containers of 35% hydrogen peroxide, uranium, thorium, lithium metal, thermite, aluminum powder, beryllium, boron, black iron oxide and magnesium ribbon as well as literature on how to build “dirty bombs” and information about cesium-137, strontium-90 and cobalt-60, radioactive materials. Child pornography was also found on his computer. Cummings had connections to various white-supremacist groups, including the US National Socialist Party. According to tradesmen who worked at the home, Cummings idolized Adolf Hitler and openly kept Nazi memorabilia, including flags, displayed around the home. According to his wife, James Cummings was not happy that Obama was elected president, and planned to set the bomb off at his inauguration. She also claimed that her husband was frequently physically, mentally and sexually abusive towards her and their daughter, citing this as her reason for the murder. Amber Cummings plead guilty to his murder but was given a suspended sentence by Justice Jeffrey Hjelm, who ruled she would not face prison time due to "extenuating circumstances".[32][33]
 
If everyone died, designated survivor Robert Gates becomes acting President.

So, one impact there. How do you think he would do as President? And what other major, then-current, political figures would die?
 
Robert Gates would likely be a lame duck and we'd have a Republican president once more. His past failures in the CIA would definitely fall under massive scrutiny so he would have to be up to the task of one of the worst attacks on the Presidency. It would be a massive shift of attention from abroad to closer to home and any newsgroups who would do inadequate jobs would probably get obliterated.

The fact of it being a white nationalist neo-Nazi doing this would also set a massive firestorm in Europe and large crackdowns against the far-right groups and so on would happen. If Gates and the GOP do an inadequate job about it, then a lot of fiercer angrier leftier Dems would come in and by 2012, we'd definitely see extensive crackdowns and on hate speech crimes.

No idea how Gates would be on domestic policy, but likely not that good either.

Overall, it would be freakin terrifying and would have as big an impact if not bigger than 9/11 on the cultural perspective. Things like racial violence and so on would be taken even more seriously, either immediately beforehand or in a potential backlash if the Gates presidency fucks up on the follow-through.
 
Everyone was not going to die. In fact a home made bomb of this kind by someone of this limited means I suspect would have the most impact in producing fear for weeks after from everyone in the area more then mass casualties. It’s not like this is a state actor that knows what they are doing.

Mass fear is something powerful though. Cheney thinking he was a dead man from anthrax after 911 really influenced his thinking. Here a lot of people will think they will get sick or die so major psychological effects.
 
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Everyone was not going to die. In fact a home made bomb of this kind by someone of this limited means I suspect would have the most impact in producing fear for weeks after from everyone in the area more then mass casualties. It’s not like this is a state actor that knows what they are doing.

Mass fear is something powerful though. Cheney thinking he was a dead man from anthrax after 911 really influenced his thinking. Here a lot of people will think they will get sick or die so major psychological effects.

An assassination attempt by a white nationalist Neo-Nazi would still bring about a large amount of change and legal stuff toward Obama
 
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