Texas College GOP Leader: Obama Assassination ‘Tempting’
From ABC News:
Hours after Pennsylvania State Police arrested a 21-year-old Idaho man for allegedly firing a semi-automatic rifle at the White House, the top student official for the College Republicans at the University of Texas tweeted that the idea of assassinating President Obama was ‘tempting.’
At 2:29 p.m. ET, UT’s Lauren E. Pierce wrote: ‘Y’all as tempting as it may be, don’t shoot Obama. We need him to go down in history as the WORST president we’ve EVER had! #2012.’
Pierce, the president of the College Republicans at UT Austin, told ABC News the comment was a ‘joke’ and that the ‘whole [shooting incident] was stupid.’ Giggling, she said that an attempted assassination would ‘only make the situation worse.’
‘Insofar as she’s a representative [of the College Republicans], maybe it shouldn’t be said, but she’s made a positive statement in a way, ’ said Cassie Wright, the group’s vice president.
‘I don’t really see anything wrong with it,’ Wright added. ‘It’s just a personal comment, not representative of any group. Just freedom of speech, you know?’