My HOPE is that this was all the work of one lone whackjob...

[Bicoastal]

...with no political agenda whatsoever, except the voices in his head telling him to.

I'm so sick of real-world violence mixing with partisan politics these days.

[kestrel91316]

1. My money is an a RW teabagger/gun nutter type.

This warn't Abdullah, IOW.

[Bicoastal]

4. Sigh. Thank you for proving my point. nt

[quinnox]

2. I'll be very interested on what the officials say, and how quickly

It seems to me, it will take at least a week or some period of time, to investigate, and determine a preliminary conclusion..

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

3. Hopefully there's a ton of videotape evidence

to find out who did this, since it was at a major event.

[Lint Head]

5. I hope so too. But they had to get their ideas from someone or somewhere.

Let's see... Glenn Beck? Alex Jones? I'm just speculating.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

6. Unfortunately, when it comes to bombings, there often is some sort of agenda involved.

Unfortunately, it's way too easy for some mental defect to obtain a gun and shoot up a crowd for reasons only he knows.

But with bombs, that takes careful planning and preparation. The bomb must be assembled. This often indicates some "greater cause" the perpetrator is advocating, whatever it might be (and we just don't know right now).

[JanMichael]

7. it's ALWAYS a lone whack job

what makes you think this one is going to be different? As far as "partisan" politics....ummm, most of the "LWJ's" resort to violence because they are mad at society...which is why they are "LWJ's."

[backscatter712]

8. I'll bet you this was a political terrorist group.

IIRC, there were other devices found, so I find it very likely that this was a group of people, not just one person.

And I'm betting that right-wing extremists are responsible for this.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

9. Tax day - Boston Tea Party

COULD be a place to start looking. But I agree with the OP that we shouldn't immediately accept what our political inclinations tell us without proof. Look at how the right wing immediately suspected Arab terrorists when Timothy McVeigh set off his bomb. We don't want to be like them (although I know what my own inner voice is telling me).

[nadinbrzezinski]

10. My money is that it will be a lone wolf

If internal regardless.