Apology Accepted (Obama accepts Wilson's apology)

Fox News ^ | 9-10-2009 | Eve Zibel

[Route797]

The White House has accepted an apology issued by Republican South Carolina representative Joe Wilson after the lawmaker disrupted the Wednesday night speech by President Obama to a Joint Session of Congress.

[BlessedBeGod]

Screw him for apologizing.

[Names Ash Housewares]

Better to ask for forgiveness then permission.

This is guerilla tactics and it works.

Nobody jump on him for apologizing. The message was sent to the nation. The President is LYING.

[John123]

Interesting how quick that acceptance was... sort of like sweeping the actual accusation under the rug where it won’t see the light of day...

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

Normal people apologize and are still trashed by the left. Don’t bother apologizing - they will still hate you.

Liberals don’t have to apologize. They get a free pass. (Nancy Pelosi and the lie about the CIA)

[FreeAtlanta]

To borrow a presidential interruption by the Democrats, “Boo!!!!! Boooooo!!!!!!!”.

[4rcane]

has obama apologized yet, he accused others of lying too

[roses of sharon]

[sunny48]

What!!!! No beer and peanuts!!!

[Berlin_Freeper]

[School of Rational Thought]

Where is the Obama apology?

[Sarah Barracuda]

Hey Obama..YOUR A COMMUNIST PIG and a LIAR..There, I said it..and I WON’T APOLOGIZE EITHER..You wanna make me apologize, I wanna see you try

[A CA Guy]

He apologized for interrupting the speech, not for his views.

On the other hand, all Obama was doing in his speech was calling others liars and bad people.

[the invisib1e hand]

was the apology engraved on Wilson’s gonads and delivered in a silver-threaded pouch by special messenger?

[Kartographer]

SO MUCH FOR HAVING CAJONES! The first Repiublican to stand-up to ‘ZERO” and he backs down like a whipped dog! Are there NO REAL MEN in the Republican Party anymore? SAD, SAD STATE when the party’s women like Bachmann and Palin have more Testosterone than the men! Maybe these RINO’s are like Caster Semenya? ;-)

[LearsFool]

Joe Wilson did more good with two short words than he could’ve possibly anticipated!

[John 3_19-21]

He apologized for decorum reasons, not for sentiment.

[tumblindice]

“Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.”
Benjamin Disraeli

He was also criticized for saying, “Half the House members are idiots.” (paraphrasing)
Advised to apologize he obliged by saying, “Half the house are not idiots.”

[the invisib1e hand]

He apologized for interrupting the speech, not for his views.

Sorry. Facts don't make it past the soundbyte barrier.

[bigbob]

He should have apologized using the same non-apology words they use. Like “I’m sorry if anyone was offended by my calling this unqualified inexperienced radical socialist predender to the Presidency a liar”.

[toddausauras]

The msm is so desperate today to make Obama into “Mr. Above It All”. Who the F does this clown think he is? What the hell has he ever done in his life?

[Clock King]

I agree. We better wake up and realize the Left is NOT playing by ANY rules. We either get down in the mud and win, or we will be SLAVES or worse.

[NativeNewYorker]

[A CA Guy]

In the live apology I thought I heard he restated he disagreed with the President. There was nothing there about taking back calling Fidel Obama the liar he is IMO.

[Shermy]

“Screw him for apologizing”

He deserves it.

There were so many better places in the speech to say “liar”,

Really, it was one of the worst places to say liar,

because what Obama said was not really a lie.

[VRWCmember]

Has the White House apologized to Sarah Palin and other critics of the Obamacare plan for calling them liars?

[Westbrook]

> has obama apologized yet, he accused others of lying too

DemocRATs *NEVER* *EVER* apologize, not even for leaving a girl in a submerged car to die of asphyxiation.

Not even for having an adulterous affair and a love child while wifey is undergoing chemotherapy for cancer.

Not even for booing Pres. George Bush and calling HIM a Liar, over, and over, and over, and over again.

NEVER apologize for the TRUTH!

When you apologize for speaking the Truth, you look weak, and foolish, and make yourself the LIAR.

Big MISTAKE Joe Wilson.

I was going to donate, but NOT NOW!

