Skinheads, Sarah Palin and Bill Hobbs

9 Responses to “Skinheads, Sarah Palin and Bill Hobbs”

1. Bobby Blevins writes
   October 27th, 2008 5:43 pm

   Notice that Smith still tried to take political shots at the Democrats here with the other two examples she gave. The fact that neither come up to the level of actually plotting to kill a GOP candidate seems to have escaped her too. She should have just renounced the skinheads and said nothing else.

2. Bobby Blevins writes
   October 27th, 2008 7:44 pm

   Glad to see Ben Smith agrees with me.

3. Carol McCullough writes
   October 27th, 2008 8:25 pm

   My immediate reaction was the same as yours, Bobby. It is a petty move, at best.

4. cabrinigreen writes
   October 27th, 2008 9:17 pm

   I can see NOW why most Blacks vote the other party. This person from the Tn Republican Party can equate a broken window, and burning of an efigy to a mass murder plot and a plot to assasinate a presidential candidate in one paragraph is beyond belief.

5. Al Kiessel writes
   October 27th, 2008 11:02 pm

   Exactly the same, planning a racially motivated murder spree vs breaking a window. Lovely, I see where the kids get their values. I think anyone who destroys property should be arrested. They should also be ashamed if it was for petty political reasons. The skinheads, they are ignorant and twisted and will be punished under our laws. Now, a two bit political hack that trys to use such an awful situation for political gain. Well that person is truely hateful, and is the worst kind of person. Much worse then the poor, shallow, ignorant clown who breaks a window or threatens to kill. This person knows better, but is subtle in spreading their hate. The Most Dangerous Kind.

6. Rep in Cheatham Co writes
   October 28th, 2008 8:41 am

   Ok, why don’t you go back and read the sentence again. I think they were relating the “plot” to kill Obama to the radical people that had Sarah Palin hanging from their tree! Oh let’s just look right over that part and go straight to bricks. Funny, I haven’t heard a single comment about that one. I can only imagine the outrage if that was Obama hanging from a tree. I believe that would be considered a hate crime, but it’s perfectly acceptable to hang Gov. Palin and call it art. God please help this country because my take right now is it’s going to hell in a handbasket.

7. Rep in Cheatham Co writes
   October 28th, 2008 8:44 am

   Oh and Al - Our children are learning their values from ignorant people like you that condem ignorance in one person, but condon similar actions in another. Wrong is wrong period and it shouldn’t be accepted just because one is against your candidate and one isn’t.

8. BP writes
   October 28th, 2008 8:47 am

   How pathetic that they try to equate an plan to go on a racial killing spree with someone’s very bad taste attempt to be funny by setting up Halloween decorations using Palin. It’s in terrible taste, but it’s a Halloween display for goodness sake. See, http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/politics/2008/10/27/sedens.ca.palin.noose.kcal .

   Is the Republican party really this absurdly locked in its partisan myopia? Just say that the killing spree plan was shocking and leave it at that. Don’t try to use it as a chance to score points against the other party or to posture.

   This is why most of us are turned off by the people who are regularly involved in politics. Go buy yourself a soul.

9. Jon writes
   October 28th, 2008 8:59 am

   Uhh.. rep… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCJN6TjM7mg

   Of course Keith Olbermann’s a well known right winger so I guess he doesn’t count.

   But yes it *would* be different if it were Obama hanging from the tree, and no amount of feigned ignorance as to *why* it is different will make it not different.