Congressman asked: 'Who is going to shoot Obama?'

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Congressman asked: 'Who is going to shoot Obama?'
   By: CNN Political Unit

(CNN) - Rep. Paul Broun, the Georgia Republican who is among President Obama's biggest critics in the House, faced a startling question from a constituent at a town hall Thursday evening: "Who is going to shoot Obama?"

According to the Athens Banner-Herald, the question was the first the congressman faced at the gathering and the comment drew laughter from the crowd. Broun did not exactly denounce the comments, according to the paper.

"The thing is, I know there's a lot of frustration with this president," he said in response. "We're going to have an election next year. Hopefully, we'll elect somebody that's going to be a conservative, limited-government president � who will sign a bill to repeal and replace Obamacare."

Threats made against the president can constitute a federal crime, punishable by five years in prison or a $250,000 fine.
Jessica Morris, a spokeswoman for Broun, told the newspaper that the question was "inappropriate" and said the congressman "moved on." Morris was not immediately available for further comment Friday morning.

Broun drew national attention last month when, live tweeting during President Obama's State of the Union Address, wrote among other criticisms, "Mr. President, you don't believe in the Constitution. You believe in socialism."

Broun also apologized in 2008 when he likened then-President elect Barack Obama to Adolf Hitler.

"You have to remember that Adolf Hitler was elected in a democratic Germany. I'm not comparing him to Adolf Hitler. What I'm saying is there is the potential," he said told an interviewer at the time.'

Broun later apologized "to anyone who has taken offense at that."

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/02/25/congressman-asked-who-is-going-to-shoot-obama/

[Adios]

 

I would love to say only in Ga., but I know better.

[Kai]

That whole article is like onto a parody of itself! 

Guess what would happen if a smudgy person said that? 

[Placid Dingo]

Who will deliver me from, this troublesome President?"

[AFK]

That whole article is like onto a parody of itself! 

Guess what would happen if a smudgy person said that? 

tasers and clubs

before AND after detention

[Jenne]

...and YET the right-wing nuts think 1) this rhetoric is infallible and moral and 2) have a ticket to ride because NONE of the moderate GOPers are shouting them down hard/fast enough.

The the more the "librul" media picks up on it, the more it's pooh-poohed by the Fux News groups et al. 

I recall, nearly a decade ago, the outcry against the silent majority of Muslim moderates, the ones that didn't divorce themselves fast enough from the Talibs and the jihadist mullahs. 

Uh, yeah...where's the Conservative moderate faction decrying this bullshit?

[Nephew Twiddleton]

[Jasper]

And if Obama were to say "So who's gonna shoot Broun?" in response to this, he'd be impeached.  That's the part that bothers me.

[Cain]

He's gonna be impeached anyway.  For being a Kenyan Marxist Muslim, which is specifically prohibited in the Constitution.

[Luna]

Know who's NOT laughing about this one?

The Secret Service agents who knocked on the guy who made the comment's door, apparently.

Also, Braun is backpeddeling like mad.

Tuesday night at a town hall meeting in Oglethorpe County, Georgia an elderly man asked the abhorrent question, "Who's going to shoot Obama?" I was stunned by the question and chose not to dignify it with a response; therefore, at that moment I moved on to the next person with a question. After the event, my office took action with the appropriate authorities.


I deeply regret that this incident happened at all. Furthermore, I condemn all statements -- made in sincerity or jest -- that threaten or suggest the use of violence against the President of the United States or any other public official. Such rhetoric cannot and will not be tolerated.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/plum-line/2011/02/secret_service_interviews_geor.html

[Cain]

The Secret Service are overprotective weenies.

[Luna]

The Secret Service are overprotective weenies.

That's what they're paid to be.

Hell, if I had to have a bodyguard, give me someone both overprotective AND paranoid, please.

[Cain]

I believe in giving assassins a sporting chance.

[Luna]

I believe in giving assassins a sporting chance.

If it's MY lily ass on the line, let 'em work for it.

[Jasper]

I saw a SS agent in person once.  Freaked me the fuck out.  They're like golems.  Of scowliness.