Just Evil.
Federal law enforcement authorities yesterday arrested a 21-year-old Idaho man suspected of shooting with a semiautomatic rifle at the White House on Friday night, as the Secret Service reported finding that at least one bullet had indeed struck the presidential residence.
In response to this, on Twitter, the president of the College Republicans at the University of Texas, Lauren Pierce, had this to say:
“Y’all as tempting as it may be, don’t shoot Obama. We need him to go down in history as the WORST president we’ve EVER had! #2012.”
Of course, after she called lambasted on the Internets for her evilness, the coward Pierce says it was a joke, as if joking about something is a get out of jail free card in the conservative mind. I will let Booman speak for me :
She said this in late November of Obama’s third year in office. She said it from Texas. She said it after a bullet blew out an ornamental window in the White House residence and was stopped by a backup bullet-proof window behind it.
To me, the most telling part is that Lauren Pierce seemed to know her audience. She assumed that they would be sympathetic to the idea of shooting the president and wanted to tell them that it wasn’t a good idea. Coming just days before the forty-eighth anniversary of the JFK assassination, it wasn’t a sensitive statement, but what’s really troubling is that it is assumed that most college Republicans in Texas have had their heads filled with so much crap that they have a murderous hatred of a president who hasn’t done anything to deserve it.
Some things you shouldn’t “joke” about. When a teabag rethuglican “jokes” about killing President Obama, I don’t find it funny. In fact, it scares the hell out of me. And that old “it’s freedom of speech” defense is bullshit!
I love that she started with “Y’all”
Bet she’s a Communications major. 😉
“(college republicans) have had their heads filled with so much crap that they have a murderous hatred of a president who hasn’t done anything to deserve it.”
Well to be specific, he is guilty of being the President while not being a Republican. That is enough for them to harbor murderous hatred. Enough, it appears, for some to act on that murderous hatred.
What will they point to in making the argument that Obama is the worst president? He killed a terrorist leader his Republican predecessor couldn’t find; he is (mostly) getting the troops out of one horrible quagmire his Republican predecessor wallowed into without an exit plan; he averted a depression caused mostly by his Republican predecessor.
Who’s the worst president again?
Spot on Geezer and Jason.
He’s already cemented his status as the worst president ever. I used to think it was Jimmy Carter, but at least Mr Carter had the Camp David Peace Accords to his credit.
As for President Obama, during his not quite three years we have:
tripled the deficit;
accumulated more debt in 2½ years than under 8 under President Bush (and he accumulated way too much);
will have the national debt surpass 100% of GDP within the next few months;
seen our credit downgraded;
passed an utterly failed stimulus plan, after which unemployment became higher than the President said it would if we did nothing at all (but we added another trillion in debt to do it);
passed an unconstitutional health care mandate; and
seen our savings and wages erode in real terms.
If you ran a company and had an employee with that kind of job performance, you’d fire him.
Psst… Dana, Saying the same inaccurate thing about the debt three different ways doesn’t make it accurate.
As for the stimulus, we all know why Congressional Republicans worked to make it less effective. So nut brains like Dana could call it a failure.
Dana has his head so far up his ass he’s seeing College Republicans from the University of Texas.
Dana more than likely gets his facts from Fox Noise and that Drug Abusing Junkie Rush which makes Dana a true Ditto Head.
With people like Dana being allowed to vote we are truly lost
TT, Here is the irony. I pushed for Obama, in large part, because I thought that Republicans would become enraged, unhinged and intractable in the event of another Clinton administration.
Ha! The joke is on me. There is no bottom to wingnut intractability, unhingyness, and empty-headed rage.
@Jason: Me too.
@Dana: Obama has not tripled the deficit. It stood at just over $10 trillion when he took over — and, even if he had simply repeated Bush’s last budget instead of adding the stimulus, it would have risen to $12 trillion no matter who was president in fiscal ’09. It’s now what, a bit under $16 trillion? In the worst economy since the 1930s? That’s supposed to make him the worst president ever? When you say idiotic things like that, I hope you realize that it undermines what little credibility you have on other issues.
You forget, Dana, that future historians — unlike you — will not have round-the-clock Conpublican propaganda playing in their ears. Even Republican economists now concede jobs are more important than the deficit. The only holdouts are unrealistic kooks who will never have to answer for being wrong, because realistic people will prevent them from driving us over a cliff in the jalopy of their theories.
And perhaps y’all would like this one, a moment of silence for the fine gentle who took shots at the White House, at the Occupy San Diego site.
Oh joy. Dana is closing down his blog, which means he’s going to be trolling around here more.
Geezer wrote:
The last deficit (not national debt) figure passed entirely under President Bush was $455 billion. Under President Obama, the deficits have been $1.42 trillion in FY2009 (part of which was passed when Mr Bush was still in office, but the majority was passed after President Obama was inaugurated), $1.29 trillion in FY2010 and $1.3 trillion in FY2011.
The national debt was $5.67 trillion at the end of FY2000, and reached $10.02 trillion at the end of FY2008. By the end of FY2010 it was $13.56 trillion, and we’ve just now topped $15 trillion (unofficial figures).
