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To: KansasGirl
The judge was not scheduled to be there but just happened to be passing by. The fact that Congresswoman Giffords happened to be the first person shot indicates that she was the target. Once she had been shot, the shooter then shot randomly into a crowd, not taking time to aim at anyone in particular.

Having said that, it is important to keep focused here. The seriousness of this tragedy has nothing to do with a conservative federal judge being shot and killed, but that a Democrat politician was shot. If the judge had been the target and the congresswoman had not been shot, we wouldn't have had an appearance and statement by Obama for days (unless he wanted to give a shout-out to someone).

16 posted on 01/09/2011 12:21:04 PM PST by Hoodat (Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. - (Rom 8:37))
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To: Hoodat

Your recollections are correct. Though I posted elsewhere the Judge’s involvement with a very curious case just concluded where he was likely to rule against the administration. It appears he was the victim of bad luck.


48 posted on 01/09/2011 1:14:20 PM PST by Sequoyah101 (Half of the population is below average)
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To: Hoodat

“If the judge had been the target and the congresswoman had not been shot, we wouldn’t have had an appearance and statement by Obama for days”

Much like the POS did after the recruiting center, and Ft. Hood shootings?


59 posted on 01/09/2011 1:28:31 PM PST by 2CAVTrooper (For those who have had to fight for it, freedom has a flavor the protected shall never know.)
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To: Hoodat; All
I'll be honest. I don't know if it's exactly accurate to say _she_ was the target.

Yes, she was shot, but the picture forming of the shooter suggests more of a strike against gov't and she happened to be the local face of that gov't.

That a congress WOMAN was shot, and a Democrat, does seem to appeal to the media. I think I mentioned yesterday in another reply, it fits with their narrative about "angry rightwing, gun lovers and hate radio." The idea is so part of their world view, they don't even realize when it fails to fit the facts.

61 posted on 01/09/2011 1:43:30 PM PST by newzjunkey (Well wishes to all the families affected by the Tucson shooting.)
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To: Hoodat

When is Obama gonna speak up to tell us that the MSM “acted stupidly?”


62 posted on 01/09/2011 1:46:28 PM PST by BuckeyeTexan (There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind.)
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To: Hoodat; All

“The seriousness of this tragedy has nothing to do with a conservative federal judge being shot and killed, but that a Democrat politician was shot.”

I don’t think that is correct either. That it was a democrat is irrelevant to the “seriousness” of this incident. Personnally, I don’t believe conventional “politics” had ANYTHING to do with this. The killer is an extreme nut case that doesn’t belong to any political party. He had some nutty “grudge” that he took out on an available target. If the congresswoman had of been Republican, he probably would have shot her as well. There is NO rational agenda working here. This person is just nuts.


63 posted on 01/09/2011 1:48:59 PM PST by Sola Veritas (Trying to speak truth - not always with the best grammar or spelling)
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