Posted on 08/26/2008 5:38:56 AM PDT by edzo4
DENVER (AP) - Authorities are investigating whether a man arrested with rifles, ammunition and drugs in his truck made statements threatening Barack Obama, but emphasize he never posed a "credible threat" to the candidate or the Democratic National Convention.
Federal and local authorities had scheduled a news conference for Tuesday afternoon, but U.S. Attorney Troy Eid downplayed the case.
"We're absolutely confident there is no credible threat to the candidate, the Democratic National Convention, or the people of Colorado," Eid said in a statement.
(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.myway.com ...
Of course he wasn’t a credible threat to Obama, Obama was in Kansas City, not Denver. Duh.
Zero tolerance here for anybody trying to assasinate members of the United States Government. If guilty, lock’em up, throw away the key.
But this sounds more like a drug-addled yahoo running his mouth.
(if running your mouth (or your keyboard) were enough to get prosecuted, then a lot of folks on FR would be in big trouble!)
clicked on the TV and the media are trying to get sympathy for Obama
you would think for ery trick in the book the Dems have done with the help of the media Obama would be up by 70%
He is not and the Dems have to be worried
Even if Hitler or Stalin was elected?
it sounds too “Hollywood” to me, Nazi ring wearing, “typical white people” hanging to their guns and hatred, will reserve all my judgement til trial is held, but it sounds like one of those “noose” stories.
I'd say these socialists trying to take us over aren't quite as "off limits" as you paint them...
Hey, we gotta “go along to get along” right? Especially since we’re backing a RINO like McCain who LOVES “reaching across the aisle” to work with the outright socialists trying to turn our Constitutional Republic into a democratic Marxist regime...
Friggin' fruit loops...
This was the guy from the traffic stop, right? Whatever happened to the guy who took a short cut from the gun shop, through the hotel (”Pelosi’s Hotel”), to his car in the parking garage after getting his rifles sighted at the gunshop?
The news peeps are really worried!
I couldn’t watch anymore.
he was a hunter from wyoming and apologized for the scare
Good point. One of these days, I think that TRUE patriots will recognize that political statements will need to be made with a gun. I’m not saying that this guy was right in threatening Obama; however, we have a history of armed rebellion, and I think that we might revisit that era again when a tyrant ascends the throne in our land.
I'm guessing they let him go? With his guns?
He was charged with unlawfully carrying weapons, a misdemeanor. Calanchini is being held on $10,000 bond at the Denver City Jail.
http://www.9news.com/news/local/article.aspx?storyid=98258&catid=346
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