Secret Service intends to ‘follow up’ on Ted Nugent’s comments about Obama
We told you this morning about the curious comment that rocker Ted Nugent, a Mitt Romney fan, made at an NRA convention in St. Louis:
”If Barack Obama becomes the president in November, again, I will be either be dead or in jail by this time next year.”
Here’s the context of Nugent’s remark, made in the midst of a tirade against the Obama administration and the U.S. Supreme Court:
The U.S. Secret Service, which is having problems of its own, pronounced itself curious by what exactly Nugent meant. From USA Today:
“We are aware of the situation and we’re conducting an appropriate follow up,” said Brian Leary, a Secret Service spokesman.
- By Jim Galloway, Political Insider
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td
April 17th, 2012
8:00 pm
The U.S.A is still the greatest country in the world because of the previous hard work of our democratic leaders. True democrats believe in spreading decision making power. Unlike republicans, we do no believe in a small segment of society crushing the voices of the majority of citizens. True democrats believe in giving ethnic minorities the maximum amount of freedom. For they can be ethnic minorities in the U.S.A, but they can also come from countries with rich histories and beautiful culture. The recent crackdown by republicans on ethnic minorities epitomizes evil. Added to this is the fact that Obama flashes a dollar bill in the air and gives African-Americans in the south an opportunity to take part in some truly disgusting behavior by ICE. For as long as republicans are in office, our destiny will be in the hands of drug-dealers, Pedophiles, thugs, prostitutes, Neo-Nazis, and Gays/Lesbians! The hard-working and classy individual will continue to be suppressed. It is time for republicans to get the EFF out of our politics. They are not above the law. They currently are the law and the legislative majority at the state and federal level. We must restore Georgia to its full potential. Puffing on a doobie has not eradicated republicans from our legislature. The whole purpose of the republican party is to divide the people. The rich already control our financial capital. That is okay. They will not and cannot, however, control the decision making power of politics. That must be left to its citizens!!!
Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ will crush the heads of the perverted New World Order integrationist crowd and their devilish black minions
April 17th, 2012
8:00 pm
I just told a colleague that Jim Wooten and Jim Galloway have my utmost respect because they believe in The Constitution of the United State, namely freedom of speech. They allow people to post who have different opinions.
As my man Dr. Bobby Hemmit would say, most people are saying the same thing to one degree to another because the educational system have reduced them to automatons.
Amen?
Ted
April 17th, 2012
8:02 pm
@Mary Elizabeth, I see a guy that doesn’t want his 2nd Amendment rights taken away by our Socialist Despot President.
Constitution Defender
April 17th, 2012
8:02 pm
Double…you are the nut…Alaska is an cornucopia of natural resouces..which the current Gov’t and Lib’s don’t wish to use…how will we ever be independent from foreign “energy”, if you want to sell this just because Sarah lives there
Sherry
April 17th, 2012
8:04 pm
Why can’t white people vote against Obama without being labeled a racist? In using such logic (or lack thereof), blacks or Hispanics that voted against Bush in ‘00 and ‘04 are also racist, correct? Oh, that’s right…only white people are racist and consistently stereotype other races. Only feeble minds would concoct such a weak argument as to why some white people are against Obama and his policies. Pathetic and ignorant…
Constitution Defender
April 17th, 2012
8:05 pm
Wow TD, what do you really feel about the freeflowing money to the unentitled
Steinbeck
April 17th, 2012
8:06 pm
We must get those poo poo heads out of Atlanta. Atlanta and the rest of the south belongs to the democratic party! True Americans they are! Y’all remember the good ole days before the republican party infiltrated our politics!!!
Steinbeck from Marietta
ramguy68
April 17th, 2012
8:08 pm
Nuge believes so much in the constitution that he advocates shooting and killing criminal suspects on the street. He once stated on his blog that anyone who ever had a DUI was a criminal and should spend time in jail. Of course Nuge being so smart he forgot that GW Bush was Prez who strongly supported at the time and Cheney was his VP both with DUI’s. A few people had the nerve to point that out and were promptly banned from the blog.
Constitution Defender
April 17th, 2012
8:11 pm
TGB—be careful, as Zimmerman may shoot you as the press would like you to believe.
td
April 17th, 2012
8:13 pm
Constitution Defender
April 17th, 2012
8:05 pm
PLEASE READ CAREFULL!Y!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Why the hell would I defend a constitution defender? Has the bill of rights prevented society from becoming free and sinless. I believe in a perfect society! By supporting weak constitutionalism, one supports giving people the power. Our constitution makes it impossible to amend laws! The law amending process is almost impossible. We all pay taxes, thus we must all be able to participate in the laws that govern our lives. A constitution is a good thing, but it must not crush the voice of the people! That is a true democracy. Even if we have a representative legislature, that is still not in essence a true democracy unless all constituents actively participate in politics. THE REPUBLICAN PARTY WILL BE THE END OF THE U.S.A AS WE KNOW IT!!! VOTE THEM ALL OUT!!!!!!
