What Joe Wilson really wanted to say was "You lie, BOY"

[jeffbr]

You could see the premeditation in his body language and the racial hatred in his eyes.

Just like on the old plantation where the master got mad when the slave contradicted him.

The GOP core is nothing but a bunch of vile racists. Plain and simple.

Joe Wilson was the real spokeman for the GOP last night.

[orpupilofnature57]

1. He thought it was 1858 and he was Andrew Butler with a cane!

I've met some intelligent people from SC, who know antebellum is gone forever.

[dbt]

2. I don't think the word was "boy."

I think it had two syllables.

:evilgrin:

[joeycola]

3. It was rude. But not everything has to be made into a race issue.

[wilt the stilt]

4. Sorry,

this is about race. you are kidding yourself if you don't think it isn't.

[Fla_Democrat]

8. So, if it was, say, President

Edwards, or Clinton, or even Kucinich, there would be no debate in Congress? The President's agenda would have full support from both houses and every bill would be fast tracked and signed? That's good to know. Maybe in 2012, we should run a white guy, that way everyone would be on board....hang on, phone call coming in.....

I gotta take this..it's former President Clinton, I'm sure he will back the theory.

:hide:

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

9. Apparently you don't recall 1993....

The level of vitriol right now is simply not comparable the the healthcare debate back then. There were some sexist comments directed toward Hillary Clinton at the time, but nothing even remotely like the racist sludge that's being thrown right now. And where are most of the most vile, most vicious attacks coming from? Take a look at a U.S. map circa 1862.

If you don't believe that this is racially motivated, then you haven't been paying attention to about 300 years of American history.

[Fla_Democrat]

14. again

if the very same proposals were made by anyone else, say not of color, the prevailing wisdom is that it would sail through? What was the racial motivations for the very attacks you reference in 1993? Oh, wait, that wasn't racism, that was sexism, you said that. My statement is that since the main motivation for opposition (or at least the general consensus is that it is..) is racism, in 2012 if we remove that excuse.

If you think this is motivated by race, and not the fact that it is from the opposition party.. you should brush up on your American history too. :hi:


Brb, another call coming in.... gonna have to take it... former President Jimmy Carter. I'm sure he only wants to talk about a Habitat house we are building in the community.... yea, that has to be it.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

17. Just how thick are you?

I don't think ANYBODY has suggested that healthcare reform would just "sail through" under any circumstances, regardless of the race or gender of the sitting President. The Pharma-Insurance industry has billions in profits riding on its defeat, and they won't go gently into that good night.

That's called a "strawman arguement" there, jasper. Make a statement that nobody agrees with and then "prove" that its wrong.

My point remains that the higher degree of vitriol is not because a pack of rednecks have suddenly decided that they love their insurance company. This unprecedented animosity exists because a pack of racist redneck can't stand that an African American (my choice of words, not theirs) is the President.

For a more recent example, look at the TARP program. Intiated by Bush, but did you hear ANYBODY on the right screaming Socialism, Facism, Nazism at the Bush Administration? But Obama takes over and pursues essentially the same policy, and people have come totally unglued.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

10. Delete

dupe

[orpupilofnature57]

12. Never happened to trickie dick or ronnie or the shrubs ,know why?

they would of clung to the Rules of Congress and would of had them thrown out.

[Fla_Democrat]

15. As should have happened

He should have been escorted out. Speaker Pelosi should have should have asked the President for a moment, contacted security, and asked the Representative to be removed from the chamber. I can't see anyone disagreeing with that action.

[orpupilofnature57]

5. Race is only part of it ,but it is part of it ,denying it won't make them behave.

[joeycola]

7. I am not denying that race is was most likely part of it.

[bobburgster]

6. Not sure about his motives....

but I do believe a lot of the hatred being spewed towards Obama has racist roots.

[gauguin57]

11. Yep. This is what Joe Wilson said when Strom Thurmond's African-American daughter was revealed ...

http://www.uexpress.com/asiseeit/?uc_full_date=20031219

"...It is the feigned surprise that vexes me most -- the stunned silence, the equivocation, the angry denials that followed the revelation that Strom Thurmond had bedded a black maid and fathered a black child. South Carolina state Sen. John Courson, who huffed, "This is ludicrous," and U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson, who called the revelation "unseemly," have a distinct affection for dishonesty."

He's a racist, pure and simple. He was an aide to Strom Thurmond earlier in his career... Strom taught him well.

[Cass]

13. I think you are right. There are unprecedented levels of disrespect to this president.

Look how he was treated just for wanting to talk to students. They sent the message to the kids that there is something sinister about him, it was disgraceful. I am still really upset about how was treated with that. Now this fresh insult last night.

It is very depressing that this is happening in 2009. I am worried where this hate will lead.

[orpupilofnature57]

16. Staying on this,, unproductive as it seems ,Will stop it in it's tracks.

Forgiving Shrub for his Misanthropic behavior was a mistake.