[Vision2020] 'Obama Tags' Called a Joke

[keely emerinemix]

Please, everyone - quiet down.  I want to be sure I hear the outraged roar of indignant protesters from the GOP . . . 

Keely
www.keely-prevailingwinds.com




> Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 11:47:01 -0700
> From: thansen at moscow.com
> To: vision2020 at moscow.com
> Subject: [Vision2020] 'Obama Tags' Called a Joke
> 
> Courtesy of today's (August 28, 2009) Spokesman Review.
> 
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> 
> ‘Obama tags’ called a joke
> 
> BOISE – An Idaho Republican gubernatorial hopeful insists he was only
> joking when he said he’d buy a license to hunt President Barack Obama.
> 
> Rex Rammell, a long-shot candidate slated to run against incumbent Butch
> Otter in the May 2010 GOP primary, made the comment at a Republican rally
> Tuesday in Twin Falls where talk turned to the state’s planned wolf hunt,
> for which hunters must purchase an $11.50 wolf tag. The hunt is due to
> begin Tuesday.
> 
> When an audience member shouted a question about “Obama tags,” Rammell
> responded, “The Obama tags? We’d buy some of those.”
> 
> Rammell told the Associated Press on Thursday he sees no reason to
> apologize because the comment was just a joke.
> 
> “What I would say to all my Democrat Idahoans: Take a deep breath and
> relax,” he said. “We’re not going to go out and hunt Obama.”
> 
> Threatening the president can be a felony punishable by five years in
> prison and a $250,000 fine
> 
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> 
> Seeya at Farmers' Market, Moscow.
> 
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
> 
> "The Pessimist complains about the wind, the Optimist expects it to change
> and the Realist adjusts his sails."
> 
> - Unknown
> 
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