Jake Tapper reports:
The Oregonian and KATU-TV report on the arrest of two men over the weekend for trying to burn down with a Molotov cocktail and a makeshift torch a 4' x 8' McCain for President sign in the southeast Portland, Ore., yard of Gene and Karen Scrutton
Investigators picked up Leslie Brockette Leudtke and Kevin Carl Robinson and both charged with manufacturing and possessing a destructive device. Leudtke was also charged with reckless burning. The two are scheduled to appear in Multnomah County Circuit Court tomorrow.
"They were obviously out to intimidate me," Gene Scrutton told the Oregonian. "But someone easily could have been hurt or killed or my house burned down."
Looks like Michelle Malkin can add these criminals to her photogallery of raging leftists.
Meanwhile, the Washington Post has a piece on "community activists" using peaceful and legal means to silence McCain supporters in Prince George's County:
The sign went up Sunday evening, bold black letters against the stark white background of the marquee at the Colony South Hotel & Conference Center in Clinton: "Country First. McCain/Palin."
By daybreak, pandemonium had broken loose all across heavily Democratic Prince George's County. Many local supporters of Democrat Barack Obama, jolted by the message as they headed down Branch Avenue on their Monday morning commutes, grabbed cellphones and BlackBerrys to notify friends. Operators of neighborhood e-mail group lists cried foul to their memberships. The NAACP logged calls. Community leaders demanded boycotts of the hotel, a common venue for Democratic events.
"Businesspeople have to be mindful of the sentiments and sensibilities of their market trading area, and Prince George's County is overwhelmingly for Obama," said community activist Arthur Turner of Kettering, who was among those advocating a boycott. "People I have talked to look at the sign as a slap in the face. They feel it was blatant disrespect. . . . I have heard people say they will no longer patronize Colony South because of that disrespect."
When Obama says that the McCain campaign is racist and tells tells his supporters "to argue with [Republicans] and get in their face", is it surprising his supporters resort to such tactics?
When will Paul Krugman, Frank Rich, Dana Milbank, and David Gergen denounce their "rage"?
