The Warren Times Observer apologized for the oversight. From AP-

A northwestern Pennsylvania newspaper is apologizing for running a classified advertisement calling for the assassination of President Barack Obama.

Warren Times Observer Publisher John Elchert says the ad appeared Thursday. It read, “May Obama follow in the steps of Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley and Kennedy!” The four presidents were all assassinated.

Elchert tells The Associated Press that the newspaper’s advertising staff didn’t make the historical connection.

He says the newspaper turned information over to police and that the Secret Service is investigating the person who placed the ad.

Either the newspaper takes advertisments from anyone who has the wherewithal to pay for it or no one at the paper has a decent knowledge of American Presidential history. Which ever the cause was, it doesn’t speak highly of the Warren Times Observer.

Hat tip- Joanne Jacobs who writes- “OK, maybe Garfield and McKinley are obscure, but they didn’t get a clue about the ad’s meaning from Lincoln and Kennedy either.  It helps to know history.”