Police: Tenn. man rams car with Obama sticker

[boomerbust]

Source: AP

NASHVILLE, Tenn.— A 70-year-old Nashville man was accused of ramming his sport utility vehicle several times into the back of a vehicle that had a Obama/Biden bumper sticker. Harry K. Weisiger, a retiree, made obscene gestures and pointed at the campaign sticker for President Barack Obama and running mate Joe Biden before he smashed into schoolteacher Mark Duren's car, police said. Weisiger has been charged with reckless endangerment, leaving the scene of the accident and refusing to take a field sobriety test.

The incident appears to be among the overheated partisan political atmosphere, including death threats sent to members of Congress and their families who supported health care reform.

Duren had picked up his 10-year-old daughter from school Thursday when he stopped near the Belmont University campus. An SUV pulled up behind his Toyota Camry and the driver began honking and gesturing angrily toward the bumper sticker, The Tennessean reported.

"I raised my hands palms up and shrugged. He then eased up behind my car so I could only see the grille of his SUV and blew his car horn, nonstop," Duren told the newspaper


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[SpiralHawk]

1. "Never misunderestimate the malignant idiocy of us republicons." - xCommander AWOL (R)

[HereSince1628]

2. Horrible, but the stories been out a couple days at least

[PuraVidaDreamin]

4. I would have missed this story

As I'm not as connected to the internet as I used to be

Thanks for posting it.

[TheEuclideanOne]

34. Okay, so this is the story of the man with the 10 year old daughter in his car

I was wondering if it happened before or after Sarah Palin's call out to the Tea Party. Seems like this happened before.

[Paladin]

44. First I've Heard Of It. Glad It Was Posted. (n/t)

[Catshrink]

3. I can't resist...

That's teacher bashing! I know, I know :spank:

[Botany]

5. 'nuff said .... insisting that he had "not much" to drink

A neighbor followed the SUV to a grocery store, where police said they found
Weisiger trying to pop a breath mint and insisting that he had "not much" to drink.

After few drinks the anger this guy feels about a black man being president is too much for him.

[Lint Head]

6. Alcohol is not a 'Make a Racist' magic juice.

He is a racist drunk or sober.

[Botany]

8. But the booze let the real asshole come out of him

I read that he was w/ a construction company for 25 years ..... I might be wrong
but he might be an "old time" southern guy. Them blacks are good when they know
their place ..... We had Jimmy Jr. on one of our crews and he was a hard working
boy and never gave us a lick of trouble.

Now he sits home and drinks and listens to Rush & Glen Beck and feels the rage
boiling up in him. @ 70 he might think of the good old days and to see an Obama
bumper sticker on the car of white father might have put him over the edge.

[Xipe Totec]

31. Wine

Sometimes wine can bring out
things that a man would keep quiet...


Things that burn you inside,
things that rot the soul
with downcast eyes,
and faces hidden in shame.


Wine then releases
a bravery that's lost,
and disguises men as valiant,
as if by artful magic...

Then they become... bullies,
until the wine is gone.
between the killer and the coward,
all that's stands is a hangover.

Excerpt from:
El Vino - Alberto Cortez (Wine)

[Jackpine Radical]

38. In vino veritas.

[Gman]

7. It never occurs to these fucks that Democrats carry guns too

and he could get very seriously injured.

[Robb]

12. Driving my daughter somewhere and someone does this?

I hope I'm cool-headed enough to call the cops.

[Democat]

9. This 70 year old guy's brain was probably rotted by talk radio

I feel sorry for him.

[pattmarty]

18. I don't.

[Democat]

29. If I had to stand in line with him at the post office...

...and hear his opinions, maybe I wouldn't feel bad either.

But, when I imagine a 70 year old man doing something like this, it just sounds like a sad situation.

[pattmarty]

37. Look, I am now 63 and don't want to go into particulars about MY..............

...........life, but A FUCKING LOT OF PEOPLE have it hard or had it hard and don't do fucking stupid ass hole shit like this. FUCK HIM, I don't feel sorry for him. If you want to feel sorry for someone, feel sorry for the Dad and his kid who may be scared for life. FUCK HIM!!! That is the ONE thing about so called liberals is that they have to feel sorry for everybody. Well, NO they fucking don't. That old cocksucker deserves to die in jail in my opinion.

[YOY]

30. Well...you know that personal accountability thing they keep spouting off when it comes to junkies?

This is applicable to them doubly here.

[OHdem10]

10. Did Palin not suggest to Teabaggers:: Pull cars with Obama Stickers

over.

[rfranklin]

16. That's impersonating a police officer...

A very serious crime.

[Rhythm]

21. Worse... it could be 'unlawful detention', a lesser charge--but related to--kidnapping...

And if i didn't beat the crap out of the person perpetrating it, that's the charge i'd insist upon.

