Did George W. Bush Cause the Wal-Mart Stampede Killing?

By Nicholas Stix




The Wal-Mart Stampede



Last updated at 10:04 p.m., Sunday, November 30, 2008.

At the Seattle Post-Intelligencer blog on the Wal-Mart killing, it took 18 posters, before someone blamed it on Bush:

Posted by unregistered user at 11/28/08 2:34 p.m.
Posted by unregistered user at 11/28/08 2:05 p.m.

"Our country is going to sh*t"

It started getting worse 8 years ago. I guess the American public deserved the leaders they voted for.

Happy Holidays!

All you have to do is look at the faces in the picture above, to know that the Black Friday trampling death of 34-year-old Wal-Mart temp, Jdimytai Damour, at the company's Valley Stream, Long Island store was all Bush's fault.

Two comments later, came the following retort:

Posted by markcd at 11/28/08 2:41 p.m.
Ah yes. I was wondering when the first "Blame Bush" post would make its presence known. Just as he causes hurricanes and floods, there's no doubt that in his infinite power he forced those people to trample this man to death. Since we're being completely ridiculous, let's blame Obama too. He's brought such hope to the country, those folks must have felt the economy turning around and in their euphoria they broke down the doors and trampled this man to death. Good grief, get a grip.

At the P-I, There’s one huge advantage to blaming everything on George W. Bush in the comments section: You never have to worry about getting censored or banned. On the other hand, blaming the man who calls himself "Barack Obama" could not only get you censored, but arrested, if not trampled to death.


Postscript

At the New York Daily News photo gallery of its Wal-Mart murder story, the caption to picture 12 says the opposite of what the story says:

Caption: “Wal-Mart worker Jimmy Overby told the News that workers took the store doors off of their hinges as they fought their way into the store.”

Story: "He was bum-rushed by 200 people," said Wal-Mart worker Jimmy Overby, 43.

"They took the doors off the hinges. He was trampled and killed in front of me.

"They took me down, too ... I didn't know if I was going to live through it. I literally had to fight people off my back," Overby said.