Police say DC shooting suspect could be threat to Obama

Authorities are concerned that a man sought in connection with a bizarre shooting incident on the Washington Mall last week may pose a threat to President Obama. Secret Service believes the suspect, Oscar Ramiro Ortega of Idaho, fired a bullet which hit the White House and was stopped by ballistic glass. He may be mentally ill, has a long police record and seems to have been fixated on the White House. “U.S. Park police say Ortega may have spent time blending in with Occupy D.C. protesters.” Sarah Palin has not been questioned yet. UPDATE: Arrested in Pennsylvania (trying to buy some tea, probably.)

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  • Yup, Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez, with beard and wool hat, is the very image of a racist white-bread right-winger. I bet he even opposes Hispanic immigration!

  • They arrested him..He is a confirmed Brown Wing Nut.....as in liberal wing nut..probably an legal alien just here to harvest crops and cause no problems...not!

  • If he's "mentally ill" he must be conservative, as Progressive Science has recently proved beyond all shadow of a doubt that anyone to the right of Karl Marx is hardwired, genetically, to be mentally ill(and stupid). And his name is just a racist plot to deflect blame from the Tea Party, as it is another unarguable Scientific Fact that all persons of Hispanic descent are Progressives, and thus would never shoot at El Presidente's casa.