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August 26, 2008 05:27 AM UTC
34 Comments
stops terrorism. Wars cause it.
Great work by the police, it sounds like they were deadly serious.
Where they would have fired a shot from. There’s really no building near the stadium that would be high enough to allow you to get a good look down at field level.
And this is supposed to be a liberal site!!
So was Ted kennedy, the old lion. God bless and protect their families.
probably weren’t thinking that far ahead. They were probably thinking that they could just find a “convenient spot” to do the deed. Don’t expect logic from meth users, and it goes double for the racist kind. Keep in mind, any possible angle for a long range assassin’s shot is going to be covered by sniper teams. I doubt that anyone showing up near there with a rifle-like object will last long enough to set up a shot.
It’s great that these losers were caught before they could do any harm. I doubt that they would have gotten anywhere near enough to Obama to be a threat to him. But any idiot can get lucky, and who knows what kind of mayhem they would have committed beyond or concurrent with an attempt on Obama’s life.
Be very afraid.
is sometimes a very stupid approach works because no one with a brain saw that opening. Very good news that they caught them early.
but rather the worst.
is that the “assassins” seem to have the intelligence and planning ability of the guys who wanted to blow up the Brooklyn Bridge with a blowtorch.
He must have been the brains of the operation.
not yet mentioned here (at least as far as I’ve seen):
These guys are dumb, but the worrying thing is that the neo-Nazis may be really motivated. Fox News has interviewed a white supremacist who thinks Obama will and should get shot.
this is the best caliber tool they could find to pull off the job.
Unfortunately, it only takes one lucky bad guy with just a bit of help to really ruin a country.
he wouldn’t have run (and she wouldn’t have let him) if they were scared of whack-jobs.
A bit of healthy caution is in order, but undisciplined panic is Right Out.
I am too tired to proofread.
Stupid. But scary.
if Lieberman is McCain’s running mate.
They’ll still be pissed, because it’ll be Romney, but it won’t be Lieberman.
I’m loving the diaries from the convention, by the way. Keep it up.
http://www.eschatonblog.com/20…
I retort back with “Actually, Nader prevented a Lieberman Vice-Presidency.”
Let’s see if Bob Barr can do the same.
are crazy, then they will vote for McCain purely because of Lieberman. If they are rational, they will realize that our Israel policy has always been fairly consistent no matter who is in office, and will then vote based on other issues that matter to them.
I’ll be there all week, and then from Invesco on Thursday.
… by the guys who thought they could assault Fort Dix.
believing that 4 tweakers even have the ability to sight in a rifle at 750 yards, let alone actually complete the task. There are not many individuals that are even close to proficient at that distance. Idiots
Please remove them all from the gene pool for an extended period of time.
Hope you all have a nice convention and be good, I’ll be in the Zirkels if anyone needs me.
Someone with the intent and no ability can still cause plenty of damage in a stadium full of people. Of course it was highly unlikely that they could get the weapons through the dragnet. Of course they might have sensed that when they got there and chosen to shoot into the crowd outside instead. All in all, a very good thing that they were caught, and I hope that’s the last of it.
The decision to use Invesco was purely for political theatre and safety concerns from those who have to protect everyone were ignored, and they were never consulted, just told at the last minute.
and lets hope and pray there are no problems
When did the Secret Service say they didn’t want Invesco?
the Secret Service and the city were concerned about the change and the time frame for implementing security measures.
I don’t remember the Secret Service saying they didn’t want Mile High but I’m sure they weren’t happy about the change.
Byt the Secret Service sent out a retired agent to be the spokesman for the media, and he was highly thankful that they got the notice they got. He said they typically got days, not weeks of notice.
…that the SS has the final say over all security matters during the convention, if they didn’t want it there, it wouldn’t be happening.
to actually carry this out.
http://www.comcast.net/article…
Authorities will be holding a press conference about the four men this afternoon.
an assassin in this country was “smart”?