Pennsylvania Paper Publishes Obama Death Threat

Find him, his family and his friends and throw all of them in Gitmo as enemy combatants.

Redneck fuckers!

Shariq Torres

@Baroness: Not bloody likely.

@Go Like Hell Machine: I agree 1000%. There are two kinds of corrupt politicians - Republicans and Democrats!

@misslinda: Can't this President stand on his own, without his supporters using "the past 8 years" as their rallying cry? North Korea was a problem for the "the past eight years" and a good chunk of the eight years before that when they developed their nukes. Yet it was Obama and Hillary Clinton who made a grave political error when they threatened "grave consequences" if North Korea launched a Taedong missile. Nothing happened as expected. Now we have them exploding nukes and firing more missiles. Sorry, not everything that goes wrong can be traced to the Bush Administration. What is your catch phrase going to be after January 2010? "The eight years preceding the last year?" "The past nine years save the most recent one?"

I really just wanted to say "Taedong." I know it's been done to death, but it's still a funny name.

@Baroness: Wouldn't that be great? Then he could join the ranks of Yasser Arafat as a fellow Peace Prize winner. The Nobels have been in the tank for decades. If you really want one, just come up with some theory that attempts to prove that Swedish socialism has trumped every type of economy since the beginning of man. Maybe I'm just bitter because I haven't won a Nobel for my fine work in this forum.

This is the very definition of passive-aggressive.

@ChillbearLatrigue: I'm sure that the crack teams of NCIS, CSI, and SVU would be able to do it just by snapping their fingers and exclaiming "Hey, this is a Unix prompt!!!11!1"

skippywasserman

@I Love New Jersey: Yes, I hope he wins the Nobel Peace Prize someday, too. We'll see.

Rush Hoggsburgh??? oops! he missed American history class!

Sunny Jean

@ChillbearLatrigue: Well if that was smoke and mirrors, what do you call the past 8 years?

Can we have a folo on this via Gawker, because really, how many of us read the Warren, Pa paper?

Swordfish

That's not freedom of speech. That's solicitating murder, which is indeed a crime in the USA. The Secret Service is going to ALL OVER that.
Plus, even if you don't know about Garfield and McKinley (which is pathetic), can you get to 6th grade without learning about JFK and Abe?
Think not.

Swordfish

@I Love New Jersey: I can't back you on this one. If you are going to imply Obama is corrupt, you need to back it up. My take on him has always been that he is a smart and honest man, but I have no way of knowing that I'm correct either. I don't think that guilt by association is enough. I did see a little bit of smoke and mirrors coming from his pulpit when he started spewing out hatred for the hedge funds that didn't bite on the governments ridiculously low debt buy out for Chrysler.

See how it works? You can say something against Obama, but you should put a little example in.

@if_i_only_had_a_heart: I think that anyone making a threat toward the President in any medium should be investigated and prosecuted. The issue may end up being trying to find the posters. That can't always be easy.

@dimethirwen: UA could say the same thing about upstate NY & I would find it funny b/c it's true (Catskills for Appalacia/"coal mining wasteland" is simply "wasteland" etc)

once

@Unsolicited Advice: Yeah okay. Sure, there are some raging douchebags in Western and Central PA. (Pgh native here) I've also come across the most arrogant, ignorant, assholes in my life when I lived in Philly. Let's not pretend Philly is a beacon of light here, they boo SANTA CLAUSE for Christ's sake.

Peace and Love ya'll.

@dimethirwen:

One of my college roommates was from Warren. He was a heavy man, a civil engineering student, who used his NRA mousepad to play Counterstrike fairly regularly. The refrigerator was full of Yuengling, the freezer full of Vacu-Pak venison, and his bureau stocked with a 9mm pistol that he liked to clean. On the weekends, he drove his anachronistic '70's stationwagon home to Warren after an extensive car-starting ritual so he could buy beer, kill deer, and (presumably) refresh his stockpile of ammunition. At night, the flatulence from the prone mound next to me was unbearable.

Fuck Warren.

@dimethirwen: Yeah, what I love about PA is that you don't really have to interact with anybody if you don't want to. Lots of it is underpopulated and the outdoors are fantastic.

I moved to DC years ago but still would like to end up in PA again someday, preferably as a hermit.

