[Vision2020] 'Obama Tags' Called a Joke

Sat Aug 29 06:58:09 PDT 2009

1. Not much

2. I noticed

3. Yes. I find it amusing that when it's you and yours it's always just "a 
joke" and when it's me and mine it's a howling offense. Consistency is not 
your long suit.

g

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joe Campbell" <philosopher.joe at gmail.com>
To: "g. crabtree" <jampot at roadrunner.com>
Cc: "Andreas Schou" <ophite at gmail.com>; "the lockshop" 
<lockshop at pull.twcbc.com>; "Moscow Vision 2020" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 8:44 PM
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] 'Obama Tags' Called a Joke

> As "serious as Teddy's tumor"!?! For God's sake, you jackass, do you  have 
> one bit of respect for a man who served his life for your  country? Are 
> you so far to the radical right that you can't even  notice that another 
> human being has died just .because he happens to be  left? That it was 
> just a few days ago and sone of us are mourning?
>
> And are you comparing protesters who joke about Bush's death with an 
> actual Republican candidate's joke about killing the current  president, 
> which is a crime by the way?
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Aug 28, 2009, at 7:37 PM, "g. crabtree" <jampot at roadrunner.com>  wrote:
>
>> I'm not sure what the relevance of your question is. None of the  photos 
>> I
>> posted were the work of "Black Bloc" members or groups. The majority  of 
>> the
>> photos were taken at Obama campaign rallies. That said, I would have  to
>> think that the "death to Bush" crowd are extremely well represented  at 
>> the
>> very highest levels of our government.
>>
>> Can you point out an instance of the "mainstream left"  be it  national 
>> or as
>> local as our little list raising up a "outraged roar" at the shabby
>> treatment of our previous prez?
>>
>> Please remember that we are comparing a silly off the cuff joking 
>> comment
>> made by a nowheresville gubernatorial candidate and protesters that  were 
>> as
>> serious as Teddy's tumor. If the former demands outrage and  castigation 
>> why
>> was silence the preferred response to the later?
>>
>> g
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Andreas Schou" <ophite at gmail.com>
>> To: "the lockshop" <lockshop at pull.twcbc.com>
>> Cc: "Moscow Vision 2020" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
>> Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 6:28 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] 'Obama Tags' Called a Joke
>>
>>
>> Gary --
>>
>> I'm a little interested by this, and seem . How related do you think
>> the mainstream left -- that is, the left that actually has its
>> interests represented in Congress -- is to the "radical" left, by
>> which I mean the McDonalds-window-breaking Black Bloc members?
>>
>> -- ACS
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 4:57 PM, the lockshop<lockshop at pull.twcbc.com>
>> wrote:
>>> http://www.zombietime.com/zomblog/
>>>
>>> I don't think m ost of these folks were joking. The "outraged roar" 
>>> from
>>> the
>>> progressive leffty's was tough to make out. Most were too winded  from 
>>> long
>>> hours of angry chanting and marching to and fro with imprecatory 
>>> placards
>>> and ducks concocted from soiled bedsheets.
>>>
>>>
>>> How is Rammell's ill considered, off the cuff jape any more  outrageous
>>> than
>>> what you just posted with plenty of time to consider what it was you
>>> wanted
>>> to convey? Are you REALLY ready to purchase a Minnick tag and go a 
>>> hunting
>>> or was that "just a joke?"
>>>
>>> g
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Tom Hansen" <thansen at moscow.com>
>>> To: "keely emerinemix" <kjajmix1 at msn.com>
>>> Cc: "Moscow Vision 2020" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
>>> Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 3:03 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] 'Obama Tags' Called a Joke
>>>
>>>
>>> I think you are on to something there, Keely.
>>>
>>> People got all pushed out of shape when Rose Huskey referred to  Idaho's
>>> DINO (Democrat In Name Only), Walt Minnick, as a jackass.
>>>
>>> Perhaps Rose would not have been so harshly criticised had she been
>>> packing a gun and, instead of asking about Minnick's election  potential 
>>> in
>>> 2010, asked where to buy Walt Minick hunting tags.
>>>
>>> I'd buy one.
>>>
>>> Seeya at Farmers' Market, Moscow.
>>>
>>> Tom Hansen
>>> Moscow, Idaho
>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>>
>>>>> ----------------------------------------------
>>>>>
>>>>> '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
>>>>>
>>>>> ----------------------------------------------
>>>>>
>>>>> Seeya at Farmers' Market, Moscow.
>>>>>
>>>>> Tom Hansen
>>>>> Moscow, Idaho
>>>
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