Gun-Toter From Obama Event: I, Like My Pastor, Want The President To Die

[one...two...tree 2,762]

The violent anti-Obama sentiment coming out of central Arizona managed to get still more toxic over the weekend.

Chris Broughton, the man who brought an AR-15 rifle and a handgun to an Arizona Obama rally earlier this month, says he "concurs" with his fundamentalist pastor's prayer for President Obama "to die and go to hell."

And in an interview with a local TV station, pastor Steven Anderson himself elaborated on his statement to TPMmuckraker that he would prefer Obama to die of natural causes so "he's not some martyr."

"I don't want him to be a martyr, we don't need another holiday. I'd like to see him die, like Ted Kennedy, of brain cancer," Anderson now says.

In an interview with ABC 15 outside the storefront Faithful Word Baptist Church in Tempe, Broughton said of Anderson's controversial August 16 "Why I Hate Barack Obama" sermon: "I concur, I think we'd be better off if God would send [Obama] where he's going now instead of later. [Obama] is destroying our country."

And when a reporter followed up with, "you're not advocating violence against the president?" Broughton, who has previously said his weapons are for defense, says "I'm not going to answer that question directly."

"I don't care how God does it, I'm not going into further detail than that," Broughton says. "It would be better now than later."

In fact, Broughton added, he moved to the Tempe area to attend Anderson's storefront church, which is an "old-fashioned, independent, fundamental, King James Bible only, separated Baptist church."

Roughly 24 hours after attending Anderson's anti-Obama sermon, Broughton made national headlines when he showed up heavily armed to an Obama event in Phoenix.

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/...die.php?ref=fpb

[scandal 951]

AJ scooped you hours ago.

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=215794

[Danno 1,228]

actually, if this was the guy from like last week, it's been reported he was a "put-up" from a radio station.

At any rate this guy talking about Obama dieing of "natural causes" is a lot tamer than the actual DEATH THREATS against Bush .... which seemed to raise no shock or objection (or even coverage).

Lets compare shall we?

need more? let me know.

Edited September 1, 2009 by Danno

[spookyturtle 9,466]

actually, if this was the guy from like last week, it's been reported he was a "put-up" from a radio station.

At any rate this guy talking about Obama dieing of "natural causes" is a lot tamer than the actual DEATH THREATS against Bush .... which seemed to raise no shock or objection (or even coverage).

Lets compare shall we?

need more? let me know.

This should have raised objection. It's not ok to joke about killing the President. There are too many nuts out there.

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

actually, if this was the guy from like last week, it's been reported he was a "put-up" from a radio station.

At any rate this guy talking about Obama dieing of "natural causes" is a lot tamer than the actual DEATH THREATS against Bush .... which seemed to raise no shock or objection (or even coverage).

I hope Obama gets the flu = KILL BUSH

typical leftist hypocrites.

[HAL 9000 96]

More parallel logic here. Priceless.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

The same people defending this type of behavior would have been demanding he be sent to Gitmo if he was a Muslim calling for the death of a Republican President. Political Correctness, Right Winger style.

[Heracles 417]

I will say this. Obama is trying to improve the country.

Bush Cheney sent Americans to their death, to fight for a bunch of BS that they themselves concocted. 9,400 Americans are murdered by guns each year and we do nothing. Yet 3,014 die in a single attack and we spend $1.5 trillion hunting down the perpetrators. Does that make sense to anyone?

Chanting the death of someone who wants to kill babies is not the equivalent of chanting for death for someone who wants to raise taxes.

Edited September 1, 2009 by Booyah!

[mawilson 2,133]

3,014 die in a single attack and we spend $1.5 trillion hunting down the perpetrators. Does that make sense to anyone?

It makes sense to the recipients of the said $1.5 trillion who are in cahoots with the corrupt Republican-Democrat Corporate Fascist Regime.

[Heracles 417]

3,014 die in a single attack and we spend $1.5 trillion hunting down the perpetrators. Does that make sense to anyone?