[Seaplaner]

Does Marxist Obama really accept Wilson's apology, or...

...is he just LYING again?

.

[Pontiac]

While some of his Republican colleagues might agree with the sentiment behind Wilson’s comments, many felt the President deserved to be treated with respect and the House Chamber was not the correct forum for voicing those opinions.

"Anybody who would cat-call the President of the United States addressing this body is very, very inappropriate and he will hear from a lot of us about that,” said California Representative and fellow republican Jerry Lewis in an exclusive interview with Fox News Radio.

You don’t have to respect the man but you have to respect the office.

There is a time and place for every thing. The POTUS speaking to a joint secession of Congress was not the place for the comment.

He not only offended the President he offended the other members of Congress.

[Past Your Eyes]

Maybe they should watch what goes on in the British House of Commons. Decorum? Those Brits are really refined, ey?

[jonrick46]

Where were the apologies when the DemonRATs acted like “British Parliament” when they booed President Bush? Are the Republican opposition just there for the decor? Is the opposition there to merely shut up and let the President throw everyone and the truth under the bus?

[jessduntno]

“It was crude and disrespectful,” said Senator Dick Durbin, the Senate Minority Whip (D-IL).”

Why do you think they call him Dick?

[Tenacious 1]

It was brilliant. He was on this morning and got the chance to explain the two ammendments that would have prevented illegals from getting coverage. His apology tour is helping to dispell the lies.

[Names Ash Housewares]

“I agree. We better wake up and realize the Left is NOT playing by ANY rules. We either get down in the mud and win, or we will be SLAVES or worse.”

Yes yes.

We are in a cold civil war.

We have to fight hard and dirty or it’s game over.

Learn from our enemy and use it against them!

[Sig Sauer P220]

Wheres the birth certificate?!!!!

[bobsatwork]

My favorite non-apology is the one that goes like this: "I deeply apologize to anyone who misunderstood what I said and were offended".

[Antoninus]

Nobody jump on him for apologizing. The message was sent to the nation. The President is LYING.

Exactly. This is all an exercise in horse-fanny-patting now that the barn is empty.

The important thing is that Obuma got upstaged by a guy yelling two words.

[LeonardFMason]

How much better it would be if Wilson clarified that he was apologizing for his outburst BUT NOT for accusing the President of lying. Then go step by step over each lie.

[VRWCmember]

Same mannerisms as they spout bovine excrement from their mouths.

[NRA1995]

Zero-Bama didn’t invite him over for a beer?

[Tenacious 1]

He apologized for decorum reasons, not for sentiment.

And he did so again this morning on the Today show. He stood by his accusation that the president lied. Then he explained why it was a lie to the Today Show audience.

I agree the disruption should not be condoned. But the message and now the publicity is proving to be a good thing.

[IrishCatholic]

Well, it was bad manners.
He was right. But, still bad manners.
If it was me, I would apologize and then go on to detail just every single lie the President told, but say how I should have had more decorum and respect for the office the President was pissing on.
But that’s just me.

[sport]

Could you inform me via a response on this thread when the Democrats apoligized for booing President Bush?

[Tenacious 1]

“I apologize for exposing one of the many lies in President Obama’s speech tonight. I should not have interrupted that deceitful oratorical regurgitation of bile that was his speech in that forum. My emotional intellect and passion for the truth got the best of me in one outrageous moment.”

[Tenacious 1]

Rest assured. While Obama “accepted the apology” it will come up in future campaign speeches for healthcare.

[MikeWUSAF]

[Pajamajan]

"How much better it would be if Wilson clarified that he was apologizing for his outburst BUT NOT for accusing the president of lying. Then go step by step over each lie."

Worth repeating. The apology has been the lead news story on the local radio stations.

[Tenacious 1]

How much better it would be if Wilson clarified that he was apologizing for his outburst BUT NOT for accusing the President of lying. Then go step by step over each lie.

He did. This morning on the Today Show.

[HIDEK6]

There were so many better places in the speech to say “liar”,

He could have picked the time to interject at random and it probably would hve been immediately following a lie.

[Pajamajan]

I would like to know when the president is going to apologize for referring to people who oppose his policies as terrorists.