The South Carolina Republican acted ignorant and ghetto during President Obama's health care address says he will not apologize again for his outburst. I understand why our President is acting classy enough excepting his apology, however, since I'm just "joe public" I'm gonna call it like I see it. There are some old-school ignorant folks that refuse to give President Obama the respect given to ALL presidents. It seems that every time you mention race these days you get "accused" of playing the race card. Call it what you want, I'll call it racism. I don't believe Mr. Wilson would have disrespected a white man the way he did President Obama. I also believe he made a decision to disrespect the president and apologize later. They should have dragged his GHETTO butt out of the building.
Several articles claim that Mr. Wilson is a good guy and this is not normal for him. Guess what? This is the first African American President so he had no need to act like this in the past. You will never convince me or anyone with common sense that all of this hoopla over health care is not an undercover way to protest a black President. To all the nuts out there all I can say is get over it, there's a black man in charge.
Two of the articles below: "A Dangerous Kind of Hate" by Colbert I. King of the Washington Post and "Boy, Oh, Boy!" by New York Times op-ed columnist, Maureen Dowd, are quite revealing. Take a minute to click and read them.
A Dangerous Kind of Hate by Colbert I. King, Washington PostOn Aug. 16, pastor Steven L. Anderson of Faithful Word Baptist Church in Tempe, Ariz., told his congregation that he prays for the death of President Obama. In a sermon titled "Why I Hate Barack Obama," Anderson preached: "I'm not going to pray for his good, I'm going to pray he dies and goes to hell." Read the full story here Boy, Oh, Boy! by Maureen Dowd
The normally nonchalant Barack Obama looked nonplussed, as Nancy Pelosi glowered behind.
Surrounded by middle-aged white guys - a sepia snapshot of the days when such pols ran Washington like their own mens club - Joe Wilson yelled “You lie!” at a president who didn’t.
But, fair or not, what I heard was an unspoken word in the air: You lie, boy! Read it here
Wilson: No more apologies for outburst against president(CNN) -- Rep. Joe Wilson said Sunday he will not apologize again for yelling out that President Obama lied during the president's speech to Congress last week.
Rep. Joe Wilson, R-South Carolina, shouts "You lie!" during President Obama's speech Wednesday night.
"I am not going to apologize again," the South Carolina Republican said on "FOX News Sunday" when asked about pending disciplinary steps against him by the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives.
Wilson said he already apologized to Obama and that the president accepted it. However, he insisted that Obama "was misstating the facts," and that Democratic leaders in the House were "playing politics" by continuing to focus on the issue.
The controversy has shifted the focus of the heated health care debate by calling attention to claims by Republicans that a health care overhaul sought by Obama and Democrats would provide free insurance coverage for illegal immigrants. Read the full story on CNN.com
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