HOSTAGES AT HILLARY'S OFFICE IN NEW HAMPSHIRE

The obsession of the right wingers attacking this woman have got to stop- crazy people are watching and getting worked up over politics and it is creating a dangerous situation.

I hope everyone is praying for the hostages right now.

Comments

[t]

Yes, let's blame the right wing conspiracy again.

They also arrested a Louisiana college student earlier this year for threatening to kill her.

[ZB]

t,

YOU CALL THAT PRO-LIFE???

You sicken me.

[Phil Chroniger]

Why is it that the automatic assumption is that is got to be a right-wing person?

For all we know, it could be Mike Gravel!

[Phil Chroniger]

And it's New York, not New Hampshire.

Both sides should take a look in the mirror at the venom that spews forth towards their political opponents. The level of political discourse has lowered to personal attacks and the destruction of those seeking to serve our community.

This site is no exception and has often feed that anger for it's own purposes.

[Phil Chroniger]

I stand corrected, it is Rochester, New Hampshire, not Rochester, New York.

Political campaigns have always been rough, but Republicans take it to the lowest possible level. Already, Republicans on blogs are claiming that Hillary staged this to gain sympathy or attention or something. Utterly bonkers.

[FortyFour]

Yeah, good call anon @ 3:53. Because the left blogosphere never claimed that a certain Air America radio show host was mugged by right wingers, only to find that the host slipped and fell.

Seriously, NLS, why automatically assume this is a right-wing thing? Who knows who/what is behind it, other than someone with a history of mental instability.

[LAS]

Fortyfour, isn't that redundant? I mean, if it's someone with a history of mental instability, then OBVIOUSLY he's a Republican.

Why are you guys so angry all the time?

Comments at the right-wing Free Republic:

"He was planted."

"How many people think this was a Hillary stunt?"

A side-by-side of Hillary and Mussolini

"Good one, Hill. Be sure you’re out of harm’s way and then send in someone to help you with the sympathy vote. Nothing happens in a Clinton office without them having orchestrated it. I’m not buyin’ it."

"When all is said and done, it will have been determined to have been a Clinton operative. As a previous poster noted, everything is orchestrated by the Clinton campaign.

Sincerely,

Huckfillary"

[Phil Chroniger]

Still...what does that have to do with the guy with a bomb strapped to his chest. Why the automatic assumption? Sounds like stereotyping to me.

All Republicans have is anger and fear. Without that, they're nothing.

[Phil Chroniger]

I'm a Republican, and I'm a generally happy and optimistic person.

[Va Blogger]

If we're going to use Free Republican to judge the right-wing, then we should also use Democratic Underground to judge the left-wing.

Or, we could just accept that there are irrational and irrelevent people at the extremes of both parties, and everyone else should ignore them.

In the meantime, Ben, what the hell are you thinking? I don't know if I actually believe what I'm about to say, but you should know better.

[PWConservative]

Your Already blaming Republicans? Come on it could be an Obama or Edwards supporter

[The Richmond Democrat]

Would any of the folks who think it isn't a right winger care to place a wager?

[Doug in Mount Vernon]

It's probably that Miller guy that Cuccinelli helped. He must have popped a shroom and gone even more nuts and decided the best place to end it all was in a Hillary campaign office.

Quick, KEN! Board the next plane to NH and talk your partner in crime out of it!

[Brian Kirwin]

Ben, oddly enough I agree with your sentiments in this post, but don't think it's only right wingers.

There's nuts-a-plenty on the left. Raising Kaine has a post right now saying Guilani has terrorist ties. Maybe all this needs to stop.

http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0748,barrett,78478,6.html

Rudy's Ties to a Terror Sheikh
Giuliani's business contracts tie him to the man who let 9/11's mastermind escape the FBI
by Wayne Barrett
November 27th, 2007 3:39 PM

Three weeks after 9/11, when the roar of fighter jets still haunted the city's skyline, the emir of gas-rich Qatar, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifah al-Thani, toured Ground Zero. Although a member of the emir's own royal family had harbored the man who would later be identified as the mastermind of the attack—a man named Khalid Sheikh Muhammad, often referred to in intelligence circles by his initials, KSM—al-Thani rushed to New York in its aftermath, offering to make a $3 million donation, principally to the families of its victims. Rudy Giuliani, apparently unaware of what the FBI and CIA had long known about Qatari links to Al Qaeda, appeared on CNN with al-Thani that night and vouched for the emir when Larry King asked the mayor: "You are a friend of his, are you not?"

