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| 2010-10-11 | ||
| Moment a missile narrowly misses U.S. President's head This is the astonishing moment a book was apparently hurled at the head of U.S. President Barack Obama during a campaign rally in Philadelphia. The flying missile narrowly missed hitting the President yesterday. It is not clear what the book was, where it came from in the crowd, or why it was thrown at Mr Obama - who did not appear to notice the danger. But it is expected that there will be fallout from the security breach as the Secret Service investigates how close the President came to danger. The rally was clearly an eventful one - other images showed a naked man being led away in handcuffs by police. It is not clear if the man was involved in the book-throwing incident - or why he was not wearing any clothes.
It is expected that the same questions will be asked about yesterday's incident. | ||
| Posted by:tipper |
| #22 Hussein chose his base, so let the debased be debased. |
| Posted by: wr 2010-10-11 20:17 |
| #21 yep and yep he's pretty much Teh Crazee™ |
| Posted by: Frank G 2010-10-11 19:47 |
| #20 whoops! Now it appears the thrower was an Obot, a writer who hoped to get Obama to read his rather thin tome. So you Donks can call off the h8ter attacks on the raaacist Tebaggers! wait, what was I thinking? Like they would |
| Posted by: Frank G 2010-10-11 19:13 |
| #19 Barbara I'll continue to respectfully disagree. The office of the President is certainly worthy of respect no matter how low the gutter from which the cretin presently occupying it might have slithered forth. However I find status crimes ahborrent and very much contrary to the American spirit. Thus a private citizen throwing a book at the President seems to me to be deserving of no more severe a penalty than one private citizen who throws a book at another. The idea that some classes of citizens are more worthy of the protection of the law is dangerous and an idea that has, unfortunately, taken root and grown quickly. This is an example of that sort of thinking and as such I will forever view it as wrong. |
| Posted by: AzCat 2010-10-11 18:45 |
| #18 I agree - even though he's a slimey SOB - he happens to occupy the office of the President of the United States. The office, at least, deserves some respect. You can disagree with him, call him what he is (and they really hate that!) but not to physically assult. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2010-10-11 16:36 |
| #17 "Criminal law is a local matter" I disagree when it comes to the President, AzCat. Much as I'd like to "throw the book at" Bambi and his cohorts, no one can be allowed attack the President, no matter how lame and worthless he is. There are federal statutes regarding threating or attacking the President - the Secret Service needs to get with the program and find the thrower. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2010-10-11 14:48 |
| #16 In this economy there are a lot of people who would streak for less than a million bucks. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2010-10-11 13:47 |
| #15 The Secret Service was expecting shoes, not books. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2010-10-11 13:17 |
| #14 ... the Secret Service needs to find who threw the book and make sure he/she does three years in a federal prison. No. He may be the President but he's also just another citizen and the law should not excessively punish the offender due to the status or rank of the offended. Criminal law is a local matter and the book thrower should be prosecuted, if at all, under the same attempted assault charge which might apply to any citizen in that jurisdiction who did the same thing to another citizen. |
| Posted by: AzCat 2010-10-11 13:03 |
| #13 Looks like he was too busy striking a pose to notice anything but the cameras that were focused on him. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2010-10-11 12:17 |
| #12 One he wrote I guess. Returned to sender. |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2010-10-11 11:57 |
| #11 Head on a swivel, Barry, head on a swivel. This guy wouldn't last two games as a wide receiver in the SEC. |
| Posted by: Matt 2010-10-11 11:56 |
| #10 Does anyone know what book it was? |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2010-10-11 11:35 |
| #9 I'm no fan of Obama, but he is the president of the United States, and the Secret Service needs to find who threw the book and make sure he/she does three years in a federal prison. |
| Posted by: Penguin 2010-10-11 11:16 |
| #8 That is funny as hell. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2010-10-11 11:03 |
| #7 Somewhere two teleprompters are smiling. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2010-10-11 10:21 |
| #6 If it had been "The Communist Manifesto" he would have caught it and recited it from memory. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2010-10-11 09:05 |
| #5 The book was probably the Constitution, so no wonder Obama didn’t even see it. Now, had it been “The Communist Manifesto”, well that he would have noticed. |
| Posted by: Jack Salami 2010-10-11 08:51 |
| #4 The author really should not have been surprised at Pres. GW Bush's nimbleness. The man did, after all, have the reflexes and physical ability to pilot the F-102 and later the F-4, supersonic interceptor jets, in the days before computers helped control such machines. |
| Posted by: lotp 2010-10-11 08:40 |
| #3 I recognize that book. It's Economics 101. |
| Posted by: Parabellum 2010-10-11 08:15 |
| #2 Hell, I saw old George W. shuckin' and jivin' to dodge a couple of rubber crocs that Chris Matthews paid good money to get thrown at el prez. |
| Posted by: Lowspark 2010-10-11 06:44 |
| #1 Update: Man streaks in front of Obama for $1 million |
| Posted by: tipper 2010-10-11 06:00 |