“And on this most recent anniversary of Sept. 11, the country seems as full of hate and noise as it has ever been. This is an America where Rep. Joe Wilson, whoever he is, thinks he can call the President of the United States a liar, Wilson talking to the President the way he would the help, or some waiter who was supposed to bring him another drink.”
Bring POtuS to MY HOUSE and see how he gets treated...like the Fascist POtuS that he is...does 8 years of pResident, The Stupidest Man to ever be pResident, BushHitler, the Shrub, any of THAT shit sound familiar?
The Democrats are spending a lot of time time calling Wilson a racist and suggesting this sort of thing is unprecedented, because the know that sooner or later some responsible journalist will bother to use Google and learn that this is neither unprecedented nor the most outrageous act by a Democrat member of Congress from SC. In 1856
SC Senator Preston Smith Brooks beat Republican Senator Charles Sumner (MA) within an inch of his life for criticizing Franklin Pierce and those who sympathized with pro-slavery violence in Kansas. Sumner was unable to return to office for three years. Brooks, and fellow Democrat SC Senator Laurence Keitt (who prolonged the savage beating by holding off the other Senators with a pistol were "censured" and returned to work the next day.