[Marcus Aurelius]

Perhaps you didnt see the Gallup information earlier LAS, but it appears that those who identify with the Republican Party also have less identification with being mental health patients. Lots of potential reasons for why this could be, but it is wrong to simply shoot you mouth off that Republicans have mental defects.

[Joel Rutstein]

Moreover, the person who posted this at RK makes a good point that it would take a lot less in terms of ties to Islamic terrorists for the right wing to scream if the person with ties were a Democrat. Look at the way that recently elected U.S. Congressman was treated because he wanted to be sworn in using Thomas Jefferson's Koran. And, the supreme irony is that Giuliani is the most frequent invoker of 9/11 on the campaign trail. It will be interesting to see whether the right wing has been sincere about the existential threat they claim is out there. If they overlook Giuliani's phony claims to be the best candidate on The Global War on Terror [cue scary music], it necessarily means the GWoT is phony, too. Kinda like the disproportionate number of Republican family values thumpers among the recent bunch of convicted sex offenders.

[The Squeaky Wheel]

First, I wondered how long it would take Liberals to blame Right wingers for this nut case. Second, I love when folks like Ben tell poeple to Relax over politics.. Ironic.

And lastly, given the past few months, who knows... maybe this was a plant :-)

[The Richmond Democrat]

The Oklahoma City bombers were right wingers.

Democrats are angry, but they're talking about winning elections and reforming the system. Republicans are the ones preaching violence.

I wouldn't be surprised if we are headed into another period like the 60's, when many progressive leaders were assassinated.

Yet another whacked out paranoid post. Jesus. There's absolutely no basis to suggest that this man was worked up over anything Republicans have to say about Hillary Clinton. Crazy people do this kinda of thing when they really LIKE a person too. But I guess this wouldnt be NLS unless it was another post shooting off at the mouth and making grandiose assumptions with little to no basis in fact.

[Isophorone]

So let's see . . . First Ben says he's going to check out (read: get some free food and booze) the RPV Advance (you know, the people whose candidates he bashed and voted against), then he blames crazy right wingers for this hostage situation at Hillary's campaign office in New Hampshire. Anyone see irony in this juxtaposition?

The guy surrendered and is named Leland Eisenberg. The reports are that he is known in that NH town and that he is known to be unstable.

[BDM]

"crazy people are watching and getting worked up over politics and it is creating a dangerous situation."

This from the person who in the past has said in his comment section he knows where commentors live? From a person who vehemently seems to have a vendetta against certain politicians and political workers.

Pot meet kettle.

[NoVAConservative]

Ben, of all the bullshit you've ever pulled, this is among the lowest.

You ought to be ashamed, and apologize.

It looks like this had nothing to do with "right-wingers" or conventional politics as we know it. It was a mentally unstable guy apparently on some kind of mental illness crusade.

NOT a "right winger."

Grow up and knock it off. And quit the hypocrisy--as if there isn't plenty of dangerous venom out there on the left towards the President and Vice President of the United States, both of whom receive death threats every day.

[ifthethunderdontgetya]

"Grow up and knock it off. And quit the hypocrisy--as if there isn't plenty of dangerous venom out there on the left towards the President and Vice President of the United States, both of whom receive death threats every day.

Posted by: NoVAConservative | November 30, 2007 at 11:04 PM
"

Is that you, Eric Rudolph?

Should we fetch you your fainting couch?
~

[I.Publius]

Turns out the guy was just jealous of Hillary's intimate relationship with Huma Abedin.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/12/1/11117/4376

"Right wing hate speech and violent threats against Democrats"

[James Young]

Didn't the far-Left say the same thing about Kennedy's assassination?

As I recall, Lee Harvey Oswald was a Marxist.

[Jason]

According to Ben's logic, Hillary's trying to get crazy people to do horrible things to her opponents' campaigns.

http://desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071202/NEWS/71202009/-1/SPORTS01

Clinton says she'll increase criticism of Democratic rivals