Regional
(2010-07-09)
DENVER, CO
(KUNC) -
Weld County District Attorney Ken Buck is trying to distance himself today from comments made about President Obama by a former Republican congressman at a campaign event yesterday. Ken Buck is in a tight primary battle with Jane Norton for the republican party's nomination in the US Senate race. His campaign was on its way to getting another boost yesterday as South Carolina Republican Senator Jim DeMint swooped in to headline a rally at a Denver city park. But it was another republican's comments at the rally that seemed to overshadow everything else.
Acting as emcee of the event, during his closing remarks, former Colorado congressman Tom Tancredo took this swipe at President Obama:
"The greatest threat to the United States today, the greatest threat to our liberty, the greatest threat to the Constitution of the United States, the greatest threat to our way of live, everything we believe in, the greatest threat to the country that was put together by the founding fathers, is the guy that was in the White House today," Tancredo said.
The remark drew cheers from the crowd of about 100 people, many of them tea party activists. But Ken Buck reportedly found himself on the defense afterward. He told the local FOX-TV affiliate that, "he loves Tom," but that he doesn't always agree with his remarks. Buck also said he didn't think the man in the white house was at all the greatest threat to the country.
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