Man Arrested For ‘Penny Attack’ on Obama Campaign Workers

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Republicans who hate President Obama are really coming up with creative ways to demonstrate their outrage. By now we’re all aware of the shooting of President Obama’s campaign office in Denver, but penny attacks? Really?

Texas Republican Gary Root, 71, was arrested for unleashing a penny attack on Obama campaign workers at Collier County headquarters. According to Root, he threw the penny because that’s all he had left after being overtaxed by the Obama administration.

Funny thing though: President Obama actually lowered taxes for middle class Americans, which is why PolitiFact, which assesses claims made by politicians, rated President Obama’s claim that he’s lowered taxes as “mostly true.”

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