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Oregon Pair Arrested for Trying to Torch Large McCain Yard Sign
October 12, 2008 1:50 PM
The Oregonian and KATU-TV report on the arrest of two men over the weekend for trying to burn down with a Molotov cocktail and a makeshift torch a 4' x 8' McCain for President sign in the southeast Portland, Ore., yard of Gene and Karen Scrutton
Investigators picked up Leslie Brockette Leudtke and Kevin Carl Robinson and both charged with manufacturing and possessing a destructive device. Leudtke was also charged with reckless burning. The two are scheduled to appear in Multnomah County Circuit Court tomorrow.
"They were obviously out to intimidate me," Gene Scrutton told the Oregonian. "But someone easily could have been hurt or killed or my house burned down."
- jpt
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I'm waiting to be told that this is what the McCain campaign gets for having zealous reporters yell out pernicious things at rallies. For that McCain gets the blame for this ...? Never mind Biden, Lewis, and other Obama people telling us that the McCain campaign is dangerous. Hey, maybe these were just stepping up to stop a dangerous campaign.
Posted by: Judasmac | Oct 12, 2008 3:40:02 PM
Amazing.... a McCain/Palin sticker in Oregon. I live in North idaho and saw my first MCCain/Palin sticker two nights ago. My husband was on his way home from work the other night in Coeur d'Alene...and of the four cars at the stop light....one had McCain sticker...two Obamas and one Barr.
Can you say landslide?
Posted by: karen | Oct 12, 2008 3:33:58 PM
This is so typical of this nasty election THAT IS ONLY LIKE THIS BECAUSE OF THUG CRIMINAL types ATTRACTED to Obama and his campaign. People in my neighborhood feel intimidated to put their McCain/Palin signs up, as there is vandalism and damage to property, cars keyed if you have their stickers in your window. I was flipped off on the freeway the other day.
A woman here in So.Cal had her garage banner ($250) ripped off by two teen age boys. Funny, I never hear of McCain supporters doing any of this vandalism and destruction.
Can you imagine the riots that would possibly errupt if Bozo doesn't win?
Pathetic...if that happens you'll never see a black man run for higher office for decades. This election feels like the '60's to me....we've been thrown back in time....something tells me, if Colin Powell had ever run IT WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN LIKE THIS, but Obama EXCITES RADICALS.
HILLARY SUPPORTER FOR McCAIN
Posted by: Hope, Change, Hate, Nobama '08 | Oct 12, 2008 3:31:08 PM
Oh for Gawd sakes this goes on all the time in the country. Heck, we would steal each others signs and put them in fields, start bon fires (if there was no danger of it getting out) and all kinds of mischief. People that were cranky and hateful were fun targets. It's been going on for years, sort of a right of passage for country kids.
Posted by: Sam | Oct 12, 2008 3:16:21 PM
Joe in Chicago
you represent the best of the Mccain Palin ticket right now...
isn't that sad.
lie lie lie
well we had 8 years of those lies...
we are done.
we want our country back.
and I hope their will be lawsuits for all this slander.
Posted by: dl | Oct 12, 2008 3:14:25 PM
Imagine is Obama lose the election????
We'll have riots and mobs going around destroying things and attacking people.
Obama cult people sound like the Chavez, Castro and radical groups devoted to cult of personality. Remember that Farrakhan call him the new Messiah!
That's scary!
Posted by: Peter-DC | Oct 12, 2008 3:14:06 PM
was this done before or after last weeks...
"bomb Oabama" and "kill em"
etc?
violent sensationalism begets violent sensationalism.
Posted by: dl | Oct 12, 2008 3:12:43 PM
Man,you guys who support both McCain and Obama are nothing but big government communist/socialist liberals.The sad reality is you guys(especially McCain supporters)don`t even realize it, and probably won`t until it`s to late.
Posted by: AJ | Oct 12, 2008 3:10:59 PM
The most shocking part of this is ABC actually reported on it. I thought my neighborhood was bad... It's insanity that the Democratic byline is so against hate, violence, etc. and it's exactly what they are doing. And if we stand up against ANYTHING they say or do - WE have to live in fear of retaliation. It seriously reinforces my vote for McCain. If the Democrats are this out of control without the Presidency, what will happen when they do have the Presidency. I live in a neighborhood where we don't lock our doors at night. If Obama is elected, I may get a security system to make sure I have some protection from not the terrorists, but the terroristic actions of the Democratic Party.
