South Carolina Representative Joe Wilson, in front of a joint session of Congress and televised on every major network called President Barack Obama a liar during his speech to the nation on healthcare. Representative Wilson was way out of line especially since it was the President and even though he apologized it was a classless thing to do. Rep Wilson was inappropriate and deserved to be censored for it. Whether you agree with Wilson on the political angle here does not matter. The President of The United States should never be heckled by a member of Congress. This is not the House of Commons in Great Britain.
Members of Congress have called for Representative Wilson to be censored for his outspoken remark. No one disagrees with condemning him for his outburst. Some in Congress however, have called the representative a racist because he called the President a liar. Since when is calling another politician a liar racist? If you are a successful politician you are a known liar, face the fact. Barack Obama is the President of the United States. He is a liberal politician who just happens to be half African-American. Real change in this country will come when President Obama is judged on his politics and not because his father was African-American. Americans should be proud that we have set aside race in 2008 and elected a leader because of his politics and not the color of his skin. You do not have to agree with his politics to respect the man as an individual, but with respect comes criticism and this country has to see the criticism as criticism of his politics and not criticism of the man as racism.
When you are at the top you are fair game to be criticized. The President can and should be criticized like any other President before him and should be honored that he is a special member of a fraternity of a special group of men. His administration and democratic members of Congress need to stop hiding behind the racist label when people disagree with the President. Gentlemen and Ladies, America elected him because they thought he was the better man.
Rep. Joe Wilson's outburst last week drew new recriminations from his colleagues Tuesday, with a member of the Congressional Black Caucus suggesting that a failure to rebuke the South Carolina Republican would be tantamount to supporting the most blatant form of organized racism in American history.
Making an obvious reference to the Ku Klux Klan, Rep. Hank Johnson, D-Ga., said Tuesday that people will be putting on "white hoods and white uniforms again and riding through the countryside" if emerging racist attitudes, which he says were subtly supported by Wilson, are not rebuked. He said Wilson must be disciplined as an example.
Congressman Johnson are you serious?
New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd wrote in her column Sunday that Wilson's outburst convinced her that racial angst is the underlying motive among Obama critics like Wilson. Dowd wrote that Wilson "clearly did not like being lectured and even rebuked by the brainy black president presiding over the majestic chamber." This is so typical of the New York Times editorial staff.
President Obama called Kanye West a “jackass” this week because of his actions at the VMA awards. Is Obama a racist now or was he criticizing his actions?
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