Tuesday, September 15, 2009

"You lie!"

These two words heard around the world on the Internet made Congressman Joe Wilson from South Carolina an instant "villain" of the left and an instant "hero" of the right. He admits that he just lost his cool during Obama's speech on Health Care to a joint session of Congress last week because of several statements made by the President that he knew were untrue.

Wilson immediately called the White House after the speech and apologized, and the President along with the Vice President accepted his apology. But that was not enough for the Democrats who admonished him today on the floor of the House along a mostly party line vote. The official resolution said that his outburst was "a breach of decorum and degraded the proceedings of the joint session, to the discredit of the House."

I won't defend Joe Wilson's comment and he was out of line by shouting at the President during his speech. But let's remember all the times President Bush was called a liar by the Democrats and the time Democratic Senator Dick Durbin compared our military to Pol Pot and the Russian Gulags from the Senate floor, yet no action was taken.

I am not going to call President Obama a liar, but whether you are a Republican or Democrat you know deep down that quite often he does not tell the truth as he tries to "sell" his agenda.

He said during his speech that his health care plan would not cover illegal aliens, but Joe Wilson served on two different House committees while amendments to require "proof of citizenship" as part of the plan were rejected.

On abortion - whether you are "pro choice" or "pro life" it is a fact that several amendments introduced in the House to prohibit federal funding of abortion were defeated. Yet Obama promised during his speech the bill would not cover federally funded abortions.

During his speech Obama said his health care plan would not raise the deficit by a nickel, while the Independent Office of Management and Budget projects the House bill as proposed would raise it by more than a trillion dollars.

There were many more inconsistencies in Obama's speech about health care and I guess Joe Wilson just "lost it" when he heard one too many false promises.

I have never seen a President that has made so many speeches - he is on television every day because he is pushing hard to ram his agenda down America's throat. He is a wonderful speaker but I wonder if the public is starting to get "Obama fatigue"? If the poll numbers are correct he has lost the trust of millions of Americans, including many Independents, who just do not believe him anymore.

Obama is a charismatic and vocally talented "salesman" for his policies, but the more I hear him speak, the more the term "snake oil" comes to mind.

3 comments:

usamctwo said...

Now we are being told by former President Carter that Joe's Wilson's "You lie!" comment is based on racism. How does that set with you Chuckie D?

Chuckie D said...

Playing the "race card' is always the fall back position. Maureen Dowd of the NY Times also said Wilson's comment was based on racism and directed toward a black President because Wilson is from South Carolina and apparently his ancestors fought for the South in the Civil War. Believe me the racial divide in this country is alive and well...ask Kanye West.

Chuckie D said...

This is what I mean...
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/09/15/charges-racism-inflame-health-care-debate/