Posted by: hummingbird | Oct 12, 2008 3:09:12 PM
Why isn't the media all over this? Obama supporters as arsonists! Why isn't the Obama truth squad on the scene?
Yeah right..they will get a pat on the back and another sip of kool-aid.
"You don't know my state," Biden crowed. "My state was a slave state". Imagine the media firestorm that would have ensued if a Republican candidate had uttered such an outrageously racist comment.
Posted by: CrystalD | Oct 12, 2008 2:51:51 PM
Come on McCain, your supporters DEMAND that you send SARAH PALIN out to Oregon this minute!!!
She is the best one to get the ANGRY MOB fired up!! We can't let them get away with this!!!
Sure now it is a couple of drunk teenagers on a Saturday night trying to torch a yard sign, but what is next, bumper stickers??
!
ANGRY MOB SCENE, MOB SCENE, MOB SCENE, MOB SCENE!!!
SARAH, SARAH, SARAH, SARAH, SARAH!!!!
Posted by: Davis | Oct 12, 2008 2:50:21 PM
And?
Did it have anything to do with an Obama Rally?
Posted by: Thinking | Oct 12, 2008 2:48:24 PM
Someone actually has a McCain sign? I live in a red state and have yet to see a single McCain bumper sticker.
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Maybe because if they do they are afraid Obama supporters will torch their car, or their home, or yell obscenities at them going down the road, or throw things at their car, the list goes on. Its not mccains supporters being evil, its obama supporters wanting control of this whole election and not allowing others to back someone other than their messiah. watch the tv and you will see anytime someone questions this, obama supporters get angry as if to say their candidate is too perfect, or his supporters are justified in their attacks, where mccain is not. it works both ways. when you sling mud, expect mud back. so get a life before your messiah takes it away from you in the socialistic world he wants to place upon all of us. get a brain, read the true stories, find out the truth about your messiah. if you have the guts to find out the truth!
Posted by: she will | Oct 12, 2008 2:45:51 PM
The guys who did it were conservatives! They were just embarrassed by McCain.
Posted by: bubba | Oct 12, 2008 2:45:17 PM
Ayers must have grandchildren, great-nephews and nieces and assorted other spawn helping Nobama with the Molotov Cocktail campaign. Well, there is a lot at stake for Ayers, he is Nobama's choice for either Sec. of Defense or Homeland Security! God help us all, and forgive the Democrats for their brown shirt tactics.
Posted by: gvrush | Oct 12, 2008 2:42:50 PM
Attn. DETROIT AUTO-WORKERS:
Even though the all of your employers are at the brink of bankruptcy, you can trust Obama's promise to save the industries. He never make tactical empty promises.
Posted by: Ted | Oct 12, 2008 2:40:30 PM
You remember Dan Quayle? He is the guy whose reputation has been restored by the nomination of Srah Palin.
Posted by: ricky | Oct 12, 2008 2:30:04 PM
Looks like the crazies and the criminals supporters are out to help Obama win the election by any means possible. Does Obama aspproves these tactics? He sure does nothing to stop his supporters.
Posted by: Mary | Oct 12, 2008 2:27:14 PM
Come on McCain/Palin supporters, we can't let them get away with this!!!
ANGRY MOB SCENE, MOB SCENE, MOB SCENE, MOB SCENE!!!
Let's get the pitchforks and the torches and storm the jail !!!
Posted by: Davis | Oct 12, 2008 2:25:38 PM
I am so sick and tired of these Democrat Liberals, and their wealthy phony Hollywood Actors, Entertainers and Rappers dramatizing that stupid ridiculous phrase, "I'm so scared". They can't act for beans, and they've lost many fans because of their involvement with this and other elections. They should keep their political opinions to themselves and stick with making money from pictures.
It's not halloween YET, and if you're really scared of something or someone....you BETTER BE SCARED OF MUSLUM TERRORISTS WHO HATE US AND WANT TO HARM US BY TAKING OVER OUR COUNTRY!; and who has admitted more to that association by association than that one person who doesn't even want to use his American name......
BARACK OBAMA !!!!!
Posted by: Piza Pie | Oct 12, 2008 2:24:50 PM
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