Interrupted for a personal (non-political) note: Sorry to see that you’re closing down your blog, Dana. Promise me that this won’t be the end of your limericks? 🙂
You are correct, Dana. My bad. Of course, that’s even worse for your argument. Annual deficits are even less important than overall debt in determining the quality of presidents by historians. Go ahead, check any list ever compiled. I can’t recall a historian ever taking stock of a president by such a measure.
Geez, annual deficits add to the national debt, and under President Obama we have added as much to the national debt in three years as was added under President Bush in eight. More, even in his rosiest projections, in his various annual budget submittals, he projected every one of the deficits in the future as being higher than the highest one under President Bush. Under President Obama, the federal deficit every month is higher than the federal deficit for all of FY2007, the last budget passed by a Republican-controlled Congress.
On 3 July 2008, Senator Barack Obama (D-IL), running for President of the United States, said:
Thing is, over the last 2¾ years, President Obama has exceeded the record on which he excoriated President Bush for generating in 8.
You elide the fact that much of the addition to the deficit is the continuation and winding down of Bush programs like the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. President Obama did go big in Afghanistan, but I doubt you objected to that spending. Or to the Iraq spending. Or to the continuation of the Bush era tax cuts. I could go on. Because once Bush started spending, it continues to get spent. It didn’t go away just because he did, unfortunately.
Obama also added to the deficit by putting people to work, extending food stamps and unemployment benefits and other efforts to make sure that people downsized were not starving.
It is *really* a shame that you people did not care about this deficit when there was a Republican in the White House AND you controlled both houses of Congress. But then, hypocrisy is baked in the cake with you guys.
It was Ronald Reagan who tripled the national debt.
Could you direct me to the expressions of outrage from the major contributors to this blog over the things cataloged here, which were directed at the previous president?
http://www.zombietime.com/zomblog/?p=621
To be fair, the war crimes sign is technically accurate. He did start a war of aggression that killed 100,000 innocents and displaced 2 million more. Were he ever to stand trial at The Hague — let’s pretend for a moment America didn’t run the world, and that this could happen — he almost certainly would get a death sentence, which would be carried out by hanging.
I personally think he would skate. Cheney, on the other hand, certainly would hang.
UP Uranus, can you show the expressions from major contributors to this blog that endorsed the outrageous violence against any president?
As I said, in my first response to you, the bulk of those deficits would occur no matter who the president was. Yes, deficits add to the debt — but that always happens in a recession, yet another reason that the Bush tax cuts were irresponsible. Bush’s deficits were for wars that could easily have been paid for with higher taxes, as wars traditionally are.
But so what? Nobody but Ron Paul and other people with Debt OCD cares. Spare me the hand-waving and pants-wetting. Just because you say it’s as important as you consider it doesn’t make it so. You’re going to have to live with the reality that I will take the opinion of mainstream economists over yours. You may turn out to be right, but so what? You’re no expert; you’re essentially guessing.
Your original statement was that Obama is the worst president ever. When I asked for the basis of that judgment, all you had was the deficit and, by extension, the debt. I said you will not find any credentialed historian who has ever judged a president on that basis. About the closest you can come is Hoover, and even he isn’t blamed for the Depression, only failing to come up with a solution to the problem. Obama has already outperformed Hoover by preventing a depression. So I stand by my original statement — you have very little, if anything, to back up your claim.
@uranus – umm try this story – I mean cant you google??
you link is full of misinformation
http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/251175/Man_Arrested_For_Telling_His_Girlfriend_He_Was_Going_To_Kill_Bush
typical RWNJ
I mean did you read that story you linked to?? it say NOONE was arrested for threatening Bush – dont you vet your information??
then there is this story – should I continue or do you want to look more dumb for using bad information??
http://www.reuters.com/article/2008/01/28/us-whitehouse-arrest-idUSN2848993920080128
You’ll never see him here again. Paid troll.
I wanted Bush impeached. I never wanted him dead. I wanted him shamed, humiliated, and his political career destroyed. I wanted him to live with that, and be treated as a pariah. That is much more satisfying than having him dead.
Meanwhile, conservatives dream about violence being inflicted upon Obama. Because, as recent sociological studies have shown, they all share personality traits with that of violent sociopaths.
The video from this guy is scary and sad. He’s obviously mentally disturbed. And he thinks he’s Jesus.
“I wanted him shamed, humiliated,”
He was. He truly was.
My guess is that Uranus is another paid troll from Texas. Actually, I think RWR used that very same link in other posts before he was sent away.
awww RWR! i miss that guy.
Thanks for clarifying that you condemn Republicans who call on folks to NOT assassinate Obama, but that you cannot condemn those who supported the assassination of his predecessor.
Personally, I pray that Obama lives a long life with Michelle, and that he has many years to play with his grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Long enough, in fact, to recognize and publicly acknowledge what a failure he has been and the harm he has done to America.
Failure? Please explain how. I explained how your ex-governor was a war criminal.