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wonder how many bars have the same pool

jodywy

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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,456455,00.html
Maine Store's Alleged Obama Assassination Pool Sparks National Outcry
Saturday, November 22, 2008

The owner of a Maine store has sparked intense local and national outcry over a sign that invited customers to bet on a date when President-elect Barack Obama would be assassinated, but authorities say no charges are planned.

After the post-election incident in Standish, Maine, town officials were bombarded with angry e-mails from around the country. And on Friday, hundreds gathered at a "Rally Against Hate" in Portland to denounce the racially charged sign and to appeal for unity, the Portland Press Herald reported.

Cumberland County Sheriff Mark Dion said Friday that Steve Collins, owner of Oak Hill General Store, denied any knowledge of the "Osama Obama Shotgun Pool" sign. The sheriff added that the sign was nowhere to be found when a deputy visited the store to investigate a report of it on Nov. 7.

Dion also said posting the sign would not necessarily constitute a threat or a terrorizing incident.

The handwritten sign on an eraser board inviting the $1 bets ended with, "Let's hope someone wins," according to two journalists for The Associated Press who saw it while checking out a tip of its existence.

A description of the sign was included in an Associated Press national roundup of post-election incidents, many of them racially charged, decrying the election of the nation's first black president. That story appeared Nov. 16, bringing national attention to the controversy, the Press Herald reported.

''Whatever the intent of his expression was, we never located the evidence of it,'' Dion said in the Nov. 16 Associated Press story.

Collins told his landlord last weekend that he was going hunting and has been unreachable since. His store was closed this week, which isn't unusual this time of year, customers told the Press Herald. He has not spoken publicly about the incident and may not be aware of the publicity.

After fielding the angry e-mails, the Standish Town Council passed a resolution Thursday criticizing the sign, the Press Herald reports, and on Friday evening, Gov. John Baldacci and other state and local leaders spoke of the incident at the anti-hate rally in Portland.

Click here to read more on this story from the Portland Press Herald.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.
 

jodywy

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alice said:
Sick minds at at play. :mad: Maybe those idiotic homeland terrorists should be sent to Gitmo... :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

Alice
just some people will bet on anything. We used to have a bull sale in the hotel at winter convention... we allways had a bull to which bull crapped first.... usually was after 5 or 6 :shock:
 

kolanuraven

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[quote="M Gravlee"]The Secret Service takes assassination threats very seriously. So do we. Anyone posting that a political figure should be shot will be banned.[/quote]


Seems like ya'll need to read this....either again or for the first time.
 

alice

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Sandhusker said:
Mike said:
alice said:
Sick minds at at play. :mad: Maybe those idiotic homeland terrorists should be sent to Gitmo... :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

Alice

"Those idiotic homeland terrorists"......as in Bill Ayers?

Oooooo, Mike lands a solid right cross!

No, idiotic homeland terrorists that make bets on the President of the United States life. Maybe they have some spare cells in Gitmo for people that think that's funny, too :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

Alice
 

Sandhusker

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Person A is speculating that somebody might kill our President. Not doing it, not promoting it, just guessing.

Person B actually engaged in terrorist activity. They DID it. They're proud of it.

And who is Alice's ire directed at? :roll:
 

Ben H

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That store is like 10 minutes from me, I live on the Standish line. Never actually been in there; I'll have to stop and grab something next time I drive by.

The question I ask, would this have gotten any media attention if the pool was for Bush instead of Obama?
 

alice

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Sandhusker said:
Person A is speculating that somebody might kill our President. Not doing it, not promoting it, just guessing.

Person B actually engaged in terrorist activity. They DID it. They're proud of it.

And who is Alice's ire directed at? :roll:

My ire is directed at anyone that thinks it's funny and wants to excuse this kind of depraved garbage. AND before you accuse me of excusing Ayers, don't go there. I didn't excuse him then and I don't excuse him now. :mad:

Alice
 

alice

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Ben H said:
That store is like 10 minutes from me, I live on the Standish line. Never actually been in there; I'll have to stop and grab something next time I drive by.

The question I ask, would this have gotten any media attention if the pool was for Bush instead of Obama?

I would certainly hope so!!!

Alice
 

Sandhusker

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alice said:
Sandhusker said:
Person A is speculating that somebody might kill our President. Not doing it, not promoting it, just guessing.

Person B actually engaged in terrorist activity. They DID it. They're proud of it.

And who is Alice's ire directed at? :roll:

My ire is directed at anyone that thinks it's funny and wants to excuse this kind of depraved garbage. AND before you accuse me of excusing Ayers, don't go there. I didn't excuse him then and I don't excuse him now. :mad:

Alice

Did you excuse Obama's relationship with him? Obama excused him.
 

alice

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Sandhusker said:
alice said:
Sandhusker said:
Person A is speculating that somebody might kill our President. Not doing it, not promoting it, just guessing.

Person B actually engaged in terrorist activity. They DID it. They're proud of it.

And who is Alice's ire directed at? :roll:

My ire is directed at anyone that thinks it's funny and wants to excuse this kind of depraved garbage. AND before you accuse me of excusing Ayers, don't go there. I didn't excuse him then and I don't excuse him now. :mad:

Alice

Did you excuse Obama's relationship with him? Obama excused him.

You are a dweeb...

Alice
 

alice

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Sandhusker said:
alice said:
Sandhusker said:
Dear Alice, when your response is a juvinile personal attack, I know I've won. :lol:

You call encouraging this kind of crap winning? God help you...

Alice

I'm not encouraging it, Alice. Mike COMPARED it and I ran with it.

Blaming it all on Mike now, huh? At least Mike makes no bones about being what he is...bless his racist heart. You, suh, defy all reason...

Alice
 

Sandhusker

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I just call 'em the say I see 'em, Alice. I think Mike happened to of made a very acute observation. If that conflicts with your devotion to the chosen one, so be it. Learn from it.
 
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