My thoughts (almost) exactly.

This whole thing stinks. I'm afraid I can't be more eloquent than that.

I wanna thank that schmuck Chris Matthews for rewarding that a-hole with airtime.

bibimimi, I was thinking the EXACT same thing. Let's reward these fucktards by making them the next Joe the Whateverthehell on the teevee.

I was at the Town Hall meeting today - and what was interesting - is that there was no security check to be on the grounds. There were of course checking bags, etc. when you went into the school - but not on the grounds. I would think that in such a charged atmosphere they would have done more to check the crowds.

Or a white person with a Code Pink shirt. Or a No War shirt. Or anyone with a dissenting opinion.

Where were all these armed freaks then, when Bush and his cabal were openly subverting the Constitution?

And Matthews, as nicely as he treated that guy, made a fool of him. Asked why he brought a gun and that sign, and what either had to do with a debate about health care, he pretty much responded with bullshit about our rights being taken away and how people need to be brought out of their perception. Or some such nonsense. We all know the real reason, the only reason these ridiculous morons do anything, is because they know it makes other people angry. "I can wear a gun on my hip and you don't like it! Neener! Neener!" To them, the First and Second Amendments are pretty much license to just piss everyone else off.

Anybody get the feeling that we're being played like a fiddle.

I'd like to see the view of that guy thru the Secret Service sniper's scope. (Say that 3 times fast!)

What do you mean Lexaburn?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036697/ns/msnbc_tv-hardball_with_chris_matthews#32378192

CREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEPYYYYYY DUDE!

so dangerous--and our idiot BBQ press is all to happy to enable this--

Nano must have been channeling my thoughts!

I attempted to attend a Bush event with two friends in Topeka and we were only armed with Iraq war protest signs but we were shooed to a "secure" area about 2 miles away.

Two miles!

@Farah

Oh, I mean that, at times, it feels as if someone is using imagery to convey foreboding. Dumdums hollering stupid things at events featuring Dem politicians. The talk radio goons ratcheting up their redundant rhetoric. This imbecile shows up to a town hall event featuring the president to make a moot point about "rights" with a firearm dangling casually from his pants.

Now I know there comes a point where we have to report on this nonsense, but we should not be discouraged by these tantrums of the American right. The media is openly promoting demented minutia as the American left are attempting to inform each and every individual paying attention.

I saw a bit of the Arlen Spector forum today. My hat is off to Sen. Spector for putting up with the dumdums repeating spiels they read or heard from dubious sources. It was actually very enjoyable watching them attempt to bully Spector. It was a thing of beauty, actually. I did not see much of the Obama forum, but when I got online, of course I'm greeted with the news that some dummy brought a gun near the president. I almost had a bet with someone that this would happen. My stance was that the person would be arrested, but nope, he's a featured guest on the Hardball show, preaching the Ron Paul fanaticism.

You get me now?

Call me crazy, but I believe he was another plant put there to stir up controversy designed to distract from the health care discussion, if you're not following me. Who put him there is anyone's guess.

@Lexaburn

I would agree that he might be plant, except if you watch that dude...he has really shifty eyes.

I know that might sound silly, but watching that guy and the way that he never looked at the camera made me really really uneasy.
I've talked into a news camera once in my life, and I was 13. But I still understood that when you are talking to someone off-camera, you look IN the camera to give the illusion of talking directly to them.
Dude just looked a little too uneasy to be a plant in my opinion.

Have you watched The Dark Knight? Well, Joker's crew mostly consisted of escaped mental patients from Arkham that were willing to do his bidding for some...odd reason.

I live in Nashville. When Bush used to come here (all the fuckin time) he would usually go to Opryland Hotel. Protesters were not even allowed in their humongous parking lot. They had to stand at least a half mile away. And there were never guns, screaming, what not. They would just stand there holding signs while his motorcade drove by (with every cop from who knows where. I've never seen so many cops together at one time like that. What a waste of money!)

I wonder how the MSM narrative will play out when people of color(particularly down south) start to "fear" what THEY perceive to be angry white mobs.
I'm in CAli by way of Arkansas and I can tell you thats the buzz right now thats NOT being discussed. People of color are starting to get a lil antsy. Seems like the media is definitely trying to create a really dangerous storyline.
We've got our own conspiracies brewing that this is all a dangerous game to get the first African American president assassinated by any means necessary. I fear for our country if that happens.

I agree with you all.

And I cannot express how sickened I am.

I hesitate to even say that I fear for my President.

But I do.