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.