"Kill Him"

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Registered: 09-25-2008
"Kill Him"
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Tue, 10-07-2008 - 1:26pm
Ladies and Gentlemen, your modern Republican party (from Palin's campaign stop in Florida yesterday):

"Now it turns out, one of his earliest supporters is a man named Bill Ayers," Palin said.

"Boooo!" said the crowd.

"And, according to the New York Times, he was a domestic terrorist and part of a group that, quote, 'launched a campaign of bombings that would target the Pentagon and our U.S. Capitol,'" she continued.

"Boooo!" the crowd repeated.

"Kill him!" proposed one man in the audience.


Wow. Just wow. Y'ever notice that Republicans who advocate lower taxes and more war never get shot by guys like these? Count with me: Medgar Evers, MLK Jr, Malcolm X, JFK, RFK. It's not clear whether the guy in the audience meant kill Ayers...or Obama....but with the exception of Ronald Reagan (who was shot by a complete nut for reasons having more to do with Jodie Foster than with politics), the evidence suggests that the notion that a black liberal being marked for violence - even just with an epithet - wouldn't be an unusual thing to imagine taking place. Wow.

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Registered: 03-25-2007
Tue, 10-07-2008 - 11:00pm

The Secret Service will be checking into this:


http://radaronline.com/exclusives/2008/10/secret-service-looking-into-potential-threat-on-obama.php


Secret Service Looking Into Potential Threat Against Obama


The Secret Service is following up on media reports today that someone in the crowd at a McCain/Palin event suggested killing Barack Obama, according to Secret Service spokesman Malcolm Wiley. The shout of "kill him" followed a Sarah Palin rant on Obama's relationship with radical Chicagoan Bill Ayers.



Wiley says the Secret Service did not begin looking into the matter until press reports, namely Dana Milbank's article in the Washington Post, surfaced today, because no agents at the event heard anything. "The Secret Service did not hear any threatening statements directed at targets under its protection and no threatening statements were reported to us by law enforcement or citizens at the event," Wiley told Radar. Also unclear: whether the remark was directed at Obama or Ayers if the words were actually "kill" and "him."


Wiley said that the Secret Service had tried to get in touch with Milbank to get his account of the event but was unsuccessful. Were the they able to confirm the remark they'd "be looking to talk to that person," Wiley said. "We investigate everything because we take all threats seriously.">>>


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Registered: 02-10-2008
Tue, 10-07-2008 - 11:55pm

Dismissing this incident is

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Registered: 10-03-2008
Wed, 10-08-2008 - 12:22am

"Y'ever notice that Republicans who advocate lower taxes and more war never get shot by guys like these? Count with me: Medgar Evers, MLK Jr, Malcolm X, JFK, RFK."


You know the people that killed 3 of 5 of those people????

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Registered: 09-08-2008
Wed, 10-08-2008 - 4:02am

Thanks for the link. Yes. Unhinged describes Sarah and the whole McCain campaign, but they need to get some reinforced steel on those gates, before they let the monsters out. Otherwise, I see another civil war erupting on our soil.

This is not a time to lie about candidates under the economic pressures that some of us face. People are shooting and killing themselves and their family members as their financial worlds crash around them, and the GOP are on the edge of inciting mob mentality and riots for an election?

It is escalating because of their lies. If someone gets hurt, they should be held accountable. That's insanity. Cars have been already been vandalized, from what I heard on C-Span, so I do NOT appreciate this IRRESPONSIBLE TALK on McCain and Palin's behaves. McCain would rather tear a country apart than lose an election.

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