@easternsike: Your uncle fucks blood? What does that pay?

P.S. Joking! see? Also: I am from even po-er dunk PA, so I feel ya, kid.

I knew a guy that used to call the Whitehouse from a bar in Yonkers, spewing invectives like a gatling gun. One day there were four guys with sunglasses on sitting in front of the bar in a Crown Victoria. He never went back.

@kimsama: Double plus good!

@Unsolicited Advice: Kind of harsh on PA, aren't you? It's not perfect, but every state's got its crappy spots with weird people with scary views. It's really quite beautiful, and honestly, I miss it. (Grew up there and moved out west a year back.)

dimethirwen

@easternsike: "sed"? That sums it up.

surfjim

ketch? r u there ketch?

@Unsolicited Advice: Having gone to school ,in Indiana PA, this is the funniest thing I have read all day. Cheers for that. Brilliant.

surfjim

@I Love New Jersey: Yes, because all Democratic politicians from Chicago, ever, are corrupt.

Unlike their Republican counterparts from the following states: Texas, Virginia, Ohio.... Should I go on?

Someone should be fired. Not just because they let it through, but because they don't know basic US history. Geez.

dimethirwen

@I Love New Jersey: *Yawn*

7states

@Inescapeable Picnic: cuz that pretty much applies to everything they say. the tv ones too

@easternsike: calm down, it's Gawker: a humor blog.

@[en.wikipedia.org]

@Unsolicited Advice: I enjoyed that. Thanks.

@if_i_only_had_a_heart: No, silly, just REAL media. Blogs are the containment slums.

@I Love New Jersey: AHHH, which one? Take your pick.

Paul.B.Dodd

Everything West of Philadelphia is a horrible, Appalachian coal-mining wasteland. Your first tip as the vulture flies is the city of Reading, which -as far as I can tell - was inspired by the aesthetics of winterbleached hellscapes like Buffalo and Detroit. Further westward are little gray shantytowns like Hamburg and Warren, full of Old Man Cratchett-owned cobbler shops and haberdasheries where it has apparently never stopped being the 1890's. A withered be-overalled wisp man there might tell you of the inexorable march of the colored people, perhaps wheezing through what few tobacco-stained teeth remained at a veiled allusion to a time that him and th' boys hopped in the 1943 Chevy out front and had themselves a hootenanny. It is then that you will find a local mecca such as a Cabela's and arm yourself for the Appalachian journey that remains, discarding your natural anti-gun inclinations in your growing fear that these husks of a happily forgotten era will come for you in the night.

I thought the ad referred to his continued success in not laughing at his wife's hats.

RollsRoyceRevenge

@Colonel Mustard: It's all very magnanimous, isn't it?

@Cheap Shot: Ignore the troll. It has been referring to Obama as "the corrupt Chicago politician" for weeks now.

@kimsama: By definition all politicians from Chicago are corrupt, since if they weren't they wouldn't get elected.

Are we sure that this isn't a call for Obama to take to wearing floppy black string bowties?

@I Love New Jersey: Wait, now we've switched to talking about Burris?

@I Love New Jersey: I don't really bother to respond to your threads, because your name pretty much tells me everything I need to know about you.

If Obama's a power-mad socialist who hates free speech, then someone (although maybe not the feds) should investigate.

kneetoe

@Cheap Shot: He means Rod Blagojevich. He's hoping he'll become a peanut farmer and then President of the United States, and then a bestselling author and diplomat, though heaven only knows why he wants this.

Power Bottom.

@I Love New Jersey: Corrupt?

May the Times-Observer follow in the footsteps of the The Rocky Mountain News & The Seattle Post-Intelligencer,!

I just hope the corrupt Chicago politician follows in the footsteps of Jimmy Carter.

will they also be investigating all the lunatic rightwing blogs where commenters say worse every minute of the day?

@ChillbearLatrigue:

"Swedish socialism has trumped every type of economy since the beginning of man"

Actually, what they have in Europe is social democracy, not socialism, which is the workers own the means of production. We are actually closer: with Chrysler and GM, the UAW and the Fed are the majority stockholders. Ironic.