Constitution Defender
April 17th, 2012
8:14 pm
Sherry…they can’t, as long as the media keeps up with their diatribe
Look before I leap...
April 17th, 2012
8:17 pm
@CD
I am not advocating the selling off of individual states.
But the idea in history is not without precedent.
I was simply making the point that while the US economic situation is precarious, it is not without remedy.
The residents of said states can relocate, or learn to speak Russian, French or Spanish.
td
April 17th, 2012
8:18 pm
Judicial Review can also crush all hopes of a true democracy. 500,000 people want a certain law passed. They all agree that it should be passed! A judge looks at the constitution and places his verdict on what has been written down on paper. That is not the kind of world I want to live in! Georgia has roughly ten million people. A legislature of several hundred people should not have the power to rule over ten million people. That is not a representative democracy (Hence, Republican Party)! If that is not pure evil disguised as a political party, then I do not know what evil is!
FoShizzleMyNizzle
April 17th, 2012
8:19 pm
OBAMA WINS!! OBAMA WINS!! OBAMA WINS!! 4 MORE YEARS!!! 4 MORE YEARS (of bytchin’ and whinin’). I LOVE IT!!!
Michael #1
April 17th, 2012
8:20 pm
Sherry, your off target if you think everyone says that. I will vote for Obama as the Repulican Party no longer is a party of moderates. They have been hijacked by the TP, and while they are not all bad, they certainly dont speak for the majority.
Spank me sideways
April 17th, 2012
8:20 pm
Td forgot his meds. I regret to tell everyone, however, that I really like this td a lot more.
Vote for Obama because he's black
April 17th, 2012
8:24 pm
97 % of black people go against their core values and vote for this guy because they look like him,have the same type of hair. It doesn’t matter if Nugent or whoever speaks their mind.
Name 5 things Barack Obama has done for the black community ? What???
He flies into Atlanta for 3 hours and the cross dressing,closeted homosexual millionaire Tyler Perry get’ him 10 million dollars for his war chest ? Since blacks make up omly 12% of the population,and 65 % of the prison population he will have a tough time this go around.
Whitey got fooled once,but not again.
Look before I leap...
April 17th, 2012
8:31 pm
folks
The “td” posting here is not the “td” the regulars here know and love (or hate depending on your ideological divide).
While the new “td” is much better at spelling and grammar, I despise imposters.
If you can’t make a reasonable point on a issue without resorting to such shenanigans, you probably should not be posting at all.
Ronin
April 17th, 2012
8:31 pm
@ Look, going to have to respectively disagree, simply because there is no end to the spending in sight regardless of the land assets you mention. Far as that goes, I’d give Louisiana back to France to help stop the economic bleeding.
Mary Elizabeth, you may not like what Ted spews, but he is our present and our past. If not for the likes of Ted, Rome would have never existed or the Empire cover a large portion of the continent.
Don’t think for a minute that 1,000 or 2,000 years can change tens of thousands of years of evolution.
mambo
April 17th, 2012
8:31 pm
Libs are so funny … but sooo dumb …
slapjack
April 17th, 2012
8:35 pm
Nugent is right. Leave it up to a left wing journalist to stir the sh*t up . Thanks Galloway! Now go kiss BarneyFrank!
Constitution Defender
April 17th, 2012
8:40 pm
TD, I am not saying that there is not GOVT corruption. Our “elected” officials must be a voice of the people…we do not have that today, it is all about who they can wooo to support them for re-election. The congress does not live in the same situations as those they are supposed to support, they have enacted laws that give then benefits (including yearly raises) beyond what they “should have”, different healthcare, continuing salaries, even when they are out of office, etc….we need to change those laws to make them be in line with what the public is getting, not above them, and this will take a “congressional” cleaning and putting in those who are in line with what their constituents want them to have. Power corrupts, and they have all fallen into that. We need to change the laws so that the “people; vote on all they are introducing. This has gotten out of control on both parties, every bill should be vote upon by the public, before it is put into law. The taxpayers need to be in control of everything they do.
Bill
April 17th, 2012
8:42 pm
So, what’s the problem here?
