Posted on 09/28/2012 5:48:13 AM PDT by Fennie
Albert Peterson shot dead his wife and two sons hours after going to church because he dreaded the thought of Obama winning the election, a family friend has revealed.
A confidante of the family for the past 25 years has spoken to MailOnline about the strength and grace of the Peterson family, as well as the torment that plagued Albert which drove him to shoot dead his wife Kathleen and his two sons Christopher and Mathew at their suburban home in DC on Sunday.
A history of mental illness, the loss of a dear uncle, and a growing fear of Obama winning a second term in the White House took its toll on the mind of Mr Peterson, a wealthy defense contractor, the friend said.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
If he was not one, (a Freeper) perhaps he should have been.
Some here are quite rational and helpful. (Others, not so much.......)
Politics, world affairs, news, etc. really needs to be taken with a grain of salt. (or maybe a whole sack of it!!)
Difficult time to retain sanity what with the talking heads on the boob box repeatedly making up quotes and taking things out of context and running all stories by the DNC before going to broadcast.
I tuned it out 4 years ago (tv died and I didn’t replace it).
It was bad enough in the 1990s when I caught myself encountering an internal “political correctness” censor trying to match the proper phrasing of things in public (mailperson et al).
Even if you reject their message, you are constantly bombarded with it by the idiot box in television ads and teasers for the nightly news as well as comedy programs.
Do you ever respond to anything you post or do you post and run?
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