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Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!(Nov. 26) -- A 78-year-old Navy veteran and retired New York Police Department cop has been arrested for allegedly threatening to kill President Barack Obama "for what he has done to this country." Michael Stephen Bowden, who now lives in South Carolina, told a nurse during a routine medical exam at a Veterans Administration clinic on Nov. 16 that he "was thinking of traveling to Washington, D.C., to shoot the president because he was not doing enough to help African-Americans," according to an affidavit filed in the case. He also said he wanted to kill himself. Spartanburg Detention ...
Barack Obama has come under fire lately for using hardball tactics when dealing with businesses being bailed out by taxpayers. Not surprisingly, most of this comes from the right. We all remember the Republicans' reaction to restrictions on bailed-out CEO compensation. Then, they showed solidarity with homeowner-mocking futures traders. And who can forget the sanctity of a bonus contract, versus a union agreement? More recently, my nornally level-headed friend, Ed Morrissey, has been spinning a narrative of President Obama as "madman" loose cannon, abusing his power against poor, helpless ...
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