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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atler8
April 18th, 2012
1:22 pm
Billy:
President Obama has not cornered the market on serving in office while gas prices rose sharply…in other words he’s not the only president that has happened to.
Under Bush gas prices rose from $1.40 per gallon when he took office in January 2001 up to a high of $4.12 on July 7, 2008. After that, the oncoming recession & a drop in demand caused the price to collapse down to $1.61 at the end of 2008 a month after Obama won the election. By the time Obama took office in late January 2009, the price was at $1.84 per gallon.
Oil analysts have generally said that the fall down to $1.61 was an overreaction & the bottom price was “artifically low” due to the overreaction. Thus the rebound in demand along with more recent job growth amidst tensions with Iran have brought the per gallon price back up sharply.
So there is way more to the story of the price of a gallon of gasoline than a simple r.w. nutjob talking point will ever reveal.
Oh, and look it up…
Team Obama must go
April 18th, 2012
1:29 pm
People I am a white male who is from the south,who is not a racist,but Mr Obama has to be defeated in November simply based on economics and the economy.He has no clue how make our country’s economy strive again.You black people are wrong,you all are the racist voting for color and no other reasons.Obama took Carter’s throne as the worst American presidant ever and that is the legacy all black people will share.The white male is really the one who is the minority now int this country.
Aaron Burr V Mexico
April 18th, 2012
1:33 pm
@Team Obama – Saying you are not a racist doesn’t mean anything. What matters is what you DO and if you have attacked a teen who had nothing but skittles in his hand then you are a racist, which pretty much all of them on here have done. You haven’t yet.
Oh wait, then you go all racist in the middle of your sentence. You are a racist. In fact, the quickest mark of a racist is when they say they aren’t one.
….”The white male is the one who is really the minority now in this country….”
Can we expel the South now, please? HELLO?! ANYONE THERE? Can we finally boot this cess pit from the rest of the nation?
GAWD
April 18th, 2012
1:33 pm
I got Breitbart, I’ll get Nugent. All is being revealed in these times. I am seeing to it.
madison
April 18th, 2012
1:50 pm
TOMG says esentially he’s not racist but that black people are wrong. hmmm.
Aaron Burr V Mexico
April 18th, 2012
1:53 pm
@GAWD – Can you help get the South out of the US? They’re sucking all that remains of the intelligence of the United States and burning it in whatever they’re smoking…..
madison
April 18th, 2012
2:06 pm
Aaron
Have you seen the laws ALEC is passing in placs like AZ or Montana – Kansas? Sure, many a south politician works to keep the poor white man believing he’s better off because he’s better – used to be better than blacks, now that he’s better than latinos.
But there are many intelligent southerners who should be encouraged rather than castigated for being born in the south. North Carolina has shown some signs (other than their love of tobacco) that they might overcome the gross poverty that has persisted in the region.
Many argue that government can’t get people out of poverty and, in many respects, I agree. But government can keep people in poverty by it’s acts.
The Citizens United case will make it more difficult for intelligent people to be heard over the din of manipulation by ALEC type organizations funded by self interested business concerns whose short sightedness will ultimately be their own ruin.
CROWFOOT
April 18th, 2012
2:26 pm
I WOULD PROBLAY SAY THAT MOST OF YOU LIBERAL LEFT WINGERS. ARE YOUNG PROBLAY 20 TO 40 YEARS OLD , NEVER FOUGHT FOR YOUR COUNTRY DONT REALLY UNDERSTAND WHATS GOING ON IN THIS COUNTRY VERY GULLIBLE AND NAIVE. YOUNG PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRY WERE NOT BROUGHT UP LIKE OLDER PEOPLE. ( IM 63) DO NOT HAVE RESPECT FOR THERE COUNTRY NOT COUNTING ALL THE ETHNIC GROUPS THAT HAVE MOVED HERE. THE COUNTRY IS CHANGING AND ITS NOT FOR THE GOOD. IT IS TRUE THIS GOVERMENT WE HAVE NOW DOES RESPECT THE CONSTITUTION, OBHAMA GOES AS HE WISHES. WHY WOULD YOU VOTE FOR A MAN THAT DOES NOT RESPECT HAS OWN COUNTRY? BECAUSE YOUR NOT A TRUE AMERICAN YOU WONT THE GOVERNMENT TO CONTROL YOUR LIFE BECAUSE YOU CANT SEE BEYOUND YOUR OWN NOSE. EVER PUT YOUR LIFE OWN THE LINE FOR YOUR COUNTRY.( VIETNAM 1969 81TAC FGR SQD USAF) TO BAD THEY DONT STILL HAVE THE DRAFT, OF COURSE YOU WOULD PROBLAY BE A DRAFT DODGER. YOU THE MAN TED TELL THEM LIKE IT IS.
