Ronn! Blankenship said the following on 11/13/2008 6:45 AM: > <http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Idaho_students_chant_assassinate_Obama_on_1112.html>http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Idaho_students_chant_assassinate_Obama_on_1112.html > > *Idaho students chant 'assassinate Obama' on school bus: Report > * > *David Edwards and Muriel Kane > *Published: Wednesday November 12, 2008 > Madison County, Idaho was once dubbed "the reddest place in America" by > Salon, but that didn't make it any less shocking when elementary school > children started chanting "assassinate Obama on the school bus. > > Matthew Whoolery told KIKD News he found out about the chanting from his > second and third graders, who had no idea what the word "assassinate" meant. > > "They just hadn't heard anything like this before," Whoolery stated. "I > think the thing that struck us was just like, 'Where did they get the > word and why would they put that word and that person together?'" > > Whoolery, a psychology professor at Brigham Young University in Rexburg, > is not an Obama supporter, but he was shocked that any public official > would be threatened in that way. "I don't think that the majority of > people in Rexburg have extreme ideas like that, but we were just > surprised that it would go that far," Whoolery told KIKD. > > The Madison County School District has sent out an email saying that > students are to be told this sort of behavior is unacceptable.
<tongue in cheek> Those kids are gonna be in for a surprise when the Secret Service shows up.... </tongue in cheek> -- GPG Fingerprint: 409B A409 A38D 92BF 15D9 6EEE 9A82 F2AC 69AC 07B9 CACert.org Assurer _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
