(I am a Liar)
Posted on 09/10/2009 6:59:37 AM PDT by big black dog
It’s official, Barack Hussein Obama is a liar. Oh, it isn’t because Congressman Joe Wilson proclaimed it last night. It’s because Obama’s entire speech was laced with outright lies and distortions, coverage for illegal aliens among them.
The fact that no bill presently being entertained by Congress or Obama specifically bans illegals from receiving health care paid for by American taxpayers leaves the issue of covering them wide open. In effect, if there is no language to the contrary, illegals will have as much right (and we use that term advisedly) to health care on America’s dime as any American. No court could possibly rule otherwise. Obama is a lawyer. He knows this to be true. If he knows this to be true, and speaks otherwise, he is a liar.
The Associated Press, one of the left’s bought and paid-for organs of disinformation, reported on the matter as “an extraordinary breach of congressional decorum.” They tittered over comments made on Mr. Wilson’s Twitter page, gleefully exclaiming, “he had taken a brutal beating” by the end of the night, and that his “House Web site had crashed.” We are left to assume Wilson made an unforgivable error, the public reaction coming in cold and negative to a person.
But that isn’t the way it actually shapes up if one peruses germane comments on the net. The overwhelming majority applaud Joe Wilson for his courage.
Here’s just a few from around the web. Note that the Associated Press site does not allow comments. Also note typos and grammatical errors are verbatim.
From FOX News:
“I agree. It is time to set decorum aside. Call a liar a liar. He should not apologize for the breach nor the comment. I sickens me to watch as these people deficate on the constitution and destroy the economy. I think we should all stand up and shout liar every time he makes a public appearance.”
“I wish I could do what Mr. Wilson was able to do in expressing my frustration. I would not have apologized as well. What is good for the goose is good for the gander and what I mean by that how many times was GW disrespected by Pelosi not to standing up when he entered the hall, the dems walking out and many more too long to list.”
“by chiefalex[Sep 10, 2009 7:10:21 AM] So, was it a lie or not? Will Obamacare exclude illegals? Of course not! So he did lie. It may be inappropriate, but it was spot on…………………………….FINALY, SOMEBODY TOLD THE TRUTH IN THE GOV"T!!!!!!!!”
From the ABC News site (where comments were more evenly split, but still in favor of Joe Wilson’s truth)
“It was a spontaneous guttaral outburst of recognized deceit.”
“great i wish more would have done it !!!!!”
We could add more, but it makes little sense since they begin to sound the same on both sides with one difference. There is real support for Joe Wilson, a passion if you will. As one commenter put it, he wished he could have said what Mr. Wilson said. There is no such heat on the other side. Most who write of their dismay over his “disrespect” do so with a phony outrage, Wilson’s outburst celebrated as more of a “gotcha” moment than anything else.
It is a wonder why Wilson’s statement of fact is news in the first place. Is it decorum? Is that what we’re all worried about? Or is it that we live in a fantasy world created by television such that we are supposed to be awed when a president, any president climbs the stairs and speaks to Congress. We are told to think this is history in the making, when it isn’t, it’s just politics, and the more we see of it, the less respect we have for any of its participants, especially Mr. Obama.
Why doesn’t the president submit himself to periodic sessions with Congress in a back and forth exchange similar to what the British Prime Minister does? We know, especially with Obama, that it would be a revelation beyond the mainstream media’s ability to gloss over. He is formidable only when armed with a teleprompter. Without it, he cannot enter the lists to joust.
To watch Margaret Thatcher deal with liberal backbenchers during her tenure is not only a joy, but an incredible learning experience. She not only came prepared, but Mrs. Thatcher took apart her political enemies piece by piece with fact upon fact. There was no shortage of disruptions during those sessions, nor was there a lack of crudity on the part of Members of Parliament who disagreed with her. The same applied to Tony Blair, another master of the art of dialectics. Parry and thrust, it is a wonderful example of political interaction sorely missed in this country.
We let our politicians off the hook all the time, allowing the media, so sadly jaundiced, biased and inept, to ask questions we would never ask. When and if politicians decide to answer, they skirt the question, answer a different question, push their agenda with pat phrases and snippets from practiced sound bites, or otherwise avoid responding with anything resembling candor and honesty. Were we there to call them “liars,” perhaps we could get them to answer straight.
How did the media become middlemen in the relationship we have with our elected representatives in the first place? And how did this idea of “decorum” grow into being just another way for politicians to politely let each other escape the hard questions and more difficult answers with a wink and a nod from the media?
No one ever takes the politicians on, and that is why we, the people are so damn angry. We are forced to be polite while they stick it to us. And though Obama has shown us time and again he lies with the ease of a dictator, we don’t have the opportunity to face him down. Why shouldn’t we have that opportunity? He’s a man with a job, nothing more. He is supposed to stand there and take the heat when we dish it out, even if it is through our elected representative. If he can’t take it, he should remove himself from the kitchen.
That Joe Wilson hit Obama between the eyes for us is important, very important. Decorum and respect aside, when a politician stares us in the face and tells us something we know to be untrue, we should send up a chorus of “You Lie!”
Even though I can not stand Zero and his thugs, I think this was the wrong place for this. However, on the other hand, it’s about time these spineless republicans stood up and said something...
El Presidente stood up there and lied, and called his critics liars. Joe Wilson was much more restrained than I would have been.
His swift apology mutes any enthusiasm I may have had for his outburst.
Too bad. He had NOTHING to apologize for.
Come next election we will shove it up their asses!
Those who scream for an apology from Joe should also scream for an apology from the President. Different words but he called Americans, Republicans, talk radio, and Sarah Palin liars repeatedly through the night.
He said in his speech he was going to “call out” the liars, well Joe was only responding in kind.
He said he was sorry.
So that should satisfy all the folks mad at him. Sorry is enough, right? It is more than Hussein personally said for insulting retarded people on The Tonight Show and for insulting the Cambridge cops by calling them stupid.
I sent Joe Wilson $25 and I’m glad I did.
Obango is a liar?.....
He broke the rules of the floor. He needed to apologize for breaking the rules. Not for saying aloud that obama is a liar. For that, he should have held a press conference, preferably in a foreign country so that he could have embarrassed himself and America- that’s the democrat way..
I want to vote for Joe Wilson, but I don’t live in his district. Maybe ACORN can help me.
A liar lying, telling other people not to “misrepresent” what’s in his lousy bill.
The truth hurts....The look on Pelosi’s face was a kodak moment!....
Democrats have raised nearly $100,000 for his opponent, Rob Miller, in the LAST TWELVE HOURS, on just a SINGLE website (ActBlue)...
60,000+ of that comes from the KOS Kommies ALONE.
How do we compete with that???
Of course he’s a liar but that was not the place or time to call him one.....
I appreciate Congressman Wilson’s candor, regardless of the phony “decorum” of Congress - a decorum that allows Democrats to lie and get away with it. Furthermore, I am tired of Democrats making every insidious statement they can about their political opposition, and getting away with it.
Yes, the President is a liar.
Now ... Zero's spew of lies are a different matter. They're inappropriate anywhere, and Zero owes the American people an abject, groveling (literally: I want to seem him crawl on the ground in sackcloth and ashes), unclintonized apology.
Followed, of course, by his resignation.
Nothing less is acceptable.
Ok, fine...but Obama is breaking the rules of the Constitution. One is way more important than the other. Hang decorum...
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