[caseymoz]

53. Actually, the picture I got was pull them over without a police siren.

And I think that's the interpretation her followers came away with, because they are dumb enough to try something that unsafe. This incident shows that.

I see some lawsuits coming at Palin, lawsuits that have a good chance of winning. And possibly a charge or two that has a chance of sticking.

[bluecoat_fan]

19. yep and also mentioned putting democrats in the crosshairs

I wonder how long before that happens.

[adamuu]

11. Did he carve a backwards S on the guys face? n/t

[theothersnippywshrub]

13. How very republican. The party of Lincoln has become the party of John Wilkes Booth. n/t

[semillama]

47. Nice turn of phrase there. n/t

[classysassy]

48. The dixiecans have hijacked the republican party.

[Odin2005]

14. He was probably trying to "pull him over".

[rfranklin]

15. Sounds like attempted murder...

I'll sign the complaint.

[SomeGuyInEagan]

25. Agreed. Premeditated act which endangered lives.

The old man should be locked up for many years, in general population of a state prison. No different than pointing a gun at someone and pulling the trigger.

[proud2BlibKansan]

17. This happened last Friday

Why is it in LBN?

[ejpoeta]

20. is the party of personal responsibility going to take responsibility for inciting this crap!! of

course not!

[liberal N proud]

22. Que Palin: I didn't mean violence when I said blah blah blah.

Someone needs to nail these monsters for inciting violence.

[seattle_blue]

24. Sister Sarah

So Palin tells her hordes to pull over people with Obama stickers: Then this happens. If a Dem told people to steal a tomato and a tomato was stolen anywhere in the Norther hemisphere within the next century, the "liberal" media would crucify whatever Dem had said it. Palin...not so much.

[get the red out]

23. Always drunk or in strip clubs

Am I the only person noticing that when Republicans get in trouble it is revealed that these upholders of "family values" tend to be drunk off their butts? Of course the big deal Reps get caught in strip clubs, soliciting in men's rooms, or on a prostitution preferred customer list. But the nobody Republicans can booze it up to match anyone.

[snooper2]

26. This is why my 5 month old will grow up in a better nation...

cause these old shit fuckers who want the pre-civil rights 40's and 50's back like this bastard will be dead...

[LiberalFighter]

27. Old news

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4321177

[denverbill]

28. How about vehicular assault? He's using the car as a weapon. n/t

[tinrobot]

32. It happens right after Palin told idiots to pull over Obama supporters

Coincidence?

Hardly.

[BurtWorm]

33. Palin family values: smash the car with the child in it because it has an Obama sticker.

Great fuckin' party you got there, Stupublicans.

[MidwestTransplant]

35. Palin said STOP THEM, not RAM them. Dumb Freeper doesn't see the nuance.

[caseymoz]

55. How do you stop a car without a police siren and light?

You use the Mad Max method or the Dirty Harry method. Both approved for highway brawling. And you know that's exactly what Sara Palin was recommending. I'll wait for the forthcoming lie and cover-her-assing.

Let me guess, Sara. You were talking about at the ballot box . . .

[Wapsie B]

36. Time to cut off Harry's Medicare.

I'm sure paperwork can be misplaced.

[LynneSin]

39. Perhaps Sarah needs to be at home tending her out-of-control rugrats instead of inciting violence

And I'm all for women as equals in the workplace but her and Todd have no sense of violence when it comes to raising their kids vs. raking in the big bucks & publicity while the kids are pawned off on relatives.

[Raschel]

40. He's old. Definitely a tbagger. He stopped him like Sarah told him to.

[paparush]

41. 10 Year old child in the car. My god Palin, what have you done?

[WeDidIt]

42. Gee, thanks Sarah

What piles of shit both she and this asshole are.

[Echo In Light]

43. 70-year-old Nashville RWer severly beaten after threatening child's safety

Oh, wait...guess that's a different headline

[socialist_n_TN]

45. I can't blame Palin's comments.................

for this one. This incident happened a few days BEFORE she made her "stop a Suburu" comments.

[Touchdown]

46. ... YET!

[socialist_n_TN]

50. Not only that, but she's made OTHER..................

comments before this incident. She's not off the hook in general at ALL!

[Lautremont]

52. Also, this guy was driving a Camry.

[salin]

57. Call me cynical.... but I assumed that she had heard about

this incident, and it inspired her comments this past weekend.

[Stinky The Clown]

49. Attempted murder would be a good initial charge

[demtenjeep]

51. Palin caused this

she should be media gagged

[caseymoz]

54. My crystal ball sees many lawsuits in Sara Palin's future.

Because her idiots will be forcing people off the road without police sirens, about the most unsafe thing a motorist can try.

I hope not, but people might actually die because of Palin.

And to think they want to make her president!

[Anakin Skywalker]

56. First Hearing of This. Thanks for Posting