Fl. repug rep. Jennifer Carroll jokes of wanting Hillary dead

[donsu]

http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/042104/met_15400950.shtml

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At the Southern Republican Leadership Conference in Miami Beach, Carroll said Clinton was visited by the ghosts of Presidents Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln. According to The Associated Press, the joke had Clinton asking each president what she could do to help the country, and Lincoln told Clinton to go to a theater. Lincoln was assassinated in Ford's Theater in Washington.

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"You infer what you want to infer, but I never said assassinate, or kill or maim," Carroll told The Associated Press.

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"Everybody knows it's a joke," he said. "It's kind of an inconvenience for her right now. There was no malice in it."
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No malice? No malice!

Jennifer won't apologize.

Jennifer has a small mind and needs to lose her job.

[trumad]

1. No offense..but this is very old news....

[donsu]

2. well, it's the first I've seen it

nt

[SheilaT]

3. I've seen this joke as

one where George W Bush is having trouble sleeping. Makes far more sense that way.

Added on edit:
More to the point, a public figure like that should NOT be telling such jokes. No matter what she thinks of Clinton.

[liarliartieonfire]

4. like a page out of Limbaughs playbook.

Absolutely out of line for a public figure to make threatening comments. Joke or no joke, there are all kinds of unstable supporters out there who may take such a threat serious enough to act upon it.

It is illegal to yell "fire" in a public place, as a joke.

We all chastised the Florida dem for suggesting killing Rumsfeld.
I would expect the Republican party to do the same with this ignorant hick. No matter who she was pandering to at the time it was told.

[The Backlash Cometh]

5. This is mild, compared to how they really talk.

They're uncouth and emboldened by their social-political connections.