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TeamPooka

(24,256 posts) Wed Aug 1, 2012, 06:11 PM Aug 2012

Kelly Keisling, GOP Tennessee Legislator, Mass Emailed Obama 'Staged Assassination' Rumor

sigh...

WASHINGTON -- A Republican member of the Tennessee state legislature emailed constituents Tuesday morning with a rumor circulating in conservative circles that President Barack Obama is planning to stage a fake assassination attempt in an effort to stop the 2012 election from happening.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/31/kelly-keisling-tennessee-obama-rumor_n_1725053.html

They are just bat-shit crazy now.
What are they going to be like in Nov. when they lose again?

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Kelly Keisling, GOP Tennessee Legislator, Mass Emailed Obama 'Staged Assassination' Rumor (Original Post) TeamPooka Aug 2012 OP

Same old repug crap. They said Clinton was going to louis-t Aug 2012 #1

tons of DUers predicted the same thing about * dionysus Aug 2012 #8

So I guess we're all full of louis-t Aug 2012 #12

i guess sometimes, yeah. dionysus Aug 2012 #15

we've certainly got some yahoos down here in tennessee spanone Aug 2012 #2

Yeah. Though Nashville is pretty smart until the Legislature is in session.......... socialist_n_TN Aug 2012 #5

Ugh 47of74 Aug 2012 #3

hate? TeamPooka Aug 2012 #4

Attention Michele Bachmann - someone is trying to steal your act! bullwinkle428 Aug 2012 #6

+1 TeamPooka Aug 2012 #14

Ruh-roh, that means that someoone is planning NashvilleLefty Aug 2012 #7

This is one of those things where I don't know. Bolo Boffin Aug 2012 #9

I reported him to the FBI. We all should. Zoeisright Aug 2012 #10

I wish I'd thought of that... TeamPooka Aug 2012 #13

I recall JFK, RFK, MLK in every moment. This can't happen. Faygo Kid Aug 2012 #11

they have no sense of decency TeamPooka Aug 2012 #16

louis-t

(23,297 posts)

1. Same old repug crap. They said Clinton was going to

Reply to TeamPooka (Original post)

Wed Aug 1, 2012, 06:38 PM

Aug 2012

"declare Marshall Law so he can stay in the WH". 'Member that one?

dionysus

(26,467 posts)

8. tons of DUers predicted the same thing about *

Reply to louis-t (Reply #1)

Thu Aug 2, 2012, 12:09 AM

Aug 2012

louis-t

(23,297 posts)

12. So I guess we're all full of

Reply to dionysus (Reply #8)

Thu Aug 2, 2012, 11:59 AM

Aug 2012

shit!

dionysus

(26,467 posts)

15. i guess sometimes, yeah.

Reply to louis-t (Reply #12)

Thu Aug 2, 2012, 11:29 PM

Aug 2012

on DU we've also been on the verge of invading iran since 2004

spanone

(135,880 posts)

2. we've certainly got some yahoos down here in tennessee

Reply to TeamPooka (Original post)

Wed Aug 1, 2012, 06:55 PM

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socialist_n_TN

(11,481 posts)

5. Yeah. Though Nashville is pretty smart until the Legislature is in session..........

Reply to spanone (Reply #2)

Wed Aug 1, 2012, 10:09 PM

Aug 2012

Then our collective IQ drops about 30 points each.

47of74

(18,470 posts)

3. Ugh

Reply to TeamPooka (Original post)

Wed Aug 1, 2012, 08:21 PM

Aug 2012

What the fuck is in the drinking water down there?

TeamPooka

(24,256 posts)

4. hate?

Reply to 47of74 (Reply #3)

Wed Aug 1, 2012, 08:45 PM

Aug 2012

bullwinkle428

(20,630 posts)

6. Attention Michele Bachmann - someone is trying to steal your act!

Reply to TeamPooka (Original post)

Wed Aug 1, 2012, 10:15 PM

Aug 2012

TeamPooka

(24,256 posts)

14. +1

Reply to bullwinkle428 (Reply #6)

Thu Aug 2, 2012, 02:06 PM

Aug 2012

NashvilleLefty

(811 posts)

7. Ruh-roh, that means that someoone is planning

Reply to TeamPooka (Original post)

Wed Aug 1, 2012, 11:02 PM

Aug 2012

a real assassination attempt, and if it fails they are laying the groundwork that it was a "fake" attempt.

Although much of TN is blue and it really should be a Swing state, there are plenty of extremists here that would actually be stupid enough to try and assassinate the President - just because he's Black. Or at least partially black.

Don't give up on the entire State - but we do have some radicalists here.

Bolo Boffin

(23,796 posts)

9. This is one of those things where I don't know.

Reply to TeamPooka (Original post)

Thu Aug 2, 2012, 12:31 AM

Aug 2012

On the one hand, it's batcrap crazy, all right. Ludicrous poppycock meant to stroke some dollar bills out of a few nutbags' hands.

On the other hand, GOP candidates spreading this around sends a clear signal. Any dumbfuck who might seriously consider taking a shot at President Obama now knows just how they will be viewed. An attempt on President Obama's life will make him more sympathetic to the voting public, so that's one reason no self-respecting right-winger should attempt it. And if they do, then they will be turned into a Yellow Dog Commie Demmy-crat by the right-wing media faster than they could blink.

So which of these thought processes do I think Kelly Keisling is actually capable of?

Janet Moore, one of the recipients of Keisling's email, said she called the lawmaker Tuesday morning to express her disagreement with his decision to send the email. Moore, who lives in an adjoining legislative district in rural Tennessee, told HuffPost that Keisling told her that the rumor was "pretty ridiculous, isn't it?"

When she asked Keisling why he sent the email, if he found it ridiculous, she said that Keisling told her, "I wouldn't put anything past anybody."

Gonna have to go with door #1, Monty.