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Crowd Laughs When Congressman Is Asked: Who's Going To Shoot Obama?
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February 25, 2011
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by Mark Memmott
From Georgia, the Athens Banner-Herald reports that at a town hall meeting Tuesday night Republican Rep. Paul Broun was asked by a person in the audience when — or who, depending on the person doing the reporting — someone is going to shoot President Obama.
Two things about what happened next stand out:
— The question "got a big laugh," the newspaper reports.
— Broun, his press secretary confirmed, moved on. "Obviously, the question was inappropriate, so Congressman Broun moved on," spokeswoman Jessica Morris told the Banner-Herald.
He responded this way, according to the newspaper:
"The thing is, I know there's a lot of frustration with this president. We're going to have an election next year. Hopefully, we'll elect somebody that's going to be a conservative, limited-government president that will take a smaller, who will sign a bill to repeal and replace Obamacare."
As Politico says, Broun "didn't come anywhere near condemning the question in his response."
Broun, a doctor, was first elected to Congress in July 2007.
The Washington Post's Plum Line blog says the Secret Service has spoken with the person who asked the question, and determined that "he or she was an 'elderly person' who now regrets making a bad joke."





Niall Carter says, "An elderly person making a bad joke? Yeah, that I can understand, because most of the elderly still come from the days when they could lynch blacks without fear of reprisal, but still, since the rest of the crowd, who obviously think that it's OK to talk about shooting our leader, well, that means that we have to ask ourselves, as Americans, this question:

"Is this the country that we want to live in?"


And John Steppenwolf replies, "The answer should be, from any reasonable American, would be, 'No. And that's why I'm going to work to make it better.'"

Overheard at Booth 3:

Let's talk Monday Morning - the rates will be out and we can see where the world is at that time and if it's there, then we can lock it in, but if the oil prices are still skyrocketing because the speculators think that the Suez canal is gonna be overrun by the Muslim Brotherhood and let the Iranians slip through to nuke Israel from the warm waters of the Mediterranean, well then, your mortgage payment is pretty well screwed.

Overheard at Table 4

1: I don't get it. Our pastor was talking yesterday about starting a new series about how all these revolutions in the Middle East were signs of the end of the world. But I thought we as Americans always wanted democracy to spread throughout the world.

2: Nah. Just the democracies where we tell 'em who to elect. Most of the time, these countries, when they set up a democracy that we can't rig, they wind up freely electing leaders who tell us to shove it.

3: Not true! They say they're gonna be democracies, but that's just a lie - like it says in Revelation "They will beleive the lie." The democracy call is just a sham for hard-Islamic movements like the Muslim Brotherhood to rise up and take over, and that'll bring about the end of the world. And that's why we've always got to be over there - to straighten things out.

1: But if the end of the world ultimately is when God puts everything in order - why are we so worried about it?

3: Because we don't want it RIGHT NOW!

Overheard at Booth 3

A mom is sitting with her two children, apparently tweens or young teenagers, and they are sharing lattes after school, and the mom is saying, "I got some chocolate to put in your milk for when you guys are at the house, I don' t want you drinking so much sodas."

The younger boy says, "But I LIKE sodas, they make your tongue all tingly!"

The older girl says, "I don't like milk."

The mom says, "Milk helps you grow, you're always complaining you're still so short, so if you don't drink milk, stop complaining if you don't grow and you always stay that short, then."

The girl says, "That's what high heels are for."

The mom says, "Oh whoa!"

The boy says, "I think she's been reading your magazines, Mom."

Overseen on Table 5

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Overheard at Booth 3

Hey, did you hear that the government is going to try to bring charges against that WikiLeaks guy for espionage?

Isn't freedom of the press protected by the Constitution?

Everyone thought it was, but then they're talking about enforcing the Espionage Act of 1917. Here, check it out: http://www.firstworldwar.com/source/espionageact.htm

Dang - that's some hard core stuff. That $10,000 fine, is that in 1917 dollars? Do you think they'll adjust for inflation?

No kiddin'! What crazes me out is the fact that I've always heard the Republicans blasting Woodrow Wilson for being such a mamby pamby liberal, I mean, Glenn Beck even blamed him for the housing crash of 2008, for gossakes, and here he is putting into place a law that'll get you thrown in jail just for even talking BAD about the military!

Sounds to me like we're drowning in our history but we still have no idea what we're swallowing!

Overheard at Table 4: Freedom of Religion

and then there's religion, you know, listen, I heard my pastor the other day in Sunday School going back to the whole Katrina thing, which, you know, happened years ago, and he was saying there wouldn't have been so much looting if they'd had the Ten Commandments posted at every school in the district, you know, like having some plaque with these phrases on it would suddenly make everybody do the right thing in a crisis, you know, and I was sitting there thinking, you know, this is the same church that tells me that we shouldn't lean on the government for anything, and here they are making the case for the Ten Commandments at every school? That seems, like, you know, a little hypocriticacull, if you ask me, and

that's another thing I was thinking, you know, about that First Amendment, and I went online and I read it and the way I read it it basically is saying that the government can't stop you from worshipping the way you want to, and it can't tell you how to worship, and I was thinking that putting the ten commandments in front of every public building is basically telling us

how

they want us to worship, which is againt the Constitution, and then I'm thinking that if we really want people to follow Jesus more, then we gotta be better ourselves, and we gotta get out there

more, and talk about Him more, and then

let US be those plaques in front of the buildings, in front of the schools, in front of the courthouses . . .

so I'm gonna take my Bible out there, right after I finish my coffee here and I'm gonna go stand outside and start reading, I think I'll read from Galatians because man I like those letters of Paul especially when they start telling you to be strong and fight the good fight, win the race, and all that, and yeah I see you looking at me and I know it seems weird and all that but,

yeah, I think I'm becoming one of those crazy guys shouting the gospel from street corners.

Kinda like John the Baptist, whaddizzit? Voice crying in the wilderness?