Constitution Defender
April 17th, 2012
8:43 pm
Ronin..look at the maps…the Louisiana purchase…it was a third of the current 48 states
Constitution Defender
April 17th, 2012
8:44 pm
Thanks Bill
Tedhasanopinion
April 17th, 2012
8:48 pm
Ted has a right to his opinion! Unfortunately, any celebrity who voices their opinion in public also has to know that there will be those who agree and those who don’t. Just ask the Dixie Chicks if you aren’t sure of that! I don’t know what Ted really meant as I am not a mind reader.Are you? No one likes to read the whole book anymore before jumping to the ending! It is like how the PREZ sez he don’t want to rush to judgement until all the facts are in but yes he would be MAD should the allegations hold water concerning his secret service agents.REALLY? WHY then did he have to chime in with “HIS OPINION” concerning the shooting of Trayvon Martin before ALL the FACTS were in? That is not a matter that the PRESIDENT of these United States should be voicing his opinion on, knowing how much weight it carries with people on such a volatile subject! Just like most of AMERICA we are only fed what the LIBERAL MEDIA deams newsworthy! What happened to the good ol’ days of Walter Cronkite or Harry Reasoner or Huntley/Brinkley where they gave us the news as it happened BUT gave us credit for being smart enough to digest it without the liberal or conservative SLANT,spinning it to suit THEIR political agenda? GOD help this GREAT COUNTRY!
If Ted will die
April 17th, 2012
8:50 pm
I will vote for BO
Disgusted Taxpayer
April 17th, 2012
8:52 pm
Ted, if the Secret Service comes to ask you questions, maybe they’ll invite some of the good looking prostitutes they know.
honested
April 17th, 2012
8:56 pm
The funniest part is that anyone with an IQ over 45 gives a hoot about anything this sad old man has to say.
Richard Nixon was President the last time he had an album that sold over 1,000 copies and if it weren’t for the ‘classic rock’ stations (you know the ‘we play more dead guys than the classical station’) he would have drifted into well deserved obscurity a generation ago.
Look before I leap...
April 17th, 2012
8:56 pm
@Ronin
I was not speaking to current economic policy.
Only your assertion that the US is bankrupt.
The sooner we get away from the media soundbites and recognize and take the time to truly understand the true problems, the better off we will be when it comes to electing the people who propose plans that will actually move us forward.
National world and economic theories are complex and difficult to understand and there is rarely consensus even amongst the educated and the experts.
I would make this challenge: Do 10 minutes of online research about the current $15+trillion in US debt. While I’m not a huge fan of Wiki, they do a decent job of boiling it down to the essentials.
Then, go into your place of employment tomorrow and ask 5 people you know are smart are well educated and ask the following questions:
1. What is the total US debt? Most responses will likely be in the ballpark
2. What portion of that is “public debt”? Bet your get blank stares on that
3. What constitutes the “non-public” portion of the US debt? Bet you see eyes glaze over on that
4. What is the ratio of current US debt to annual GDP? Bet they walk away on that.
The idea is not to come across as a smarty-pants, the idea is to illustrate, that if the US economy is the #1 issue for the upcoming election in Nov (as poll after poll indicates), would it not be a good idea to understand at least in a basis way, what is meant by “economy”?
td
April 17th, 2012
8:57 pm
I see the punk a$$ td has raised his head again tonight and Jim condoned this screen name stealing again.
FRED
April 17th, 2012
8:58 pm
To all you haters of this President, you must have forgotten about who he replaced. George Bush was the worst president of all time. Now you want to put another idiot like Romney in the White House, be for real. Everything Obama try to do, these racist republican want to shoot it down. That’s why the Democrats will take over again this november. Any of you dumb enough to vote for Allen West, you deserve everything you get, what an idiot. Oh yea, let’s not forget about John McCain running mate, who can see Russia from her back yard.
Ronin
April 17th, 2012
9:00 pm
CD, I said give back the state of Louisiana, not the Louisiana purchase tract.
As far as the congressional cleaning, it’s long overdue. They have voted themselves a handsome compensation package and want to play the role of professional politician. Two words: Term limits.
A total of 12 years max of service for Senate and House members.
td
April 17th, 2012
9:01 pm
Uncle Ted is a great American patriot. Obama and you politically correct panty waste, flag burning, hate America socialist /communist are a bunch of wimps. Ted did not say anything that was a threat to the President but he did speak the truth about him and you all can not stand it.
honested
April 17th, 2012
9:01 pm
Fred,
An athiest AMEN.
Never forget the huge steaming pile the last ‘administration’ buried us all under and then shrugged their shoulders in a ‘who me’ fashion.
Kyle
April 17th, 2012
9:02 pm
You gotta love Ted. That is a real Patriot there and you don’t see that anymore. Just pansy little anti-Americans that want something for nothing now a days.
honested
April 17th, 2012
9:02 pm
td,
All of us who will vote to re-elect the President suggest that if teddie has a gas oven well why wait?
Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ will crush the heads of the perverted New World Order integrationist crowd and their devilish black minions
April 17th, 2012
9:02 pm
Everyone knows that Obamacare is nothing more than Kennedycare, Hillarycare, Pelosicare, etc.
