US man rams car with Obama sticker

[texastoast]

By ASSOCIATED PRESS

Published: Apr 1, 2010 01:57 Updated: Apr 1, 2010 01:57

NASHVILLE, Tennessee: 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,


Full story at links

http://arabnews.com/lifestyle/sidelights/article37617.ece

http://www.witn.com/news/headlines/89594392.html

[Zynx]

1. I wonder when Sarah Palin will apologize for the whole "pull over Obama supporters" thing.

[roguevalley]

16. I have a brand new Honda Element, copper, my baby. If anyone

rammed it, they would be so battered by the time the cops came I would get life in prison.

[adigal]

20. I have a Kiwi Green Element - Love it!!! n/t

[roguevalley]

21. KIWI GREEN!? SKWEEE! I *love* that color. I also love my copper

orange one too. Aren't they fun?

[xultar]

2. This story is over a week old. It happened before she said her stupid

shit.

But it is good to know it is being covered world wide! Maybe I could apply for political asylum from some where and get the fuck outta here.

[Matariki]

10. Are you referring to the incident where the car was run onto the sidewalk

Are you sure it's the same incident? I thought so at first but after reading it, it sounds different - this story has the guy ramming the back of the car, not pushing it to the sidewalk.

[LiberalFighter]

11. Same person same day. Possibly different rewrite.

[xultar]

13. Nope this one is the same.

[flamingdem]

3. What do the Europeans think of us now? Gunslingers is charming by comparison nt

[lpbk2713]

4. Time to take Grampa's drivers license away.

He needs a keeper.

[muriel_volestrangler]

5. FWIW, Opera puts up a big 'fraud warning' at that first link

2nd link is OK.

[mmonk]

6. It's freedom of speech (or so I'm told).

[greencharlie]

7. nutbag... nt

[Lerkfish]

8. the teacher should name Palin in a civil suit

[tedk_355]

9. stupid redneck

[MindandSoul]

12. Thanks (NOT) to another bright Palin brainstorm!!!

That woman is dangerous. . .stupid, but dangerous!

[troubledamerican]

14. Whilst driving on a socialist public-funded road.

[saltpoint]

18. -- --

:thumbsup:

[RagAss]

15. Sounds like attempted murder with a vehicle to me.

[Lerkfish]

17. yup

[saltpoint]

19. It's disturbing that Mr. Weisiger either did not notice that Duren's daughter

was in the vehicle, or did not care.

It also might be instructive for someone to deliver a civics lesson to Weisiger in which the electoral process is explained. "They schedule an election, campaigns are undertaken, and then folks vote. The candidate with the most votes wins."

Most of us at one point or another likely saw McCain-Palin bumper stickers on other vehicles out on the nation's roads but did not succumb to the impulse to ram those vehicles with ours.

I hope a judge orders Mr. Weisiger into anger management treatment and suspends his license. Mr. Weisgier's attorney should urge his client to apologize. The apology is owed to Mr. Duren and his family, to his daughters' classmates and pals, and to anyone else who participated in the electoral process in a Constitutional republic.

Mr. Weisiger's selfishness is not more important than Mr. Duren's daughter's safety.