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Archae

(46,337 posts)
Wed Jun 24, 2015, 12:42 PM Jun 2015

I posted a thread about aging rock stars...

Of course, there also are those has-been rock stars that are now complete assholes, like Pat Boone and this guy:

Ted Nugent Praises Call To Arrest Obama From Coup-Supporting Former General

Submitted by Brian Tashman on Wednesday, 6/24/2015 12:30 pm

Last year, retired-general-turned-conservative-activist Paul Vallely told a Tea Party group that he would “certainly head” a revolution to topple President Obama, remarks he later denied making despite the fact that they were captured on audio. Imagine our shock, then, when Vallely told a fringe radio host last week that President Obama should be arrested for his “treasonous activities.

Vallely’s remarks even earned the praise of right-wing musician and NRA board member Ted Nugent, who wrote on Facebook: “Well listen everybody to what I gotta say, there's hope for tomorrow if we wakeup [sic] today!”

Calling on U.S. generals to stand up to Obama, Vallely told “The Real Side” radio program that it may soon be time to “arrest” Obama for “treasonous activities.” He cited the work of the conspiracy-theory-ridden Citizens Committee on Benghazi as evidence that there are grounds to arrest Obama for purportedly helping the Muslim Brotherhood.

“There’s a whole list we have put together at the Benghazi Citizens’ Commission on treasonous activities not only by him but by Kerry, by Clinton, the lying deceptions of Panetta, of General Dempsey, as well as Hillary Clinton,” Vallely said. “[He’s] tyrannical and that’s his communist upbringing because that’s the way they develop and take over countries and put in a tyrannical leader. We’ve seen that since World War II, all over Europe and now we have socialism gaining in South and Central America. I mean it is just unbelievable that we could let this country go down and commit national suicide that we’re doing.”

He added that Obama would have been arrested already if it wasn’t for the fact that “the Republicans are afraid of a black backlash” to such a step. “He’s black and white, he’s not just black, but they’re afraid of a black uprising, that’s the word I get,” he said.

Vallely once called for the “citizen’s arrest” of Obama.

- See more at: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/ted-nugent-praises-call-arrest-obama-coup-supporting-former-general#sthash.kxkGrvQn.dpuf

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I posted a thread about aging rock stars... (Original Post) Archae Jun 2015 OP
Rats. I told someone awhile ago "l don't think Ted could get any more stupid" BlueJazz Jun 2015 #1
The dream never dies! HassleCat Jun 2015 #2
 

BlueJazz

(25,348 posts)
1. Rats. I told someone awhile ago "l don't think Ted could get any more stupid"
Wed Jun 24, 2015, 12:52 PM
Jun 2015

How little did I know...

 

HassleCat

(6,409 posts)
2. The dream never dies!
Wed Jun 24, 2015, 12:52 PM
Jun 2015

Even before Obama took office, even before he was elected, some people were dreaming of his assassination, or thinking of grounds for impeachment. I know people, personally, who say they would be happy if someone would kill the president. I know others personally, who follow the impeachment websites religiously, and tell me all about the latest "constitutional" basis for impeachment. Yeah, I have some interesting friends. Anyway, here we are, down to the last months of Obama's tenure, and some people can't accept the fact that he's been in office this long without a scandal. No oral sex with young interns. Benghazi was a bust. He got reelected. The economy has not crashed. We didn't invade any small, helpless nations. But none of that makes them give up hope, no sir! They believe some big disaster will come along and taint this presidency. And it's not unusual to add that little extra, "He's getting away with only because he's black." I hear that all the time.

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