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The hypocrisy! Where was the out cry against the poor behavior shown to Bush during his last five years. MSM never picked up the story and the public never chastised it.
What the man did was beneath the office he holds, we expect people like him to serve as the proper example of "civillised" discourse.
Anyway, he lied!!
"..As it turns out, the man who called Obama the liar may actually be off base. According to Politifact.com, a nonpartisan site dedicated to fact-checking the claims of "candidates, elected officials, political parties, interest groups, pundits, talk show hosts," Obama wasn't lying when he said the health-care reforms he's proposing would not apply to illegal immigrants.."
The 'You lie!' aftermath - Yahoo! News (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/ynews_pl897 - broken link)
Please don't introduce the "around the corner" logic of, well their are loopholes illegal immigrants can use, Obama must have put them there purposely!!
hussein obama is the liar and it does indeed leave a BIG loop hole for illegal immigrants and hussein obama knew it.
Even the nutcase Palosi does not want to make an issue of this incident because she does not want the truth in the meda proving hussein obama was lying.
The hypocrisy! Where was the out cry against the poor behavior shown to Bush during his last five years. MSM never picked up the story and the public never chastised it.
TED KOPPEL (ABC host): When the president talked about the bankruptcy of Social Security, there were clearly some Democrats on the floor who thought that that was taking it too far. And they did something that, apparently, no one at this table has ever heard before. They booed. [ABC, Nightline, 2/2/05; Koppel's panel consisted of former Bush adviser Mary Matalin, former Reagan chief of staff Ken Duberstein, and former Clinton speechwriter Michael Waldman]
JOHN ROBERTS (CBS White House correspondent): At a couple points in this address, it looked more like the British Parliament than the United States Congress. I've never heard the minority party shout at the president during the State of the Union address. [CBS, post-speech coverage, 2/2/05]
JOE SCARBOROUGH (former U.S. representative (R-FL) and MSNBC host): After the Democrats booed and hissed, Republicans were on the floor saying, you know, we never once did that to Clinton. So every time he would talk about Social Security, the roars got a little louder. And they got behind their president. [MSNBC, Hardball, 2/2/05]
BOB BARR (former U.S. representative (R-GA) and CNN contributor): It will be a very, very difficult battle as we saw by the unprecedented and, I think, highly improper virtual booing of the president when he simply said that the system is going to be bankrupt and the time is now to fix it. [CNN, Inside Politics, 2/3/05]
JOE WATKINS (radio host and CNN substitute host): Did you hear it? Certainly not the polite protocol usually practiced when a president speaks to Congress. If a Democrat one day delivers a State of the Union address, I hope the Republicans won't lower themselves to such a disrespectful level. I hope last night's behavior by a few lawmakers doesn't set a new precedent, that both parties can agree to remain civil, even when voicing disagreements.
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PAUL BEGALA (CNN host): Let me correct your history -- 1993, I was with President Bill Clinton in that House chamber when he addressed a joint session of Congress. And Republicans heckled him when he cited Congressional Budget Office statistics about the deficit. [CNN, Crossfire, 2/3/05]
JOHN GIBSON (FOX News host): Maryanne Marsh, what did you think of those audible jeers, boos, for the president? It sounded a little like the House of Commons: that grumbling that comes from the back-benchers when they don't like something [British Prime Minister] Tony Blair said. That isn't very common for state of the union speeches, is it?
MARYANNE MARSH (Democratic strategist): I don't ever remember hearing it, and was very surprised. But I have to say at least the good news is the Democrats are fighting and they're on offense. And they're more united than they've ever been against George Bush and the Republicans. [FOX News, The Big Story with John Gibson, 2/3/05]
The hypocrisy! Where was the out cry against the poor behavior shown to Bush during his last five years. MSM never picked up the story and the public never chastised it.
A state of the union speech is a much more somber and scared event then a president who calls a second or third joint session, in his first 7 months of office, because he can't get enough of his own party to go along with his pet legislation. But even then, fifty democrats booing the president is ok, a single republican shouting "liar" is a shameful act?
We'll agree to disagree. You have quotes, I give you that. But it wasn't part of the news cycle, it wasn't a talking point on the evening news, Daily Show, The View, KOS, or Huff Post, the outcry wasnt a headline or part of the prime time MSM news rotation. Folks on the left did little to reprimand their side.
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Joe Wilson is the liar!!
