In The USA, Politician Jokes About Obama Being Assassinated
Tags: Primitive Dangerous
I read this on msnbc.com his morning and it made my hair stand on end. How can people even begin to think like this let alone say it out loud? This "joke" is not the least bit funny and promotes very, very dangerous behavior and attitudes. In a land that cherishes the free speech protected by the first amendment of the constitution, how do we put a stop to this? It might help if the media refused to air it, thereby depriving it of validity. Read on ... - M
GOP hopeful jokes about ‘Obama tags’ ‘I would never support him being assassinated,’ Idaho candidate says
BOISE, Idaho - An Idaho Republican gubernatorial hopeful insists he was joking when he said he'd buy a license to hunt President Barack Obama.
Rex Rammell, a former elk rancher slated to run against incumbent C.L. "Butch" Otter in the May 2010 GOP primary, made the comment at a Republican rally Tuesday in Twin Falls.
Talk at the meeting turned to the state's planned wolf hunt, for which hunters must purchase an $11.50 wolf tag.
When an audience member shouted a question about "Obama tags," Rammell responded, "The Obama tags? We'd buy some of those."
Rammell told the Times-News newspaper the comment was "just a joke."
"I would never support him being assassinated," he said. (Yeah, right, that's why he said it. - Mag)
The Associated Press updated 7:21 p.m. ET Aug. 27, 2009 URL: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32587963/ns/politics-more_politics/
I read this on msnbc.com his morning and it made my hair stand on end. How can people even begin to think like this let alone say it out loud? This "joke" is not the least bit funny and promotes very, very dangerous behavior and attitudes. In a land that cherishes the free speech protected by the first amendment of the constitution, how do we put a stop to this? It might help if the media refused to air it, thereby depriving it of validity. Read on ... - M
GOP hopeful jokes about ‘Obama tags’ ‘I would never support him being assassinated,’ Idaho candidate says
BOISE, Idaho - An Idaho Republican gubernatorial hopeful insists he was joking when he said he'd buy a license to hunt President Barack Obama.
Rex Rammell, a former elk rancher slated to run against incumbent C.L. "Butch" Otter in the May 2010 GOP primary, made the comment at a Republican rally Tuesday in Twin Falls.
Talk at the meeting turned to the state's planned wolf hunt, for which hunters must purchase an $11.50 wolf tag.
When an audience member shouted a question about "Obama tags," Rammell responded, "The Obama tags? We'd buy some of those."
Rammell told the Times-News newspaper the comment was "just a joke."
"I would never support him being assassinated," he said. (Yeah, right, that's why he said it. - Mag)
The Associated Press updated 7:21 p.m. ET Aug. 27, 2009 URL: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32587963/ns/politics-more_politics/