Treason..really, come on who doesn't like to go to the theater now and then?

Why is it when liberals say bush should be shot, the liberal media says, nothing. When its a conservative or republican its open season.hey liberal bloggers, I've got some tickets to the theater, want to go?

Another thoughtless, disgusting, and mean-spirited remark by a Republican.
What else do you expect?

Joey McDonald should be fired for this stupid and childish comment. He's an embarassment to the office.

Some bad-taste jokes deserve to be forgotten in silence. Speaking from personal experience!!!

It's not just that an unfunny joke about assassinating a president is in bad taste. It's who told it.
If some moron on the street or on a blog told the same joke, who cares. If an elected representative told it, you would question his judgment and probably not vote for him again. But If a sheriff who is supposed to uphold the law, be respectful to the President, and who should be cognizant of the sensitivity to gun violence after Newtown tells it, you wonder if he should even be in charge of public safety.
Joseph McDonald needs to sincerely apologize for his clueless behavior. Sure, we all make mistakes. It's only people of character who acknowledge their offenses and express an understanding of why they were inappropriate. I would hope that Sheriff McDonald will do so..

Mr. McDonald apparently neither understands the problem, nor apologizes for his "joke". He states today in the Patriot Ledger," It was absolutely in jest..It was a joke. It wasn’t a new joke by any means.”
I wouldn't care if this tasteless "joke" had been made about every American president since George Washington. Speaking these words at this time, in the current environment of heightened hostility toward this particular president, demonstrates at the very least an appalling tone-deafness, and it certainly conveys disrespect on the part of this elected official. Someone needs to tell Mr. McDonald - his superior, I would hope - that Presidential murder is never, ever, a laughing matter.

I think it's pretty clear: he needs to either step down, or apologize, hat in hand, to those who trust him to make the right choices. He goes and blames liberals? What liberals? Who? Joe Shmoe citizen? Disgraceful behavior.

Andrew,

Provide the names of the liberal elected officials who called for Bush to be shot or shut up.

Hey folks. You can disagree strenuously, but be polite to each other please.

A sheriff, really??? A visit by the Secret Service should take care of this situation...

An Obamanation.

As a public law enforcement official, he should have known it would be at a minimum highly inappropriate for him to make a joke about assassinating ANY president. Then to show his ignorance of history, and his utter lack of critical thinking compounded by his inability to be introspective is evidence enough that he shouldn't be in a position of legal authority.

Perhaps some people made jokes about Bush because they believed he was responsible for hundreds of thousands of people losing their lives. McDonald's lame attempt to excuse his own ignorant remark about Obama by tit for tat citing tales of jokes about Bush only further defines his lack of character. This guy is too simple-minded for the position.

This comment from a law enforcement official is reprehensible and should be grounds for termination. It is actions like this one based upon racist beliefs and BIAS that perpetuate discriminatory racial profiling in the criminal justice system.Training based on research in The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander is in order.

Perhaps it should be looked at this way. We know the basis of Obama is "When there is a choice between the truth and a lie, Lie", "Me first, my people come 2nd". So this was only suggesting he not go the the theater and instead a nice golf outing with Tiger would be better.

The sheriff seems to be very good at editing out and blocking Facebook comments/posters he doesn't like, even if they were civil and informed. It's all gone. And as a public official, I don't think that's respectable. Too bad he wasn't so good at mentally editing the excrement coming from his mouth.

Come the next election, we will all see how the voters of Plymouth County feel about the nation now knowing they've elected a fool as sheriff.