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21-Year-Old Charged With Trying to Assassinate Obama

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Posted by Fred 2011-11-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 How soon until the press finds out his political views?

Posted by gromky 2011-11-18 00:09|| 2011-11-18 00:09|| Front Page Top

#2 He's a suspected Occubagger
and
#Occupy approved

Posted by Eohippus Phater7165 2011-11-18 00:15|| 2011-11-18 00:15|| Front Page Top

#3 He's a suspected Occubagger and Occupy approved

Doesn't mater. A right wing connection will be found.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2011-11-18 05:04|| 2011-11-18 05:04|| Front Page Top

#4 Is it wrong to feel relieved he is Hispanic. Certainly makes it a creative challenge for the msm.

Posted by Rjschwarz 2011-11-18 07:12|| 2011-11-18 07:12|| Front Page Top

#5 My guess is he was brainwashed by evil right wing anti-obama rhetoric and only harsher gun laws will prevent such acts in the future. Bonus points if theycantie evil republicans to illegal immigration blame into the shooting as well.

Posted by Rjschwarz 2011-11-18 07:16|| 2011-11-18 07:16|| Front Page Top

#6 I strongly suspect schizophrenia. He is in the age window, and his police records indicate he is a frequent flyer.

"Police believe the suspect, 21-year-old Oscar Ramiro Ortega of Idaho, is mentally ill. Ortega has an extensive record, ranging from domestic violence to drug charges. Sources say a police investigation has uncovered evidence suggesting Ortega has a fixation on the White House.

"Authorities suspect Ortega has been in the area for weeks, coming back and forth to the Washington Mall. Before the shooting, he was detained by local police at an abandoned house. U.S. Park police say Ortega may have spent time with Occupy D.C. protesters."

Posted by Anonymoose 2011-11-18 08:32|| 2011-11-18 08:32|| Front Page Top

#7 He's a straight up loony. (fit right in with the occupy group)

Evidently, his beef was something about the Mayan calendar, "Obama's plan to implant GPS tracking chips into all children" and then it just kind of lost focus from there.

Still, if he did make a 600-700 yd shot with a bloody AK he had something going on.

Posted by Mad Eye Untervehr6830 2011-11-18 08:39|| 2011-11-18 08:39|| Front Page Top

#8 According to the Idaho Department of Corrections, there is both an Oscar Hernandez and Oscar Ortega in their system, so some clarity may be needed about the perp's name, as both names are being reported.

Posted by Anonymoose 2011-11-18 08:40|| 2011-11-18 08:40|| Front Page Top

#9 I have to take issue with the "Assassination" Charge, Obama's Out of town, and he knew it.

All he did is shoot AT the WhiteHouse(And from a considerable distance).

Charge hin with "Defacing a Monumeent" and get on Wirh it.

THAT has a chance of sticking.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2011-11-18 10:26|| 2011-11-18 10:26|| Front Page Top

#10 I have to agree with RJ, dangerous loony. Anyone can make a distance shot, now putting it on target is a whole different deal. Guy shot for five minutes as it says, that is a long time, and have only found 2 rounds of bullet, what isn't adding up there.

Posted by swksvolFF 2011-11-18 11:00|| 2011-11-18 11:00|| Front Page Top

#11 I got something for Obama, something that needs to be taken care of. I'm a 27 year vet and I have just what it takes! I am a registered voter and I will cast that vote!

Send this nut job to prison and leave the removal of the president to the vote...

Posted by 49 Pan 2011-11-18 11:16|| 2011-11-18 11:16|| Front Page Top

#12 Did they recover a shutter gun?

Posted by Spot 2011-11-18 11:51|| 2011-11-18 11:51|| Front Page Top

#13 The lame stream media was so hoping he would be a member of the Tea Party. However, his nuttiness gave him away and that plan failed.

Posted by JohnQC 2011-11-18 16:30|| 2011-11-18 16:30|| Front Page Top

#14 The best thing that could happen to Dems right now is for somebody who could be identified with conservatism is to rid them of that embarrassment.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2011-11-18 16:36|| 2011-11-18 16:36|| Front Page Top

#15 If I ask if he's a citizen (or legal immigrant), does that make me a bad person?

Posted by Barbara 2011-11-18 16:42|| 2011-11-18 16:42|| Front Page Top

#16 Did they recover a shutter gun?

A shutter gun and one round of moron.

Posted by SteveS 2011-11-18 17:38|| 2011-11-18 17:38|| Front Page Top

#17 I have to take issue with the "Assassination" Charge, Obama's Out of town, and he knew it.

Blame the Justice Department for that.

Mr. Ortega-Hernandez didn't help himself any. He should have gone with his firing the shots as "a political statement" or "performance art".

Posted by Pappy 2011-11-18 17:43|| 2011-11-18 17:43|| Front Page Top

#18 If I ask if he's a citizen (or legal immigrant), does that make me a bad person?

RACIST!

Posted by CrazyFool 2011-11-18 18:06|| 2011-11-18 18:06|| Front Page Top

#19 In Oprah Winfrey Pitch, Alleged White House Shooter Said, 'I am the Modern Day Jesus'

Posted by tipper 2011-11-18 18:06|| 2011-11-18 18:06|| Front Page Top

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