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This Week in Republican Crazy, Florida Edition

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Florida House candidate Joshua Black calls for hanging of President Obama.  That’s not hyperbole, that’s the headline from an article in yesterday’s Tampa Bay Times.  The pearls of wisdom include such hits as “I’m past impeachment,” Joshua Black wrote on Twitter. “It’s time to arrest and hang him high.”

The argument Mr. Black makes is that the President is guilty of either war crimes or treason due to ordering a drone strike that killed a US Citizen.

More: “I make no apologies for saying that the President is not above the People. If ordinary Americans should be executed for treason, so should he.”

Let’s look at this again: hanging. On MLK day.

“I guess they’re going to call me a racist now.”

Ya think?

I suspect this does not constitute an illegal threat, but rather political speech, under Watts v United States (1969). Of course, if the President were a white Republican, and the tweet the product of a certain cornerback for the Seattle Seahawks, many would, after careful consideration, reach a rather different conclusion.

Honorable mention goes to Sarah Palin:

“Mr. President, in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. and all who commit to ending any racial divide, no more playing the race card”.

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