It makes sense to the recipients of the said $1.5 trillion who are in cahoots with the corrupt Republican-Democrat Corporate Fascist Regime.

The widows of 9/11 didn't do too bad either, considering many of them received $4.5 million in compensation. How much did the troops or families of soldiers killed receive? squat.

Edited September 1, 2009 by Booyah!

[Danno 1,228]

The same people defending this type of behavior would have been demanding he be sent to Gitmo if he was a Muslim calling for the death of a Republican President. Political Correctness, Right Winger style.

You're stretchin dude,

Hoping the hand of fate is not nice.... but it hardly rises to the level of Death-chanting Bush got.... care to post just one topic you started... voicing concern from those days?

The big difference here is... THE LEFT IS CRYING ABOUT SUCH THINGS.... We chalked it up to "Ugly" yet free-speech.

Why do you guys object so much to free speech?

[one...two...tree 2,762]

The same people defending this type of behavior would have been demanding he be sent to Gitmo if he was a Muslim calling for the death of a Republican President. Political Correctness, Right Winger style.

You're stretchin dude,

Hoping the hand of fate is not nice.... but it hardly rises to the level of Death-chanting Bush got.... care to post just one topic you started... voicing concern from those days?

The big difference here is... THE LEFT IS CRYING ABOUT SUCH THINGS.... We chalked it up to "Ugly" yet free-speech.

Why do you guys object so much to free speech?

You sound like one of them slick lawyers that like to split hairs. "I wish the President would die" and "Death to the President!" are equally malicious and equally wrong.

It may be protected as free speech, but that doesn't mean we can't or shouldn't condemn such hatred for the President as wrong. This ####### for tat notion that some of Right Wingers keep using to excuse such behavior is sad and hypocritical.

[nowhereman 1]

actually, if this was the guy from like last week, it's been reported he was a "put-up" from a radio station.

At any rate this guy talking about Obama dieing of "natural causes" is a lot tamer than the actual DEATH THREATS against Bush .... which seemed to raise no shock or objection (or even coverage).

I hope Obama gets the flu = KILL BUSH

typical leftist hypocrites.

Luckystrike you calling anyone a hypocrite is like Bernie Madoff calling someone a con artist. With that being said death threats, either directly made or implied, against ANY President is wrong & a potential felony.

[nowhereman 1]

The same people defending this type of behavior would have been demanding he be sent to Gitmo if he was a Muslim calling for the death of a Republican President. Political Correctness, Right Winger style.

You're stretchin dude,

Hoping the hand of fate is not nice.... but it hardly rises to the level of Death-chanting Bush got.... care to post just one topic you started... voicing concern from those days?

The big difference here is... THE LEFT IS CRYING ABOUT SUCH THINGS.... We chalked it up to "Ugly" yet free-speech.

Why do you guys object so much to free speech?

Ummm you & your GF Luckystrike are "crying" about as well. However it's pointless & stupid to lump all anti-Bush or anti-Obama people into 2 groups... for every left wing nut doing or saying outrageous stuff there's a right wing nut doing the same thing. The extremists are just mirror images of one another.

I thought & still believe Bush was one of the 10 worst Presidents ever, but I certainly didn't state or imply that I wanted him dead.

[alienlovechild 75]

Ummm you & your GF Luckystrike are "crying" about as well. However it's pointless & stupid to lump all anti-Bush or anti-Obama people into 2 groups... for every left wing nut doing or saying outrageous stuff there's a right wing nut doing the same thing. The extremists are just mirror images of one another.

You're missing an important distinction, actually more than one.

1. There was never a flurry of articles and stories about threats to Bush. Even Saddam's assassination plot of Bush Sr. is largely forgotten.

2. The Bush "threats" were on TV and movies (among other sources) not some individual carrying a homemade sign and toting gun as is the case for Obama (counting the phony "protestor")

3. Bush didn't hype the threats to his life for political advantage. Obama supporters desperately need to use anyone or anything to distract from his lackluster performance thus far. That's why we get the "daily threat to Obama" post.

Edited September 1, 2009 by alienlovechild