Y’all feel me?
Amen?
guy
April 17th, 2012
9:03 pm
The main thing is obama is a poor excuse of a president. When someone like he is can get elected,then the beginning of the end of this country is gaining momentum. Bad moon is rising!!!!!
hello racism!
April 17th, 2012
9:04 pm
To :RealityApril 17th, 2012@
6:27 pm
HOW MUCH MORE STEREOTYPICAL CAN YOUR STATEMENT GET?
“Other than being black he absolutly NOTHING in common with the black citizens of America. He was not raised in a project homes. He has not suffered any hardships as many blacks have. AND HE LIES!”
1. Most of my ‘black citizen friends’ (myself included) weren’t raised in project homes.
2. I suffered the same hardships as many of my ‘white citizen friends’ have suffered…except for the
occassional racist incidents that I’d surmise you partook in based on your comments.
3. I know we’re a GREAT RACE OF PEOPLE, but c’mon dude, some of us (maybe 5-6 of us)
DO LIE!
Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ will crush the heads of the perverted New World Order integrationist crowd and their devilish black minions
April 17th, 2012
9:05 pm
Amen guy.
Look before I leap...
April 17th, 2012
9:06 pm
@honested
“..he would have drifted into well deserved obscurity a generation ago.”
No. George Clooney gets credit for resurrecting Nugent in “Ocean’s Eleven”
Clooney (as Danny Ocean upon being released from prison, wearing the tux he was wearing when arrested)
Pitt: (wearing a tacky nylon disco shirt) “I hope you were the groom”
Clooney (deadpan): “Ted Nugent called, he wants his shirt back.”
Funny stuff
honested
April 17th, 2012
9:08 pm
It is so obvious that between the Iraqi War of Choice and the Misguided Afghan Fiasco many Americans wouldn’t know the definition of ‘patriotism’ if it walked up and offered them a sandwich.
I’m an NRA Life Member, but I wouldn’t cross the street to pee on nugent if he was on fire.
What is the attraction to letting a misguided moron speak for you?
HENRY
April 17th, 2012
9:10 pm
I’VE GOT YOUR BACK, TED…………WE NEED TO GO HUNTING SOON. IT’S BEEN TOO LONG MY FRIEND.
td
April 17th, 2012
9:11 pm
honested
April 17th, 2012
9:02 pm
Obama may get re-elected but at least I will know your vote will not be counted in Georgia.
Mary Elizabeth
April 17th, 2012
9:11 pm
Ronin, I respectfully disagree with you that the Ted Nugents represent humankind’s future. Just as human knowledge has grown by leaps and bounds within the last few decades (even the number of facts on Google seem infinite, especially when compared with those facts known only 15 years ago), I believe humankind’s spiritual evolution will also multiply by leaps and bounds within the next century – leaving far in the distance the crudely shriveled spirits of the Ted Nugents.
The Roman Empire was controlled by a series of dictators who fell from power from within having been killed by their own guard. That happens in a world based on power. Power is hierarchial in nature. The world is becoming more egalitarian, than hierarchial, in consciousness. (We no longer have kings, queens, and popes, for example, who wield the kind of power over others that they once did.) The formation of America with her underlying premise (penned by Jefferson) that all are created equal has been a part of that growing egalitarian world consciousness.
Now, that spirit of egalitarianism will grow by leaps and bounds just as knowledge has. President Obama understands that egalitarian consciousness. George W. Bush did not. Dick Cheney did not. Mitt Romney does not.
Look before I leap...
April 17th, 2012
9:12 pm
THIS is the true “td”. Verified via bad spelling, grammar and Rush rhetoric:
“Uncle Ted is a great American patriot. Obama and you politically correct panty waste, flag burning, hate America socialist /communist are a bunch of wimps. Ted did not say anything that was a threat to the President but he did speak the truth about him and you all can not stand it.”
honested
April 17th, 2012
9:12 pm
td,
No, here in GA there will be at least 2 votes of those who would rather cling to the bottom rung of the ladder rather than open their eyes and step into the future.
Good reason to stay well armed and ITP.
Ed
April 17th, 2012
9:13 pm
@ guy
The main thing is Nugent threatened to kill the president, which is a federal offense. Is he man enough to go to prison for his “convictions”? I doubt it. Watch him submit like a pansy when the Secret Service come knockin’ at his door.
Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ will crush the heads of the perverted New World Order integrationist crowd and their devilish black minions
April 17th, 2012
9:15 pm
Whenever you have politicians who without reservation openly violate the Constitution of the United States, you should understand that systems are in place to ensure that they are not voted out of office or vigorously prosecuted.
Can anyone say electronic voting is rigged and the criminal justice system does not have equal weight and measures for everyone?
Amen?