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'Death to Obama' Sign Holder Detained

By DAVID DISHNEAU
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HAGERSTOWN, Md. (Aug. 13) -- The Secret Service is investigating a man who authorities said held a sign reading "Death to Obama" outside a town hall meeting on health-care reform in western Maryland.
The sign also read, "Death to Michelle and her two stupid kids," referring to the first name of President Barack Obama's wife, said Washington County Sheriff's Capt. Peter Lazich.
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Lazich said deputies detained the unidentified, 51-year-old man near the entrance to Hagerstown Community College about 1 p.m. Wednesday after getting calls from a number of people attending the meeting held by Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Md. Obama was not at the meeting.
The sheriff's office turned the man over to the Secret Service, Lazich said.
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Barbara Golden, special agent in charge of the agency's Baltimore field office, said Thursday that an investigation is ongoing but declined further comment. A spokesman at the agency's Washington headquarters also declined to discuss the investigation.
Police said there were no other arrests among the nearly 1,000 people, some carrying protest signs, who came to the college for the meeting or demonstrated off-campus.
Cardin's national communications director, Sue Walitsky, called the incident "unfortunate." She said she was unaware of it until Thursday morning.
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08:26 PMAug 14 2009

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sgt Brutality

08:26 PMAug 14 2009

Obamba is no more then a white voters mistake.

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dignanboi

08:26 PMAug 14 2009

Now we're getting somewhere! America is beginning to realize that Obama is The Fascist Socialist Racist Turd of Doom. His power grab insurance will also insure the illegals who don't even belong here!! So we the taxpayers will pay for illegals also! Obama will spend whatever he feels is necessary to create a legacy of greatness in his own mentally ill mind....

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Centricdisco

08:26 PMAug 14 2009

dignanboi08:21 PMAug 14 2009Lets not forget boys and girls that the same folks who caused Fannie and Freddy to collapse are writing Obama's new health SCARE reform bill...It is about time the people may be waking up from their slumber, before we do not recognize America anymore...It's too bad, Billy Mays passed on, Obama could've used him too to sell his health SCARE plan........"GOD BLESS" America..and..."GOD DAMN" Obama!!!!!!!!...your a racist fool.

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08:26 PMAug 14 2009

WWWelling 08:00 PMAug 14 2009 I would rather see Obama become the next Jimmy Carter. Discredited and irrelevant.==== The desire for this president to fail as expressed in this statement is the real reason for the Republican outrage. Right now their using policy as an excuse for the hatred but the racism and hatred for Obama started before he was ever sworn in.Rush Limbaugh exposed the true nature of the twenty percenters on his radio show when he announced" I hope Obama fails". Rush has about 10 million loyal listeners and they will use any ploy they can get away with to cause his failure.

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JLEINF

08:26 PMAug 14 2009

Nazis collected enemy lists and acted on them. History does repeat itself too.

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Helmheadwwii

08:26 PMAug 14 2009

LenLucky 08:19 PMAug 14 2009 Time for the Democrats & Obama to re-introduce the concentration/death camps... health care issue & town hall meetings solved****************************************************************** ******************************Hmm Bush and the neonazi right already did this in Gitmo. You Damn neopukes and your lies are running this country into the GD ground. Don;t remember the ahole neopuke that lied about the death panels and then admitted as much today. Youn bastards should all be run out of the country because you are by far more dangerous than any terrorist.

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davisdmail

08:25 PMAug 14 2009

DeJeVe, everything you said about the left, we know to be true about the right. So don't you think your remarks are rather childish and pander to the hate mongering going on in the country now? Obviously started by the rightie hate radio vultures and faux propoganda network. So calling us on the left false patriots is pathetic - where were you when I was shot at and missed and shot at and hit in Viet Nam????? Probably had other priorities like your rightie bushie heroes cheney the dick et al. limbaugh had a pimple on his ass and could not serve. Probably, tho it is best if the cowards stay out because they are the types that run and get their buddies killed or wounded.

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tcptools

08:25 PMAug 14 2009

I bet the Secret Service has canceled all vacations for a while. What do think that is costing us?

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The Secret Service is investigating a man who authorities said held a sign reading Death to Obama outside a town hall meeting on health-care reform in western Maryland.