Looks like the shooter was a nothing and a fraud who talked a good game. He intended to use politics to "prove to the world" that he was somebody. But his political career crashed and burned. And he turned against the person he had to blame -- since he himself could not be to blame.
As the details about Askew's life of fraud comes out, a question arises: Who would Bill Clinton have blamed, and shot, if the voters of Arkansas had kicked him out of office and never let him back in?
Congressman Billybob
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