Just A Quick Note On Gunshot Through Window Of Obama Campaign Office In Denver
There isn't enough information out here for me to assign blame for this incident in Denver -- but I will say it is a bad thing.
Police say someone fired a shot at an Obama campaign field office in Denver on Friday afternoon.
No one was injured, though people were inside the office when the incident occurred, said Denver police spokeswoman Raquel Lopez.
"It looks like it was one shot that was fired into the structure," she said.
The incident happened about 3 p.m. at the campaign's office on West Ninth Avenue near Acoma Street, Lopez said.
Frankly, what we have here is an incident where there is not enough information available publicly to make a determination of what happened here. I'll defer to the police on this one, as the Obama campaign has appropriately and responsibly done. After all, sometimes such incidents are random, as was the case with a bullet that hit Eric Cantor's campaign office two years ago.
But sadly, such incidents are not unique -- though it is unusual that the incident involved a Democrat campaign office. They are usually targeted at Republicans, as the last two elections have shown.
On September 2, 2004, a shot was fired through the window of the GOP headquarters in Huntington WV, while a crowd of supporters watched George W. Bush accept the GOP nomination.
On October 5, 2004, shots were fired at the Bush-Cheney campaign office in Knoxville, TN.
None of these were considered to be big deals by the national media -- nor were the many acts of vandalism against GOP offices, campaign signs, or vehicles with GOP bumper stickers in 2004, 2006, 2008, or 2010. And I've not included physical assaults, either -- something that rarely happens to Democrat officeholders or volunteers but which are common tactics against Republicans. I just don' have the room to list them.
And besides, such incidents still don't justify shooting the campaign office of a president who has told his supporters to get in the faces of his opponents and to bring a gun to use against them. Chicago-style thuggery isn't acceptable against a Chicago politician, any more than it is coming from the supporters of one at his behest.
Just A Quick Note On Gunshot Through Window Of Obama Campaign Office In Denver
There isn't enough information out here for me to assign blame for this incident in Denver -- but I will say it is a bad thing.
Frankly, what we have here is an incident where there is not enough information available publicly to make a determination of what happened here. I'll defer to the police on this one, as the Obama campaign has appropriately and responsibly done. After all, sometimes such incidents are random, as was the case with a bullet that hit Eric Cantor's campaign office two years ago. But sadly, such incidents are not unique -- though it is unusual that the incident involved a Democrat campaign office. They are usually targeted at Republicans, as the last two elections have shown.- On September 2, 2004, a shot was fired through the window of the GOP headquarters in Huntington WV, while a crowd of supporters watched George W. Bush accept the GOP nomination.
- On October 5, 2004, shots were fired at the Bush-Cheney campaign office in Knoxville, TN.
- McCain/Palin Campaign bus shot in New Mexico.
None of these were considered to be big deals by the national media -- nor were the many acts of vandalism against GOP offices, campaign signs, or vehicles with GOP bumper stickers in 2004, 2006, 2008, or 2010. And I've not included physical assaults, either -- something that rarely happens to Democrat officeholders or volunteers but which are common tactics against Republicans. I just don' have the room to list them. And besides, such incidents still don't justify shooting the campaign office of a president who has told his supporters to get in the faces of his opponents and to bring a gun to use against them. Chicago-style thuggery isn't acceptable against a Chicago politician, any more than it is coming from the supporters of one at his behest.Posted by: Greg at 11:25 AM
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