Comments on: Taylor Marsh Commenter Fantasizes About Shooting Obama

By: Gatsby

Gatsby — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 22:23:11 +0000

OMG. I’ve thought many of them over at Taylor Marsh are dangerous, but that’s truly frightening. I have read comments asking where “Average Jane” is, so apparently Taylor Marsh did not make issue of it. I hope the FBI stays on top of these.

By: thepoliticalcat

thepoliticalcat — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:57:08 +0000

Good grief! This is simply intolerable. But Clinton’s remark about RFK brought this out into the open, I believe. She’s doing that old Reagan thing of saying something outrageous to the conscience so that it becomes part of the public consciousness and some lunatic with poor impulse control will believe it’s OK to echo the voices in their head.

I fear for Obama’s safety. Let’s hope the Secret Service put its own racism aside to visit this woman and warn her of consequences.

By: Duros62

Duros62 — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 22:36:54 +0000

it is so good I live out in the middle of nowhere because right now there is a string of obscenities coming from my mouth.

Yeah, me too. But probably not for the same reasons.

By: durablend

durablend — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 17:23:46 +0000

You should see some of the sickness that’s up on YouTube

By: Sean D. Martin

Sean D. Martin — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 17:01:09 +0000

Unbelievable.

Alas, no. Far, far too few these days will say “This behavior is just not acceptable.” Be it a politician to their followers, a blogger to their commenters or a parent to their child. (Far, far to few seem to even recognize it as unacceptable.)

By: Thom

Thom — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 16:33:05 +0000

That commenter has ben banned and those comments removed – but comments that repeated those exact comments and gave them an “LOL” are still there. Unbelievable.

By: trevjr

trevjr — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 16:13:43 +0000

hillary has encouraged her supporters to act in this way. Look at the over 50 white women weeping on TV over the RCN decision. This was part of hillary’s kitchen sink strategy, to pull the sexism card ‘the man is taking the woman’s show away’. Father Pflueger said it better.

By: Bostondreams

Bostondreams — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 15:12:59 +0000

The Marsh is a swamp. No doubt about it.

By: anotherbozo

anotherbozo — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 11:50:21 +0000

I’ve been pondering this safety issue, how this is the most exciting candidate in decades and how rampant our country with racist nut cases, political loonies, etc. I think Obama’s safety may be helped by how looooong this campaign has been, how he’s become part of the landscape and thus no longer so threatening in their paranoid little minds.

That’s my consoling thought and I’m sticking with it.

By: Rob in IL

Rob in IL — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 11:31:16 +0000

Frightening stuff.

The closer we are to nominating Barack, the more I worry for his safety. First I feared a white supremacist nut, but now with these unhinged Clinton supporters I fear a Squeeaky Fromme.

This campaign could be uplifting or gut wrenching…time will tell.

By: switched

switched — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 06:07:05 +0000

Disgusting. I just wasted way too much time in the marsh… Interesting that the comments are moderated and what they think is appropriate there.

By: Robster

Robster — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 04:36:02 +0000

The FBI has apparently contacted Larry Johnson over comments in his shiteous blog No Quarter. How much longer will it be before Veruca Salt (TM) gets a visit or phone call from them?

By: Crusty Dem

Crusty Dem — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 02:23:55 +0000

Ugh, Oliver. I’m not sure how you can wade through all the mental flotsam and jetsam over there.

By: Vanessa

Vanessa — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 01:37:24 +0000

They say his nose is in the air?? He’s one of the most humble politicians I’ve ever seen.

As for their references to shooting him — I agree — absolutely sick.

By: C.S.Strowbridge

C.S.Strowbridge — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 01:28:21 +0000

Beyond bitter? That’s psychotic. That’s close to criminal. That’s certainly enough to get the Secret Service to pay her a visit.

By: Bruce

Bruce — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 01:09:12 +0000

It’s really bizarre how whacked so many of her non-assassination referencing commenters are, too.

By: Bruce

Bruce — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 01:03:25 +0000

I don’t get why people hate Obama. Oh wait, this has been a racist country for 450 years.

By: jerry

jerry — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 00:58:57 +0000

Yes, that’s disgusting and way over the line. It’s also the sort of talk that can get one a visit from the FBI, as happened to one guy spouting off at about that level a few years ago at FARK.