Juan Carlos Diego Raul Sanchez
April 18th, 2012
2:32 pm
Will Barry denounce louis farrakhan
Intown
April 18th, 2012
2:34 pm
It’s becoming increasingly clear that Obama’s main opposition is the radical right. Fortunately, their candidate is a waffling reflection of whatever opinion will get him elected.
catlady
April 18th, 2012
2:37 pm
Ted, use hyperbole much?
zeke
April 18th, 2012
2:48 pm
crowfoot, what the heck are you smoking? teddy did not serve….got a reason for that dimwit
CROWFOOT
April 18th, 2012
2:52 pm
i didnt mean ted was in nam i was talking about me. you dummy
zeke
April 18th, 2012
3:05 pm
i know what you said but you castigated 20 40 year olds who never served. well chalk that up to machine gun teddy too. and i served 69-71 in usarmy.
dumbarse you got a good reason why teddy did not serve?
oboma must go
April 18th, 2012
3:16 pm
Aaron Burr V Mexico- you have been writing on hear all day.. you must be one of obamas welfare recipients. most of us have jobs during the day..
ignorant black guy
April 18th, 2012
3:20 pm
As our country was spiraling down to economic depths most of us have never seen in our lifetime (2007-2008), I thought the Democrats were a shoe-in to win the Presidency. With anyone. But then the choices were a black man and a white woman and I thought oh no. To no surprise, I assumed electing a black President would actually set race relations back a few years – if not decades. Logging into the ajc.com and reading all the nasty rants and raves of the southern redneck population supports that. This country’s backbone is our auto industry. GM and Chrysler should be bending over backwards in support of the current administration. Lose them, along with Ford who didn’t need bailout money, and the snowball affect of losing jobs and income would have spread throughout the US. The Dow is at the highest levels it has ever been (up from around the 7000-8000 range near the end of Bush’s presidency) and jobs and new construction are increasing. Yet all anyone in the south sees is the color of his skin. How sad your people are.
ODUMBA
April 18th, 2012
3:23 pm
HEY IGNORANT BLACK GUY- ELECTING ODUMBA SENT THE COUNTRY BACK A FEW YEARS IF NOT DECADES.. YOU ARE CORRECT.
DOW IS NOT AT THE HIGHEST LEVELS IT HAS EVER BEEN..
JOBS AND CONST ARE INCREASING???? REALLY??? AND EVEN IF THEY WERE, EACH JOB PROBABLY COST 10,000,000 EACH TO CREATE..
I, ODUMBA, HAVE CREATED MORE DEBT FOR THIS COUNTRY THAN ALL PAST PRESIDENTS COMBINED. WHAT DID YOU PEOPLE EXPECT.. YOU KNEW I WAS THE NEXT COMING OF JIMMY CARTER…..
OH- AND REMEMBER, IF YOU ARE EVER CRITICIZED, OR CORNERED, CRY RACISM. IT WORKS EVERY TIME..
BOSTON MA DEMOCRAT
April 18th, 2012
3:25 pm
i agree 100% odumba
BOSTON MA DEMOCRAT
April 18th, 2012
3:28 pm
i think sharpton or jessee would do a better job that oboma has done. he has been absolutely horrible.
Aaron Burr V Mexico
April 18th, 2012
3:30 pm
@ODUMBA – Weren’t you going somewhere? I thought you were leaving? Or are you too stupid to do anything….
@Madison – “Aaron
Have you seen the laws ALEC is passing in placs like AZ or Montana – Kansas? ”
ALEC is a Koch founded and funded organization. The Koch brothers are from Alabama and have a neoconfederate agenda.
“Sure, many a south politician works to keep the poor white man believing he’s better off because he’s better – used to be better than blacks, now that he’s better than latinos.”
At a certain point in the information age, repeated willful ignorance becomes the fault of the ignorant.
“But there are many intelligent southerners who should be encouraged rather than castigated for being born in the south. North Carolina has shown some signs (other than their love of tobacco) that they might overcome the gross poverty that has persisted in the region.”
There are. Any culture has its good and bad points, but no culture has produced such a viral meme of hate and ignorance that is doing such long lasting and permanent damage to our planet. The South is literally the source of darkness that is threatening the ENTIRE world. Furthermore, while some cultures have elements of racial or cultural superiority, retroactive history, viral ignorance and disdain for civilization and science, no other culture has them to such a high degree or are exporting them with such metastetized rates. There is no more dangerous or malignant culture on the face of the earth, including Salifi islam, the Lord’s Resistance Army, Al Queda, the Tamil Tigers or the Chinese Provincial Government in Tibet that is as just flat out NASTY as the south.
Having some areas that are blue or are moderately intelligent doesn’t undo the rest of the region.
“Many argue that government can’t get people out of poverty and, in many respects, I agree. But government can keep people in poverty by it’s acts.”
Yes, this statement is obvious to anyone not a southerner. But I *DO* agree with you.
“The Citizens United case will make it more difficult for intelligent people to be heard over the din of manipulation by ALEC type organizations funded by self interested business concerns whose short sightedness will ultimately be their own ruin.”
