[Peace-discuss] Fw: TARGET: Rep. Joe Wilson -- who yelled "You lie!" at Obama

[C. G. Estabrook]

Unlike these questions of impoliteness, that last is an important point -- 
especially since it is clearly that "wealthiest small fraction" that our chief 
magistrate is working for.

His primary responsibility as he understands it (see THE MENDACITY OF HOPE) is 
to keep the rest of us from coming after that fraction with pitchforks and 
torches.  To that end he claims in said tome that "the greatest casualty" [sic] 
of the Vietnam War was the loss of trust [sic] between the US government and the 
people.

His job is to kill foreigners without having that happen.  So far he's been able 
to.  --CGE



Stuart Levy wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 06:07:46AM -0700, Jenifer Cartwright wrote:
>> No, it's just an official way to let these SOBs know that there's a penalty
>> for their bad behavior, which (thanks to the MSM) had gotten plenty of air
>> time and has gone largely unchecked.
>>  --Jenifer
> 
> What was he complaining of Obama lying *about*?
> 
> I agree, we shouldn't hold our leaders in such awe that we daren't
> call them out on misrepresentations.  There's been so much outright
> lying from the Right about the health-care debate that it's ironic
> to see such a complaint from a right-winger, but we shouldn't be
> talking about censuring this guy *just* for having spoken out.   
> 
> If Wilson called Obama a liar, and Wilson was wrong (or not clearly right),
> *then* he should apologize, at least.
> 
> After the recent discussion of George Will, I went looking through some of
> his archived Washington Post posts, and had found this one,
> about then-newly-elected Sen. Jim Webb, where the shoe was on the other foot:
> 
>     http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/29/AR2006112901267.html
> 
>   `When Bush asked Webb, whose son is a Marine in Iraq, "How's your boy?" Webb
>    replied, "I'd like to get them [sic] out of Iraq." When the president again
>    asked "How's your boy?" Webb replied, "That's between me and my boy."'
> 
> Will then goes on to accuse Webb of lese majeste.  Not showing proper
> respect to a President.   "Based on Webb's behavior before being sworn in,
> one shudders to think what he will be like after that."
> 
> Doesn't address the substance of this or other statements of Webb's,
> except to dispute (again without relevant substance, which Will could easily
> have checked) Webb's claim that 'America's top tier has grown infinitely
> richer and more removed over the past 25 years'.  OK, yes not infinitely
> richer, but dramatically so, especially for the wealthiest small fraction.
>