Top Tampa GOP Figure Circulates Joke About Killing Obama

Source: Tampa Bay Online

Al Austin, a longtime, high-level Republican fundraiser from Tampa, today sent to his list of political contacts an e-mail containing a joke that refers to the assassination of Barack Obama.

When asked about the e-mail, Austin said it was a mistake and apologized and that he wouldn’t knowingly have circulated it. He said he planned to send an apology and retraction to the same e-mail list.

The joke concerns a group of schoolchildren discussing the definition of “tragedy” as opposed to “great loss” or “accident.” The punch line comes when one child says that if an airplane carrying Obama and his wife, Michelle, “was struck by a ‘friendly fire’ missile and blown to smithereens,” the event might be a tragedy “because it certainly wouldn’t be a great loss, and it probably wouldn’t be an accident either.”

Austin acknowledged sending the e-mail to his list of political contacts but said he forwarded it without fully reading it and didn’t know what it said. That list included at least two reporters.

According to the forwarding history on the e-mail, it had gone through at least two other individuals before being sent to Austin on Tuesday.

Austin, a prominent real estate developer long known as one of the state’s leading Republican campaign fundraisers, has served in recent years as finance chairman for both the national and state Republican parties.




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These f*ckers have no shame! Imagine if this was an Obama supporter - it would be non-stop news on Faux, CNN, MSNBC, etc.


Ugly b*stard!

Riiiiiiiiiight. You f*cking liar.

Bake

Goodbye.

You're cooked. Like the rest of the GOP.

And they screech and they shriek and they accuse the left of being "full of hate" and "angry".

As usual; imagine if a DEMOCRAT had circulated such a "joke" about mcbUsh...

Simply appalling.
Please tell me that the Secret Service is jumping on this.

because he's a Republican
:argh:

Write them at:

420 E. Jefferson Street
PO Box 311
Tallahassee, FL 32301

Email them here: http://www.rpof.org/contact.php

Do it early and do it often. Encourage your friends and neighbors to do the same.

This clown should be banned from anything political, anywhere, anytime.

Call the Republicans at 850.222.7920 and express outrage.

this would be the guy.

Go figure. He's from Florida... the same state that had a criminal element which allowed the 9/11 terrorists into the country and then watched as they brought the towers down. Which also played a big part in stealing two elections. Just another Florida crook afraid of seeing Democrats in power and therefore the possibility he might end up in the big house.

Guess this man thought it should have been Obama.

with Sharpton and Jackson.

The joke is easily modified and isn't the core problem - it is the person sending it and the list he sent it to. That's just wrong.

Ahhh, florida repubs...

all these nutjobs making threats means the SS is gonna have to hire alot more agents!

Guess they weren't lying when they said they were gonna create more jobs!

that was in the race .... Ollie North for Governor of VA? . . .

was that it? -- that was one of the campaign buttons being offered re Clinton's candidacy...

Forget when it was, think it was sometime back during the 90s. I believe it was on a Kansas conservative talk show, some rethug Congressman openly joked about Pres. Clinton's assassination.

These fucking assholes have no shame whatsoever.

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,981957,00.html

At first Bill Clinton knew exactly what he wanted to do after learning that North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms had told a Raleigh newspaper that the President "better have a bodyguard" if he ever visited his state. "I'm ready to go to North Carolina right now," an angry Clinton informed White House chief of staff Leon Panetta, who brought him the news last Tuesday. The deep strike in enemy territory was quickly dismissed as impulsive. "We can't just react every time Jesse Helms decides to push his crazy buttons," said a senior official...l

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when Jesse made that statement. Pissed me off bigtime. I would have loved to have Clinton at Bragg...

Unbelievable the level these people sink.

Big deal.

And quite another thing to be a politician promoting a joke like that about your opposition.

If a Democrat did that, I would be just as appalled.

...when elected officials make jokes like this, it condones the attitude. There are idiots out there that might take it as a suggestion.

does really reply to all. Who knew?

There seems to be a lot of it going around these days.

Martin Luther King have engendered in Republican pond life seems fathomless, doesn't it?

They ought to make a special point of criminalising only Republicans who mention assassinating a Democrat; the same law not being necessary for Democrats, because it's not a party that tends to attract violent and/or depraved psychopaths to anything like the same degree.

It's much the same in the UK. Most of the crimes of politicians seem be perpetrated by Tory MPs and councillors. Someone should do a comparative criminological study of the parties. Who has some kind of moral compass and who hasn't might become clearer.