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euphgeek🇺🇦🌻 — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 05:40:03 -0000

If you seriously don't see anything wrong with this "joke" other than it being "stupid" and "in bad taste" then you obviously have no moral standards. And if you have to distract from it by bringing up race and the tu quoque fallacy then you obviously had no argument to begin with. When was the last time you heard a Democratic candidate for office joke about the assassination of a political figure? You are just as despicable a human being as Mr. Rammell. The fact that you continue to defend him just proves my point.

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ID-2 — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 23:25:38 -0000

Ooh, mommy he used the f word. Get over yourself and your self-righteous crap. It was a fucking joke. Do you honestly believe he is seriously advoacting this crap? Yes it was stupid and yes it was in bad taste but get over yourself. Are we now not allowed to make jokes because of any historical reference. As for those that joked about killing Bush being despicable, your about 4 years and change late. Didn't you any of you guys calling them despicable then.

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jas82007 — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 15:52:26 -0000

I just wrote this guy a letter telling him what I thought of him- don't worry I worded it carefully. His web site has a comments link that has been 'unavailable' the last few days.
My sense is that this guy is a perennial canidate for office who represents the fringe. Which in Idaho is really fringey. I hope the Secret Service investigates him.
Many years ago when Clinton was president some moron parked his pickup every day outside an office I worked with a bumper sticker 'Lee Oswald, we need you". I put a note on his windshield telling him what I thought and that he was being reported to the US Secret Service, I called, never got any feedback but the sticker was peeled off next week.

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SGAstumpJ — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 14:12:12 -0000

I wanted to get in on this yesterday, but this computer wouldn't let me write on here. But if Gibbs got asked about this comment in his briefing today, here is the West Wing quote he should have responded with:

"The Secret Service investigates all threats made against the President; it's White House policy not to comment on those investigations."

It's the wonkish way to say "we are not amused."

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euphgeek🇺🇦🌻 — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 13:45:54 -0000

Fuck you again. I said nothing about never saying anything bad about the president. We're talking about MURDER. A MURDER that a REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE advocated, even if in jest. Can you grasp that? And yes, anyone who joked about assassinating Bush is just as despicable. And as far as race goes, you're the one who brought it up, not me.

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ID-2 — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 10:58:24 -0000

Don't give me that BS. If you expect every politican who dislikes the president to never say anything bad about him go to the moon. I wonder where you guys were when people made jobs about assassinating Bush. You tell me to fuck off, but your president and your party, as well as people like you already have. Your party is so afraid of losing the race card they have to do anything to keep it alive. Pathetic.

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ThatOneDemocrat — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 07:32:06 -0000

Maybe he'll do what that gun-toter who threatened to assassinate Obama last October did when he was arrested by the Secret Service...look them in the eye with a steely gaze and proclaim that he's willing to die for his *true* country....

....Oh wait, no, that guy broke down and sobbed like a spanked child. Which is probably what Rammell and most of these idiots would do.

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dectra — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 06:43:58 -0000

Liar + Quitter = Sarah Palin

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Demochas — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 05:11:02 -0000

Yes, I stand corrected !!!

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mohanna — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 04:48:13 -0000

Two potatoes were walking down the road. One was a prostitute. How do you know which one is the prostitute? It has "IDAHO" stamped on the side.

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mohanna — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 04:41:23 -0000

Here's something even he might understand. It's against the law to threaten the life of the President. I hope the Secret Service pays him a visit.

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susanai — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 04:21:06 -0000

I call them Fox watchers and commentators.

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susanai — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 04:19:10 -0000

What kind of an idiot are you? BTW I clicked on 'liked this' by mistake.

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susanai — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 04:17:29 -0000

Yeah, this is becoming more and more real. This hatred of President Obama is mindboggling, scary and downright treasonable. I just hope that the Secret Service are taking this seriously. It seems not many americans are!

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jag0581 — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 03:07:28 -0000

A republican making a "joke" about this is nothing, but I will say this if a democrat ever made the same "joke" about Bush when he was President they would have a field day. They would urge him to apologize and some might even call for the Secret Service to investigate. I say this we all have the right of free speech unless that speech is harmful to someone else or threatens someone else. This speech is harmful because it talks about and in my mind demonstrates a lack of control from someone. I wish the Secret Service knocks on his door and chats with him a bit, maybe even say they are incvestigating a threat made on the Presidents life, then he will apoligize for sure.

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euphgeek🇺🇦🌻 — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 23:06:34 -0000

Tell me, when Palin was "attacked" did anyone suggest that she be murdered? Did any of her opponents show up to her rallies armed? No, what happened to poor Sarah was that she merely got her feelings hurt a little bit. For equating the two, I say fuck you very much.

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TonyinStl — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 22:58:19 -0000

I don't know, man, this doesn't strike me as that big a deal. An unelected scrub Republican candidate for governor of a state that hasn't been electorally competitive in half a century responds positively to a distasteful "hunting the Democratic president" joke. Meh. Maybe it came across worse in person, but it just reads like lame political toadying. He should have apologized (as Mike Huckabee did after his lame Obama assassination-joke and John Kerry did after that Bush joke) but I'm skeptical these kind of informal rules really apply to fringe candidates.

The sad truth is that because our the way our primary system is structured, this will probably bump this guy a bit in the polls. This is a good thing for Idaho Democrats (see Sali, Bill).

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dmarko1 — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 22:08:29 -0000

This crap is not funny. Its not funny because of our awful history of killing Presidents. Its not funny because we are in a vulnerable time in our history. Its not funny because of our history of race brutality. ts just not freaking funny.

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Blythespirit413 — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 21:54:35 -0000

Me thinks someone knows his Belgian Beer. Are you a Stella drinker Dave. I learned to like it in Antwerp.

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LKM — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 21:14:01 -0000

What makes this disturbing is this is not just the wingnuts making comments. These are "respectable" people who presumably can't claim mental illness as the reason they act the way they do.

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LKM — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 21:11:34 -0000

I think the GOP lost its morality in the Civil Rights movement, when they decided this was their opportunity to regain power in the South rather than doing what was right. I'm not sure who were the political hacks that made that decisions, but they are the catalysts IMO.

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Interrupting Reply Bot 2014 — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 20:36:10 -0000

So you didn't have time to watch the video before jumping to the guy's defense? The guy who joked about assassinating our President?

And then you compare this ugly comment to ANYTHING Harry Reid has to say?

Great belly laughs, all around. Congratulations, Idaho.

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ID-2 — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 20:26:04 -0000

Well it is okay to criticize every politican expect a black politican or the president. Where were the defenders of women when Palin was attacked. Apparently it is only certain people who get the distinctions and thus can't be joked about. He was joking, ligten up. he joke may have been in bad taste, really bad taste but it was a joke. get over it. 40 years later this nation is still afraid to face its past and talk about it.

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GrassDog — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 20:14:07 -0000

While I agree with your statement about the apology, for the most part, the following sentence of yours is gibberish:

"I'm sure they weren't referring to actually murdering, or even joking about people actually murdering him."

What were they referring to or joking about then?

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Blue387 — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 20:09:57 -0000

Lee Harvey Oswald shot Kennedy for the lulz.