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You know, I lived in Denver when Hinckley shot Reagan. (I still live in CO.) I remember nothing about him being a "liberal Democrat". His family lived in a conservative mountain suburb and his father owned a business, not usually marks of bein a "liberal Democrat". And he was insane! This was not a political assassination. Reagan was the president, and Hinckley wanted to impress Jodi Foster.
Your smear on liberals is not becoming, and adds nothing to the discussion.
I'm sure you don't like seeing those FACTS. Truth often hurts when it doesn't fit your world view. I can understand your frustration when faced with such things. I can also understand you attempting to say that it has nothing to do with the topic, hoever, the fact is that it has EVERYTHING to do with the OP's posting.
Hinckley was a registered DEMOCRAT...period.
ALL the other assassins were left-leaning as well.
I'm sure you don't like seeing those FACTS. Truth often hurts when it doesn't fit your world view. I can understand your frustration when faced with such things. I can also understand you attempting to say that it has nothing to do with the topic, hoever, the fact is that it has EVERYTHING to do with the OP's posting.
Hinckley was a registered DEMOCRAT...period.
ALL the other assassins were left-leaning as well.
One can draw conclusions from such patterns.
Nope, hinckley was a radical right wing lunatic. As i'm sure you know from your assumptions, radical left wingers hate guns, no way he would own one. That means he's an off the wall radical KKK republican because he had a gun.
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Assassinations and Attempted Assassinations of US Presidents:
Assassinations:
Abraham Lincoln (1865) - killed by John Wilkes Booth, Democrat
James Garfield (1881) - killed by Charles J. Guiteau, Democrat
William McKinley (1901) - killed by Leon Czolgosz, Democrat/Leftist/Anarchist
John F. Kennedy (1963) - killed by Lee Harvey Oswald, Communist/Leftist
Attempts on:
Andrew Jackson by Robert B. Randolph, Democrat/Liberal
Franklin D. Roosevelt by Giuseppe Zangara, Democrat/Liberal
Harry S. Truman by Pedro Albizu Campos, Nationalist/Socialist/Leftist
Gerald Ford by Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, a follower of Charles Manson, Socialist Ronald Reagan by John Hinckley, Jr., Registered Democrat
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Yes, and he was a liberal Democrat.(Referring to Hinckley)
Many Liberal Democrats own guns, like John Kerry for example.
Evidently this is going over your head though......the point is that the very people who are claimed by Liberals to be so dangerous, aren't as likely to pull the trigger on elected officials. Conservatives tend to be law abiding people who use the proper and legal ways to a political end.
Notice how Hinckley morphed in this discussion from a registered Democrat to a liberal Democrat? I've got news for you. Democrats in Colorado tend to be on the conservative end of the spectrum, moreso in 1981, moreso in Evergreen. I cannot even find any verification that he was registered as a Democrat in Jefferson County, Colorado in March of 1981.
What political party was john hinckley, jr in?
He was either a democrat, a member of the GOP, or a member of one of the other prominent political parties durring that time. What political party was john hinckley, jr in?
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Because they think NPR is ultra-left liberal and needs to be shut down at all costs.
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Ask yourself this. Something like Mr. Rogers, or Sesame Street, will that survive on its own???? Unlikely. Is it valuable?? I'm betting a majority would say so. Much of public broadcasting is like that, not just talking heads that the sheeple like to follow.
i dont want NPR or the corporation for public broadcasting shut down, but i also do not want government money going to these companies either. they need to either become commercial stations and sell time, or they need to increase the amount of private donations they receive.
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How did he commit suicide and then get the gun so far away from him?
there are many things wrong with the foster "suicide". for instance the gun that was found in his hand was a .38 revolver, but he was shot with a 9mm handgun. second foster was left handed, but the gun was in his right hand when the official pictures were taken, but when he was first found, he had NO gun in his hand. third he was laid out like he was just lying down on the ground sleeping rather than crumpled on the ground like most suicides. fourth, there was very little blood at the site where his body was found, and there should have been a fairly large amount.
I find it very telling that no attempts were made on Bush's life, given that his policies were absolutely horrible. Anytime, someone targets a person because of the particular party they're in or because they don't agree with that person's policies, guess what? That person in whatever state of mental instability they're in, is POLITICALLY-MOTIVATED.
Pubs are trying to do damage control now, since they're rhetoric of hate, whining, and gun worship was acted upon by one of their constituents, that pathetic guy named Jared.
Funny how the Secret Service says something and NPR reports it and all some get out of it is that NPR = BAD. That or the few that think so highly of their so-called intelligence that they actually think they know more than the Secret Service and attempt to say they are all politically motivated and of-course the evil doers are all Liberals doing it for political reasons. Never let the facts get in the way, gotta keep that hate going seems to be the new mantra, oh except when they are playing the victim.
To the OP, Thanks for posting the original topic, it shows that as usual we are just dealing with another nut with a gun.
Casper
I find it very telling that no attempts were made on Bush's life, given that his policies were absolutely horrible. Anytime, someone targets a person because of the particular party they're in or because they don't agree with that person's policies, guess what? That person in whatever state of mental instability they're in, is POLITICALLY-MOTIVATED.
Pubs are trying to do damage control now, since they're rhetoric of hate, whining, and gun worship was acted upon by one of their constituents, that pathetic guy named Jared.
You know, I lived in Denver when Hinckley shot Reagan. (I still live in CO.) I remember nothing about him being a "liberal Democrat". His family lived in a conservative mountain suburb and his father owned a business, not usually marks of bein a "liberal Democrat".
Especially because his father was a Texas oilman and evangelical Christian and the Hinckley family were friends with the Bush family.
That doesn't really suggest he was a liberal Dem or even a moderate or conservative Dem.
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And he was insane! This was not a political assassination. Reagan was the president, and Hinckley wanted to impress Jodi Foster.
Exactly. The only political assassins in the US who acted purely for ideological reasons were John Wilkes Booth and Sirhan Sirhan (who today would be considered terrorists). The others were crazies (leaving aside the strong likelihood that Oswald was a crazy who was recruited or the possibility that Zangara was a crazy who was recruited).
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