I can only suggest you look at the previous article I wrote on this subject and others ones with threatening overtones against Presient-elect Obama. Anyone who thinks I can call someone stupid and thinks that I am somehow supporting that person is really missing the point.

I did a follow-up on this story because the state and towns people have rightly expressed their indignation over Collins’ act.

You are fairly correct that Collins acted as a “racist, ignorant, pathetic, a liar, childish, a fool.” I fail to see where your description and mine of “bad taste” and “stupid” are that different.

Crime? No, I can’t go that far whether against Obama or Bush.

There’s something called the First Amendment and it does protect bad taste and stupidity.

Also, if you really believe in something, why hide behind a fake email as you have done? That’s almost as bad as Collins who tried to disown his sign after it started to get bad publicity.

If I was to have made a shotgun bet sign with “Let’s hope someone wins” written on it for President Reagan would you have been so apologetic and understanding, so willing to chalk it up as just “bad taste and stupidity?”

See, your suggestion that it’s only bad taste and stupidity leaves the option that it wasn’t wrong, per se. As adults, which I will afford you the presumption of being, we all know “taste” is objective, it’s a matter of opinion. Making an assassination pool and stating you hope the president is assassinated, because THAT’S exactly what was done, is not “bad taste,” it’s WRONG. When you suggest it’s stupidity as well, you seem to be addressing the fact that the sign writer was stupid, but are you suggesting it was stupid to make the sign, or stupid that the sign maker would hope that it was fulfilled? You don’t clarify, amateurism or myopic ignorance on your part I would only gather.

In the end, your boy Mr. Collins was more than stupid and lacking good taste, as you suggest, instead, he was racist, ignorant, pathetic, a liar, childish, a fool, and close to being a criminal if not one. Mr. Church, I would rethink who my friends were if I were you.