File Under "Not Hilarious": Thinly-Veiled Death Threats

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It's never funny to joke about killing the president or wish for his death in a thinly-veiled way. Apparently, some people still aren't getting the memo. From Gawker:

"There's a hilarious new meme in the wingnut sectors of the internet: someone's coined a bumper sticker slogan encouraging people to pray for Barack Obama. But here's the funny part: it's really a secret Christian code for "Kill the President!'

Posters to various message boards tell stories of seeing bumper stickers with the message "Pray for Obama—Psalm 109:8" on the highway, only to look up the verse and find, "Let his days be few; and let another take his office." People — like the commenter "Panama" on INGunOwners.com, to pick one guy completely at random — think this is "too funny." The next verse in Psalms is, "Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow."

Read the rest of the yuk-inducing article at Gawker

Umm, F- and a Pelosi Face to this meme.

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