In Israel, the kibbutz is the foundation of the country. Kibbutz can be translated as commune, or collective. They prove that Marxism/Leninism and democracy are not mutually exclusive. The kibbutzim are a raucous democracy. I know - I've been there.

@kimsama:

"Maybe they were reacting to the hipster condescension rolling off you in waves?"

Oh, no. We were as pleasant as could be. We stopped for gasoline. In the c-store, my wife said she wanted some ice cream. The clerk just stared at her, and said nothing. So I asked where the ice cream was kept. I paid with my credit card. The clerk kept looking at her, then me, and said nothing. I said "thank you," and still nothing from him. As we walked out, others followed us, staring.

Another time we were halfway across the state, coming from Buffalo. We stopped to eat and get gasoline. When we left, a fellow with a Viet Vet cap followed us out, and when we drove away, I noticed he was following us, and did so for 10 miles.

It also happened in Olney, Maryland. I was with my mother and my neices. A couple in their late 60s kept looking at us. As she walked by, she hissed "you didn't have to do that. There are enough of them here already."

@theMoJo: I won't argue that there was a lot of fear, but many of your kind act as though 911 was incidental to the fear-mongering. People were afraid on their own after September 11. It wasn't some sort of propaganda campaign that got them there.

I'm just tired of hearing people say things like "You didn't mind Bush overspending," as an excuse for Obama to overspend. It's time for this President to stand on his own record and not as a contrast to the past two terms. So, if we can all agree that the decisions that Obama makes are his own, then I won't have to call attention to the cop out every time it is used.

@easternsike: Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Man this is too fuckin' good.

1. I love that bitch (as in "30 minutes from Reading, Bitch!!") is capitalized.
2. "(excuse my French!!)"?
3. "came out of sed area." - Who is Sed Area?

Do not let your rage control you, young padawan, instead you should learn to control your rage.

theMoJo

This is more of a wish than a threat. Which will be a really great point to make when you've got the Secret Service all suddenly up in your business.

Krashstar

@ChillbearLatrigue: I certainly don't want to praise anyone as great simply because they weren't there "eight years ago". But I feel it's very important to remember what an incredibly ignorant man Bush is, and how letting people like that hold sway over you out of fear, paranoia, and xenophobia is what allows illegal wars and inhumane tactics.

theMoJo

@misha trotsky: My husband's from Vietnam and he's been treated well by the "in-between" PAers without exception. Maybe they were reacting to the hipster condescension rolling off you in waves?

If it will sweeten your temperament, I will nominate you for the Nobel Prize tomorrow. Or the Guinness Book of World Records, whichever you prefer.

SultanaEleusis

@Unsolicited Advice:

"Everything West of Philadelphia is a horrible, Appalachian coal-mining wasteland."

Carville once described Pennsylvania as Philadelphia and Pittsburg, with Alabama in between. My wife and I were driving through St. Marys, and we stopped in a convenience store. She's from China; you should have seen the reactions.

We live in Philly's Chinatown. I love it here.

@if_i_only_had_a_heart: They generally investigate most threats, but they do have a computer program to help them prioritize them. They have lists of people all over the country whom they monitor and when the Prez is going to be in their neck of the woods they track those guys down.

Interestingly, though, the Secret Service has never predicted an assassination attempt or by whom it would be attempted. Although we have to guess that they have averted various attempts.

As far as blog ranting goes, sometimes it's better to let the ranter rant. As long as he is ranting he isn't out target shooting.

Everything I know about this comes from Gavin deBecker.

@ChillbearLatrigue: I certainly don't want "my kind" to be judge solely on comparison to a failure of a presidency. My only question regarding Obama spending vs Bush spending is which one is the biggest waste: infrastructure or dead end defense initiatives.

Regarding 9/11....it's still to this day a touchy subject. I won't even go into the 9/11 conspiracy groups, but I will say that on 9/12, the ball was in their (White House) hands. They decided to make it a one way race to Iraq, when all evidence and intelligence pointed elsewhere. They chose to focus on the Muslim vs Christian conflict. They chose to use that time to pass legislation that made us fear our neighbors, not love (or tolerate) them. They could have had an unparalleled level of unity amongst Americans across the nation (which they had for a very short while). They squandered it on a faux holy war and very real witch hunt.

theMoJo