A case created in large part by the resurgence and dominance of neoconfederate thinking.
zeke
April 18th, 2012
3:31 pm
consider for a moment how much wealth all americans lost in 2008 between homes and stock portfolios….i have read is was more than 15-20 T other reports even higher. worldwide estimates were 50 T. yet everyone thinks this was typical recession and everything should be hunky dory in a couple of years…how long did great depression last? and while america is fighting needless wars, china is cleaning our clocks economically….what they don’t make they likely steal or clone.
but hey, obama has had 4 years. he did mess up by going after healthcare first. he and many others failed to see the depth of the recession. he should have addressed jobs, but he used politcal capital for healthcare, which ironically holds the key to us reducing/slowing debt.
had we exlected mccain we’d be figthing more, spending more and china laughing their wasses off.
and wall st and big business would be planning global movement.
Aaron Burr V Mexico
April 18th, 2012
3:33 pm
@oboma must go – And you probably work for ALEC or some other Koch think tank, so what?
Aaron Burr V Mexico
April 18th, 2012
3:39 pm
@Crowfoot – A lot of that made no sense, but I am very very VERY happy I’m making you so angry you are shouting and losing your ability to use spell check. Thanks for the affirmation.
Aaron Burr V Mexico
April 18th, 2012
3:40 pm
@Crowfoot – And also conservative veterans lose their right to call themselves patriots until they attack fellow Republicans that demonize liberal veterans for theirs.
This is not your country if you don’t respect all the inhabitants in it. Which is one reason why I think we need to expel you.
Aaron Burr V Mexico
April 18th, 2012
3:42 pm
@Juan Carlos Diego Raul Sanchez – He has. Have you renounced Right Wing Hate Radio?
No? Then shut up.
you go nugent!!!
April 18th, 2012
3:46 pm
“The South is literally the source of darkness that is threatening the ENTIRE world”-
that statement is correct.. the south is full of ignorant people and it is getting darker and darker everyday. darker and darker.. each city is getting darker and darker and more and more ignorant.
look at what happened to that poor mother yesterday. did you read about the 3 kids that were murdered at their job by hoodie wearing “dark” thugs last week. of course you did not hear about it because it did not play into the medias agenda.
look at the link http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=news/local&id=8607940
GAWD
April 18th, 2012
3:47 pm
I and EVERYONE I know are doing just fine. Fk you @ODUMBA (how fitting) AND the horse you rode in on! Seek treatment for your O.D.S. – A.S.A.P.
By the way:
O – bama
D – erangement
S – yndrome
odumbass
April 18th, 2012
3:50 pm
thank you very much. i want to be your prez for fo mo years. i ax fo yo suppote.
wishing for this country to turn around
April 18th, 2012
3:52 pm
i just wish obummer had done a better job. we have got to get people back to work.
Aaron Burr V Mexico
April 18th, 2012
4:01 pm
@You go Nugent – Thank you for confirming Every. Single. Thing. I said.
@GAWD – Better be careful of insulting Horse…he’ll threaten to sue you! He’s SCARY!
In his own mind.
@odumbass – So…you’re imitating a good ole boy? The state of rural Georgia education is rather sad these days.
justice for the people
April 18th, 2012
4:19 pm
http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=news/local&id=8607940 that is scary and very sad. but we are not to be afraid of young blacks in hoodies. really???? you never hear about these stories on the news.
i wonder when sharpton and jackson will go to nc and rally for the 3 young men killed by these savages.
david duke
April 18th, 2012
4:19 pm
with all this hatred on this board, maybe i should run for president
you have to look at this link. hoddies in action
April 18th, 2012
4:20 pm
http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=news/local&id=8607940
what does this have to do with ted nugent???
April 18th, 2012
4:22 pm
http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=news/local&id=8607940
That is not what this discussion should be about.
GET REAL
April 18th, 2012
4:31 pm
Ted Nugent, who is a darling of the Right and a self-appointed spokesperson for the NRGM (the National Rights Group of Armed Maniacs), contributed nothing of lasting value to pop music in the ’70s and ’80s, and managed to stay as far away from the Vietnam War as many of the other right-wing cowards like him did who now talk tough.
Nugent is a cultural irrelevancy and a coward who could have fought for this country when it really counted like the rest of us suckers did.
sad
April 18th, 2012
4:32 pm
http://abcnews.go.com/US/nurse-kidnapped-baby-keegan-prove-fiance-baby/story?id=16160951#.T48kZdlKiuJ
lack luster
April 18th, 2012
4:33 pm
i equate ted nugent with al sharpton
Aaron Burr V. Mexico
April 18th, 2012
5:18 pm
@Justice for the People – Like the name. Hope some day we do get rampaging mobs that seek true justice. I won’t join them of course, since I don’t believe in advocating violence unlike contards, but I do admit I’d like to see the South get lynched by the rest of the world.
And by focusing on this story, by the way, you prove yourself a racist. Please feel free to flip out about that fact as much as you like.