Top Tampa GOP Figure Circulates Joke About Killing Obama

By GottaLaff

What is wrong with these cretins? Do they not realize, or care, that they are inciting hatred and violence?

Al Austin, a longtime, high-level Republican fundraiser from Tampa, today sent to his list of political contacts an e-mail containing a joke that refers to the assassination of Barack Obama.

Oh-h-h, it's a joke! Why didn't he just say that to begin with? We all love a good joke. Especially when it's about murdering a presidential candidate who happens to be black. That's a riot. Or it will be if this kind of despicable behavior continues.

When asked about the e-mail, Austin said it was a mistake and apologized and that he wouldn’t knowingly have circulated it. He said he planned to send an apology and retraction to the same e-mail list.

A retraction should take care of everything. Nothing says, "Put down your nooses and shotguns!" like a hasty e-mailed retraction.

Okay, so stop me if you've heard this one before. Tell it to the kids. They can share it with their little friends:

The joke concerns a group of schoolchildren discussing the definition of “tragedy” as opposed to “great loss” or “accident.” The punch line comes when one child says that if an airplane carrying Obama and his wife, Michelle, “was struck by a ‘friendly fire’ missile and blown to smithereens,” the event might be a tragedy “because it certainly wouldn’t be a great loss, and it probably wouldn’t be an accident either.”

How droll.

Austin acknowledged sending the e-mail to his list of political contacts but said he forwarded it without fully reading it and didn’t know what it said. That list included at least two reporters.

Once again, the Republican party proves that the Peter Principle is alive and well.

This poor excuse for a maggot needs to be fired. Now.