(Florida) Obama fan says McCain supporter tried to run her down

[sabra]

Source: bradenton herald

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Debra Barker, owner of Niki’s Island Treasures, said at about 10 a.m. today, she was waving an Obama campaign sign in front of her store, in the 5300 block of Gulf Drive, when she saw a blue van coming toward her.

“The driver looked right at me and gave me a thumbs down,” she said.

...

“I had that moment where I said to myself, ‘This guy is going to hit me,’” Barker said.

He missed her by four inches after she jumped out of the way, Barker said. She looked back at the van to see a McCain sticker on the back, she said.

...

Holmes Beach Police Lt. Dale Stephenson said Barker filed a complaint on the driver, and police are investigating the case as a possible aggravated assault.

But a search for the van, which Barker said had an Illinois license tag, was unsuccessful. Stephenson said officers searched area hotels, resorts and condominiums for the van but did not find it.

Barker provided police with a license tag number she said another witness gave her, but the other witness didn’t leave a name to be interviewed, Stephenson said.


Read more: http://www.bradenton.com/news/breaking_news/story/1003770.html

[proudAZdem]

1. You have to be kidding me!?

FIrst, half truths. Then outright lies. Then threats to Obama.

Now, possible aggravated assault?

McCain-Palin supporters are getting desperate.

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Obama 2008
“Mad McCain” videos: http://tv1.com/playlists/show/11

[flvegan]

2. Florida? Surprised she wasn't armed.

She could've gone Rambo.

:popcorn:

[Dr.Phool]

7. Florida, "The Shoot Me State".

[dennysp]

3. Defeating McCain will be like killing an evil monster. You know

they die hard.

[ddeclue]

4. Were the tire tracks on her face applied with makeup?

:rofl:

Doug D.

[Veritas_et_Aequitas]

5. I don't know what to make of this.

While I wouldn't be all that surprised to hear about someone being almost run over because of her political leanings, it just seems a bit bizarre (albeit plausible). In a sick way, I hope that the woman's story pans out because I don't want to see another media shitstorm about someone unbalanced trying to "help" their candidate.

[Tempest]

6. There was at least one witness

After hearing of the stories of what McSame supporters have been doing to Obama supporters, I don't think this is far fetched.

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

8. Rebecca Traister of Salon.com WAS hit by a McCain-Palin supporter's car

It wasn't a serious impact, but they did hit her. And the fucks didn't even stop to see how badly they might have hurt her.

-snip-

"The time of choosin's comin' so near," Palin said again, sounding less like she was talking of Election Day and invoking Reagan and more like she was waiting for the Keymaster from "Ghostbusters." "In the end, what John McCain and I believe in is what Ronald Reagan believed in ... we believe that America is still that shining City on a Hill that Ronald Reagan used to speak of."

But, alas, the model of Christian charity did not seep out into the Bowman Field parking lots. While I was interviewing some of the attendees, accompanied by another Salon staffer who was holding a video camera, a Palin fan in a newish silver sedan drove by and hit me hard in the back with the side mirror of the car, hard enough to bend the mirror back. Then the car drove off without anybody inside pausing to ask if I was all right. The middle-aged woman in the passenger seat, however, might have saluted me with an un-Christian hand gesture.

But no hard feelings, ma'am. I will just console myself that, as Sarah Palin says, the time for choosin's comin' near.


http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/10/31/palin/index.html

[MagicKenny]

9. You'd Think Having "Mystery Machine" On The Side Would Be a Dead Giveaway

"One more day" I keep telling myself. "Please, God...let Obama win in a landslide so these dirty scumbags can crawl back under their rocks."

[eagertolearn]

10. I fear this is just starting. They will not go down easily...

the McCain camp has created way to much fear and hatred among their followers. Please everyone stay safe!

[samsingh]

11. repugs are frightened little insects

[Lost-in-FL]

12. Reason you see more McSame stickers in cars...

people gets very nasty around here.

[GetTheRightVote]

13. I am not surprised, if Obama wins Fl, I would expected to see more hateful actions on part of Repubs

They think they own Florida.

:kick:

[Haole Girl]

14. Honestly, in my lifetime, I have never seen this country so divided

I hope we'll all be in one piece by the morning hours of Nov. 5th.

Sigh.

[JCMach1]

15. This nearly happened to me and my 6-year old daughter

during an Iraq war protest in 2003... in FLORIDA

The SUV missed us by centimeters...

[superconnected]

16. McCain supporters are scary. We keep seeing the criminally insane come out of the woodwork with them