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‘Who Is Going to Shoot President Obama?’

GA Republican doesn’t miss a beat when asked.

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Some questions you want to dodge, others you want to rebuke. This was one of the latter. An audience member at a town hall hosted by Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA) asked the congressman who was going to shoot Obama, which reportedly got a “big laugh” from the crowd. Broun replied, "The thing is, I know there's a lot of frustration with this president. We're going to have an election next year.” Then he asked the audience who had driven the farthest to come the meeting. Broun, a Tea Party congressman, previously made news when he skipped the State of the Union Address to tweet about Obama’s socialism from his office.

Read it at Salon

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